Release 1.5 blockers

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1	Istio release 1.5 , release date = 18th Feb 5th March
2	Issues	Issue subject	Owners	ETA	Status	Priority	Comments
3	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/19090	Potential cardinality jump with telemetry v2	dougreid		Open	P0	This is a doc bug now.
4	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20143	regression: hpa spec broken with new iop API	Martin (mostrowski)		Closed	Release blocker
5	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/19799	Gateway component not enabled by .values	Xinnan (iamwen)	1-27-2020	Closed	Release blocker
6	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/19851	Istiod enables SDS by default, breaking clusters without support	Lei (leitang)	done	Closed	Release blocker
7	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20277	istiod: upgrade path testing	John (howardjohn)	2/28/2020	WIP	Release blocker	This is not strictly a bug to be fixed, but will likely lead to us finding bugs
8	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20439	Component level hub/tag overrides are broken	Tao (taohe)	done	Closed	Release blocker
9	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20449	Validation webhook broken by v1beta1 CRD update	Jason (jasonyoung)		Closed	Release blocker	Proper fix taking longer than expected. Requires adding multi-version support beyond the APIs. There is also draft between the v1alpha3 and v1beta1 APIs. We should probably rollback the original change and take our time in 1.6.
10	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20435	Distroless broken with istioctl install	John (howardjohn)	done	Closed	Release blocker
11	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20476	telemetry v2 request + response size buckets inverted?	dougreid	done	Closed	Release blocker
12	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20497	1.4 -> 1.5 upgrade broken by SDS	John (howardjohn)	1-27-2020	Closed	Release blocker	Fix in https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/20511, pending approval
13	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20535	Egressgateway broken	howardjohn, leitang	1-29-2020	Closed	Release blocker
14	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20536	v2 metrics response size doesn't seem to work	dougreid		Closed		A set of patches is rolling out across repos, pending upon https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/9862
15	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20577	CRD apply broken on K8s 1.13	jasonwzm	1-29-2020	Closed	Release blocker
16	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20487	CNI broken on k8s 1.15 and older	stewart	2/6/2020	Closed
17	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20612	Security Tests Broken	howardjohn/jimmy		Closed
18	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20624	Leftover citadel secrets	Oliver (yonggangl)	done	Closed	Release blocker	https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/21023
19	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20713	Control Plane Security upgrade issues	howardjohn	2/3/2020	Closed
20	https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/20782	Partial cherrypick of this PR for forward compatbility with 1.6	howardjohn	2/6	Closed	P0	This is not strictly a blocker, but we should rename a new config added in 1.5, so thats it is future compatible with 1.6
21	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20861	Upgrade/Downgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 and back	jasonwzm	2/5	Closed	Release blocker
22	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20951	SDS infinite loop	Jimmy	done	Closed	Release blocker	https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/21022
23	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20697	SDS takes 5x as long to start proxy	howardjohn	2/15/2020	Closed	Release blocker	This is a major performance regression
24	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20995	sds_citadel_control_plane_auth_disabled test failure	Oliver (yonggangl)	done	Closed	Release blocker	This is a bad test, we need to update the tests.
25	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21045	dashboard references invalid metrics	howardjohn	2/14/2020	Closed	Release blocker	PR is blocked by 21044, but we could merge without it if needed
26	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20802	TCP metrics missing destination_service	Nupur		Closed	Release blocker	Should be fixed by https://github.com/istio/proxy/pull/2688
27	https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/20963	Fix regression in multi control plane	Costin		Closed	P0
28	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21233	Istiod service selects pilot	howardjohn	2/20/20	Closed	Release blocker
29	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21239	Certificate rotation broken	Oliver (yonggangl)	2/20/20	Closed	P0	https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/21300 fixes the rotation, still open to fix dropping connect dropping https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/21330
30	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21407	Cannot mount certs on existing application	Lei (leitang)	2/26/20	Closed	P0	This is a documentation fix. The fixes https://github.com/istio/istio.io/pull/6554 and https://github.com/istio/istio.io/pull/6967 have been merged.
31	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21111	NACKs lead to infinite loop	Oliver (yonggangl)	2/25/20	Closed	Release blocker	https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/21492
32	https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/21325	Envoyfilter perf regression	howardjohn	2/25/20	Closed	P0
33	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21484	HPA overlay regression	ostromart		Closed	P0	https://github.com/istio/api/pull/1299
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