way Automated Deployment</a>. To have a seamless upgrade to 1.18+, users of this feature should first adopt this patch release. <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/44164>Issue #44164</a></li><li><strong>Fixed</strong> The <code>dns_upstream_failures_total</code> metric was mistakenly deleted in the previous release. <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/44176>PR #44176</a></li><li><strong>Fixed</strong> an issue where grpc stats are absent. <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/43908