</a> in November 2020, with support marked Alpha along with the API implementation. With the Beta release of the API spec we are pleased to announce support for ingress use in Istio is being promoted to Beta. We also encourage early adopters to start experimenting with the Gateway API for mesh (service-to-service) use, and we will move that support to Beta when SIG Network has standardized the required semantics.</p><p>Around the time of the v1 release of the API, we intend to make the Gateway API the defau