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Istio's {{ site.data.istio.version }} release provides an early preview of the intended functionality and user experience of our service mesh. We are hoping to 
solicit early feedback on direction and design decisions.

The {{ site.data.istio.version }} release includes the following features:

*   Simple command-line installation into a Kubernetes cluster

*   Scripted proxy injection with traffic capture via iptables

*   L7 traffic routing rules

*   In-cluster load balancing for HTTP, gRPC & TCP

*   Cluster Ingress and Egress

*   Fault injection

*   In-memory rate limiting

*   L7 Metrics and Logs collection

*   Secure service-to-service authentication with strong identity

*   Pluggable policy layer and configuration API

See our [release notes]({{home}}/docs/reference/release-notes.html) for more details.