Upcoming Security Release of Istio 1.5.9 and Istio 1.6.7

Hello Istio Community,

The Istio maintainers would like to announce the forthcoming release of Istio 1.5.9 and 1.6.7.

The release will be made available on 2020-08-11 19:00 UTC (12:00 PST). This release will fix 1 security defect. The highest rated security defect is considered Medium severity.

No further details will be made available in advance of the release. Istio 1.6.6 will be released Wednesday July 29th, but after that there will be no follow-up patches until the CVE patch for either release 1.5 or 1.6.

Thanks,

Jacob Delgado (on behalf of the Istio Product Security Working Group)