tes</h2><p>Before you begin the downgrade process, check the following prerequisites:</p><ul><li><p>Your Istio installation was <a href=/v1.17/docs/setup/install/istioctl/>installed using istioctl</a>.</p></li><li><p>The Istio version you intend to downgrade to is no more than one minor version less than the installed Istio version.
For example, you can downgrade to no lower than 1.6.0 from Istio 1.7.x.</p></li><li><p>Downgrade must be done using the <code>istioctl</code> binary version that
corresponds to 