## edge-21.12.1 This edge release enables by default `EndpointSlices` in the destination controller, which unblocks any functionality that is specific to `EndpointSlices` such as as topology-aware hints. It also contains a couple of internal cleanups and upgrades, by our external contributors! * Added new check to `linkerd check` verifying the nodes aren't running the old Docker container runtime and attempting to run proxy-init as root at the same time, which doesn't work (thanks @alex-berger!) * Enabled `EndpointSlices` in the destination controller by default * Removed extraneous empty lines and fixed the formatting of warnings in the output of `linkerd check -o short` * Upgraded to go 1.17 (thanks @Juneezee!) * Removed old protobuf definitions from the codebase (thanks @krzysztofdrys!)