cases, this is what you want: the request can be retried to a different pod, which has a better chance to succeed. However, this left a gap: often, a request would fail simply because the application had closed a connection we had kept alive and tried to re-use.</p><p>We have added to detect this scenario, and retry. This is expected to reduce a common source of 503 errors in the mesh.</p><p>This can be enabled with <code>ENABLE_INBOUND_RETRY_POLICY=true</code>. It is expected to be on by default in future 