Release Announcement

Check out the v1.8.1 release announcement to learn more about the release.

What's Changed

• [release/v1.8] fix: add unary interceptor and fix fail-open auth in GatewayNamespaceMode (#8986) by @cnvergence in #9118
• [release-1.8] bump envoy to 1.38.1 by @zirain in #9168
• [release/v1.8] cherry-pick for v1.8.1 by @jukie in #9169
• [release-1.8] fix github SA for June release by @zirain in #9172
• [release-1.8] cherry-pick release notes and version bump by @jukie in #9174

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1