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+---
+title: Announcing Istio 1.7.1
+linktitle: 1.7.1
+subtitle: Patch Release
+description: Istio 1.7.1 patch release.
+publishdate: 2020-09-10
+release: 1.7.1
+aliases:
+    - /news/announcing-1.7.1
+---
+
+This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.7.0 and Istio 1.7.1
+
+{{< relnote >}}
+
+## Changes
+
+- **Added** Envoy [ext `authz` and gRPC access log API support](https://github.com/istio/istio/wiki/Enabling-Envoy-Authorization-Service-and-gRPC-Access-Log-Service-With-Mixer) in Mixer,
+which makes Mixer based configuration and out of process adapter still work after upgrading to future versions of Istio.
+  ([Issue #23580](https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/23580))
+
+- **Fixed** the `istioctl x authz check` command to work properly with the v1beta1 AuthorizationPolicy.
+  ([PR #26625](https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/26625))
+
+- **Fixed** unreachable endpoints for non-injected workloads across networks by removing them.
+  ([Issue #26517](https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/26517))
+
+- **Fixed** enabling hold application until proxy starts feature flag breaking rewriting application probe logic.
+  ([Issue #26873](https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/26873))
+
+- **Fixed** deleting the remote-secret for multicluster installation removes remote endpoints.
+  ([Issue #27187](https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/27187))
+
+- **Fixed** missing endpoints when Service is populated later than Endpoints.
+
+- **Fixed** an issue causing headless Service updates to be missed ([Issue #26617](https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/26617)).
+  ([Issue #26617](https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/26617))
+
+- **Fixed** an issue with Kiali RBAC permissions which prevented its deployment from working properly.
+  ([Issue #27109](https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/27109))
+
+- **Fixed** an issue where `remove-from-mesh` did not remove the init containers when using Istio CNI
+  ([Issue #26938](https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/26938))
+
+- **Fixed** Kiali to use anonymous authentication strategy since newer versions have removed the login authentication strategy.