istio.io/istio@v0.0.0-20240520182934-d79c90f27776/releasenotes/notes/agent-xds-proxy.yaml (about) 1 apiVersion: release-notes/v2 2 kind: feature 3 area: networking 4 issue: [] 5 releaseNotes: 6 - | 7 **Updated** XDS connections from Envoy will be proxied through the Istio sidecar agent. Doing so allows 8 for consolidation of multiple connections from a pod to Istiod into a single connection, in addition to 9 other planned future improvements. This feature (and change) is transparent to users and is enabled by default. 10 It can be disabled by setting the following in the Istio Operator: meshConfig.defaultConfig.proxyMetadata.PROXY_XDS_VIA_AGENT="false".