</a></div><h2 id=bug-fixes>Bug fixes</h2><ul><li>Prevent overly large strings from being sent to Prometheus (<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/14642>Issue 14642</a>).</li><li>Reuse previously cached JWT public keys if transport errors are encountered during renewal (<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/14638>Issue 14638</a>).</li><li>Bypass JWT authentication for HTTP OPTIONS methods to support CORS requests.</li><li>Fix Envoy crash caused by the Mixer filter (<a href=https://github.com