Istio weekly newsletter
July 24th
Important dates (refer slides for other milestones)
Releases
- 1.7 release date : 14th Aug
- Feature freeze : 21st July [Completed]
- Build cut: 21st July [Completed]
- 1.8 Release date: 10th Nov
- Confirmed with TOC
Updates
- Asyn testing starting on 29th July. Sign up sheet
- Please sign up by Mon, 7/27
- Istio documentation ownership first pass completed by Frank
- 1.7 release updates
- Date updated and agreed upon in TOC meeting
- New release date: 14th Aug
- Planning for release 1.8 to start from Aug 7th
- Presentation dates to TOC : TBD
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Release blockers /P0’s for 1.7 and status
- Total number of bugs = 50
- Moved to 1.8 = 31
- P0’s = 5 open
- Networking WG meeting back to 9AM PST time.
- Check out August 5 CNCF webcast on debugging with Istio
Needs attention
- Documentation test cases need review before our community testing days.
- Owner: @all WG leads
Docs reviewed & discussed
- RFC: change default branch to main
- Introduce gci to ensure import order
- Unable to create 2 Istio control plane using Istio operator
- Addon transition - provide an option for operator to clean up addons
- RFC: Onboarding Multitenant Technology
- Virtual Machine Beta Graduation
- Server Identity is not verified if caCertificates are not set when TLS mode is SIMPLE or MUTUAL
- Prepare for feature Forwarding CSR to upstream CA (External CA)
- Remove Mixer from Istio codebase
- Remove deprecate istictl authn tls-check
- UX requirements for 1.8 networking
- Istio integrating with custom CAs
- Simplify multi-network configuration
- Updating Steering Committee charter · Issue #361 · istio/community
Bookkeeping
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