 features, and giving recognition to our most valuable contributors. We plan to grow our ecosystem by adding or updating Istio’s integration to various popular cloud native projects and build more case studies for Istio.</p><h2 id=looking-back>Looking Back</h2><p>Since 2023, the Istio project has been focused on maturity and innovation, solidifying our position as the best service mesh regardless of sidecars or ambient. These efforts included our CNCF graduation in July 2023, the promotion of Telemetry AP