.24/blog/2020/tradewinds-2020/>roadmap post</a>, sailing toward more
simplicity, a better installation experience, and we have added other goodies as
well.</p><p>Here’s some of what’s coming to you in today&rsquo;s release:</p><h2 id=simplify-simplify-simplify>Simplify, simplify, simplify</h2><p>Last release, we introduced <strong>Istiod</strong>, a new module that reduced the number of
components in an Istio installation by combining the functionality of several
services. In Istio 1.6, we have complete