.26/news/releases/1.6.x/announcing-1.6/change-notes/>release notes</a>
for the full details. Some
highlights: you&rsquo;ll see more configurability, better
ability to control your trace sampling rates, and updated Grafana dashboards
(and we&rsquo;re even publishing them on <a href=https://grafana.com>Grafana</a> on the
<a href=https://grafana.com/orgs/istio>Istio org page</a>).</p><h2 id=better-virtual-machine-support>Better Virtual Machine support</h2><p>Expanding our support for workloads not running in K