as introduced by the security release, so we decided to release a fix in one last <a href=/v1.23/news/releases/1.1.x/announcing-1.1.17/>1.1.17</a> release before closing out the 1.1 series for good.</p><p>At this point we will no longer back-port fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.1, so we heartily encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio (1.23.3) if you haven&rsquo;t already.</p></div><nav class=pagenav><div class=left><a title="Upcoming Istio 1.2 end of life announcement." hre