I and Gateway API to Stable in Istio 1.22, and the promotion of ambient mode to Stable in Istio 1.24. As part of Istio ambient mode reaching GA, we have observed more and more users exploring and adopting it, some of the users are net new Istio users, while others are users of Istio sidecars. Some of them ran ambient in production and spoke about their experiences at KubeCon EU in April this year. These efforts have made Istio the service mesh of choice for cloud native developers around the world, and we h