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title: Istio 0.8
publishdate: 2018-06-01
icon: notes
aliases:
    - /about/notes/0.8/index.html
release: 0.8.0
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This is a major release for Istio on the road to 1.0. There are a great many new features and architectural improvements in addition to the usual pile of bug fixes and performance improvements.

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