sm extensions ecosystem repository with canonical examples and use cases for extension development. Over the past 9 months, the Istio, Envoy, and Proxy-Wasm communities have continued our joint effort to make Wasm extensibility stable, reliable, and easy to adopt, and we are pleased to announce Alpha support for Wasm extensibility in Istio 1.12! In the following sections, we&rsquo;ll walk through the updates that have been made to the Wasm support for the 1.12 release.</p><h2 id=new-wasmplugin-api>New WasmP