* api: `merge-central-config` query parameter support added to `/catalog/node-services/:node-name` API, to view a fully resolved service definition (especially when not written into the catalog that way). [[GH-13450](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13450)]
* connect: Update Envoy support matrix to latest patch releases (1.22.2, 1.21.3, 1.20.4, 1.19.5) [[GH-13431](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13431)]
BUG FIXES:
* ui: Fix incorrect text on certain page empty states [[GH-13409](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13409)]
* config-entry: Exporting a specific service name across all namespace is invalid.
FEATURES:
* acl: It is now possible to login and logout using the gRPC API [[GH-12935](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12935)]
* agent: Added information about build date alongside other version information for Consul. Extended /agent/self endpoint and `consul version` commands
to report this. Agent also reports build date in log on startup. [[GH-13357](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13357)]
* ca: Leaf certificates can now be obtained via the gRPC API: `Sign` [[GH-12787](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12787)]
* checks: add UDP health checks.. [[GH-12722](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12722)]
* grpc: New gRPC endpoint to return envoy bootstrap parameters. [[GH-12825](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12825)]
* grpc: New gRPC endpoint to return envoy bootstrap parameters. [[GH-1717](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1717)]
* grpc: New gRPC service and endpoint to return the list of supported consul dataplane features [[GH-12695](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12695)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* api: `merge-central-config` query parameter support added to some catalog and health endpoints to view a fully resolved service definition (especially when not written into the catalog that way). [[GH-13001](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13001)]
* api: add the ability to specify a path prefix for when consul is behind a reverse proxy or API gateway [[GH-12914](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12914)]
* connect: add validation to ensure connect native services have a port or socketpath specified on catalog registration.
This was the only missing piece to ensure all mesh services are validated for a port (or socketpath) specification on catalog registration. [[GH-12881](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12881)]
* Support Vault namespaces in Connect CA by adding RootPKINamespace and
IntermediatePKINamespace fields to the config. [[GH-12904](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12904)]
* acl: Clarify node/service identities must be lowercase [[GH-12807](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12807)]
* connect: Added a `max_inbound_connections` setting to service-defaults for limiting the number of concurrent inbound connections to each service instance. [[GH-13143](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13143)]
* dns: Added support for specifying admin partition in node lookups. [[GH-13421](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13421)]
* grpc: Add a new ServerDiscovery.WatchServers gRPC endpoint for being notified when the set of ready servers has changed. [[GH-12819](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12819)]
* telemetry: Added `consul.raft.thread.main.saturation` and `consul.raft.thread.fsm.saturation` metrics to measure approximate saturation of the Raft goroutines [[GH-12865](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12865)]
* telemetry: Added a `consul.server.isLeader` metric to track if a server is a leader or not. [[GH-13304](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13304)]
* ui: removed external dependencies for serving UI assets in favor of Go's native embed capabilities [[GH-10996](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10996)]
* ui: upgrade ember-composable-helpers to v5.x [[GH-13394](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13394)]
BUG FIXES:
* acl: Fixed a bug where the ACL down policy wasn't being applied on remote errors from the primary datacenter. [[GH-12885](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12885)]
* agent: Fixed a bug in HTTP handlers where URLs were being decoded twice [[GH-13256](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13256)]
* fix a bug that caused an error when creating `grpc` or `http2` ingress gateway listeners with multiple services [[GH-13127](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13127)]
* proxycfg: Fixed a minor bug that would cause configuring a terminating gateway to watch too many service resolvers and waste resources doing filtering. [[GH-13012](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13012)]
* raft: upgrade to v1.3.8 which fixes a bug where non cluster member can still be able to participate in an election. [[GH-12844](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12844)]
* serf: upgrade serf to v0.9.8 which fixes a bug that crashes Consul when serf keyrings are listed [[GH-13062](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13062)]
* kvs: Fixed a bug where query options were not being applied to KVS.Get RPC operations. [[GH-13344](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13344)]
* xds: Add the ability to invoke AWS Lambdas through sidecar proxies. [[GH-12956](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12956)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* config: introduce `telemetry.retry_failed_connection` in agent configuration to
retry on failed connection to any telemetry backend. This prevents the agent from
exiting if the given DogStatsD DNS name is unresolvable, for example. [[GH-13091](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13091)]
* sentinel: **(Enterprise Only)** Sentinel now uses SHA256 to generate policy ids
* xds: Envoy now inserts x-forwarded-client-cert for incoming proxy connections [[GH-12878](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12878)]
BUG FIXES:
* Fix a bug when configuring an `add_headers` directive named `Host` the header is not set for `v1/internal/ui/metrics-proxy/` endpoint. [[GH-13071](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13071)]
* api: Fix a bug that causes partition to be ignored when creating a namespace [[GH-12845](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12845)]
* api: agent/self now returns version with +ent suffix for Enterprise Consul [[GH-12961](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12961)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [[GH-1368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1368)]
* ca: fix a bug that caused a non blocking leaf cert query after a blocking leaf cert query to block [[GH-12820](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12820)]
* config: fix backwards compatibility bug where setting the (deprecated) top-level `verify_incoming` option would enable TLS client authentication on the gRPC port [[GH-13118](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13118)]
* health: ensure /v1/health/service/:service endpoint returns the most recent results when a filter is used with streaming #12640 [[GH-12640](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12640)]
* snapshot-agent: **(Enterprise only)** Fix a bug where providing the ACL token to the snapshot agent via a CLI or ENV variable without a license configured results in an error during license auto-retrieval.
* ui: Re-instate '...' icon for row actions [[GH-13183](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13183)]
NOTES:
* ci: change action to pull v1 instead of main [[GH-12846](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12846)]
* sdk: several changes to the testutil configuration structs (removed `ACLMasterToken`, renamed `Master` to `InitialManagement`, and `AgentMaster` to `AgentRecovery`) [[GH-11827](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11827)]
* telemetry: the disable_compat_1.9 option now defaults to true. 1.9 style `consul.http...` metrics can still be enabled by setting `disable_compat_1.9 = false`. However, we will remove these metrics in 1.13. [[GH-12675](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12675)]
FEATURES:
* acl: Add token information to PermissionDeniedErrors [[GH-12567](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12567)]
* acl: Added an AWS IAM auth method that allows authenticating to Consul using AWS IAM identities [[GH-12583](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12583)]
* ca: Root certificates can now be consumed from a gRPC streaming endpoint: `WatchRoots` [[GH-12678](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12678)]
* cli: The `token read` command now supports the `-expanded` flag to display detailed role and policy information for the token. [[GH-12670](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12670)]
* config: automatically reload config when a file changes using the `auto-reload-config` CLI flag or `auto_reload_config` config option. [[GH-12329](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12329)]
* server: Ensure that service-defaults `Meta` is returned with the response to the `ConfigEntry.ResolveServiceConfig` RPC. [[GH-12529](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12529)]
* server: discovery chains now include a response field named "Default" to indicate if they were not constructed from any service-resolver, service-splitter, or service-router config entries [[GH-12511](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12511)]
* server: ensure that service-defaults meta is incorporated into the discovery chain response [[GH-12511](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12511)]
* tls: it is now possible to configure TLS differently for each of Consul's listeners (i.e. HTTPS, gRPC and the internal multiplexed RPC listener) using the `tls` stanza [[GH-12504](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12504)]
* ui: Added support for AWS IAM Auth Methods [[GH-12786](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12786)]
* ui: Support connect-native services in the Topology view. [[GH-12098](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12098)]
* xds: Add the ability to invoke AWS Lambdas through terminating gateways. [[GH-12681](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12681)]
* xds: adding control of the mesh-wide min/max TLS versions and cipher suites from the mesh config entry [[GH-12601](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12601)]
* acl: Provide fuller detail in the error messsage when an ACL denies access. [[GH-12470](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12470)]
* agent: Allow client agents to perform keyring operations [[GH-12442](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12442)]
* agent: add additional validation to TLS config [[GH-12522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12522)]
* agent: add support for specifying TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 and TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 cipher suites [[GH-12522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12522)]
* agent: bump default min version for connections to TLS 1.2 [[GH-12522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12522)]
* api: add QueryBackend to QueryMeta so an api user can determine if a query was served using which backend (streaming or blocking query). [[GH-12791](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12791)]
* ci: include 'enhancement' entry type in IMPROVEMENTS section of changelog. [[GH-12376](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12376)]
* ui: Exclude Service Instance Health from Health Check reporting on the Node listing page. The health icons on each individual row now only reflect Node health. [[GH-12248](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12248)]
* ui: Improve usability of Topology warning/information panels [[GH-12305](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12305)]
* ui: Slightly improve usability of main navigation [[GH-12334](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12334)]
* ui: Use @hashicorp/flight icons for all our icons. [[GH-12209](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12209)]
* Removed impediments to using a namespace prefixed IntermediatePKIPath
in a CA definition. [[GH-12655](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12655)]
* acl: Improve handling of region-specific endpoints in the AWS IAM auth method. As part of this, the `STSRegion` field was removed from the auth method config. [[GH-12774](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12774)]
* api: Improve error message if service or health check not found by stating that the entity must be referred to by ID, not name [[GH-10894](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10894)]
* autopilot: Autopilot state is now tracked on Raft followers in addition to the leader.
Stale queries may be used to query for the non-leaders state. [[GH-12617](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12617)]
* autopilot: The `autopilot.healthy` and `autopilot.failure_tolerance` metrics are now
regularly emitted by all servers. [[GH-12617](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12617)]
* ci: Enable security scanning for CRT [[GH-11956](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11956)]
* connect: Add Envoy 1.21.1 to support matrix, remove 1.17.4 [[GH-12777](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12777)]
* connect: Add Envoy 1.22.0 to support matrix, remove 1.18.6 [[GH-12805](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12805)]
* connect: reduce raft apply on CA configuration when no change is performed [[GH-12298](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12298)]
* deps: update to latest go-discover to fix vulnerable transitive jwt-go dependency [[GH-12739](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12739)]
* grpc, xds: improved reliability of grpc and xds servers by adding recovery-middleware to return and log error in case of panic. [[GH-10895](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10895)]
* http: if a GET request has a non-empty body, log a warning that suggests a possible problem (parameters were meant for the query string, but accidentally placed in the body) [[GH-11821](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11821)]
* metrics: The `consul.raft.boltdb.writeCapacity` metric was added and indicates a theoretical number of writes/second that can be performed to Consul. [[GH-12646](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12646)]
* sdk: Add support for `Partition` and `RetryJoin` to the TestServerConfig struct. [[GH-12126](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12126)]
* telemetry: Add new `leader` label to `consul.rpc.server.call` and optional `target_datacenter`, `locality`,
`allow_stale`, and `blocking` optional labels. [[GH-12727](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12727)]
* ui: In the datacenter selector order Datacenters by Primary, Local then alpanumerically [[GH-12478](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12478)]
* ui: Include details on ACL policy dispositions required for unauthorized views [[GH-12354](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12354)]
* ui: Move icons away from depending on a CSS preprocessor [[GH-12461](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12461)]
* version: Improved performance of the version.GetHumanVersion function by 50% on memory allocation. [[GH-11507](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11507)]
DEPRECATIONS:
* acl: The `consul.acl.ResolveTokenToIdentity` metric is no longer reported. The values that were previous reported as part of this metric will now be part of the `consul.acl.ResolveToken` metric. [[GH-12166](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12166)]
* agent: deprecate older syntax for specifying TLS min version values [[GH-12522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12522)]
* agent: remove support for specifying insecure TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 and TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 cipher suites [[GH-12522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12522)]
* config: setting `cert_file`, `key_file`, `ca_file`, `ca_path`, `tls_min_version`, `tls_cipher_suites`, `verify_incoming`, `verify_incoming_rpc`, `verify_incoming_https`, `verify_outgoing` and `verify_server_hostname` at the top-level is now deprecated, use the `tls` stanza instead [[GH-12504](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12504)]
BUG FIXES:
* acl: Fix parsing of IAM user and role tags in IAM auth method [[GH-12797](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12797)]
* dns: allow max of 63 character DNS labels instead of 64 per RFC 1123 [[GH-12535](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12535)]
* logging: fix a bug with incorrect severity syslog messages (all messages were sent with NOTICE severity). [[GH-12079](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12079)]
* ui: Added Tags tab to gateways(just like exists for non-gateway services) [[GH-12400](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12400)]
NOTES:
* Forked net/rpc to add middleware support: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-net-rpc/ . [[GH-12311](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12311)]
* dependency: Upgrade to use Go 1.18.1 [[GH-12808](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12808)]
* sentinel: **(Enterprise Only)** Sentinel now uses SHA256 to generate policy ids
BUG FIXES:
* Fix a bug when configuring an `add_headers` directive named `Host` the header is not set for `v1/internal/ui/metrics-proxy/` endpoint. [[GH-13071](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13071)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [[GH-1368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1368)]
* ca: fix a bug that caused a non blocking leaf cert query after a blocking leaf cert query to block [[GH-12820](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12820)]
* health: ensure /v1/health/service/:service endpoint returns the most recent results when a filter is used with streaming #12640 [[GH-12640](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12640)]
* snapshot-agent: **(Enterprise only)** Fix a bug where providing the ACL token to the snapshot agent via a CLI or ENV variable without a license configured results in an error during license auto-retrieval.
NOTES:
* ci: change action to pull v1 instead of main [[GH-12846](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12846)]
* agent: Added a new check field, `disable_redirects`, that allows for disabling the following of redirects for HTTP checks. The intention is to default this to true in a future release so that redirects must explicitly be enabled. [[GH-12685](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12685)]
* connect: Properly set SNI when configured for services behind a terminating gateway. [[GH-12672](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12672)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* agent: improve log messages when a service with a critical health check is deregistered due to exceeding the deregister_critical_service_after timeout [[GH-12725](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12725)]
* xds: ensure that all connect timeout configs can apply equally to tproxy direct dial connections [[GH-12711](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12711)]
BUG FIXES:
* acl: **(Enterprise Only)** fixes a bug preventing ACL policies configured with datacenter restrictions from being created if the cluster had been upgraded to Consul 1.11+ from an earlier version.
* connect/ca: cancel old Vault renewal on CA configuration. Provide a 1 - 6 second backoff on repeated token renewal requests to prevent overwhelming Vault. [[GH-12607](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12607)]
* namespace: **(Enterprise Only)** Unreserve `consul` namespace to allow K8s namespace mirroring when deploying in `consul` K8s namespace .
* raft: upgrade to v1.3.6 which fixes a bug where a read replica node could attempt bootstrapping raft and prevent other nodes from bootstrapping at all [[GH-12496](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12496)]
* replication: Fixed a bug which could prevent ACL replication from continuing successfully after a leader election. [[GH-12565](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12565)]
* ca: support using an external root CA with the vault CA provider [[GH-11910](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11910)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* connect: Update supported Envoy versions to include 1.19.3 and 1.18.6 [[GH-12449](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12449)]
* connect: update Envoy supported version of 1.20 to 1.20.2 [[GH-12433](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12433)]
* connect: update Envoy supported version of 1.20 to 1.20.2 [[GH-12443](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12443)]
* debug: reduce the capture time for trace to only a single interval instead of the full duration to make trace.out easier to open without running into OOM errors. [[GH-12359](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12359)]
* raft: add additional logging of snapshot restore progress [[GH-12325](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12325)]
* rpc: improve blocking queries for items that do not exist, by continuing to block until they exist (or the timeout). [[GH-12110](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12110)]
* sentinel: **(Enterprise Only)** Sentinel now uses SHA256 to generate policy ids
* server: conditionally avoid writing a config entry to raft if it was already the same [[GH-12321](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12321)]
* server: suppress spurious blocking query returns where multiple config entries are involved [[GH-12362](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12362)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: Parse datacenter from Create/Delete requests for AuthMethods and BindingRules. [[GH-12370](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12370)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [[GH-1368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1368)]
* catalog: compare node names case insensitively in more places [[GH-12444](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12444)]
* checks: populate interval and timeout when registering services [[GH-11138](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11138)]
* local: fixes a data race in anti-entropy sync that could cause the wrong tags to be applied to a service when EnableTagOverride is used [[GH-12324](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12324)]
* raft: fixed a race condition in leadership transfer that could result in reelection of the current leader [[GH-12325](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12325)]
* server: **(Enterprise only)** Namespace deletion will now attempt to delete as many namespaced config entries as possible instead of halting on the first deletion that failed.
