Added section for remote wasm extensions to 1.9 announcement. (#8947)

* Added section for remote wasm extensions to 1.9 announcement.

* Fix phrasing per bianpengyuan review.
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to use this functionality. If you are using the [Envoy Filter](/docs/reference/config/networking/envoy-filter/) API today
to integrate with an external authorization system, we recommend you try this feature out and give us feedback!
## Remote fetch and load of WebAssembly (Wasm) HTTP filters (Experimental)
Now Istio supports an experimental feature to [fetch WebAssembly modules](/docs/ops/configuration/extensibility/wasm-module-distribution) from remote repositories and dynamically (re)load them without restarting the proxies in your mesh. With this you can inject [custom C++ code](https://github.com/istio-ecosystem/wasm-extensions/blob/master/doc/write-a-wasm-extension-with-cpp.md) into your mesh to handle uses cases that go well beyond the Istio APIs.
Please try it and tell us how it worked for you. Also, stay tuned for more blogs, support for more languages, and integration with more repositories.
## Mirroring of images on gcr.io
To prevent our users from getting affected by Docker Hub's [rate-limiting policy](/blog/2020/docker-rate-limit/),