As Service Mesh technology moves from cutting edge to stable infrastructure, many users have expressed an interest in upgrading their service mesh less frequently, as qualifying a new minor release can take a lot of time. Upgrading can be especially difficult for users who don’t keep up with new releases, as Istio has not supported upgrades across multiple minor versions. To upgrade from 1.6.x to 1.8.x, users first had to upgrade to 1.7.x and then to 1.8.x. With the release of Istio 1.10, w...