* server: partly fix config entry replication issue that prevents replication in some circumstances [[GH-12307](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12307)]
* state: fix bug blocking snapshot restore when a node check and node differed in casing of the node string [[GH-12444](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12444)]
* ui: Ensure we always display the Policy default preview in the Namespace editing form [[GH-12316](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12316)]
* xds: Fixed Envoy http features such as outlier detection and retry policy not working correctly with transparent proxy. [[GH-12385](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12385)]
* streaming: Improved performance when the server is handling many concurrent subscriptions and has a high number of CPU cores [[GH-12080](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12080)]
* systemd: Support starting/stopping the systemd service for linux packages when the optional EnvironmentFile does not exist. [[GH-12176](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12176)]
* Fix a data race when a service is added while the agent is shutting down.. [[GH-12302](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12302)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [[GH-1368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1368)]
* ca: adjust validation of PrivateKeyType/Bits with the Vault provider, to remove the error when the cert is created manually in Vault. [[GH-12267](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12267)]
* config-entry: fix a panic when creating an ingress gateway config-entry and a proxy service instance, where both provided the same upstream and downstream mapping. [[GH-12277](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12277)]
* connect: fixes bug where passthrough addressses for transparent proxies dialed directly weren't being cleaned up. [[GH-12223](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12223)]
* partitions: **(Enterprise only)** Do not leave a serf partition when the partition is deleted
* serf: update serf v0.9.7, complete the leave process if broadcasting leave timeout. [[GH-12057](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12057)]
* ui: Fix up a problem where occasionally an intention can visually disappear from the listing after saving [[GH-12315](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12315)]
* ui: Fixed a bug with creating multiple nested KVs in one interaction [[GH-12081](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12081)]
* ui: Include partition data when saving an intention from the topology visualization [[GH-12317](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12317)]
* xds: allow only one outstanding delta request at a time [[GH-12236](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12236)]
* xds: fix for delta xDS reconnect bug in LDS/CDS [[GH-12174](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12174)]
* xds: prevents tight loop where the Consul client agent would repeatedly re-send config that Envoy has rejected. [[GH-12195](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12195)]
* ingress: allow setting TLS min version and cipher suites in ingress gateway config entries [[GH-11576](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11576)]
* api: Return 404 when de-registering a non-existent check [[GH-11950](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11950)]
* connect: Add support for connecting to services behind a terminating gateway when using a transparent proxy. [[GH-12049](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12049)]
* http: when a user attempts to access the UI but can't because it's disabled, explain this and how to fix it [[GH-11820](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11820)]
* raft: Consul leaders will attempt to transfer leadership to another server as part of gracefully leaving the cluster. [[GH-11376](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11376)]
* ui: Added a notice for non-primary intention creation [[GH-11985](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11985)]
BUG FIXES:
* Mutate `NodeService` struct properly to avoid a data race. [[GH-11940](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11940)]
* Upgrade to raft `1.3.3` which fixes a bug where a read replica node can trigger a raft election and become a leader. [[GH-11958](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11958)]
* cli: Display assigned node identities in output of `consul acl token list`. [[GH-11926](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11926)]
* cli: when creating a private key, save the file with mode 0600 so that only the user has read permission. [[GH-11781](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11781)]
* config: include all config errors in the error message, previously some could be hidden. [[GH-11918](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11918)]
* memberlist: fixes a bug which prevented members from joining a cluster with
large amounts of churn [[GH-253](https://github.com/hashicorp/memberlist/issues/253)] [[GH-12042](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12042)]
* snapshot: the `snapshot save` command now saves the snapshot with read permission for only the current user. [[GH-11918](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11918)]
* ui: Differentiate between Service Meta and Node Meta when choosing search fields
in Service Instance listings [[GH-11774](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11774)]
* ui: Ensure a login buttons appear for some error states, plus text amends [[GH-11892](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11892)]
* ui: Ensure partition query parameter is passed through to all OIDC related API
* ci: Upgrade golang.org/x/net to address [CVE-2021-44716](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44716) [[GH-11854](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11854)]
FEATURES:
* Admin Partitions (Consul Enterprise only) This version adds admin partitions, a new entity defining administrative and networking boundaries within a Consul deployment. For more information refer to the
* acl: The legacy ACL system that was deprecated in Consul 1.4.0 has been removed. Before upgrading you should verify that nothing is still using the legacy ACL system. See the [Migrate Legacy ACL Tokens Learn Guide](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/access-control-token-migration) for more information. [[GH-11232](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11232)]
* cli: `consul acl set-agent-token master` has been replaced with `consul acl set-agent-token recovery` [[GH-11669](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11669)]
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Creating or editing namespaces that include default ACL policies or ACL roles now requires `acl:write` permission in the default namespace. This change fixes CVE-2021-41805.
* Admin Partitions (Consul Enterprise only) This version adds admin partitions, a new entity defining administrative and networking boundaries within a Consul deployment. For more information refer to the [Admin Partition](https://www.consul.io/docs/enterprise/admin-partitions) documentation.
* ca: Add a configurable TTL for Connect CA root certificates. The configuration is supported by the Vault and Consul providers. [[GH-11428](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11428)]
* ca: Add a configurable TTL to the AWS ACM Private CA provider root certificate. [[GH-11449](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11449)]
* health-checks: add support for h2c in http2 ping health checks [[GH-10690](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10690)]
* ui: Add UI support to use Vault as an external source for a service [[GH-10769](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10769)]
* ui: Adding support of Consul API Gateway as an external source. [[GH-11371](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11371)]
* ui: Adds a copy button to each composite row in tokens list page, if Secret ID returns an actual ID [[GH-10735](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10735)]
* ui: Adds visible Consul version information [[GH-11803](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11803)]
* ui: Topology - New views for scenarios where no dependencies exist or ACLs are disabled [[GH-11280](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11280)]
* api: responses that contain only a partial subset of results, due to filtering by ACL policies, may now include an `X-Consul-Results-Filtered-By-ACLs` header [[GH-11569](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11569)]
* cli: Add `-cas` and `-modify-index` flags to the `consul config delete` command to support Check-And-Set (CAS) deletion of config entries [[GH-11419](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11419)]
* config: Support Check-And-Set (CAS) deletion of config entries [[GH-11419](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11419)]
* config: add `dns_config.recursor_strategy` flag to control the order which DNS recursors are queried [[GH-10611](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10611)]
* config: warn the user if client_addr is empty because client services won't be listening [[GH-11461](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11461)]
* connect/ca: cease including the common name field in generated x509 non-CA certificates [[GH-10424](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10424)]
* connect: Add low-level feature to allow an Ingress to retrieve TLS certificates from SDS. [[GH-10903](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10903)]
* connect: Consul will now generate a unique virtual IP for each connect-enabled service (this will also differ across namespace/partition in Enterprise). [[GH-11724](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11724)]
* connect: Support Vault auth methods for the Connect CA Vault provider. Currently, we support any non-deprecated auth methods the latest version of Vault supports (v1.8.5), which include AppRole, AliCloud, AWS, Azure, Cloud Foundry, GitHub, Google Cloud, JWT/OIDC, Kerberos, Kubernetes, LDAP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Okta, Radius, TLS Certificates, and Username & Password. [[GH-11573](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11573)]
* connect: Support manipulating HTTP headers in the mesh. [[GH-10613](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10613)]
* connect: add Namespace configuration setting for Vault CA provider [[GH-11477](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11477)]
* connect: ingress gateways may now enable built-in TLS for a subset of listeners. [[GH-11163](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11163)]
* connect: service-resolver subset filters are validated for valid go-bexpr syntax on write [[GH-11293](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11293)]
* debug: Add a new /v1/agent/metrics/stream API endpoint for streaming of metrics [[GH-10399](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10399)]
* debug: rename cluster capture target to members, to be more consistent with the terms used by the API. [[GH-10804](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10804)]
* http: when a URL path is not found, include a message with the 404 status code to help the user understand why (e.g., HTTP API endpoint path not prefixed with /v1/) [[GH-11818](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11818)]
* sdk: Add support for iptable rules that allow DNS lookup redirection to Consul DNS. [[GH-11480](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11480)]
* segments: **(Enterprise only)** ensure that the serf_lan_allowed_cidrs applies to network segments [[GH-11495](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11495)]
* telemetry: add a new `agent.tls.cert.expiry` metric for tracking when the Agent TLS certificate expires. [[GH-10768](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10768)]
* telemetry: add a new `mesh.active-root-ca.expiry` metric for tracking when the root certificate expires. [[GH-9924](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9924)]
* api: `/v1/agent/token/agent_master` is deprecated and will be removed in a future major release - use `/v1/agent/token/agent_recovery` instead [[GH-11669](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11669)]
* config: `acl.tokens.master` has been renamed to `acl.tokens.initial_management`, and `acl.tokens.agent_master` has been renamed to `acl.tokens.agent_recovery` - the old field names are now deprecated and will be removed in a future major release [[GH-11665](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11665)]
* tls: With the upgrade to Go 1.17, the ordering of `tls_cipher_suites` will no longer be honored, and `tls_prefer_server_cipher_suites` is now ignored. [[GH-11364](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11364)]
* acl: **(Enterprise only)** fix namespace and namespace_prefix policy evaluation when both govern an authz request
* api: Fix default values used for optional fields in autopilot configuration update (POST to `/v1/operator/autopilot/configuration`) [[GH-10558](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10558)] [[GH-10559](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10559)]
* api: ensure new partition fields are omit empty for compatibility with older versions of consul [[GH-11585](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11585)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** make the gRPC server tracker network area aware [[GH-11748](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11748)]
* ca: fixes a bug that caused non blocking leaf cert queries to return the same cached response regardless of ca rotation or leaf cert expiry [[GH-11693](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11693)]
* ca: fixes a bug that caused the SigningKeyID to be wrong in the primary DC, when the Vault provider is used, after a CA config creates a new root. [[GH-11672](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11672)]
* ca: fixes a bug that caused the intermediate cert used to sign leaf certs to be missing from the /connect/ca/roots API response when the Vault provider was used. [[GH-11671](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11671)]
* check root and intermediate CA expiry before using it to sign a leaf certificate. [[GH-10500](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10500)]
* connect/ca: ensure edits to the key type/bits for the connect builtin CA will regenerate the roots [[GH-10330](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10330)]
* connect/ca: require new vault mount points when updating the key type/bits for the vault connect CA provider [[GH-10331](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10331)]
* connect: fix race causing xDS generation to lock up when discovery chains are tracked for services that are no longer upstreams. [[GH-11826](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11826)]
* dns: Fixed an issue where on DNS requests made with .alt_domain response was returned as .domain [[GH-11348](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11348)]
* dns: return an empty answer when asked for an addr dns with type other then A and AAAA. [[GH-10401](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10401)]
* ui: Fixes an issue where under some circumstances after logging we present the
data loaded previous to you logging in. [[GH-11681](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11681)]
* ui: Gracefully recover from non-existant DC errors [[GH-11077](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11077)]
* ui: Include `Service.Namespace` into available variables for `dashboard_url_templates` [[GH-11640](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11640)]
* Renamed the `agent_master` field to `agent_recovery` in the `acl-tokens.json` file in which tokens are persisted on-disk (when `acl.enable_token_persistence` is enabled) [[GH-11744](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11744)]
* agent: Use SHA256 instead of MD5 to generate persistence file names.
IMPROVEMENTS:
* sentinel: **(Enterprise Only)** Sentinel now uses SHA256 to generate policy ids
BUG FIXES:
* Fix a bug when configuring an `add_headers` directive named `Host` the header is not set for `v1/internal/ui/metrics-proxy/` endpoint. [[GH-13071](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/13071)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [[GH-1368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1368)]
* ca: fix a bug that caused a non blocking leaf cert query after a locking leaf cert query to block [[GH-12820](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12820)]
* health: ensure /v1/health/service/:service endpoint returns the most recent results when a filter is used with streaming #12640 [[GH-12640](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12640)]
* snapshot-agent: **(Enterprise only)** Fix a bug where providing the ACL token to the snapshot agent via a CLI or ENV variable without a license configured results in an error during license auto-retrieval.
NOTES:
* ci: change action to pull v1 instead of main [[GH-12846](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12846)]
## 1.10.10 (April 13, 2022)
SECURITY:
* agent: Added a new check field, `disable_redirects`, that allows for disabling the following of redirects for HTTP checks. The intention is to default this to true in a future release so that redirects must explicitly be enabled. [[GH-12685](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12685)]
* connect: Properly set SNI when configured for services behind a terminating gateway. [[GH-12672](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12672)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* xds: ensure that all connect timeout configs can apply equally to tproxy direct dial connections [[GH-12711](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12711)]
DEPRECATIONS:
* tls: With the upgrade to Go 1.17, the ordering of `tls_cipher_suites` will no longer be honored, and `tls_prefer_server_cipher_suites` is now ignored. [[GH-12766](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12766)]
BUG FIXES:
* connect/ca: cancel old Vault renewal on CA configuration. Provide a 1 - 6 second backoff on repeated token renewal requests to prevent overwhelming Vault. [[GH-12607](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12607)]
* raft: upgrade to v1.3.6 which fixes a bug where a read replica node could attempt bootstrapping raft and prevent other nodes from bootstrapping at all [[GH-12496](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12496)]
* replication: Fixed a bug which could prevent ACL replication from continuing successfully after a leader election. [[GH-12565](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12565)]
* agent: Use SHA256 instead of MD5 to generate persistence file names.
FEATURES:
* ca: support using an external root CA with the vault CA provider [[GH-11910](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11910)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* connect: Update supported Envoy versions to include 1.18.6 [[GH-12450](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12450)]
* connect: update Envoy supported version of 1.20 to 1.20.2 [[GH-12434](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12434)]
* debug: reduce the capture time for trace to only a single interval instead of the full duration to make trace.out easier to open without running into OOM errors. [[GH-12359](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12359)]
* raft: add additional logging of snapshot restore progress [[GH-12325](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12325)]
* rpc: improve blocking queries for items that do not exist, by continuing to block until they exist (or the timeout). [[GH-12110](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12110)]
* sentinel: **(Enterprise Only)** Sentinel now uses SHA256 to generate policy ids
* server: conditionally avoid writing a config entry to raft if it was already the same [[GH-12321](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12321)]
* server: suppress spurious blocking query returns where multiple config entries are involved [[GH-12362](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12362)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: Parse datacenter from Create/Delete requests for AuthMethods and BindingRules. [[GH-12370](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12370)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [[GH-1368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1368)]
* raft: fixed a race condition in leadership transfer that could result in reelection of the current leader [[GH-12325](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12325)]
* server: **(Enterprise only)** Namespace deletion will now attempt to delete as many namespaced config entries as possible instead of halting on the first deletion that failed.
* server: partly fix config entry replication issue that prevents replication in some circumstances [[GH-12307](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12307)]
* ui: Ensure we always display the Policy default preview in the Namespace editing form [[GH-12316](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12316)]
* xds: Fixed Envoy http features such as outlier detection and retry policy not working correctly with transparent proxy. [[GH-12385](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12385)]
* raft: Consul leaders will attempt to transfer leadership to another server as part of gracefully leaving the cluster. [[GH-11376](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11376)]
* sentinel: **(Enterprise Only)** Sentinel now uses SHA256 to generate policy ids
BUG FIXES:
* Fix a data race when a service is added while the agent is shutting down.. [[GH-12302](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12302)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [[GH-1368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1368)]
* config-entry: fix a panic when creating an ingress gateway config-entry and a proxy service instance, where both providedthe same upstream and downstrem mapping. [[GH-12277](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12277)]
* config: include all config errors in the error message, previously some could be hidden. [[GH-11918](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11918)]
* connect: fixes bug where passthrough addressses for transparent proxies dialed directly weren't being cleaned up. [[GH-12223](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12223)]
* memberlist: fixes a bug which prevented members from joining a cluster with
large amounts of churn [[GH-253](https://github.com/hashicorp/memberlist/issues/253)] [[GH-12047](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12047)]
* snapshot: the `snapshot save` command now saves the snapshot with read permission for only the current user. [[GH-11918](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11918)]
* xds: allow only one outstanding delta request at a time [[GH-12236](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12236)]
* xds: fix for delta xDS reconnect bug in LDS/CDS [[GH-12174](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12174)]
* xds: prevents tight loop where the Consul client agent would repeatedly re-send config that Envoy has rejected. [[GH-12195](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12195)]a
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Creating or editing namespaces that include default ACL policies or ACL roles now requires `acl:write` permission in the default namespace. This change fixes CVE-2021-41805.
FEATURES:
* ui: Adds visible Consul version information [[GH-11803](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11803)]
BUG FIXES:
* Mutate `NodeService` struct properly to avoid a data race. [[GH-11940](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11940)]
* Upgrade to raft `1.3.3` which fixes a bug where a read replica node can trigger a raft election and become a leader. [[GH-11958](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11958)]
* ca: fixes a bug that caused non blocking leaf cert queries to return the same cached response regardless of ca rotation or leaf cert expiry [[GH-11693](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11693)]
* ca: fixes a bug that caused the SigningKeyID to be wrong in the primary DC, when the Vault provider is used, after a CA config creates a new root. [[GH-11672](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11672)]
* ca: fixes a bug that caused the intermediate cert used to sign leaf certs to be missing from the /connect/ca/roots API response when the Vault provider was used. [[GH-11671](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11671)]
* cli: Display assigned node identities in output of `consul acl token list`. [[GH-11926](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11926)]
* cli: when creating a private key, save the file with mode 0600 so that only the user has read permission. [[GH-11781](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11781)]
* snapshot: **(Enterprise only)** fixed a bug where the snapshot agent would ignore the `license_path` setting in config files
* structs: **(Enterprise only)** Remove partition field parsing from 1.10 to prevent further 1.11 upgrade compatibility issues.
* ui: Differentiate between Service Meta and Node Meta when choosing search fields
in Service Instance listings [[GH-11774](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11774)]
* ui: Ensure we show a readonly designed page for readonly intentions [[GH-11767](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11767)]
* ui: Fix an issue where attempting to delete a policy from the policy detail page when
attached to a token would result in the delete button disappearing and no
deletion being attempted [[GH-11868](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11868)]
* ui: Fixes an issue where once a 403 page is displayed in some circumstances its
diffcult to click back to where you where before receiving a 403 [[GH-11891](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11891)]
* ui: Fixes an issue where under some circumstances after logging we present the
data loaded previous to you logging in. [[GH-11681](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11681)]
* ui: Include `Service.Namespace` into available variables for `dashboard_url_templates` [[GH-11640](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11640)]
* ui: Revert to depending on the backend, 'post-user-action', to report
permissions errors rather than using UI capabilities 'pre-user-action' [[GH-11520](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11520)]
* ui: Temporarily remove KV pre-flight check for KV list permissions [[GH-11968](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11968)]
* windows: Fixes a bug with empty log files when Consul is run as a Windows Service [[GH-11960](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11960)]
* xds: fix a deadlock when the snapshot channel already have a snapshot to be consumed. [[GH-11924](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11924)]
* ci: Upgrade golang.org/x/net to address [CVE-2021-44716](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44716) [[GH-11856](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11856)]
## 1.10.5 (December 13, 2021)
SECURITY:
* ci: Upgrade to Go 1.16.12 to address [CVE-2021-44716](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44716) [[GH-11808](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11808)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: **(Enterprise only)** fix bug where 1.10.x agents would deregister serf checks from 1.11.x servers [[GH-11700](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11700)]
* agent: Use SHA256 instead of MD5 to generate persistence file names. [[GH-11491](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11491)]
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Creating or editing namespaces that include default ACL policies or ACL roles now requires `acl:write` permission in the default namespace. This change fixes CVE-2021-41805.
