ation options.</p></a></div><p>The theme of Istio 1.3 is User Experience:</p><ul><li>Improve the experience of new users adopting Istio</li><li>Improve the experience of users debugging problems</li><li>Support more applications without any additional configuration</li></ul><p>Every few releases, the Istio team delivers dramatic improvements to usability, APIs, and the overall system performance. Istio 1.3 is one such release, and the team is very excited to roll out some key updates.</p><h2 id=intelligent-