Kuma 1.0 has been released, marking a significant milestone with over 70 features and improvements aimed at enhancing the creation and management of distributed service meshes across various environments, including Kubernetes and VM-based workloads. This version introduces advancements in multi-zone deployment with auto-generated resources, locality-aware load balancing, and new ingress proxy synchronization capabilities. It also supports new services and protocols, such as the Kafka protocol, and brings notable performance enhancements, increasing efficiency by approximately fivefold in large-scale environments. Security has been bolstered with new protocols for securing data plane proxies and improved Kubernetes integrations. Additionally, a new GUI and over 65 Grafana charts are included to facilitate better monitoring and management. The release is supported by comprehensive community engagement, with calls and forums for user interaction and contribution, and potential users are encouraged to review the Upgrade Guide before transitioning to this new version.