# istio_54935.yaml
apiVersion: release-notes/v2
kind: feature
area: traffic-management
issue:
- 49829
releaseNotes:
- |
    **Added** `ambient.istio.io/dns-capture` annotation. May be unset, or set to `true` or `false`.
    When specified on a `Pod` enrolled in ambient mesh, controls whether DNS traffic (TCP and UDP on port 53) will be captured and proxied in ambient.
    This pod-level annotation, if present on a pod, will override the global `istio-cni` `AMBIENT_DNS_CAPTURE` setting, which as of 1.25 defaults to `true`.
    Note that setting this to `false` will break some Istio features, such as ServiceEntries and egress waypoints, but may be desirable for workloads that interact poorly with DNS proxies.