Istio release 1.6

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2	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21183	Review deprecated fields for Istio 1.6	Nino-K		Closed	P0
3	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/22081	Update to K8s 1.18 libraries #22081	howardjohn		Closed	P0
4	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21225	istioctl manifest generate should label resources like apply	ostromart	4/8	Closed	P0
5	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21212	Cleanup operator codebase	ostromart	4/24	Closed	P0
6	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/19744	Add helm chart for operator deployment	ostromart	4/10	Closed	P0
7	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/22874	Multiple control plane upgrade	howardjohn	4/27	Closed	P0
8	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21468	Create real e2e test for operator controller	iamwen	4/17	Closed	P0	bug fix
9	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20441	Remove legacy helm charts \o/			Closed	P0
10	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJ4kkALCUPWIlz_Ldu6jpeelMNxyY_SZDMaZmeSpfkM/edit	Redefine addon strategy	howardjohn	4/11	Closed	P0	Doc approved, work to be done in 1.7
11	https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/22531	WorkloadEntry for VM integration	howardjohn, smawson	4/13	Closed	P0
12		Multicluster integration tests	nmittler, jasonyoung		Closed	P0
13		Cluster-local service support	Nathan Mittler		Closed	P0
14		Improve the code for SDS (Istio agent, Citadel, Prometheus's sidecar)	Lei, Oliver	4/28	Closed	P0
15		Automated e2e tests covering 80% of security tasks on istio.io.	team	05/05	Closed	P0
16		Negative tests for secure naming check, etc.	team	4/28	Closed	P1
17		Multi cluster support with Istiod	Jason Young, Lin Sun		Closed	P0
18	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/22217	Hitless listener configuration updates	Yuchen	05/05	out of release	P0	Not being done for 1.6 per meeting 4/7
19	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/7679	Gateway API enhancements	Neeraj	4/28	WIP	P0
20		Stability - Load & Integration tests	everyone	4/28		P0
21	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ubUG78rNQbwwkqpvYcr7KgM14kEHwitSsuorCZjR6qY/edit#heading=h.x9snb54sjlu9	Enhanced Transport Security Design/Prototype	Yuchen	5/14	out of release	P0
22	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/20369	Request path classification	dougreid, nrjpoddar, jacob-delgado,mjog	4/24	Closed	P0
23		Stability - conformance testing, etc.	everyone		Closed	P0
24		Extensions API	Mandar Jog, Kuat		out of release	P0
25		Customizing v2 telemetry	kuat	4/24	Closed	P0
26	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/21377	In-proxy Metrics Expiry	bianpengyuan, dougreid		out of release	P1
27		Multiple Control Planes "manifest"			Closed	P0
28	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/22968	Tracing regression in 1.5.x - nested traces are intermittently incomplete	bianpengyuan		Closed	RB
29		Missing Task for VM/Workload Entry	costin, rshriram		WIP
30	https://github.com/istio/istio/pull/23614	update istio/api@release-1.6 dependency in istio/istio@release-1.6
31	https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/23236	Istio operator fails to install demo from docs on 1.6-alpha.2 and beta.0			P0
32	https://github.com/istio/istio.io/pull/7248	Virtual Machine Integration Documentation improvements/manual validation	sdake	5/13
33	https://github.com/istio/istio.io/pull/7257	Virtual Machine Integration Examples improvements/manual validation	sdake	5/13
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