ordering for Envoy filters across inbound, outbound, and gateway proxies has been implemented,
ensuring that filters are applied uniformly, regardless of the traffic direction or protocol.</p><h3 id=expanded-support-for-network-wasmplugin>Expanded Support for Network WasmPlugin</h3><p>The extensibility of Istio is further broadened with support for network WasmPlugin with a new type <code>NETWORK</code>.</p><h3 id=tcp-metadata-exchange-enhancements>TCP metadata exchange enhancements</h3><p>Istio 1.20 brings