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!

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/istio-day/#call-for-proposals

1.26 is out

https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.26.x/announcing-1.26/

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
@trailofbits,
@ostifofficial and
, and @CNCF.

Read more: https://istio.io/latest/blog/2025/ztunnel-security-assessment/

OSTIF is proud to announce the publication of our audit of
@istio ztunnel implementation. This work was done with the Istio product security working group, @trailofbits and the @cloudnativefdn Read about the results in our blog https://://ostif.org/istio-ztunnel-audit-complete/

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.

https://istio.io/latest/blog/2025/kubecon-eu/

Announcing the 2025 Istio Steering Committee: sharing the results of our Community Seat election and the appointment of Contribution Seat holders.

https://istio.io/latest/blog/2025/steering-election-results/

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.

https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.25.x/announcing-1.25/

The Istio 1.25.0-rc.0 release candidate is now available. Please test out the build and report any issues! https://github.com/istio/istio/discussions/55203

Announcing Istio's 2025 Steering Committee Elections

https://istio.io/latest/blog/2025/steering-election/

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