as
possible, most of the new features from the last three months have been
delivered in 1.1.x releases. With 1.2, those features are now officially
part of the release.</p><p>We&rsquo;re seeing early results from the usability group. In the release notes,
you&rsquo;ll find that you can now set log levels for the control plane and the
data plane globally. You can use <a href=/v1.25/docs/reference/commands/istioctl/><code>istioctl</code></a> to validate that your Kubernetes
installation meets Istio&rsquo;s re