Announcing Istio 1.23.3

Istio 1.23.3 patch release.

Oct 24, 2024

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.23.2 and Istio 1.23.3

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Changes

Added clusterLocal host exclusions for multi-cluster.
Added the metrics port in the DaemonSet containers spec of the istio-cni chart.
Added the metrics port in the kube-gateway container spec of the istio-discovery chart.
Fixed kube-virt-interfaces rules not being removed by istio-clean-iptables tool. (Issue #48368)