releases.</p><h3 id=a-coat-of-paint-for-bookinfo>A coat of paint for Bookinfo</h3><p>Improvements in 1.23 are not limited to Istio itself: in this release, everyone&rsquo;s favorite sample application, Bookinfo, also gets a facelift!</p><p>The new application features a more modern design, and performance improvements that resolve some unexpected slowness in the <code>productpage</code> and <code>details</code> services.</p><figure style=width:80%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom