Our annual Technical Oversight Committee election is now underway. Project maintainers (including current TOC members) can stand for the three open seats. Please drop by #contributors on the Istio Slack to learn more.

Istio 1.27 is out! This release adds Gateway API Inference Extension support to help run AI workloads on Kubernetes. Ambient mode now supports multi-cluster deployments in alpha. Learn about these and many more features and bug fixes: istio.io/latest/news/...

Istio Day is once again coming to #KubeCon — this time in Atlanta, GA in November. Want to present — new features, case studies, a lightning talk? Our Call for Proposals is open, closing June 30! events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou...

1.26 is out istio.io/latest/news/...

Our annual Technical Oversight Committee election is now underway. Project maintainers (including current TOC members) can stand for the three open seats. Please drop by #contributors on the Istio Slack to learn more.

Istio's ambient mode was built for security from the ground up. So, it's not surprising that ztunnel has sailed through its first security audit, thanks to Trail of Bits, @ostifofficial.bsky.social and @cncf.io. Read more: istio.io/latest/blog/...

Coming to #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon in London next week? Learn about all the Istio sessions, including at the Maintainer Summit and #IstioDay before the conference proper. istio.io/latest/blog/...

Announcing the 2025 Istio Steering Committee: sharing the results of our Community Seat election and the appointment of Contribution Seat holders. istio.io/latest/blog/...

It's Istio 1.25! Now with simplifications for using waypoint proxies and keeping traffic in-zone, as well as a raft of bug fixes and performance improvements. istio.io/latest/news/...

The Istio 1.25.0-rc.0 release candidate is now available. Please test out the build and report any issues! github.com/istio/istio/...

Announcing Istio's 2025 Steering Committee Elections istio.io/latest/blog/...

checking in, haven't heard from you for a while. how are things? i'm good. very ambient these days. new release coming in a few weeks.

Istio 1.24.1 is out! Lots of bug fixes for ambient mode - highly recommended. Or, if you haven't upgraded to 1.24 yet because you were waiting for the .1, now's your time, baby! istio.io/latest/news/...

I'll be speaking this week in the coveted Friday afternoon time slot. Come by if you want to learn about simulating Kubernetes for testing! I am confident you will learn something new, but no promises it will be useful 🙂. sched.co/1i7qh

It’s time to get excited for #IstioDay! We’re kicking off tomorrow Nov.12 at 1:25 PM: sched.co/1jJgh. Come check out THE #KubeCon co-located event for Istio maintainers and practitioners to learn from each other!! Hope to see you there 😄

Istio 1.24 is out today, and it's kind of a big deal. istio.io/latest/news/...

giving away a free sidecar to our first 250,000 followers

"Istio was able to deliver 56% more queries at 20% lower tail latency [than Cilium]. Taking into account the resources used, Istio processed 2178 queries per core, vs Cilium’s 1815, a 20% improvement." istio.io/latest/blog/...

I hear the ambience is good over here istio.io/latest/docs/...