Introducing OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6
Red Hat News, Thursday, August 8th, 2024
We are pleased to announce the release of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6. OpenShift Service Mesh is based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, and is included as part of all subscription levels of Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 updates the underlying version of Istio to 1.20, while Kiali remains at 1.73.
This release includes updates from Istio 1.19 and 1.20 including subsequent patch releases up to Istio 1.20.8. Most notably, this release brings generally available support for Kubernetes Gateway API to manage cluster-wide deployments of OpenShift Service Mesh and a developer preview of Istio's multi-primary multi-cluster topology.