IMPROVEMENTS:
* ci: Artifact builds will now only run on merges to the release branches or to `main` [[GH-11417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11417)]
* ci: The Linux packages are now available for all supported Linux architectures including arm, arm64, 386, and amd64 [[GH-11417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11417)]
* ci: The Linux packaging service configs and pre/post install scripts are now available under [.release/linux] [[GH-11417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11417)]
* connect/ca: Return an error when querying roots from uninitialized CA. [[GH-11514](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11514)]
* telemetry: Add new metrics for the count of connect service instances and configuration entries. [[GH-11222](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11222)]
BUG FIXES:
* acl: fixes the fallback behaviour of down_policy with setting extend-cache/async-cache when the token is not cached. [[GH-11136](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11136)]
* connect/ca: Allow secondary initialization to resume after being deferred due to unreachable or incompatible primary DC servers. [[GH-11514](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11514)]
* connect: fix issue with attempting to generate an invalid upstream cluster from UpstreamConfig.Defaults. [[GH-11245](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11245)]
* raft: do not trigger an election if not part of the servers list. [[GH-11375](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11375)]
* rpc: only attempt to authorize the DNSName in the client cert when verify_incoming_rpc=true [[GH-11255](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11255)]
* server: **(Enterprise only)** Ensure that servers leave network segments when leaving other gossip pools
* snapshot: **(Enterprise only)** snapshot agent no longer attempts to refresh its license from the server when a local license is provided (i.e. via config or an environment variable)
* telemetry: Consul Clients no longer emit Autopilot metrics. [[GH-11241](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11241)]
* telemetry: fixes a bug with Prometheus consul_autopilot_failure_tolerance metric where 0 is reported instead of NaN on follower servers. [[GH-11399](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11399)]
* telemetry: fixes a bug with Prometheus consul_autopilot_healthy metric where 0 is reported instead of NaN on servers. [[GH-11231](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11231)]
* ui: **(Enterprise only)** When no namespace is selected, make sure to default to the tokens default namespace when requesting permissions [[GH-11472](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11472)]
* ui: Ensure we check intention permissions for specific services when deciding
whether to show action buttons for per service intention actions [[GH-11270](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11270)]
* ui: Fixed styling of Role remove dialog on the Token edit page [[GH-11298](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11298)]
* xds: fixes a bug where replacing a mesh gateway node used for WAN federation (with another that has a different IP) could leave gateways in the other DC unable to re-establish the connection [[GH-11522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11522)]
BUG FIXES:
* Fixing SOA record to return proper domain when alt domain in use. [[GH-10431]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/10431)
* sso/oidc: **(Enterprise only)** Add support for providing acr_values in OIDC auth flow [[GH-11026](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11026)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* audit-logging: **(Enterprise Only)** Audit logs will now include select HTTP headers in each logs payload. Those headers are: `Forwarded`, `Via`, `X-Forwarded-For`, `X-Forwarded-Host` and `X-Forwarded-Proto`. [[GH-11107](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11107)]
* ui: Don't show a CRD warning for read-only intentions [[GH-11149](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11149)]
* ui: Ensure routing-config page blocking queries are cleaned up correctly [[GH-10915](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10915)]
* ui: Ignore reported permissions for KV area meaning the KV is always enabled
for both read/write access if the HTTP API allows. [[GH-10916](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10916)]
* ui: hide create button for policies/roles/namespace if users token has no write permissions to those areas [[GH-10914](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10914)]
* xds: ensure the active streams counters are 64 bit aligned on 32 bit systems [[GH-11085](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11085)]
* xds: fixed a bug where Envoy sidecars could enter a state where they failed to receive xds updates from Consul [[GH-10987](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10987)]
* tls: The fix for [CVE-2021-37219](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-37219) introduced an issue that could prevent TLS certificate validation when intermediate CA certificates used to sign server certificates are transmitted in the TLS session but are not present in all Consul server's configured CA certificates. This has the effect of preventing Raft RPCs between the affected servers. As a work around until the next patch releases, ensure that all intermediate CA certificates are present in all Consul server configurations prior to using certificates that they have signed.
* connect: add support for unix domain socket config via API/CLI [[GH-10758](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10758)]
* ui: Adding support in Topology view for Routing Configurations [[GH-10872](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10872)]
* ui: Create Routing Configurations route and page [[GH-10835](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10835)]
* ui: Splitting up the socket mode and socket path in the Upstreams Instance List [[GH-10581](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10581)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Add 15s timeout to opening streams over pooled connections.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Apply backpressure to area gossip packet ingestion when more than 512 packets are waiting to be ingested.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Make implementation of WriteToAddress non-blocking to avoid slowing down memberlist's packetListen routine.
* checks: Add Interval and Timeout to API response. [[GH-10717](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10717)]
* ci: make changelog-checker only validate PR number against main base [[GH-10844](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10844)]
* ci: upgrade to use Go 1.16.7 [[GH-10856](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10856)]
* deps: update to gogo/protobuf v1.3.2 [[GH-10813](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10813)]
* proxycfg: log correlation IDs for the proxy configuration snapshot's blocking queries. [[GH-10689](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10689)]
BUG FIXES:
* acl: fixes a bug that prevented the default user token from being used to authorize service registration for connect proxies. [[GH-10824](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10824)]
* ca: fixed a bug when ca provider fail and provider state is stuck in `INITIALIZING` state. [[GH-10630](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10630)]
* ca: report an error when setting the ca config fail because of an index check. [[GH-10657](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10657)]
* cli: Ensure the metrics endpoint is accessible when Envoy is configured to use
a non-default admin bind address. [[GH-10757](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10757)]
* cli: Fix a bug which prevented initializing a watch when using a namespaced
* cli: Fix broken KV import command on Windows. [[GH-10820](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10820)]
* connect: ensure SAN validation for prepared queries validates against all possible prepared query targets [[GH-10873](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10873)]
* connect: fix crash that would result from multiple instances of a service resolving service config on a single agent. [[GH-10647](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10647)]
* connect: proxy upstreams inherit namespace from service if none are defined. [[GH-10688](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10688)]
* dns: fixes a bug with edns truncation where the response could exceed the size limit in some cases. [[GH-10009](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10009)]
* grpc: ensure that streaming gRPC requests work over mesh gateway based wan federation [[GH-10838](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10838)]
* http: log cancelled requests as such at the INFO level, instead of logging them as errored requests. [[GH-10707](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10707)]
* streaming: set the default wait timeout for health queries [[GH-10707](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10707)]
* txn: fixes Txn.Apply to properly authorize service registrations. [[GH-10798](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10798)]
* ui: Disabling policy form fields from users with 'read' permissions [[GH-10902](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10902)]
* ui: Fix Health Checks in K/V form Lock Sessions Info section [[GH-10767](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10767)]
* ui: Fix dropdown option duplication in the new intentions form [[GH-10706](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10706)]
* ui: Hide all metrics for ingress gateway services [[GH-10858](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10858)]
* The change to enable streaming by default uncovered an incompatibility between streaming and WAN federation over mesh gateways causing traffic to fall back to attempting a direct WAN connection rather than transiting through the gateways. We currently suggest explicitly setting [`use_streaming_backend=false`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/config-files#use_streaming_backend) if using WAN federation over mesh gateways when upgrading to 1.10.1 and are working to address this issue in a future patch release.
* xds: ensure envoy verifies the subject alternative name for upstreams [CVE-2021-32574](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32574) [[GH-10621](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10621)]
* xds: ensure single L7 deny intention with default deny policy does not result in allow action [CVE-2021-36213](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36213) [[GH-10619](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10619)]
FEATURES:
* cli: allow running `redirect-traffic` command in a provided Linux namespace. [[GH-10564](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10564)]
* sdk: allow applying `iptables` rules in a provided Linux namespace. [[GH-10564](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10564)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* acl: Return secret ID when listing tokens if accessor has `acl:write` [[GH-10546](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10546)]
* structs: prevent service-defaults upstream configs from using wildcard names or namespaces [[GH-10475](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10475)]
* ui: Move all CSS icons to use standard CSS custom properties rather than SASS variables [[GH-10298](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10298)]
DEPRECATIONS:
* connect/ca: remove the `RotationPeriod` field from the Consul CA provider, it was not used for anything. [[GH-10552](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10552)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: fix a panic on 32-bit platforms caused by misaligned struct fields used with sync/atomic. [[GH-10515](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10515)]
* ca: Fixed a bug that returned a malformed certificate chain when the certificate did not having a trailing newline. [[GH-10411](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10411)]
* checks: fixes the default ServerName used with TLS health checks. [[GH-10490](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10490)]
* streaming: fix a bug that was preventing streaming from being enabled. [[GH-10514](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10514)]
* ui: **(Enterprise only)** Ensure permissions are checked based on the actively selected namespace [[GH-10608](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10608)]
* ui: Ensure in-folder KVs are created in the correct folder [[GH-10569](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10569)]
* ui: Send service name down to Stats to properly call endpoint for Upstreams and Downstreams metrics [[GH-10535](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10535)]
* ui: Show ACLs disabled page at Tokens page instead of 403 error when ACLs are disabled [[GH-10604](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10604)]
* ui: Use the token's namespace instead of the default namespace when not
specifying a namespace in the URL [[GH-10503](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10503)]
* connect: avoid encoding listener info in ingress and terminating gateway listener stats names. [[GH-10404](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10404)]
* licensing: **(Enterprise Only)** Consul Enterprise 1.10 has removed API driven licensing of servers in favor of license loading via configuration. The `PUT` and `DELETE` methods on the `/v1/operator/license` endpoint will now return 405s, the `consul license put` and `consul license reset` CLI commands have been removed and the `LicensePut` and `LicenseReset` methods in the API client have been altered to always return an error. [[GH-10211](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10211)]
* licensing: **(Enterprise Only)** Consul Enterprise client agents now require a valid non-anonymous ACL token for retrieving their license from the servers. Additionally client agents rely on the value of the `start_join` and `retry_join` configurations for determining the servers to query for the license. Therefore one must be set to use license auto-retrieval. [[GH-10248](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10248)]
* licensing: **(Enterprise Only)** Consul Enterprise has removed support for temporary licensing. All server agents must have a valid license at startup and client agents must have a license at startup or be able to retrieve one from the servers. [[GH-10248](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10248)]
* cli: Add new `consul connect redirect-traffic` command for applying traffic redirection rules when Transparent Proxy is enabled. [[GH-9910](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9910)]
* cli: Add prefix option to kv import command [[GH-9792](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9792)]
* cli: Automatically exclude ports from `envoy_prometheus_bind_addr`, `envoy_stats_bind_addr`, and `ListenerPort` from `Expose` config
from inbound traffic redirection rules if `proxy-id` flag is provided to the `consul connect redirect-traffic` command. [[GH-10134](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10134)]
* connect: Add local_request_timeout_ms to allow configuring the Envoy request timeout on local_app [[GH-9554](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9554)]
* connect: add support for unix domain sockets addresses for service upstreams and downstreams [[GH-9981](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9981)]
* sdk: Allow excluding inbound and outbound ports, outbound CIDRs, and additional user IDs from traffic redirection in the `iptables` package. [[GH-10134](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10134)]
* acl: extend the auth-methods list endpoint to include MaxTokenTTL and TokenLocality fields. [[GH-9741](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9741)]
* acl: use the presence of a management policy in the state store as a sign that we already migrated to v2 acls [[GH-9505](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9505)]
* agent: Save exposed Envoy ports to the agent's state when `Expose.Checks` is true in proxy's configuration. [[GH-10173](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10173)]
* api: Add `ExposedPort` to the health check API resource. [[GH-10173](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10173)]
* api: Enable setting query options on agent endpoints. [[GH-9903](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9903)]
* api: The `Content-Type` header is now always set when a body is present in a request. [[GH-10204](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10204)]
* cli: the `consul connect envoy --envoy_statsd_url` flag will now resolve the `$HOST_IP` environment variable, as part of a full url. [[GH-8564](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8564)]
* command: Exclude exposed Envoy ports from traffic redirection when providing `-proxy-id` and `Expose.Checks` is set. [[GH-10173](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10173)]
* connect: Add support for transparently proxying traffic through Envoy. [experimental] [[GH-9894](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9894)]
* connect: Allow per-upstream configuration to be set in service-defaults. [experimental] [[GH-9872](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9872)]
* connect: Ensures passthrough tproxy cluster is created even when mesh config doesn't exist. [[GH-10301](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10301)]
* connect: Support dialing individual service IP addresses through transparent proxies. [[GH-10329](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10329)]
* connect: The builtin connect proxy no longer advertises support for h2 via ALPN. [[GH-4466](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4466)]. [[GH-9920](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9920)]
* connect: Update the service mesh visualization to account for transparent proxies. [[GH-10016](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10016)]
* connect: adds new flags `prometheus-backend-port` and `prometheus-scrape-port` to `consul connect envoy` to support envoy_prometheus_bind_addr pointing to the merged metrics port when using Consul Connect on K8s. [[GH-9768](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9768)]
* connect: allow exposing duplicate HTTP paths through a proxy instance. [[GH-10394](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10394)]
* connect: rename cluster config entry to mesh. [[GH-10127](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10127)]
* connect: restrict transparent proxy mode to only match on the tagged virtual IP address. [[GH-10162](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10162)]
* connect: update supported envoy versions to 1.18.3, 1.17.3, 1.16.4, and 1.15.5 [[GH-10231](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10231)]
* debug: capture a single stream of logs, and single pprof profile and trace for the whole duration [[GH-10279](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10279)]
* grpc: move gRPC INFO logs to be emitted as TRACE logs from Consul [[GH-10395](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10395)]
* licensing: **(Enterprise Only)** Consul Enterprise has gained the `consul license inspect` CLI command for inspecting a license without applying it..
* licensing: **(Enterprise Only)** Consul Enterprise has gained the ability to autoload a license via configuration. This can be specified with the `license_path` configuration, the `CONSUL_LICENSE` environment variable or the `CONSUL_LICENSE_PATH` environment variable [[GH-10210](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10210)]
* licensing: **(Enterprise Only)** Consul Enterprise has gained the ability update its license via a configuration reload. The same environment variables and configurations will be used to determine the new license. [[GH-10267](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10267)]
* monitoring: optimize the monitoring endpoint to avoid losing logs when under high load. [[GH-10368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10368)]
* raft: allow reloading of raft trailing logs and snapshot timing to allow recovery from some [replication failure modes](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9609).
telemetry: add metrics and documentation for [monitoring for replication issues](https://consul.io/docs/agent/telemetry#raft-replication-capacity-issues). [[GH-10129](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10129)]
* streaming: change `use_streaming_backend` to default to true so that streaming is used by default when it is supported. [[GH-10149](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10149)]
* ui: Adding a notice about how TransparentProxy mode affects the Upstreams list at the top of tab view [[GH-10136](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10136)]
* ui: Improve loader centering with new side navigation [[GH-10181](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10181)]
* ui: Move to a sidebar based main navigation [[GH-9553](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9553)]
* ui: Show a message to explain that health checks may be out of date if the serf health check is in a critical state [[GH-10194](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10194)]
* ui: Updating the wording for the banner and the popover for a service with an upstream that is not explicitly defined. [[GH-10133](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10133)]
* xds: ensure that all envoyproxy/go-control-plane protobuf symbols are linked into the final binary [[GH-10131](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10131)]
* checks: add TLSServerName field to allow setting the TLS server name for HTTPS health checks. [[GH-9475](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9475)]
* config: Fixed a bug where `rpc_max_conns_per_client` could not be changed by reloading the
* connect: Fix bug that prevented transparent proxies from working when mesh config restricted routing to catalog destinations. [[GH-10365](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10365)]
* monitor: fix monitor to produce json format logs when requested [[GH-10358](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10358)]
* proxycfg: Ensure that endpoints for explicit upstreams in other datacenters are watched in transparent mode. [[GH-10391](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10391)]
* proxycfg: avoid panic when transparent proxy upstream is added and then removed. [[GH-10423](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10423)]
* streaming: fixes a bug that would cause context cancellation errors when a cache entry expired while requests were active. [[GH-10112](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10112)]
* streaming: lookup in health properly handle case-sensitivity and perform filtering based on tags and node-meta [[GH-9703](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9703)]
* telemetry: fixes a bug with Prometheus metrics where Gauges and Summaries were incorrectly
being expired. [[GH-10161](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10161)]
* ui: Adding conditional to prevent Service Mesh from breaking when there are no Upstreams [[GH-10122](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10122)]
* ui: Fix text searching through upstream instances. [[GH-10151](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10151)]
* ui: Update conditional for topology empty state [[GH-10124](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10124)]
* xds: (beta-only) ensure that dependent xDS resources are reconfigured during primary type warming [[GH-10381](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10381)]
* ca: support using an external root CA with the vault CA provider [[GH-11910](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11910)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* sentinel: **(Enterprise Only)** Sentinel now uses SHA256 to generate policy ids
* server: conditionally avoid writing a config entry to raft if it was already the same [[GH-12321](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12321)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: Parse datacenter from Create/Delete requests for AuthMethods and BindingRules. [[GH-12370](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12370)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [[GH-1368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1368)]
* server: **(Enterprise only)** Namespace deletion will now attempt to delete as many namespaced config entries as possible instead of halting on the first deletion that failed.
* server: partly fix config entry replication issue that prevents replication in some circumstances [[GH-12307](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12307)]
* ui: Ensure we always display the Policy default preview in the Namespace editing form [[GH-12316](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12316)]
* sentinel: **(Enterprise Only)** Sentinel now uses SHA256 to generate policy ids
BUG FIXES:
* Fix a data race when a service is added while the agent is shutting down.. [[GH-12302](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12302)]
* areas: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [[GH-1368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1368)]
* config-entry: fix a panic when creating an ingress gateway config-entry and a proxy service instance, where both provided the same upstream and downstream mapping. [[GH-12277](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/12277)]
* config: include all config errors in the error message, previously some could be hidden. [[GH-11918](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11918)]
* snapshot: the `snapshot save` command now saves the snapshot with read permission for only the current user. [[GH-11918](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11918)]
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Creating or editing namespaces that include default ACL policies or ACL roles now requires `acl:write` permission in the default namespace. This change fixes CVE-2021-41805.
