de>1.22.x</code>.</div></aside></div><p>Here are some highlights for this release:</p><h2 id=cni-plugin-beta>CNI plugin (Beta)</h2><p>By default Istio injects an <a href=https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/init-containers/>init container</a> in pods deployed in the mesh. The <code>istio-init</code> container sets up the pod network traffic redirection to/from the Istio sidecar proxy using iptables. This requires the user or service account deploying pods in the mesh to have sufficient permiss