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## Promoted features
Promoted features are features that were incubating in previous versions of Gradle but are now supported and subject to backward compatibility.
See the User Manual section on the “[Feature Lifecycle](userguide/feature_lifecycle.html)” for more information.

The following are the features that have been promoted in this Gradle release.

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## Promoted features
Promoted features are features that were incubating in previous versions of Gradle but are now supported and subject to backward compatibility.
See the User Manual section on the “[Feature Lifecycle](userguide/feature_lifecycle.html)” for more information.

The following are the features that have been promoted in this Gradle release.

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apiVersion: release-notes/v2
kind: feature
area: security
issue:
- https://github.com/istio/enhancements/pull/112
releaseNotes:
- |
  **Promoted** the authorization policy dry-run mode to alpha.
docs:

// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

//go:build ignore

package main

// This file tests that when cgo -godefs sees a struct with a field
// that is an anonymous union, the first field in the union is
// promoted to become a field of the struct.  See issue 6677 for
// background.

/*
typedef struct {
	union {
		long l;
		int c;
	};
} t;
*/
import "C"

// Input for cgo -godefs.

apiVersion: release-notes/v2
kind: promotion
area: istioctl
releaseNotes:
  - |

apiVersion: release-notes/v2
kind: feature
area: traffic-management
issue:
  - https://github.com/istio/enhancements/issues/86

releaseNotes:
- |

apiVersion: release-notes/v2
kind: feature
area: istioctl
releaseNotes:
- |
  **Updated** `istioctl experimental proxy-stauts` has been promoted to `istioctl proxy-status`. The old `istioctl proxy-status` command has been removed.
  This promotion should not result in any loss of functionality. However, the request is now sent based on xDS instead of HTTP, and we have introduced a 

apiVersion: release-notes/v2
kind: feature
area: istioctl
issue:
  - 40339

releaseNotes:
- |

// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// Issue 52870: gofrontend gave incorrect error when incorrectly
// compiling ambiguous promoted method.

package p

type S1 struct {
	*S2
}

type S2 struct {
	T3
	T4
}

type T3 int32

func (T3) M() {}

type T4 int32

Features are said to be *promoted* from an _incubating_ state to _public_.
The release notes for each release indicate which previously _incubating_ features are being promoted by the release.

A _public_ feature will *never* be removed or intentionally changed without undergoing _deprecation_.