hanges allow users to make the most of these addons so as to fully experience what Istio can offer.</p><h2 id=timeline>Timeline</h2><ul><li>Istio 1.6: The new demo deployments for telemetry addons are available under <code>samples/addons/</code> directory.</li><li>Istio 1.7: Upstream installation methods or the new samples deployment are the recommended installation methods. Installation by <code>istioctl</code> is deprecated.</li><li>Istio 1.8: Installation of addons by <code>istioctl</code> is removed.</l