>Issue #43908</a>, <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/44144>Issue #44144</a></li><li><strong>Fixed</strong> an issue where <code>Istio Gateway</code> (Envoy) would crash due to a duplicate <code>istio_authn</code> network filter in the Envoy filter chain. <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/44385>Issue #44385</a></li><li><strong>Fixed</strong> the VirtualService validation to fail on empty prefix header matcher. <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/44424>Issue #44424</a></li><l