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]
- Async testing week [Ongoing]
- 1.8 Release date: 10th Nov
- 1.8 release planning presentations to TOC
- 8/14
- 8/21
Release health : Ontrack
- Total P0 and RB: 72
- Open P0 issues: 3
Updates
- Planning for Istio 1.8 release started
- Mitch is replacing Jason as a WG lead in UX group
Needs attention
- Documentation test cases need prioritization review .
- Owner: @all WG leads
- Asyn testing started on 29th July for a weekSign up sheet
- We are running short on the test case ownership
Docs reviewed & discussed
- Consider sending “Not ready” endpoints over EDS as unhealthy
- RFC: change default branch to main
- Renaming the default branch from master
- Consider exposing all envoy generated stats by default
- RFC: Support snapshot tool
- RFC: Istioctl multi-version support
- RFC: Service Discovery for VM Telemetry
- VM Simplification design doc
- Server identity is not verified if caCertificates are not set when TLS mode is SIMPLE or MUTUAL
- Add new multicluster deployment guide for single networks
- Istio.io main page improvements
- Website redesign PRD
- Istio website notification
Bookkeeping
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