al TLS</a> from alpha to beta. This feature is now enabled by default.</li><li><strong>Improved</strong> <a href=https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/security/secret>SDS security</a> by merging Node Agent with Pilot Agent as Istio Agent and removing cross-pod UDS, which no longer requires users to deploy Kubernetes pod security policies for UDS connections.</li><li><strong>Improved</strong> Istio by including certificate provisioning functionality within Istiod.</li><li><strong>Added</s