p class=post-author>Nov 18, 2021</p><div><h2 id=traffic-management>Traffic Management</h2><ul><li><p><strong>Improved</strong> support for headless services with undeclared protocols to not require specific <code>Host</code> headers.
(<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/34679>Issue #34679</a>)</p></li><li><p><strong>Added</strong> validator for empty regex match in VirtualService, preventing invalid Envoy configuration.
(<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/34065>Issue #34065</a>)</p></li