1.22.0-rc1 (September 30, 2025)
SECURITY:
- connect: Upgrade Consul's bundled Envoy version to 1.35.3 and remove support for 1.31.10. This update also includes a fix to prevent Envoy (v1.35+) startup failures by only configuring the TLS transport socket when the CA bundle is present. [GH-22824]
FEATURES:
- Added support to register a service in consul with multiple ports [GH-22769]
- agent: Added IsDualStack utility function to detect if the agent is configured for both IPv4 and IPv6 (dual-stack mode) based on its bind address retrieved from "agent/self" API. [GH-22741]
- install: Updated license information displayed during post-install
- ipv6: addtition of ip6tables changes for ipv6 and dual stack support [GH-22787]
- oidc: add client authentication using JWT assertion and PKCE. default PKCE is enabled. [GH-22732]
IMPROVEMENTS:
- api: Added a new API (/v1/operator/utilization) to support enterprise API for Manual Snapshot Reporting [GH-22837]
- cmd: Added new subcommand
consul operator utilization [-today-only] [-message] [-y]
to generate a bundle with census utilization snapshot. Main flow is implemented in consul-enterprise
http: Added a new API Handler for/v1/operator/utilization
. Core functionality to be implemented in consul-enterprise
agent: Always enabled census metrics collection with configurable option to export it to Hashicorp Reporting [GH-22843] - cli:
snapshot agent
now supports authenticating to Azure Blob Storage using Azure Managed Service Identities (MSI). [GH-11171] - command: connect envoy bootstrap defaults to 127.0.0.1 in IPv4-only environment and to ::1 in IPv6/DualStack environment. [GH-22763]
- connect: default upstream.local_bind_address to ::1 for IPv6 agent bind address [GH-22773]
- proxy: default proxy.local_service_address to ::1 for IPv6 agent bind address [GH-22772]
- ui: Improved accessibility features in the Consul UI to enhance usability for users with disabilities [GH-22770]
- ui: Replace yarn with pnpm for package management [GH-22790]
- ui: auth method config values were overflowing. This PR fixes the issue and adds word break for table elements with large content. [GH-22813]
BUG FIXES:
- ui: Allow FQDN to be displayed in the Consul web interface. [GH-22779]
- ui: fixes the issue where namespaces where disappearing and Welcome to Namespace screen showed up after tab switching [GH-22789]
- ui: fixes the issue where when doing deletes of multiple tokens or policies, the three dots on the right hand side stops responding after the first delete. [GH-22752]