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Features in v1.6

Control plane components are integrated, which simplifies control plane installation and O&M.
The official community version of Virtual Service Delegation is updated. (This feature is provided by Huawei. The APIs are the same as those in 1.3.)
Workload Entry enables operators to describe the properties of a single non-Kubernetes workload.
SDS is enabled by default.
Data plane–based data collection using Telemetry V2 (non-Mixer-based telemetry) is supported.
Multi-port service governance based on the port granularity is supported.
CCE clusters v1.15 and v1.17 are supported.

For details, see https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.6.x/announcing-1.6/change-notes/.

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