p><p>We want to thank our fantastic community for field testing new versions, filing bug reports, contributing code, helping out other community members, and shaping Istio by participating in countless productive discussions. This has enabled the project to accrue 3000 stars on GitHub since launch and hundreds of active community members on Istio mailing lists.</p><p>Thank you</p><h2 id=release-notes>Release notes</h2><h3 id=general>General</h3><ul><li><p><strong>Updated Configuration Model</strong>. Istio 