uld be sent to the ingress gateway or a sidecar.</p><h2 id=bug-fixes>Bug fixes</h2><ul><li><strong>Fixed</strong> <code>istio-cni-node</code> crash when <code>COS_CONTAINERD</code> and Istio CNI are enabled when running on Google Kubernetes Engine (<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/23643>Issue 23643</a>)</li><li><strong>Fixed</strong> Istio CNI causes pod initialization to experience a 30-40 second delay on startup when DNS is unreachable (<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/23770>Issu