hub.com/istio/istio/issues/23643>Issue 23643</a>)</li><li><strong>Fixed</strong> Istio CNI causing pod initialization to experience a 30-40 second delay on startup when DNS unreachable (<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/23770>Issue 23770</a>)</li><li><strong>Improved</strong> Google Stackdriver telemetry use of UIDs with GCE VMs</li><li><strong>Improved</strong> telemetry plugins to not crash due invalid configuration (<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/23865>Issue 23865</a>)</li><li>