BUG FIXES:
* ca: fixes a bug that caused non blocking leaf cert queries to return the same cached response regardless of ca rotation or leaf cert expiry [[GH-11693](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11693)]
* ca: fixes a bug that caused the intermediate cert used to sign leaf certs to be missing from the /connect/ca/roots API response when the Vault provider was used. [[GH-11671](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11671)]
* cli: Display assigned node identities in output of `consul acl token list`. [[GH-11926](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11926)]
* cli: when creating a private key, save the file with mode 0600 so that only the user has read permission. [[GH-11781](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11781)]
* snapshot: **(Enterprise only)** fixed a bug where the snapshot agent would ignore the `license_path` setting in config files
* ui: Differentiate between Service Meta and Node Meta when choosing search fields
in Service Instance listings [[GH-11774](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11774)]
* ui: Fixes an issue where under some circumstances after logging we present the
data loaded previous to you logging in. [[GH-11681](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11681)]
* ui: Fixes an issue where under some circumstances the namespace selector could
become 'stuck' on the default namespace [[GH-11830](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11830)]
* ui: Include `Service.Namespace` into available variables for `dashboard_url_templates` [[GH-11640](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11640)]
* ui: Prevent disconnection notice appearing with auth change on certain pages [[GH-11905](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11905)]
* xds: fix a deadlock when the snapshot channel already have a snapshot to be consumed. [[GH-11924](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11924)]
* ci: Upgrade golang.org/x/net to address [CVE-2021-44716](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44716) [[GH-11858](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11858)]
## 1.9.12 (December 13, 2021)
SECURITY:
* ci: Upgrade to Go 1.16.12 to address [CVE-2021-44716](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44716) [[GH-11807](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11807)]
* agent: Use SHA256 instead of MD5 to generate persistence file names. [[GH-11491](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11491)]
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Creating or editing namespaces that include default ACL policies or ACL roles now requires `acl:write` permission in the default namespace. This change fixes CVE-2021-41805.
IMPROVEMENTS:
* ci: Artifact builds will now only run on merges to the release branches or to `main` [[GH-11417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11417)]
* ci: The Linux packages are now available for all supported Linux architectures including arm, arm64, 386, and amd64 [[GH-11417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11417)]
* ci: The Linux packaging service configs and pre/post install scripts are now available under [.release/linux] [[GH-11417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11417)]
* telemetry: Add new metrics for the count of connect service instances and configuration entries. [[GH-11222](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11222)]
BUG FIXES:
* acl: fixes the fallback behaviour of down_policy with setting extend-cache/async-cache when the token is not cached. [[GH-11136](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11136)]
* rpc: only attempt to authorize the DNSName in the client cert when verify_incoming_rpc=true [[GH-11255](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11255)]
* server: **(Enterprise only)** Ensure that servers leave network segments when leaving other gossip pools
* ui: Fixed styling of Role remove dialog on the Token edit page [[GH-11298](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11298)]
* xds: fixes a bug where replacing a mesh gateway node used for WAN federation (with another that has a different IP) could leave gateways in the other DC unable to re-establish the connection [[GH-11522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11522)]
* sso/oidc: **(Enterprise only)** Add support for providing acr_values in OIDC auth flow [[GH-11026](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11026)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* audit-logging: **(Enterprise Only)** Audit logs will now include select HTTP headers in each logs payload. Those headers are: `Forwarded`, `Via`, `X-Forwarded-For`, `X-Forwarded-Host` and `X-Forwarded-Proto`. [[GH-11107](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11107)]
* connect: update supported envoy versions to 1.16.5 [[GH-10961](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10961)]
* telemetry: Add new metrics for the count of KV entries in the Consul store. [[GH-11090](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11090)]
BUG FIXES:
* tls: consider presented intermediates during server connection tls handshake. [[GH-10964](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10964)]
* tls: The fix for [CVE-2021-37219](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-37219) introduced an issue that could prevent TLS certificate validation when intermediate CA certificates used to sign server certificates are transmitted in the TLS session but are not present in all Consul server's configured CA certificates. This has the effect of preventing Raft RPCs between the affected servers. As a work around until the next patch releases, ensure that all intermediate CA certificates are present in all Consul server configurations prior to using certificates that they have signed.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Add 15s timeout to opening streams over pooled connections.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Apply backpressure to area gossip packet ingestion when more than 512 packets are waiting to be ingested.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Make implementation of WriteToAddress non-blocking to avoid slowing down memberlist's packetListen routine.
* deps: update to gogo/protobuf v1.3.2 [[GH-10813](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10813)]
BUG FIXES:
* acl: fixes a bug that prevented the default user token from being used to authorize service registration for connect proxies. [[GH-10824](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10824)]
* ca: fixed a bug when ca provider fail and provider state is stuck in `INITIALIZING` state. [[GH-10630](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10630)]
* ca: report an error when setting the ca config fail because of an index check. [[GH-10657](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10657)]
* cli: Ensure the metrics endpoint is accessible when Envoy is configured to use
a non-default admin bind address. [[GH-10757](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10757)]
* cli: Fix a bug which prevented initializing a watch when using a namespaced
* connect: proxy upstreams inherit namespace from service if none are defined. [[GH-10688](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10688)]
* dns: fixes a bug with edns truncation where the response could exceed the size limit in some cases. [[GH-10009](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10009)]
* txn: fixes Txn.Apply to properly authorize service registrations. [[GH-10798](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10798)]
* ui: Fix dropdown option duplication in the new intentions form [[GH-10706](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10706)]
* ui: Hide all metrics for ingress gateway services [[GH-10858](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10858)]
* xds: ensure envoy verifies the subject alternative name for upstreams [CVE-2021-32574](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32574) [[GH-10621](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10621)]
* xds: ensure single L7 deny intention with default deny policy does not result in allow action [CVE-2021-36213](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36213) [[GH-10619](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10619)]
BUG FIXES:
* ca: Fixed a bug that returned a malformed certificate chain when the certificate did not having a trailing newline. [[GH-10411](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10411)]
* ui: Send service name down to Stats to properly call endpoint for Upstreams and Downstreams metrics [[GH-10535](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10535)]
* debug: capture a single stream of logs, and single pprof profile and trace for the whole duration [[GH-10279](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10279)]
* licensing: **(Enterprise Only)** In order to have forward compatibility with Consul Enterprise v1.10, the ability to parse licenses from the configuration or environment has been added. This can be specified with the `license_path` configuration, the `CONSUL_LICENSE` environment variable or the `CONSUL_LICENSE_PATH` environment variable. On server agents this configuration will be ignored. Client agents and the snapshot agent will use the configured license instead of automatically retrieving one. [[GH-10441](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10441)]
* monitoring: optimize the monitoring endpoint to avoid losing logs when under high load. [[GH-10368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10368)]
* license: **(Enterprise only)** Fixed an issue that would cause client agents on versions before 1.10 to not be able to retrieve the license from a 1.10+ server. [[GH-10432](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10432)]
* monitor: fix monitor to produce json format logs when requested [[GH-10358](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10358)]
* acl: Give more descriptive error if auth method not found. [[GH-10163](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10163)]
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Use server agent's gossip_wan config when setting memberlist configuration for network areas. Previously they used memberlists WAN defaults.
* cli: added a `-force-without-cross-signing` flag to the `ca set-config` command.
connect/ca: The ForceWithoutCrossSigning field will now work as expected for CA providers that support cross signing. [[GH-9672](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9672)]
* connect: update supported envoy versions to 1.16.4, 1.15.5, 1.14.6, and 1.13.7 [[GH-10232](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10232)]
* telemetry: Add new metrics for status of secondary datacenter replication. [[GH-10073](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10073)]
* telemetry: The usage data in the `metrics` API now includes cluster member counts, reporting clients on a per segment basis. [[GH-10340](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10340)]
* ui: Added CRD popover 'informed action' for intentions managed by CRDs [[GH-10100](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10100)]
* ui: Added humanized formatting to lock session durations [[GH-10062](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10062)]
* ui: Only show a partial list of intention permissions, with the option to show all [[GH-10174](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10174)]
* ui: updates the ui with the new consul brand assets [[GH-10090](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10090)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: ensure we hash the non-deprecated upstream fields on ServiceConfigRequest [[GH-10240](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10240)]
* agent: fix logging output by removing leading whitespace from every log line [[GH-10338](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10338)]
* api: include the default value of raft settings in the output of /v1/agent/self [[GH-8812](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8812)]
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Revert to the 10s dial timeout used before connection pooling was introduced in 1.7.3.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Selectively merge gossip_wan config for network areas to avoid attempting to enable gossip encryption where it was not intended or necessary.
* autopilot: **(Enterprise only)** Fixed an issue where autopilot could cause a new leader to demote the wrong voter when redundancy zones are in use and the previous leader failed. [[GH-10306](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10306)]
* cli: removes the need to set debug_enabled=true to collect debug data from the CLI. Now
the CLI behaves the same way as the API and accepts either an ACL token with operator:read, or
* cli: snapshot inspect command would panic on invalid input. [[GH-10091](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10091)]
* envoy: fixes a bug where a large envoy config could cause the `consul connect envoy` command to deadlock when attempting to start envoy. [[GH-10324](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10324)]
* http: fix a bug that caused the `X-Consul-Effective-Consistency` header to be missing on
request for service health [[GH-10189](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10189)]
* local: agents will no longer persist the default user token along with a service or check. [[GH-10188](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10188)]
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** fixes a problem where the logs would contain many warnings about namespaces not being licensed.
* server: ensure that central service config flattening properly resets the state each time [[GH-10239](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10239)]
* ui: Add conditionals to lock sessions tab [[GH-10121](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10121)]
* ui: De-duplicate tags in rendered tag listings [[GH-10186](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10186)]
* ui: Don't render a DOM element for empty namespace descriptions [[GH-10157](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10157)]
* ui: Reflect the change of Session API response shape for Checks in post 1.7 Consul [[GH-10225](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10225)]
* ui: Removes the extra rendering of namespace in service upstream list [[GH-10152](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10152)]
* Add content-type headers to raw KV responses to prevent XSS attacks [CVE-2020-25864](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25864) [[GH-10023](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10023)]
* audit-logging: Parse endpoint URL to prevent requests from bypassing the audit log [CVE-2021-28156](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28156)
IMPROVEMENTS:
* api: `AutopilotServerHelath` now handles the 429 status code returned by the v1/operator/autopilot/health endpoint and still returned the parsed reply which will indicate server healthiness [[GH-8599](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8599)]
* client: when a client agent is attempting to dereigster a service, anddoes not have access to the ACL token used to register a service, attempt to use the agent token instead of the default user token. If no agent token is set, fall back to the default user token. [[GH-9683](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9683)]
* connect: Automatically rewrite the Host header for Terminating Gateway HTTP services [[GH-9042](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9042)]
* ui: support stricter content security policies [[GH-9847](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9847)]
BUG FIXES:
* api: ensure v1/health/ingress/:service endpoint works properly when streaming is enabled [[GH-9967](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9967)]
* areas: Fixes a bug which would prevent newer servers in a network areas from connecting to servers running a version of Consul prior to 1.7.3.
* audit-logging: (Enterprise only) Fixed an issue that resulted in usage of the agent master token or managed service provider tokens from being resolved properly. [[GH-10013](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10013)]
* cache: fix a bug in the client agent cache where streaming could potentially leak resources. [[GH-9978](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/9978)]. [[GH-9978](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9978)]
* cache: fix a bug in the client agent cache where streaming would disconnect every
20 minutes and cause delivery delays. [[GH-9979](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/9979)]. [[GH-9979](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9979)]
* command: when generating envoy bootstrap configs to stdout do not mix informational logs into the json [[GH-9980](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9980)]
* config: correct config key from `advertise_addr_ipv6` to `advertise_addr_wan_ipv6` [[GH-9851](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9851)]
* http: fix a bug in Consul Enterprise that would cause the UI to believe namespaces were supported, resulting in warning logs and incorrect UI behaviour. [[GH-9923](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9923)]
* snapshot: fixes a bug that would cause snapshots to be missing all but the first ACL Auth Method. [[GH-10025](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10025)]
* ui: Fix intention form cancel button [[GH-9901](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9901)]
* connect: if the token given to the vault provider returns no data avoid a panic [[GH-9806](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9806)]
* connect: update supported envoy point releases to 1.16.2, 1.15.3, 1.14.6, 1.13.7 [[GH-9737](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9737)]
* xds: only try to create an ipv6 expose checks listener if ipv6 is supported by the kernel [[GH-9765](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9765)]
BUG FIXES:
* api: Remove trailing periods from the gateway internal HTTP API endpoint [[GH-9752](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9752)]
* cache: Prevent spamming the logs for days when a cached request encounters an "ACL not found" error. [[GH-9738](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9738)]
* connect: connect CA Roots in the primary datacenter should use a SigningKeyID derived from their local intermediate [[GH-9428](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9428)]
* proxycfg: avoid potential deadlock in delivering proxy snapshot to watchers. [[GH-9689](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9689)]
* replication: Correctly log all replication warnings that should not be suppressed [[GH-9320](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9320)]
* streaming: fixes a bug caused by caching an incorrect snapshot, that would cause clients
to error until the cache expired. [[GH-9772](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9772)]
* ui: Exclude proxies when showing the total number of instances on a node. [[GH-9749](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9749)]
* ui: Fixed a bug in older browsers relating to String.replaceAll and fieldset w/flexbox usage [[GH-9715](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9715)]
* xds: deduplicate mesh gateway listeners by address in a stable way to prevent some LDS churn [[GH-9650](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9650)]
* xds: prevent LDS flaps in mesh gateways due to unstable datacenter lists; also prevent some flaps in terminating gateways as well [[GH-9651](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9651)]
* ui: Add additional search/filter status pills for viewing and removing current
filters in listing views [[GH-9442](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9442)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* cli: Add new `-cluster-id` and `common-name` to `consul tls ca create` to support creating a CA for Consul Connect. [[GH-9585](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9585)]
* license: **(Enterprise only)** Temporary client license duration was increased from 30m to 6h.
