 the ground up. Shipping this release as 1.0 is recognition that we’ve built a core set of functionality that our users can rely on for production use.</p><div class="relnote-actions call-to-action"><a class="update-notice entry" data-title="Update Notice" data-downloadhref=https://github.com/istio/istio/releases/tag/1.0.0 data-downloadbuttontext="DOWNLOAD 1.0.0" data-updateadvice="Before you download 1.0, you should know that there's a newer patch release with the latest bug fixes and perf improvements."