 leveraging the operator — which we estimate to be fewer than 10% of our user base — will need to migrate to other install and upgrade mechanisms in order to upgrade to Istio 1.24 or above. The expected release date for 1.24 is November 2024.</p><p>We recommend users move to Helm and istioctl, which remain supported by the Istio project. Migrating to istioctl is trivial; migrating to Helm will require tooling which we will publish along with the 1.24 release.</p><p>Users who wish to stick with the opera