Updated on 2024-05-11 GMT+08:00

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 of v1.3.)
  • 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/.