* server: use the presence of stored federation state data as a sign that we already activated the federation state feature flag [[GH-9519](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9519)]
* autopilot: Fixed a bug that would cause snapshot restoration to stop autopilot on the leader. [[GH-9626](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9626)]
* server: When wan federating via mesh gateways after initial federation default to using the local mesh gateways unless the heuristic indicates a bypass is required. [[GH-9528](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9528)]
* server: When wan federating via mesh gateways only do heuristic primary DC bypass on the leader. [[GH-9366](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9366)]
* ui: Fixed a bug that would cause missing or duplicate service instance healthcheck listings. [[GH-9660](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9660)]
* agent: add config flag `MaxHeaderBytes` to control the maximum size of the http header per client request. [[GH-9067](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9067)]
* cli: The `consul intention` command now has a new `list` subcommand to allow the listing of configured intentions. It also supports the `-namespace=` option. [[GH-9468](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9468)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* server: deletions of intentions by name using the intention API is now idempotent [[GH-9278](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9278)]
* streaming: display a warning on agent(s) when incompatible streaming parameters are used [[GH-9530](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9530)]
* ui: Various accessibility scan test improvements [[GH-9485](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9485)]
DEPRECATIONS:
* api: the `tag`, `node-meta`, and `passing` query parameters for various health and catalog
endpoints are now deprecated. The `filter` query parameter should be used as a replacement
for all of the deprecated fields. The deprecated query parameters will be removed in a future
version of Consul. [[GH-9262](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9262)]
BUG FIXES:
* client: Help added in Prometheus in relases 1.9.0 does not generate warnings anymore in logs [[GH-9510](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9510)]
* client: properly set GRPC over RPC magic numbers when encryption was not set or partially set in the cluster with streaming enabled [[GH-9512](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9512)]
* connect: Fixed a bug in the AWS PCA Connect CA provider that could cause the intermediate PKI path to be deleted after reconfiguring the CA [[GH-9498](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9498)]
* connect: Fixed a bug in the Vault Connect CA provider that could cause the intermediate PKI path to be deleted after reconfiguring the CA [[GH-9498](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9498)]
* connect: Fixed an issue that would prevent updating the Connect CA configuration if the CA provider didn't complete initialization previously. [[GH-9498](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9498)]
* leader: Fixed a bug that could cause Connect CA initialization failures from allowing leader establishment to complete resulting in potentially infinite leader elections. [[GH-9498](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9498)]
* rpc: Prevent misleading RPC error claiming the lack of a leader when Raft is ok but there are issues with client agents gossiping with the leader. [[GH-9487](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9487)]
* server: Fixes a server panic introduced in 1.9.0 where Connect service mesh is
being used. Node de-registration could panic if it hosted services with
* state: fix computation of usage metrics to account for various places that can modify multiple services in a single transaction. [[GH-9440](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9440)]
* ui: Display LockDelay in nanoseconds as a temporary fix to the formatting [[GH-9594](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9594)]
* ui: Fix an issue where registering an ingress-gateway with no central config
would result in a JS error due to the API reponse returning `null` [[GH-9593](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9593)]
* ui: Fixes an issue where clicking backwards and forwards between a service instance can result in a 404 error [[GH-9524](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9524)]
* ui: Fixes an issue where intention description or metadata could be overwritten if saved from the topology view. [[GH-9513](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9513)]
* ui: Fixes an issue with setting -ui-content-path flag/config [[GH-9569](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9569)]
* ui: ensure namespace is used for node API requests [[GH-9410](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9410)]
* ui: request intention listing with ns=* parameter to retrieve all intentions
across namespaces [[GH-9432](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9432)]
* ui: add copyable IDs to the Role and Policy views [[GH-9296](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9296)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* cli: **(Enterprise only)** A new `-read-replica` flag can now be used to enable running a server as a read only replica. Previously this was enabled with the now deprecated `-non-voting-server` flag. [[GH-9191](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9191)]
* config: **(Enterprise only)** A new `read_replica` configuration setting can now be used to enable running a server as a read only replica. Previously this was enabled with the now deprecated `non_voting_server` setting. [[GH-9191](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9191)]
DEPRECATIONS:
* cli: **(Enterprise only)** The `-non-voting-server` flag is deprecated in favor of the new `-read-replica` flag. The `-non-voting-server` flag is still present along side the new flag but it will be removed in a future release. [[GH-9191](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9191)]
* config: **(Enterprise only)** The `non_voting_server` configuration setting is deprecated in favor of the new `read_replica` setting. The `non_voting_server` configuration setting is still present but will be removed in a future release. [[GH-9191](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9191)]
* gossip: **(Enterprise only)** Read replicas now advertise themselves by setting the `read_replica` tag. The old `nonvoter` tag is still present but is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. [[GH-9191](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9191)]
* server: **(Enterprise only)** Addition of the `nonvoter` tag to the service registration made for read replicas is deprecated in favor of the new tag name of `read_replica`. Both are present in the registration but the `nonvoter` tag will be completely removed in a future release. [[GH-9191](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9191)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: prevent duplicate services and check registrations from being synced to servers. [[GH-9284](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9284)]
* connect: fixes a case when updating the CA config in a secondary datacenter to correctly trigger the creation of a new intermediate certificate [[GH-9009](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9009)]
* connect: only unset the active root in a secondary datacenter when a new one is replacing it [[GH-9318](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9318)]
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Prevent stalling of replication in secondary datacenters due to conflicts between the namespace replicator and other replicators. [[GH-9271](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9271)]
* streaming: ensure the order of results provided by /health/service/:serviceName is consistent with and without streaming enabled [[GH-9247](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9247)]
* agent: The `enable_central_service_config` option now defaults to true. [[GH-8746](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8746)]
* connect: Switch the default gateway port from 443 to 8443 to avoid assumption of Envoy running as root. [[GH-9113](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9113)]
* connect: Update Envoy metrics names and labels for proxy listeners so that attributes like datacenter and namespace can be extracted. [[GH-9207](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9207)]
* connect: intention destinations can no longer be reassigned [[GH-8834](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8834)]
* raft: Raft protocol v2 is no longer supported. If currently using protocol v2 then an intermediate upgrade to a version supporting both v2 and v3 protocols will be necessary (1.0.0 - 1.8.x). Note that the Raft protocol configured with the `raft_protocol` setting and the Consul RPC protocol configured with the `protocol` setting and output by the `consul version` command are distinct and supported Consul RPC protocol versions are not altered. [[GH-9103](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9103)]
* sentinel: **(Consul Enterprise only)** update to v0.16.0, which replaces `whitelist` and `blacklist` with `allowlist` and `denylist`
* xds: Drop support for Envoy versions 1.12.0, 1.12.1, 1.12.2, and 1.13.0, due to a lack of support for url_path in RBAC. [[GH-8839](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8839)]
* Fix Consul Enterprise Namespace Config Entry Replication DoS. Previously an operator with service:write ACL permissions in a Consul Enterprise cluster could write a malicious config entry that caused infinite raft writes due to issues with the namespace replication logic. [[CVE-2020-25201](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25201)] [[GH-9024](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9024)]
* Increase the permissions to read from the `/connect/ca/configuration` endpoint to `operator:write`. Previously Connect CA configuration, including the private key, set via this endpoint could be read back by an operator with `operator:read` privileges. [CVE-2020-28053](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28053) [[GH-9240](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9240)]
* agent: Allow client agents to be configured with an advertised reconnect timeout to control how long until the nodes are reaped by others in the cluster. [[GH-8781](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8781)]
* agent: moved ui config options to a new `ui_config` stanza in agent configuration and added new options to display service metrics in the UI. [[GH-8694](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8694)]
* agent: return the default ACL policy to callers as a header [[GH-9101](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9101)]
* autopilot: A new `/v1/operator/autopilot/state` HTTP API was created to give greater visibility into what autopilot is doing and how it has classified all the servers it is tracking. [[GH-9103](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9103)]
* autopilot: Added a new `consul operator autopilot state` command to retrieve and view the Autopilot state from consul. [[GH-9142](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9142)]
* telemetry: track node and service counts and emit them as metrics [[GH-8603](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8603)]
* ui: If Prometheus is being used for monitoring the sidecars, the topology view can be configured to display overview metrics for the services. [[GH-8858](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8858)]
* ui: Services using Connect with Envoy sidecars have a topology tab in the UI showing their upstream and downstream services. [[GH-8788](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8788)]
* xds: use envoy's rbac filter to handle intentions entirely within envoy [[GH-8569](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8569)]
* agent: Return HTTP 429 when connections per clients limit (`limits.http_max_conns_per_client`) has been reached. [[GH-8221](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8221)]
* agent: protect the metrics proxy behind ACLs [[GH-9099](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9099)]
* api: The `v1/connect/ca/roots` endpoint now accepts a `pem=true` query parameter and will return a PEM encoded certificate chain of all the certificates that would normally be in the JSON version of the response. [[GH-8774](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8774)]
* autopilot: **(Enterprise Only)** Autopilot now supports using both Redundancy Zones and Automated Upgrades together. [[GH-9103](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9103)]
* chore: Update to Go 1.15 with mitigation for [golang/go#42138](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42138) [[GH-9036](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9036)]
* command: remove conditional envoy bootstrap generation for versions <=1.10.0 since those are not supported [[GH-8855](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8855)]
* connect: The Vault provider will now automatically renew the lease of the token used, if supported. [[GH-8560](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8560)]
* connect: add support for specifying load balancing policy in service-resolver [[GH-8585](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8585)]
* connect: intentions are now managed as a new config entry kind "service-intentions" [[GH-8834](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8834)]
* raft: Update raft to v1.2.0 to prevent non-voters from becoming eligible for leader elections and adding peer id as metric label to reduce cardinality in metric names [[GH-8822](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8822)]
* server: **(Consul Enterprise only)** ensure that we also shutdown network segment serf instances on server shutdown [[GH-8786](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8786)]
* telemetry: All metrics should be present and available to prometheus scrapers when Consul starts. If any non-deprecated metrics are missing please submit an issue with its name. [[GH-9198](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9198)]
* telemetry: add config flag `telemetry { disable_compat_1.9 = (true|false) }` to disable deprecated metrics in 1.9 [[GH-8877](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8877)]
* telemetry: add counter `consul.api.http` with labels for each HTTP path and method. This is intended to replace `consul.http...` [[GH-8877](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8877)]
* ui: Add the Upstreams and Exposed Paths tabs for services in mesh [[GH-9141](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9141)]
* ui: Moves the Proxy health checks to be displayed with the Service health check under the Health Checks tab [[GH-9141](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9141)]
* ui: Upstream and downstream services in the topology tab will show a visual indication if a deny intention or intention with L7 policies is configured. [[GH-8846](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8846)]
* Go 1.15 has dropped support for 32-bit binaries for Darwin, so darwin_386 builds will not be available for any 1.9.x+ releases. [[GH-9036](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9036)]
* agent: `ui`, `ui_dir` and `ui_content_path` are now deprecated for use in agent configuration files. Use `ui_config.{enabled, dir, content_path}` instead. The command arguments `-ui`, `-ui-dir`, and `-ui-content-path` remain supported. [[GH-8694](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8694)]
* telemetry: The measurements in all of the `consul.http...` prefixed metrics have been migrated to `consul.api.http`. `consul.http...` prefixed metrics will be removed in a future version of Consul. [[GH-8877](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8877)]
* telemetry: the disable_compat_1.9 config will cover more metrics deprecations in future 1.9 point releases. These metrics will be emitted twice for backwards compatibility - if the flag is true, only the new metric name will be written. [[GH-9181](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9181)]
* agent: make the json/hcl decoding of ConnectProxyConfig fully work with CamelCase and snake_case [[GH-8741](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8741)]
* agent: when enable_central_service_config is enabled ensure agent reload doesn't revert check state to critical [[GH-8747](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8747)]
* api: Fixed a bug where additional headers configured with `http_config.response_headers` would not be served on index and error pages [[GH-8694](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8694/files#diff-160c9abf1b1868a8505065ab02d736fd2dc522a7a555d57383e8428883dc7755R545-R548)]
* autopilot: **(Enterprise Only)** Previously servers in other zones would not be promoted when all servers in a second zone had failed. Now the actual behavior matches the docs and autopilot will promote a healthy non-voter from any zone to replace failure of an entire zone. [[GH-9103](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9103)]
* autopilot: Prevent panic when requesting the autopilot health immediately after a leader is elected. [[GH-9204](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9204)]
* command: when generating envoy bootstrap configs use the datacenter returned from the agent services endpoint [[GH-9229](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9229)]
* connect: Fixed an issue where the Vault intermediate was not renewed in the primary datacenter. [[GH-8784](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8784)]
* connect: fix Vault provider not respecting IntermediateCertTTL [[GH-8646](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8646)]
* connect: fix connect sidecars registered via the API not being automatically deregistered with their parent service after an agent restart by persisting the LocallyRegisteredAsSidecar property. [[GH-8924](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8924)]
* connect: use stronger validation that ingress gateways have compatible protocols defined for their upstreams [[GH-8470](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8470)]
* license: (Enterprise only) Fixed an issue where the UI would see Namespaces and SSO as licensed when they were not.
* license: **(Enterprise only)** Fixed an issue where warnings about Namespaces being unlicensed would be emitted erroneously.
* namespace: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixed a bug that could case snapshot restoration to fail when it contained a namespace marked for deletion while still containing other resources in that namespace. [[GH-9156](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9156)]
* namespace: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixed an issue where namespaced services and checks were not being deleted when the containing namespace was deleted.
* raft: (Enterprise only) properly update consul server meta non_voter for non-voting Enterprise Consul servers [[GH-8731](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8731)]
* server: skip deleted and deleting namespaces when migrating intentions to config entries [[GH-9186](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9186)]
* telemetry: fixed a bug that caused logs to be flooded with `[WARN] agent.router: Non-server in server-only area` [[GH-8685](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8685)]
* ci: Upgrade golang.org/x/net to address [CVE-2021-44716](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44716) [[GH-11857](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11857)]
## 1.8.18 (December 13, 2021)
SECURITY:
* ci: Upgrade to Go 1.16.12 to address [CVE-2021-44716](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44716) [[GH-11806](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11806)]
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Creating or editing namespaces that include default ACL policies or ACL roles now requires `acl:write` permission in the default namespace. This change fixes CVE-2021-41805.
BUG FIXES:
* snapshot: **(Enterprise only)** fixed a bug where the snapshot agent would ignore the `license_path` setting in config files
* ui: Fixes an issue where under some circumstances after logging we present the
data loaded previous to you logging in. [[GH-11681](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11681)]
* ui: Include `Service.Namespace` into available variables for `dashboard_url_templates` [[GH-11640](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11640)]
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Creating or editing namespaces that include default ACL policies or ACL roles now requires `acl:write` permission in the default namespace. This change fixes CVE-2021-41805.
IMPROVEMENTS:
* ci: Artifact builds will now only run on merges to the release branches or to `main` [[GH-11417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11417)]
* ci: The Linux packages are now available for all supported Linux architectures including arm, arm64, 386, and amd64 [[GH-11417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11417)]
* ci: The Linux packaging service configs and pre/post install scripts are now available under [.release/linux] [[GH-11417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11417)]
BUG FIXES:
* acl: fixes the fallback behaviour of down_policy with setting extend-cache/async-cache when the token is not cached. [[GH-11136](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11136)]
* raft: Consul leaders will attempt to transfer leadership to another server as part of gracefully leaving the cluster. [[GH-11242](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11242)]
* rpc: only attempt to authorize the DNSName in the client cert when verify_incoming_rpc=true [[GH-11255](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11255)]
* server: **(Enterprise only)** Ensure that servers leave network segments when leaving other gossip pools
* ui: Fixed styling of Role delete confirmation button with the Token edit page [[GH-11297](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11297)]
* xds: fixes a bug where replacing a mesh gateway node used for WAN federation (with another that has a different IP) could leave gateways in the other DC unable to re-establish the connection [[GH-11522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11522)]
* sso/oidc: **(Enterprise only)** Add support for providing acr_values in OIDC auth flow [[GH-11026](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11026)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* audit-logging: **(Enterprise Only)** Audit logs will now include select HTTP headers in each logs payload. Those headers are: `Forwarded`, `Via`, `X-Forwarded-For`, `X-Forwarded-Host` and `X-Forwarded-Proto`. [[GH-11107](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11107)]
BUG FIXES:
* tls: consider presented intermediates during server connection tls handshake. [[GH-10964](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10964)]
* ui: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes a visual issue where namespaces would "double up" in the Source/Destination select menu when creating/editing intentions [[GH-11102](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11102)]
* tls: The fix for [CVE-2021-37219](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-37219) introduced an issue that could prevent TLS certificate validation when intermediate CA certificates used to sign server certificates are transmitted in the TLS session but are not present in all Consul server's configured CA certificates. This has the effect of preventing Raft RPCs between the affected servers. As a work around until the next patch releases, ensure that all intermediate CA certificates are present in all Consul server configurations prior to using certificates that they have signed.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Add 15s timeout to opening streams over pooled connections.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Apply backpressure to area gossip packet ingestion when more than 512 packets are waiting to be ingested.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Make implementation of WriteToAddress non-blocking to avoid slowing down memberlist's packetListen routine.
* deps: update to gogo/protobuf v1.3.2 [[GH-10813](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10813)]
BUG FIXES:
* acl: fixes a bug that prevented the default user token from being used to authorize service registration for connect proxies. [[GH-10824](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10824)]
* ca: fixed a bug when ca provider fail and provider state is stuck in `INITIALIZING` state. [[GH-10630](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10630)]
* ca: report an error when setting the ca config fail because of an index check. [[GH-10657](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10657)]
* cli: Ensure the metrics endpoint is accessible when Envoy is configured to use
a non-default admin bind address. [[GH-10757](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10757)]
* cli: Fix a bug which prevented initializing a watch when using a namespaced
* connect: proxy upstreams inherit namespace from service if none are defined. [[GH-10688](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10688)]
* dns: fixes a bug with edns truncation where the response could exceed the size limit in some cases. [[GH-10009](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10009)]
* txn: fixes Txn.Apply to properly authorize service registrations. [[GH-10798](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10798)]
* xds: ensure envoy verifies the subject alternative name for upstreams [CVE-2021-32574](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32574) [[GH-10621](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10621)]
BUG FIXES:
* ca: Fixed a bug that returned a malformed certificate chain when the certificate did not having a trailing newline. [[GH-10411](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10411)]
* debug: capture a single stream of logs, and single pprof profile and trace for the whole duration [[GH-10279](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10279)]
* licensing: **(Enterprise Only)** In order to have forward compatibility with Consul Enterprise v1.10, the ability to parse licenses from the configuration or environment has been added. This can be specified with the `license_path` configuration, the `CONSUL_LICENSE` environment variable or the `CONSUL_LICENSE_PATH` environment variable. On server agents this configuration will be ignored. Client agents and the snapshot agent will use the configured license instead of automatically retrieving one. [[GH-10442](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10442)]
* monitoring: optimize the monitoring endpoint to avoid losing logs when under high load. [[GH-10368](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10368)]
BUG FIXES:
* license: **(Enterprise only)** Fixed an issue that would cause client agents on versions before 1.10 to not be able to retrieve the license from a 1.10+ server. [[GH-10432](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10432)]
* monitor: fix monitor to produce json format logs when requested [[GH-10358](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10358)]
* envoy: fixes a bug where a large envoy config could cause the `consul connect envoy` command to deadlock when attempting to start envoy. [[GH-10324](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10324)]
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** fixes a problem where the logs would contain many warnings about namespaces not being licensed.
## 1.8.11 (June 03, 2021)
IMPROVEMENTS:
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Use server agent's gossip_wan config when setting memberlist configuration for network areas. Previously they used memberlists WAN defaults.
* cli: added a `-force-without-cross-signing` flag to the `ca set-config` command.
connect/ca: The ForceWithoutCrossSigning field will now work as expected for CA providers that support cross signing. [[GH-9672](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9672)]
* telemetry: Add new metrics for status of secondary datacenter replication. [[GH-10073](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10073)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: ensure we hash the non-deprecated upstream fields on ServiceConfigRequest [[GH-10240](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10240)]
* api: include the default value of raft settings in the output of /v1/agent/self [[GH-8812](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8812)]
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Revert to the 10s dial timeout used before connection pooling was introduced in 1.7.3.
* areas: **(Enterprise only)** Selectively merge gossip_wan config for network areas to avoid attempting to enable gossip encryption where it was not intended or necessary.
* local: agents will no longer persist the default user token along with a service or check. [[GH-10188](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10188)]
* server: ensure that central service config flattening properly resets the state each time [[GH-10239](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10239)]
* Add content-type headers to raw KV responses to prevent XSS attacks [CVE-2020-25864](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25864) [[GH-10023](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10023)]
* audit-logging: Parse endpoint URL to prevent requests from bypassing the audit log [CVE-2021-28156](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28156)
BUG FIXES:
* areas: Fixes a bug which would prevent newer servers in a network areas from connecting to servers running a version of Consul prior to 1.7.3.
* audit-logging: (Enterprise only) Fixed an issue that resulted in usage of the agent master token or managed service provider tokens from being resolved properly. [[GH-10013](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10013)]
* command: when generating envoy bootstrap configs to stdout do not mix informational logs into the json [[GH-9980](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9980)]
* config: correct config key from `advertise_addr_ipv6` to `advertise_addr_wan_ipv6` [[GH-9851](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9851)]
* snapshot: fixes a bug that would cause snapshots to be missing all but the first ACL Auth Method. [[GH-10025](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10025)]
* cli: Add new `-cluster-id` and `common-name` to `consul tls ca create` to support creating a CA for Consul Connect. [[GH-9585](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9585)]
* connect: if the token given to the vault provider returns no data avoid a panic [[GH-9806](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9806)]
* connect: update supported envoy point releases to 1.14.6, 1.13.7, 1.12.7, 1.11.2 [[GH-9739](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9739)]
* license: **(Enterprise only)** Temporary client license duration was increased from 30m to 6h.
