ty aware load balancing graduated from experimental to default in this release too. Istio now takes advantage of existing locality information to prioritize load balancing pools and favor sending requests to the closest backends.</p></li><li><p>Better support for headless services with Istio mutual TLS</p></li><li><p>We enhanced control plane monitoring in the following ways:</p><ul><li>Added new metrics to monitor configuration state</li><li>Added metrics for sidecar injector</li><li>Added a new Grafana da