github hashicorp/consul v1.18.1

1.18.1 (March 26, 2024)

Enterprise LTS: Consul Enterprise 1.18 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release.

BREAKING CHANGES:

  • ui: Adds a "Link to HCP Consul Central" modal with integration to side-nav and link to HCP banner. There will be an option to disable the Link to HCP banner from the UI in a follow-up release. [GH-20474]

SECURITY:

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • api: Randomize the returned server list for the WatchServers gRPC endpoint. [GH-20866]
  • partitions: (Enterprise only) Allow disabling of Gossip per Partition [GH-20669]
  • snapshot agent: (Enterprise only) Add support for multiple snapshot destinations using the backup_destinations config file object.
  • xds: Improved the performance of xDS server side load balancing. Its slightly improved in Consul CE with drastic CPU usage reductions in Consul Enterprise. [GH-20672]

BUG FIXES:

  • audit-logs: (Enterprise Only) Fixes non ASCII characters in audit logs because of gzip. [GH-20345]
  • connect: Fix issue where Consul-dataplane xDS sessions would not utilize the streaming backend for wan-federated queries. [GH-20868]
  • connect: Fix potential goroutine leak in xDS stream handling. [GH-20866]
  • connect: Fix xDS deadlock that could result in proxies being unable to start. [GH-20867]
  • ingress-gateway: (Enterprise Only) Fix a bug where on update, Ingress Gateways lost all upstreams for listeners with wildcard services in a different namespace.

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