* server: use the presense of stored federation state data as a sign that we already activated the federation state feature flag [[GH-9519](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9519)]
* xds: only try to create an ipv6 expose checks listener if ipv6 is supported by the kernel [[GH-9765](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9765)]
BUG FIXES:
* api: Remove trailing periods from the gateway internal HTTP API endpoint [[GH-9752](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9752)]
* cache: Prevent spamming the logs for days when a cached request encounters an "ACL not found" error. [[GH-9738](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9738)]
* connect: connect CA Roots in the primary datacenter should use a SigningKeyID derived from their local intermediate [[GH-9428](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9428)]
* proxycfg: avoid potential deadlock in delivering proxy snapshot to watchers. [[GH-9689](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9689)]
* server: When wan federating via mesh gateways after initial federation default to using the local mesh gateways unless the heuristic indicates a bypass is required. [[GH-9528](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9528)]
* server: When wan federating via mesh gateways only do heuristic primary DC bypass on the leader. [[GH-9366](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9366)]
* xds: deduplicate mesh gateway listeners by address in a stable way to prevent some LDS churn [[GH-9650](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9650)]
* xds: prevent LDS flaps in mesh gateways due to unstable datacenter lists; also prevent some flaps in terminating gateways as well [[GH-9651](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9651)]
* connect: Fixed a bug in the AWS PCA Connect CA provider that could cause the intermediate PKI path to be deleted after reconfiguring the CA [[GH-9498](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9498)]
* connect: Fixed a bug in the Vault Connect CA provider that could cause the intermediate PKI path to be deleted after reconfiguring the CA [[GH-9498](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9498)]
* connect: Fixed an issue that would prevent updating the Connect CA configuration if the CA provider didn't complete initialization previously. [[GH-9498](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9498)]
* leader: Fixed a bug that could cause Connect CA initialization failures from allowing leader establishment to complete resulting in potentially infinite leader elections. [[GH-9498](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9498)]
* rpc: Prevent misleading RPC error claiming the lack of a leader when Raft is ok but there are issues with client agents gossiping with the leader. [[GH-9487](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9487)]
* ui: ensure namespace is used for node API requests [[GH-9488](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9488)]
## 1.8.7 (December 10, 2020)
BUG FIXES:
* acl: global tokens created by auth methods now correctly replicate to secondary datacenters [[GH-9351](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9351)]
* connect: fixes a case when updating the CA config in a secondary datacenter to correctly trigger the creation of a new intermediate certificate [[GH-9009](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9009)]
* connect: only unset the active root in a secondary datacenter when a new one is replacing it [[GH-9318](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9318)]
* license: (Enterprise only) Fixed an issue where the UI would see Namespaces and SSO as licensed when they were not.
* license: **(Enterprise only)** Fixed an issue where warnings about Namespaces being unlicensed would be emitted erroneously.
* namespace: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixed a bug that could case snapshot restoration to fail when it contained a namespace marked for deletion while still containing other resources in that namespace. [[GH-9156](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9156)]
* namespace: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixed an issue where namespaced services and checks were not being deleted when the containing namespace was deleted.
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Prevent stalling of replication in secondary datacenters due to conflicts between the namespace replicator and other replicators. [[GH-9271](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9271)]
* Increase the permissions to read from the `/connect/ca/configuration` endpoint to `operator:write`. Previously Connect CA configuration, including the private key, set via this endpoint could be read back by an operator with `operator:read` privileges. [CVE-2020-28053](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28053) [[GH-9240](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9240)]
* Fix Consul Enterprise Namespace Config Entry Replication DoS. Previously an operator with service:write ACL permissions in a Consul Enterprise cluster could write a malicious config entry that caused infinite raft writes due to issues with the namespace replication logic. [[CVE-2020-25201](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25201)] [[GH-9024](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9024)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* api: The `v1/connect/ca/roots` endpoint now accepts a `pem=true` query parameter and will return a PEM encoded certificate chain of all the certificates that would normally be in the JSON version of the response. [[GH-8774](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8774)]
* connect: The Vault provider will now automatically renew the lease of the token used, if supported. [[GH-8560](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8560)]
* connect: update supported envoy releases to 1.14.5, 1.13.6, 1.12.7, 1.11.2 for 1.8.x [[GH-8999](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8999)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: when enable_central_service_config is enabled ensure agent reload doesn't revert check state to critical [[GH-8747](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8747)]
* connect: Fixed an issue where the Vault intermediate was not renewed in the primary datacenter. [[GH-8784](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8784)]
* connect: fix Vault provider not respecting IntermediateCertTTL [[GH-8646](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8646)]
* connect: fix connect sidecars registered via the API not being automatically deregistered with their parent service after an agent restart by persisting the LocallyRegisteredAsSidecar property. [[GH-8924](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8924)]
* fixed a bug that caused logs to be flooded with `[WARN] agent.router: Non-server in server-only area` [[GH-8685](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8685)]
* ui: show correct datacenter for gateways [[GH-8704](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8704)]
* agent: expose the list of supported envoy versions on /v1/agent/self [[GH-8545](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8545)]
* cache: Config parameters for cache throttling are now reloaded automatically on agent reload. Restarting the agent is not needed anymore. [[GH-8552](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8552)]
* connect: all config entries pick up a meta field [[GH-8596](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8596)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* api: Added `ACLMode` method to the `AgentMember` type to determine what ACL mode the agent is operating in. [[GH-8575](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8575)]
* api: Added `IsConsulServer` method to the `AgentMember` type to easily determine whether the agent is a server. [[GH-8575](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8575)]
* api: Added constants for common tag keys and values in the `Tags` field of the `AgentMember` struct. [[GH-8575](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8575)]
* api: Allow for the client to use TLS over a Unix domain socket. [[GH-8602](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8602)]
* api: `GET v1/operator/keyring` also lists primary keys. [[GH-8522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8522)]
* connect: Add support for http2 and grpc to ingress gateways [[GH-8458](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8458)]
* serf: update to `v0.9.4` which supports primary keys in the ListKeys operation. [[GH-8522](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8522)]
BUGFIXES:
* connect: use stronger validation that ingress gateways have compatible protocols defined for their upstreams [[GH-8494](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8494)]
* agent: ensure that we normalize bootstrapped config entries [[GH-8547](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8547)]
* api: Fixed a panic caused by an api request with Connect=null [[GH-8537](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8537)]
* connect: `connect envoy` command now respects the `-ca-path` flag [[GH-8606](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8606)]
* connect: fix bug in preventing some namespaced config entry modifications [[GH-8601](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8601)]
* catalog: fixed a bug where nodes, services, and checks would not be restored with the correct Create/ModifyIndex when restoring from a snapshot [[GH-8485](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8474)]
* vendor: update github.com/armon/go-metrics to v0.3.4 to mitigate a potential panic when emitting Prometheus metrics at an interval longer than the metric expiry time [[GH-8478](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8478)]
* connect: **(Consul Enterprise only)** Fixed a regression that prevented mesh gateways from routing to services in their local datacenter that reside outside of the default namespace.
* auto_config: Fixed an issue where auto-config could be enabled in secondary DCs without enabling token replication when ACLs were enabled. [[GH-8451](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8451)]
* xds: revert setting set_node_on_first_message_only to true when generating envoy bootstrap config [[GH-8440](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8440)]
* acl: allow auth methods created in the primary datacenter to optionally create global tokens [[GH-7899](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7899)]
* agent: new configuration options allow ratelimiting of the agent-cache: `cache.entry_fetch_rate` and `cache.entry_fetch_max_burst`. [[GH-8226](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8226)]
* api: Added methods to allow passing query options to leader and peers endpoints to mirror HTTP API [[GH-8395](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8395)]
* connect: various changes to make namespaces for intentions work more like for other subsystems [[GH-8194](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8194)]
* dns: Improve RCODE of response when query targets a non-existent datacenter. [[GH-8102](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8102)],[[GH-8218](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8218)]
* version: The `version` CLI subcommand was altered to always show the git revision the binary was built from on the second line of output. Additionally the command gained a `-format` flag with the option now of outputting the version information in JSON form. **NOTE** This change has the potential to break any parsing done by users of the `version` commands output. In many cases nothing will need to be done but it is possible depending on how the output is parsed. [[GH-8268](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8268)]
* agent: Fixed a bug where Consul could crash when `verify_outgoing` was set to true but no client certificate was used. [[GH-8211](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8211)]
* agent: Fixed an issue with lock contention during RPCs when under load while using the Prometheus metrics sink. [[GH-8372](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8372)]
* auto_encrypt: Fixed an issue where auto encrypt certificate signing wasn't using the connect signing rate limiter. [[GH-8211](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8211)]
* auto_encrypt: Fixed several issues around retrieving the first TLS certificate where it would have the wrong CN and SANs. This was being masked by a second bug (also fixed) causing that certificate to immediately be discarded with a second certificate request being made afterwards. [[GH-8211](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8211)]
* auto_encrypt: Fixed an issue that caused auto encrypt certificates to not be updated properly if the agents token was changed and the old token was deleted. [[GH-8311](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8311)]
* autopilot: **(Consul Enterprise only)** Fixed an issue where using autopilot with redundancy zones wouldn't demote extra voters in a zone to match the "one voter per zone" desired state when rebalancing.
* connect: fix crash that would result if a mesh or terminating gateway's upstream has a hostname as an address and no healthy service instances available. [[GH-8158](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8158)]
* connect: Fixed issue where specifying a prometheus bind address would cause ingress gateways to fail to start up [[GH-8371]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8371)
* gossip: Avoid issue where two unique leave events for the same node could lead to infinite rebroadcast storms [[GH-8343](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8343)]
* xds: version sniff envoy and switch regular expressions from 'regex' to 'safe_regex' on newer envoy versions [[GH-8222](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8222)]
* **Terminating Gateway**: Envoy can now be run as a gateway to enable services in a Consul service mesh to connect to external services through their local proxy. Terminating gateways unlock several of the benefits of a service mesh in the cases where a sidecar proxy cannot be deployed alongside services such as legacy applications or managed cloud databases.
* **Ingress Gateway**: Envoy can now be run as a gateway to ingress traffic into the Consul service mesh, enabling a more incremental transition for applications.
* **WAN Federation over Mesh Gateways**: Allows Consul datacenters to federate by forwarding WAN gossip and RPC traffic through Mesh Gateways rather than requiring the servers to be exposed to the WAN directly.
* **JSON Web Token (JWT) Auth Method**: Allows exchanging a signed JWT from a trusted external identity provider for a Consul ACL token.
* **Single Sign-On (SSO) [Enterprise]**: Lets an operator configure Consul to use an external OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider to automatically handle the lifecycle of creating, distributing and managing ACL tokens for performing CLI operations or accessing the UI.
* **Audit Logging [Enterprise]**: Adds instrumentation to record a trail of events (both attempted and authorized) by users of Consul’s HTTP API for purposes of regulatory compliance.
* ui: Help menu to provide further documentation/learn links [[GH-7310](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7310)]
* ui: **(Consul Enterprise only)** SSO support [[GH-7742](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7742)] [[GH-7771](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7771)] [[GH-7790](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7790)]
* ui: Support for termininating and ingress gateways [[GH-7858](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7858)] [[GH-7865](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7865)]
* auto_encrypt: add validations for auto_encrypt.{tls,allow_tls} [[GH-7704](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7704)]
* build: switched to compile with Go 1.14.1 [[GH-7481](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7481)]
* config: validate system limits against limits.http_max_conns_per_client [[GH-7434](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7434)]
* connect: support envoy 1.12.3, 1.13.1, and 1.14.1. Envoy 1.10 is no longer officially supported. [[GH-7380](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7380)],[[GH-7624](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7624)]
* connect: add DNSSAN and IPSAN to cache key for ConnectCALeafRequest [[GH-7597](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7597)]
* ui: Show the last 8 characters of AccessorIDs in listing views [[GH-7327](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7327)]
* ui: Make all tabs within the UI linkable/bookmarkable and include in history [[GH-7592](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7592)]
* ui: Redesign of all service pages [[GH-7605](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7605)] [[GH-7632](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7632)] [[GH-7655](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7655)] [[GH-7683](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7683)]
* ui: Show intentions per individual service [[GH-7615](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7615)]
* agent: **(Consul Enterprise only)** Fixed several bugs related to Network Area and Network Segment compatibility with other features caused by incorrectly doing version or serf tag checking. [[GH-7491](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7491)]
* ui: Quote service names when filtering intentions to prevent 500 errors when accessing a service [[GH-7896](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7896)] [[GH-7888](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7888)]
* ui: Miscellaneous amends for Safari and Firefox [[GH-7904](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7904)] [[GH-7907](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7907)]
* ui: Ensure a value is always passed to CONSUL_SSO_ENABLED [[GH-7913](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7913)]
* Add content-type headers to raw KV responses to prevent XSS attacks [CVE-2020-25864](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25864) [[GH-10023](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10023)]
BUG FIXES:
* command: when generating envoy bootstrap configs to stdout do not mix informational logs into the json [[GH-9980](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9980)]
* config: correct config key from `advertise_addr_ipv6` to `advertise_addr_wan_ipv6` [[GH-9851](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9851)]
* snapshot: fixes a bug that would cause snapshots to be missing all but the first ACL Auth Method. [[GH-10025](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10025)]
* connect: update supported envoy point releases to 1.13.7, 1.12.7, 1.11.2, 1.10.0 [[GH-9740](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9740)]
* license: **(Enterprise only)** Temporary client license duration was increased from 30m to 6h.
* xds: only try to create an ipv6 expose checks listener if ipv6 is supported by the kernel [[GH-9765](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9765)]
BUG FIXES:
* cache: Prevent spamming the logs for days when a cached request encounters an "ACL not found" error. [[GH-9738](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9738)]
* connect: connect CA Roots in the primary datacenter should use a SigningKeyID derived from their local intermediate [[GH-9428](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9428)]
* xds: deduplicate mesh gateway listeners by address in a stable way to prevent some LDS churn [[GH-9650](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9650)]
* xds: prevent LDS flaps in mesh gateways due to unstable datacenter lists; also prevent some flaps in terminating gateways as well [[GH-9651](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9651)]
* rpc: Prevent misleading RPC error claiming the lack of a leader when Raft is ok but there are issues with client agents gossiping with the leader. [[GH-9487](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9487)]
* ui: ensure namespace is used for node API requests [[GH-9488](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9488)]
## 1.7.11 (December 10, 2020)
BUG FIXES:
* license: **(Enterprise only)** Fixed an issue where warnings about Namespaces being unlicensed would be emitted erroneously.
* namespace: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixed a bug that could case snapshot restoration to fail when it contained a namespace marked for deletion while still containing other resources in that namespace. [[GH-9156](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9156)]
* namespace: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixed an issue where namespaced services and checks were not being deleted when the containing namespace was deleted.
* namespaces: **(Enterprise only)** Prevent stalling of replication in secondary datacenters due to conflicts between the namespace replicator and other replicators. [[GH-9271](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9271)]
* Increase the permissions to read from the `/connect/ca/configuration` endpoint to `operator:write`. Previously Connect CA configuration, including the private key, set via this endpoint could be read back by an operator with `operator:read` privileges. [CVE-2020-28053](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28053) [[GH-9240](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9240)]
## 1.7.9 (October 26, 2020)
SECURITY:
* Fix Consul Enterprise Namespace Config Entry Replication DoS. Previously an operator with service:write ACL permissions in a Consul Enterprise cluster could write a malicious config entry that caused infinite raft writes due to issues with the namespace replication logic. [CVE-2020-25201] (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25201) [[GH-9024](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9024)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* connect: update supported envoy releases to 1.13.6, 1.12.7, 1.11.2, 1.10.0 for 1.7.x [[GH-9000](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9000)]
BUG FIXES:
* agent: when enable_central_service_config is enabled ensure agent reload doesn't revert check state to critical [[GH-8747](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8747)]
* catalog: fixed a bug where nodes, services, and checks would not be restored with the correct Create/ModifyIndex when restoring from a snapshot [[GH-8486](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8486)]
* vendor: update github.com/armon/go-metrics to v0.3.4 to mitigate a potential panic when emitting Prometheus metrics at an interval longer than the metric expiry time [[GH-8478](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8478)]
* telemetry: fix for a lock contention issue with the go-metrics Prometheus sink that could cause performance issues [[GH-8372](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8372)]
* telemetry: fix for a lock contention issue with the go-metrics Dogstatsd sink that could cause performance issues [[GH-8372](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8372)]
* agent: Fixed an issue with lock contention during RPCs when under load while using the Prometheus metrics sink. [[GH-8372](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8372)]
* gossip: Avoid issue where two unique leave events for the same node could lead to infinite rebroadcast storms [[GH-8353](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8353)]
* snapshot: **(Consul Enterprise only)** Fixed a regression when using Azure blob storage.
* Return a service splitter's weight or a zero [[GH-8355](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8355)]
* Adding an option `http_config.use_cache` to disable agent caching for http endpoints, because Consul’s DNS and HTTP API expose a caching feature susceptible to DoS. [CVE-2020-13250](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13250) [[GH-8023]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8023)
* Propagate and enforce changes to legacy ACL tokens rules in secondary data centers. [CVE-2020-12797](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12797) [[GH-8047]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8047)
* Only resolve local acl token in the datacenter it belongs to. [CVE-2020-13170](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13170) [[GH-8068]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8068)
* Requiring service:write permissions, a service-router entry without a destination no longer crashes Consul servers. [CVE-2020-12758](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12758) [[GH-7783]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7783)
BUG FIXES:
* acl: Fixed an issue where legacy management tokens could not be used in secondary datacenters. [[GH-7908](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7908)]
* agent: Fixed a race condition that could cause an agent to crash when first starting. [[GH-7955](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7955)]
* acl: **(Consul Enterprise only)** - Disable the ACL.Bootstrap RPC endpoints when managed service provider tokens are in use. [[GH-7614](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7614)]
* acl: **(Consul Enterprise only)** - Consul agents will now use the first managed service provider token for the agents token when any are present.
* acl: Added a v1/acl/policy/name/:name HTTP endpoint to read a policy by name. [[GH-6615](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6615)]
* acl: Added JSON format output to all of the ACL CLI commands. [[GH-7141](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7141)]
* agent/xds: Update mesh gateway to use the service resolver connect timeout when configured [[GH-6370](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6370)]
* cli: Log "newer version available" message at `INFO` level [[GH-7457](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7457)]
* config: Consul Enterprise specific configuration are now parseable in OSS but will emit warnings about them not being used. [[GH-7714](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7714)
* network areas: **(Consul Enterprise only)** - Network areas are using memberlist with TCP and for every message a new connection was established. Now the connections multiplexed with yamux, which means that way fewer connections are created.
* network segments: **(Consul Enterprise only)** - The segment configuration is no longer stored in serf node tags. There is now an RPC endpoint for the same information, which means that the number of network segment is no longer limited by node meta tag size.
* snapshot agent: **(Consul Enterprise only)** - Azure has different environments, of which it was only possible to use the public one so far. A new flag was added so that every other environment can be used as well, like Azure China.
