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title: Istio 1.3
publishdate: 2019-09-12
icon: notes
release: 1.3.0
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We’re proud to release Istio 1.3!

We’ve spent the last 3 months making some significant improvements to the overall product,
with fixes and features from the Istio community. Special thanks to all of our end-users for
providing feedback, feature requests, and testing the release candidates at various scales.

This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.2.5 and Istio 1.3.

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