ing</h2><ul><li><p>Improved Pilot scalability and Envoy startup time.</p></li><li><p>Fixed virtual service host mismatch issue when adding a port.</p></li><li><p>Added limited support for <a href=/v1.13/docs/ops/best-practices/traffic-management/#split-virtual-services>merging multiple virtual service or destination rule definitions</a> for the same host.</p></li><li><p>Allow <a href=https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/api-v2/api/v2/cluster/outlier_detection.proto>outlier</a> consecutive gateway fai