BUGFIXES:
* agent: don't let left nodes hold onto their node-id [[GH-7775](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7775)]
* agent: **(Consul Enterprise only)** Fixed several bugs related to Network Area ann Network Segment compatibility with other features caused by incorrectly doing version or serf tag checking. [[GH-7491](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7491)]
* cli: ensure that 'snapshot save' is fsync safe and also only writes to the requested file on success [[GH-7698](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7698)]
* cli: fix usage of gzip.Reader to better detect corrupt snapshots during save/restore [[GH-7697](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7697)]
* connect: Fix panic when validating a service-router config entry with no destination [[GH-7783](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7783)]
* namespace: **(Consul Enterprise only)** Fixed several bugs where results from multiple namespaces would be returned when only a single namespace was being queried when the token making the request had permissions to see all of them.
* snapshot agent **(Consul Enterprise only)**: Ensure snapshots persisted with the local backend are fsync safe and also only writes to the requested file on success.
* snapshot agent **(Consul Enterprise only)**: Verify integrity of snapshots locally before storing with the configured backend.
* ui: Ensure blocking queries are used in the service instance page instead of polling [[GH-7543](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7543)]
* ui: Fix a refreshing/rescrolling issue for the healthcheck listings [[GH-7550](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7550)] [[GH-7365](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7365)]
* ui: Lazily detect HTTP protocol along with a fallback for non-detection [[GH-7644](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7644)] [[GH-7643](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7643)]
* ui: Ensure KV names using 'special' terms within the default namespace are editable when the URL doesn't include the default namespace [[GH-7734](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7734)]
* agent: Fixed error output when agent crashes early [[GH-7411](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7411)]
* agent: Handle bars in node names when displaying lists in CLI like `consul members` [[GH-6652]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6652)]
* agent: Avoid discarding health check status on `consul reload` [[GH-7345]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7345)]
* network areas: **(Consul Enterprise only)** - Fixed compatibility issues with network areas and v1.4.0+ ACLs as well as network areas and namespaces. The issue was that secondary datacenters connected to the primary via a network area were not properly detecting that the primary DC supported those other features.
* sessions: Fixed backwards incompatibility with 1.6.x and earlier [[GH-7395](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7395)][[GH-7399](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7399)]
* sessions: Fixed backwards incompatibility with 1.6.x and earlier [[GH-7395](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7395)][[GH-7398](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7398)]
* ui: Fixed a DOM refreshing bug on the node detail page which forced an scroll reset [[GH-7365](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7365)][[GH-7377](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7377)]
* ui: Fix blocking query requests for the coordinates API requests [[GH-7378](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7378)]
* ui: Enable recovery from an unreachable datacenter [[GH-7404](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7404)]
* acl: **(Consul Enterprise only)** Fixed an issue that prevented remote policy and role resolution from working when namespace policy or role defaults were configured.
* dns: Fixed an issue that could cause the DNS server to consume excessive CPU resources when trying to parse IPv6 recursor addresses: [[GH-6120](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6120)]
* dns: Fixed an issue that caused Consul to setup a root zone handler when no `alt_domain` was configured. [[GH-7323](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7323)]
* sessions: Fixed an issue that was causing deletions of a non-existent session to return a 500 when ACLs were enabled. [[GH-6840](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6840)]
* xds: Mesh Gateway fixes to prevent configuring extra clusters and for properly handling a service-resolvers default subset. [[GH-7294](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7294)]
* cli: Our Windows 32-bit and 64-bit executables for this version and up will be signed with a HashiCorp certificate. Windows users will no longer see a warning about an "unknown publisher" when running our software.
Prior to this release, MacOS 10.15+ users attempting to run our software may see the error: "'consul' cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified." This error affected all MacOS 10.15+ users who downloaded our software directly via web browsers, and was caused by changes to [Apple's third-party software requirements](https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09032019a).
* dns: Updated miekg/dns dependency to fix a memory leak and CVE-2019-19794. [[GH-6984](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6984)], [[GH-7252](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7252)]
* updated to compile with [[Go 1.12.16](https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/golang-announce/Hsw4mHYc470)] which includes a fix for CVE-2020-0601 on windows [[GH-7153](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7153)]
* http: The HTTP API no longer accepts JSON fields that are unknown to it. Instead errors will be returned with 400 status codes [[GH-6874](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6874)]
* dns: PTR record queries now return answers that contain the Consul datacenter as a label between `service` and the domain. [[GH-6909](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6909)]
* agent: The ACL requirement for the [agent/force-leave endpoint](https://www.consul.io/api/agent.html#force-leave-and-shutdown) is now `operator:write` rather than `agent:write`. [[GH-7033](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7033)]
* logging: Switch over to using go-hclog and allow emitting either structured or unstructured logs. This changes the log format quite a bit and could break any log parsing users may have in place. [[GH-1249](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1249)][[GH-7130](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7130)]
* intentions: Change the ACL requirement and enforcement for wildcard rules. Previously this would look for an ACL rule that would grant access to the service/intention `*`. Now, in order to write a wildcard intention requires write access to all intentions and reading a wildcard intention requires read access to any intention that would match. Additionally intention listing and reading allow access if the requester can read either side of the intention whereas before it only allowed it for permissions on the destination side. [[GH-7028](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7028)]
* telemetry: `consul.rpc.query` has changed to only measure the _start_ of `srv.blockingQuery()` calls. In certain rare cases where there are lots of idempotent updates this will cause the metric to report lower than before. The counter should now provides more meaningful behavior that maps to the rate of client-initiated requests. [[GH-7224](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7224)]
* **Namespaces (Consul Enterprise only)** This version adds namespacing to Consul. Namespaces help reduce operational challenges by removing restrictions around uniqueness of resource names across distinct teams, and enable operators to provide self-service through delegation of administrative privileges. Namespace support was added to:
* agent: Add Cloud Auto-join support for Tencent Cloud [[GH-6818](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6818)]
* connect: Added a new CA provider allowing Connect certificates to be managed by AWS [ACM Private CA](https://www.consul.io/docs/connect/ca/aws.html).
* connect: Allow configuration of upstream connection limits in Envoy [[GH-6829](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6829)]
* ui: Adds UI support for [Exposed Checks](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6446) [[GH6575]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6575)
* ui: Visualisation of the Discovery Chain [[GH6746]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6746)
* agent: some check types now support configuring a number of consecutive failure and success before the check status is updated in the catalog. [[GH-5739](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5739)]
* agent: clients should only attempt to remove pruned nodes once per call [[GH-6591](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6591)]
* agent: Consul HTTP checks can now send a configurable `body` in the request. [[GH-6602](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6602)]
* api: A new `/v1/catalog/node-services/:node` endpoint was added that mirrors the existing `/v1/catalog/node/:node` endpoint but has a response structure that contains a slice of services instead of a map of service ids to services. This new endpoint allows retrieving all services in all namespaces for a node. [[GH-7115](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7115)]
* cli: improve the file safety of 'consul tls' subcommands [[GH-7186](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7186)]
* cli: give feedback to CLI user on forceleave command if node does not exist [[GH-6841](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6841)]
* connect: Envoy's whole stats endpoint can now be exposed to allow integrations like DataDog agent [[GH-7070](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7070)]
* dns: Improvement to enable dual stack IPv4/IPv6 addressing of services and lookup via DNS [[GH-6531](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6531)]
* lock: `consul lock` will now receive shutdown signals during the lock-acquisition process. [[GH-5909](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5909)]
* sentinel: **(Consul Enterprise only)** The Sentinel framework was upgraded to v0.13.0. See the [Sentinel Release Notes](https://docs.hashicorp.com/sentinel/changelog/) for more information.
* telemetry: Added `consul.rpc.queries_blocking` gauge to measure the current number of in-flight blocking queries. [[GH-7224](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7224)]
* ui: Various visual CSS amends and alterations [[GH6495]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6495) [[GH6881]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/
* ui: Hides the Routing tab for a service proxy [[GH-7195](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7195)]
* ui: Add ability to search nodes listing page with IP Address [[GH-7204](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7204)]
* xds: mesh gateway CDS requests are now allowed to receive an empty CDS reply [[GH-6787](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6787)]
* connect: derive connect certificate serial numbers from a memdb index instead of the provider table max index [[GH-7011](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7011)]
* connect: ensure that updates to the secondary root CA configuration use the correct signing key ID values for comparison [[GH-7012](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7012)]
* connect: use correct subject key id for leaf certificates. [[GH-7091](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7091)]
* state: restore a few more service-kind index updates so blocking in ServiceDump works in more cases [[GH-6948](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6948)]
* Increase the permissions to read from the `/connect/ca/configuration` endpoint to `operator:write`. Previously Connect CA configuration, including the private key, set via this endpoint could be read back by an operator with `operator:read` privileges. [CVE-2020-28053](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28053) [[GH-9240](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/9240)]
* vendor: update github.com/armon/go-metrics to v0.3.4 to mitigate a potential panic when emitting Prometheus metrics at an interval longer than the metric expiry time [[GH-8478](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8478)]
* agent: Fixed an issue with lock contention during RPCs when under load while using the Prometheus metrics sink. [[GH-8372](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8372)]
* gossip: Avoid issue where two unique leave events for the same node could lead to infinite rebroadcast storms [[GH-8345](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8345)]
* Adding an option `http_config.use_cache` to disable agent caching for http endpoints, because Consul’s DNS and HTTP API expose a caching feature susceptible to DoS. [CVE-2020-13250](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13250) [[GH-8023]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8023)
* Propagate and enforce changes to legacy ACL tokens rules in secondary data centers. [CVE-2020-12797](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12797) [[GH-8047]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8047)
* Only resolve local acl token in the datacenter it belongs to. [CVE-2020-13170](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13170) [[GH-8068]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8068)
BUG FIXES:
* acl: Fixed an issue where legacy management tokens could not be used in secondary datacenters. [[GH-7908](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7908)]
* agent: Fixed a race condition that could cause an agent to crash when first starting. [[GH-7955](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7955)]
* agent: **(Consul Enterprise only)** Fixed several bugs related to Network Area and Network Segment compatibility with other features caused by incorrectly doing version or serf tag checking. [[GH-7551](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7551)]
* dns: Updated miekg/dns dependency to fix a memory leak and CVE-2019-19794. [[GH-6984](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6984)], [[GH-7261](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7261)]
* agent: mitigate potential DoS vector allowing unbounded server resource usage from unauthenticated connections [[GH-7159](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7159)]
* acl: add ACL enforcement to the `v1/agent/health/service/*` endpoints [[GH-7160](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/7160)]
IMPROVEMENTS
* tls: `auto_encrypt` and `verify_incoming` [[GH-6811](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6811)]
BUG FIXES
* agent: output proper HTTP status codes for Txn requests that are too large [[GH-7158](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7158)]
* connect: derive connect certificate serial numbers from a memdb index instead of the provider table max index [[GH-7011](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7011)]
* connect: ensure that updates to the secondary root CA configuration use the correct signing key ID values for comparison [[GH-7012](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/7012)]
* Updated to compile with Go 1.12.13 which includes a fix for CVE-2019-17596 in [[Go 1.12.11](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-announce/lVEm7llp0w0/VbafyRkgCgAJ)] [[GH-6319](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6759)]
* agent: allow mesh gateways to initialize even if there are no connect services registered yet [[GH-6576](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6576)]
* sdk: add NewTestServerT, deprecate NewTestServer in testutil to prevent nil point dereference [[GH-6761](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6761)]
* ARM release binaries: Starting with v1.6.2, Consul will ship three separate versions of ARM builds. The previous ARM binaries of Consul could potentially crash due to the way the Go runtime manages internal pointers to its Go routine management constructs and how it keeps track of them especially during signal handling. From v1.6.2 forward, it is recommended to use:
* consul_{version}_linux_armelv5.zip for all 32-bit armel systems
* consul_{version}_linux_armhfv6.zip for all armhf systems with v6+ architecture
* consul_{version}_linux_arm64.zip for all v8 64-bit architectures
* agent: tolerate more failure scenarios during service registration with central config enabled [[GH-6472](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6472)]
* connect: connect CA Roots in secondary datacenters should use a SigningKeyID derived from their local intermediate [[GH-6513](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6513)]
* connect: don't colon-hex-encode the AuthorityKeyId and SubjectKeyId fields in connect certs [[GH-6492](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6492)]
* ui: Fix a bug where switching datacenters using the datacenter menu would lead to an empty service listing [[GH-6555](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6555)]
* agent: Added `replace-existing-checks` param to service registration endpoint to replace existing checks when re-registering a service. [[GH-4905](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4905)]
* connect: Ensure that a secondary CA's intermediate certificate will show in the various API endpoints CA Roots output [[GH-6333](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6333)]
* ui: Reconcile ember-data store [[GH-5745](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5745)]
* ui: Allow text selection of clickable elements and their contents without then jumping the user to the linked page [[GH-5770](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5770)]
* ui: Adds the ability to frontend search instances by address (ip:port) [[GH-5993](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5993)]
* ui: Add CheckID to the output panels of healthchecks [[GH-6195](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6195)]
* ui: Enable blocking queries by default [[GH-6194](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6194)]
* network areas (Consul Enterprise): Ensure that TCP based transport for network area memberlist propgates failed nodes properly [[GH-6479](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6479)]
* network areas (Consul Enterprise): make sure network areas are left as well when consul is leaving [[GH-6453](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6453)]
* Updated to compile with Go 1.12.8 which mitigates CVE-2019-9512 and CVE-2019-9514 for the builtin HTTP server [[GH-6319](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6319)]
* Updated the google.golang.org/grpc dependency to v1.23.0 to mitigate CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514, and CVE-2019-9515 for the gRPC server. [[GH-6320](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6320)]
* **Connect Envoy Supports L7 Routing:** Additional configuration entry types `service-router`, `service-resolver`, and `service-splitter`, allow for configuring Envoy sidecars to enable reliability and deployment patterns at L7 such as HTTP path-based routing, traffic shifting, and advanced failover capabilities. For more information see the [L7 traffic management](https://www.consul.io/docs/connect/l7-traffic-management.html) docs.
* **Mesh Gateways:** Envoy can now be run as a gateway to route Connect traffic across datacenters using SNI headers, allowing connectivty across platforms and clouds and other complex network topologies. Read more in the [mesh gateway docs](https://www.consul.io/docs/connect/mesh_gateway.html).
* **Intention & CA Replication:** In order to enable connecitivty for services across datacenters, Connect intentions are now replicated and the Connect CA cross-signs from the [primary_datacenter](/docs/agent/config/config-files.html#primary_datacenter). This feature was previously part of Consul Enterprise.
* agent: add `local-only` parameter to operator/keyring list requests to force queries to only hit local servers. [[GH-6279](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6279)]
* connect: generate the full SNI names for discovery targets in the compiler rather than in the xds package [[GH-6340](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6340)]
* connect: introduce ExternalSNI field on service-defaults [[GH-6324](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6324)]
* xds: allow http match criteria to be applied to routes on services using grpc protocols [[GH-6149](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6149)]
* agent: Added tagged addressing to services similar to the already present Node tagged addressing [[GH-5965](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5965)]
* agent: health checks: change long timeout behavior to use to user-configured `timeout` value [[GH-6094](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6094)]
* api: Display allowed HTTP CIDR information nicely [[GH-6029](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6029)]
* api: Update filtering language to include substring and regular expression matching on string values [[GH-6190](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6190)]
* connect: added a new `-bind-address` cli option for envoy to create a mapping of the desired bind addresses to use instead of the default rules or tagged addresses [[GH-6107](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6107)]
* connect: allow L7 routers to match on http methods [[GH-6164](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6164)]
* connect: change router syntax for matching query parameters to resemble the syntax for matching paths and headers for consistency. [[GH-6163](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6163)]
* connect: detect and prevent circular discovery chain references [[GH-6246](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6246)]
* connect: ensure time.Duration fields retain their human readable forms in the API [[GH-6348](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6348)]
* gossip: increase size of gossip key generated by keygen to 32 bytes and document support for AES 256 [[GH-6244](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6244)]
* acl: Fixed a bug that could prevent transition from legacy ACL mode to new ACL mode [[GH-6332](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6332)
* agent: blocking central config RPCs iterations should not interfere with each other [[GH-6316](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6316)]
* agent: fix an issue that could cause a panic while transferring leadership due to replication [[GH-6104](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6104)]
* api: Fix a bug where the service tagged addresses were not being returned through the `v1/agent/service/:service` api. [[GH-6299](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6299)]
* cli: ensure that the json form of config entries can be submitted with 'consul config write' [[GH-6290](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6290)]
* cli: Fixed bindable IP detection with the `connect envoy` command. [[GH-6238](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6238)]
* config: Ensure that all config entry writes are transparently forwarded to the primary datacneter. [[GH-6327](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6327)]
* connect: allow 'envoy_cluster_json' escape hatch to continue to function [[GH-6378](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6378)]
* connect: allow mesh gateways to use central config [[GH-6302](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6302)]
* connect: ensure intention replication continues to work when the replication ACL token changes [[GH-6288](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6288)]
* connect: ensure local dc connections do not use the gateway [[GH-6085](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6085)]
* connect: fix bug in service-resolver redirects if the destination uses a default resolver [[GH-6122](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6122)]
* connect: Fixed a bug that would prevent CA replication/initializing in a secondary DC from working when ACLs were enabled. [[GH-6192](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6192)]
* auto_encrypt: clients with auto_encrypt enabled won't be able to start because of [[GH-6391](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6391)]. There is a fix, but it came too late and we couldn't include it in the release. It will be part of 1.6.1 and we recommend that if you are using auto_encrypt you postpone the update.
