Announcing Istio 1.16.1

Istio 1.16.1 patch release.

Dec 12, 2022

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.16.0 and Istio 1.16.1.

This release includes security fixes in Go 1.19.4 (released 2022-12-06) for the os and net/http packages.

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Changes

Deprecated using PILOT_CERT_PROVIDER=kubernetes for Kubernetes versions less than 1.20.
Updated Kiali addon to version 1.59.1.
Fixed OpenTelemetry tracer not working. (Issue #42080)
Fixed case where ValidatingWebhookConfiguration would be different when installed using Helm versus istioctl.
Fixed ServiceEntries using DNS_ROUND_ROBIN from being able to specify 0 endpoints. (Issue #42184)
Fixed an issue preventing istio-proxy from accessing the Root CA when automountServiceAccountToken was set to false and PILOT_CERT_PROVIDER environment variable is set to kubernetes.
Fixed an issue where gateway pods were not respecting the global.imagePullPolicy specified in the Helm values.