Upcoming Istio 1.8 and Istio 1.9 Security Release

Hello Istio Community,

The Istio maintainers would like to announce the forthcoming release of Istio 1.8.5 and Istio 1.9.3.

The release will be made available on April 15th, 2021 at 12:00 PDT (19:00 GMT). This release will fix 3 security defects. The highest rated security defect is considered high severity. No further details or patches will be made available in advance of the release.

Thanks,
Brian (on behalf of the Istio Product Security Work Group)