Istio 1.22.0-beta.0 Release

[zirain]

We are pleased to announce the completion of the branch cut work for the upcoming Istio 1.22 release and the release of our first beta.

The release can be found on Github here. Please test and report any issues found. Beta.1 is expected in a week’s time.

We would also like to bring to your attention some information related to the release:

No new feature requests will be accepted to the 1.22 branch. Any exceptions will require TOC approval.
Bug fixes will be accepted to the 1.22 branch after being reviewed by the 1.22 release managers. To get changes into the 1.22 branch, they must be merged first to master then add the cherry-pick label for 1.22 to be automatically cherry-picked to the 1.22 release branch. If the automatic cherry -pick fails, you may have to manually cherry-pick the changes to the release-1.22 branch.

The release managers for the 1.22 release are Jianpeng He, Sumit Vij and Zhonghu Xu. For any 1.22 release related questions, you can get in touch with us at the #release-1.22 slack channel.