* raft: allow trailing logs to be configured as an escape hatch for extreme load that prevents followers catching up with leader [[GH-6186](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6186)]
* agent: avoid reverting any check updates that occur while a service is being added or the config is reloaded [[GH-6144](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6144)]
* auto-encrypt: fix an issue that could cause cloud retry-join to fail when utilized with auto-encrypt by falling back to a default port [[GH-6205]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/6205)
* agent: make sure client agent rate limits apply when hitting the client interface on a server directly [[GH-5927](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5927)]
* ui: fix service instance linking when multiple non-unique service id's exist on multiple nodes [[GH-5933](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5933)]
* txn: Fixed an issue that would allow a CAS operation on a service to work when it shouldn't have. [[GH-5971](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5971)]
* acl: fixed an issue that if an ACL rule is used for prefix matching in a policy, keys not matching that specific prefix can be deleted by a token using that policy even with default_deny settings configured [[GH-5888](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5888)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where recreating a node using a different ID would prevent the new node from correctly joining. [[GH-5485](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5485)]
* /watch: (note this only affects downstream programs importing `/watch` package as a library not the `watch` feature in Consul) The watch package was moved from github.com/hashicorp/consul/watch to github.com/hashicorp/consul/api/watch to live in the API module. This was necessary after updating the repo to use Go modules or else various other bugs cropped up. The watch package API has not changed so projects depending on it should need to only update the import statement to get their code functioning again. [[GH-5664](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5664)]
* ui: Legacy UI has been removed. Setting the CONSUL_UI_LEGACY environment variable to 1 or true will no longer revert to serving the old UI. [[GH-5643](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5643)]
* **Connect Envoy Supports L7 Observability:** We introduce features that allow configuring Envoy sidecars to emit metrics and tracing at L7 (http, http2, grpc supported). For more information see the [Envoy Integration](https://consul.io/docs/connect/proxies/envoy.html) docs.
* **Centralized Configuration:** Enables central configuration of some service and proxy defaults. For more information see the [Configuration Entries](https://consul.io/docs/agent/config_entries.html) docs
* cli: allow to add ip addresses as Subject Alternative Names when creating certificates with `consul tls cert create` [[GH-5602](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5602)]
* agent: config is now read if json or hcl is set as the config-format or the extension is either json or hcl [[GH-5723](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5723)]
* ui: Service Instances page redesign and further visibility of Connect Proxies [[GH-5326]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5326)
* ui: Blocking Query support / live updates for Services and Nodes, requires enabling per user via the UI Settings area [[GH-5070]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5070) [[GH-5267]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5267)
* ui: Finer grained searching for the Service listing page [[GH-5507]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5507)
* api: fix issue in the transaction API where the health check definition struct wasn't being deserialized properly [[GH-5553](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5553)]
* agent: Fix an issue with registering health checks for an agent service where the service name would be missing. [[GH-5705](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5705)]
* connect: fix an issue where Envoy would fail to bootstrap if some upstreams were unavailable [[GH-5499](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5499)]
* connect: fix an issue where health checks on proxies might be missed by watchers of `/health/service/:service` API [[GH-5506](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5506)]
* connect: fix a race condition that could leave proxies with no configuration for long periods on startup [[GH-5793](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5793)]
* acl: fixed an issue that if an ACL rule is used for prefix matching in a policy, keys not matching that specific prefix can be deleted by a token using that policy even with default_deny settings configured [[GH-5888](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5888)]
* Fixed a problem where `verify_server_hostname` was not being respected and the default `false` was being used. This problem exists only in Consul 1.4.3. (CVE-2019-9764) [[GH-5519](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5519)]
* api: `/health/service/:service` blocking queries now only need a single goroutine regardless of number of instances in the service and watch channel which can massively reduce the number of goroutines on busy servers. [[GH-5449](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5449)]
* api: Fixed a bug where updating node information wasn't reflected in health result index. [[GH-5450](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5450)]
* agent: Fixed a bug that would cause removal of all of an agents health checks when only one service was removed. [[GH-5456](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5456)]
* connect: Fixed a bug where `sidecar_service` registered proxies might not be removed correctly due to ACLs for the service being removed first dissallowing the agent permission to delete the proxy. [[GH-5482](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5482)]
* Fixed a potential privilege escalation issue with the Consul 1.4.X ACL system when ACL token replication was enabled. (CVE-2019-8336) [[GH-5423](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5423)]
* agent: Fixed a bug that could cause invalid memberlist protocol versions to propagate throughout the cluster. [[GH-3217](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3217)]
* agent: Ensure that reaped servers are removed from RPC routing. [[GH-5317](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5317)]
* acl: Fix potential race condition when listing or retrieving ACL tokens. [[GH-5412](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5412)]
* agent: Fixed race condition that could turn up while registering services on the local agent. [[GH-4998](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4998)]
* connect: Sidecar services now inherit tags and service metadata of the parent service by default. [[GH-5291](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5291)]
* connect: Envoy proxies can now have cluster-specific config overrides via new "escape hatches": [[GH-5308](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5308)]
* agent: Added opt-in ACL token persistence for tokens set with the agent/token/* endpoints: [[GH-5328](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5328)]
* agent: Default to requiring protocol version 1.2 for TLS connections. The docs previously said this was going to be the default in 0.8+ but it had been left at 1.0 until now. [[GH-5340](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5340)]
* dns: Fixed a bug that would cause node meta TXT records to always be generated even if they were not used in the responses. [[GH-5271](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5271)]
**Note:** Consul 1.4.1 can break compatibility with older versions of the Consul Go API client. At this time, we recommend that you not upgrade to 1.4.1 if you use the Go API client or other applications that utilize it such as Nomad. Read more: [[GH-5270](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5270)]
* api: The transaction API now supports catalog operations for interacting with nodes, services and checks. See the [transacton API page](https://www.consul.io/api/txn.html#tables-of-operations) for more information. [[GH-4869](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4869)]
* Fixed an issue that caused `verify_server_hostname` to not implicitly configure `verify_outgoing` to true. The documentation stated this was implicit. The previous implementation had a bug that resulted in this being partially incorrect and resulted in plaintext communication in agent-to-agent RPC when `verify_outgoing` was not explicitly set. (CVE-2018-19653) [[GH-5069](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5069)]
* agent: Improve blocking queries for services that do not exist. [[GH-4810](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4810)]
* api: Added new `/v1/agent/health/service/name/<service name>` and `/v1/agent/health/service/id/<service id>` endpoints to allow querying a services status from the agent itself and avoid querying a Consul server. [[GH-2488](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2488)]
* api: Added a new `allow_write_http_from` configuration to set which CIDR network ranges can send non GET/HEAD/OPTIONS HTTP requests. Requests originating from other addresses will be denied. [[GH-4712](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4712)]
* cli: Added a new cli command: `consul tls` with subcommands `ca create` and `cert create` to help bootstrapping a secure agent TLS setup. This includes a new guide for creating certificates.
* connect: clients are smarter about when they regenerate leaf certificates to improve performance and reliability [[GH-5091](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5091)]
* gossip: CPU performance improvements to memberlist gossip on very large clusters [[GH-5189](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5189)]
* connect: Added support for prepared query upstream proxy destination type watching. [[GH-4969](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4969)
* connect: (Consul Enterprise) Now forwards any intention API calls from secondary datacenters to the primary instead of erroring when intention replication is enabled.
* connect: Now controls rate of Certificate Signing Requests during a CA rotation so the servers aren't overwhelmed. [[GH-5228](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5228)]
* acl: Fixed a concurrent policy resolution issue that would fail to resolve policies for a token [[GH-5219](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5219)]
* acl: Fixed a few racey edge cases regarding policy resolution where the RPC request could error out due to the token used for the request being deleted or modified after the token was read but before policy resolution. [[GH-5246](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5246)]
* acl: Fixed a bug that would cause legacy ACL tokens of type management to not get full privileges when they also had rules set on them. [[GH-5261](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5261)]
* agent: Consul 1.2.3 added DNS weights but this caused an issue with agent Anti-Entropy that didn't set the same default and so performed a re-sync every 2 minutes despite no changes. [[GH-5096](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5096)]
* agent: Fix an anti-entropy state syncing issue where an invalid token being used for registration of 1 service could cause a failure to register a different service with a valid token. [[GH-3676](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3676)]
* agent: Fixed a bug where agent cache could return an error older than the last non-error value stored. This mostly affected Connect bootstrapping in integration environments but lead to some very hard to track down "impossible" issues [[GH-4480](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4480)]
* agent: Fixed issue where DNS weights added in 1.2.3 caused unnecessary Anti-Entropy syncs due to implicit vs explicit default weights being considered "different". [[GH-5126](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5126)]
* api: Fixed an issue where service discovery requests that use both `?cached` and multiple repeated tag filters might incorrectly see the cached result for a different query [[GH-4987](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4987)]
* api: Fixed an issue causing blocking query wait times to not be used when retrieving leaf certificates. [[GH-4462](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4462)]
* connect: Fixed an issue where a blank CA config could be written to a snapshot when Connect was disabled. [[GH-4954](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4954)]
* connect: Fixed a bug with the create and modify indices of leaf certificates not being incremented properly. [[GH-4463](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4463)]
* debug: Fixed an issue causing the debug archive to not be gzipped. [[GH-5141](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/5141)]
* dns: Fix an issue causing infinite recursion for some DNS queries when a nodes address had bee misconfigured [[GH-4907](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4907)]
* watch: Fix a data race during setting up a watch plan. [[GH-4357](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4357)]
* ui: Correctly encode/decode URLs within the KV areas. Also encode/decode slashes in URLS related to service names [[GH5206](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/5206)]
* snapshot: Fixed a bug where node ID and datacenter weren't being included in or restored from the snapshots. [[GH-4872](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4872)]
* api: Fixed migration issue where changes to allow multiple tags in 1.3.0 would cause broken results during a migration from earlier versions [[GH-4944](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4944)]
* api: Service discovery endpoints now support [caching results in the local agent](https://www.consul.io/api/index.html#agent-caching). [[GH-4541](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4541)]
* ui: Improve layout of node 'cards' by restricting the grid layout to a maximum of 4 columns [[GH-4761]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4761)
* ui: Load the TextEncoder/Decoder polyfill dynamically so it's not downloaded to browsers with native support [[GH-4767](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4767)]
* api: /health and /catalog endpoints now support filtering by multiple tags [[GH-1781](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1781)]
* agent: Only update service `ModifyIndex` when it's state actually changes. This makes service watches much more efficient on large clusters. [[GH-4720](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4720)]
* agent: (Consul Enterprise) Fixed an issue where the `non_voting_server` setting could be ignored when bootstrapping the cluster. [[GH-4699](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4699)]
* connect: Fix to ensure leaf certificates for a service are not shared between clients on the same agent using different ACL tokens [[GH-4736](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4736)]
* http: Added support for "Authorization: Bearer" head in addition to the X-Consul-Token header. [[GH-4483](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4483)]
* dns: Added a way to specify SRV weights for each service instance to allow weighted DNS load-balancing. [[GH-4198](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4198)]
* dns: Include EDNS-ECS options in EDNS responses where appropriate: see [RFC 7871](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7871#section-7.1.3) [[GH-4647](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4647)]
* connect: TLS certificate readiness now performs x509 certificate verification to determine whether the cert is usable. [[GH-4540](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4540)]
* gossip: Improvements to Serf and memberlist improving gossip stability on very large clusters (over 35k tested) [[GH-4511](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4511)]
* agent: Fixed a panic when serf_wan port was -1 but a reconnect_timeout_wan value was set. [[GH-4515](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4515)]
* agent: Start with invalid http configuration again, even though the build-in proxy for connect won't start in that case. [[GH-4655](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4655)]
* dns: Fixes a bug with the DNS recursor, where we would not move onto the next provided recursor if we encounter a **SERVFAIL** or **REFUSED** status. [[GH-4461](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4461)]
* server: Fixed an issue where autopilot health checking could mistakenly mark healthy servers as failed, causing a non-voting server to be promoted unnecessarily. [[GH-4528]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4528)
* snapshot: Fixed a bug where node metadata wasn't being included in or restored from the snapshots. [[GH-4524](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4524)]
* connect: Fixed a bug where managed proxy instances registered for instances with different name and ID and with restrictive ACL would not be allowed. [[GH-4619](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4619)]
* connect: Fixed a bug where Checks with `deregister_critical_service_after` would deregister the service but not remove the managed proxy [[GH-4649](github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4649)]
* connect: Fixed a bug that would output an error about pruning CAs every hour on the leader and might cause some CA configurations not to be pruned correctly [[GH-4669](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4669)]
* ui: Improve layout on screens of a large portrait orientation [[GH-4564]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4564)
* ui: Various browser layout bugs for various vendors/setups [[GH-4608]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4608) [[GH-4613]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4613) [[GH-4615]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4615)
* acl: Fixed an issue where writes operations on the Keyring and Operator were being allowed with a default allow policy even when explicitly denied in the policy. [[GH-4378](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4378)]
* **Alias Checks:** Alias checks allow a service or node to alias the health status of another service or node in the cluster. [[PR-4320](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4320)]
* cli: Added `-serf-wan-port`, `-serf-lan-port`, and `-server-port` flags to CLI for cases where these can't be specified in config files and `-hcl` is too cumbersome. [[GH-4353](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4353#issuecomment-404408827)]
* proxy: With `-register` flag, heartbeat failures will only log once service registration succeeds. [[GH-4314](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4314)]
* http: 1.0.3 introduced rejection of non-printable chars in HTTP URLs due to a security vulnerability. Some users who had keys written with an older version which are now dissallowed were unable to delete them. A new config option [disable_http_unprintable_char_filter](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/config-files.html#disable_http_unprintable_char_filter) is added to allow those users to remove the offending keys. Leaving this new option set long term is strongly discouraged as it bypasses filtering necessary to prevent some known vulnerabilities. [[GH-4442](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4442)]
* agent: Make some Gossip tuneables configurable via the config file [[GH-4444](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4444)]
* ui: Included searching on `.Tags` when using the freetext search field. [[GH-4383](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4383)]
* ui: Service.ID's are now shown in the Service detail page and (only if it is different from the service name) the Node Detail > [Services] tab. [[GH-4387](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4387)]
* acl/connect: Fix an issue that was causing managed proxies not to work when ACLs were enabled. [[GH-4441](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4441)]
* connect: Fix issue with managed proxies and watches attempting to use a client addr that is 0.0.0.0 or :: [[GH-4403](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4403)]
* connect: Allow Native and Unmanaged proxy configurations via config file [[GH-4443](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4443)]
* connect: Fix bug causing 100% CPU on agent when Connect is disabled but a proxy is still running [[GH-4421](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4421)]
* proxy: Don't restart proxies setup in a config file when Consul restarts [[GH-4407](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4407)]
* ui: Display the Service.IP address instead of the Node.IP address in the Service detail view. [[GH-4410](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4410)]
* ui: Watch for trailing slash stripping 301 redirects and forward the user to the correct location. [[GH-4373](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4373)]
* connect: Fixed an issue in the connect native HTTP client where it failed to resolve service names. [[GH-4392](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4392)]
* acl: Add async-cache down policy mode to always do ACL token refreshes in the background to reduce latency. [[GH-3524](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3524)]
* proxy: Pass through HTTP client env vars to managed proxies so that they can connect back to Consul over HTTPs when not serving HTTP. [[PR-4374](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4374)]
* agent: Service registration with "services" does not error on Connect upstream configuration. [[GH-4308](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4308)]
* dns: Ensure that only 1 CNAME is returned when querying for services that have non-IP service addresses. [[PR-4328](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4328)]
* api: Fixed issue where `Lock` and `Semaphore` would return earlier than their requested timeout when unable to acquire the lock. [[GH-4003](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4003)], [[GH-3262](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3262)], [[GH-2399](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2399)]
* **Connect Feature Beta**: This version includes a major new feature for Consul named Connect. Connect enables secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. For more details and links to demos and getting started guides, see the [announcement blog post](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/consul-1-2-service-mesh).
* agent: A Consul user-agent string is now sent to providers when making retry-join requests [[GH-4013](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4013)]
* agent: Add configuration entry to control including TXT records for node meta in DNS responses [PR-4215](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4215)
* api: Added support for Prometheus client format in metrics endpoint with `?format=prometheus` (see [docs](https://www.consul.io/api/agent.html#view-metrics)) [[GH-4014](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4014)]
-`CheckID` has been removed from config file check definitions (use `id` instead).
-`script` has been removed from config file check definitions (use `args` instead).
-`enableTagOverride` is no longer valid in service definitions (use `enable_tag_override` instead).
- The [deprecated set of metric names](https://consul.io/docs/upgrade-specific.html#metric-names-updated) (beginning with `consul.consul.`) has been removed along with the `enable_deprecated_names` option from the metrics configuration.
* agent: `start_join`, `start_join_wan`, `retry_join`, `retry_join_wan` config params now all support go-sockaddr templates [[GH-4102](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4102)]
* server: Added new configuration options `raft_snapshot_interval` and `raft_snapshot_threshold` to allow operators to configure how often servers take raft snapshots. The default values for these have been tuned for large and busy clusters with high write load. [[GH-4105](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4105/)]
* agent: Updated serf library for two bug fixes - allow enough time for leave intents to propagate [[GH-510](https://github.com/hashicorp/serf/pull/510)] and preventing a deadlock [[GH-507](https://github.com/hashicorp/serf/pull/510)]
* agent: When node-level checks (e.g. maintenance mode) were deleted, some watchers currently in between blocking calls may have missed the change in index. See [[GH-3970](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/3970)]
* agent: Blocking queries on service-specific health and catalog endpoints now return a per-service `X-Consul-Index` improving watch performance on very busy clusters. [[GH-3890](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3890)]. **Note this may break blocking clients that relied on undocumented implementation details** as noted in the [upgrade docs](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/main/website/source/docs/upgrading.html.md#upgrade-from-version-106-to-higher).
* agent: Added a new `discover-max-stale` config option to enable stale requests for service discovery endpoints. [[GH-4004](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/4004)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where the coordinate update endpoint was not correctly parsing the ACL token. [[GH-3892](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3892)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where `consul monitor` couldn't be terminated until the first log line is delivered [[GH-3891](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3891)]
* agent: Added warnings for when a node name isn't a valid DNS name and when the node name, a service name or service tags would exceed the allowed lengths for DNS names [[GH-3854](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3854)]
* agent: Added truncation of TCP DNS responses to prevent errors for exceeding message size limits [[GH-3850](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3850)]
* agent: Added -config-format flag to validate command to specify the syntax that should be used for parsing the config [[GH-3996](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3996)]
* server: Fixed an issue where the leader could miss clean up after a leadership transition. [[GH-3909](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3909)]
We found [[GH-3867](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3867)] after cutting the 1.0.4 release and pushing the 1.0.4 release tag, so we decided to scuttle that release and push 1.0.5 instead with a fix for that issue.
* dns: Updated DNS vendor library to pick up bug fix in the DNS server where an open idle connection blocks the accept loop. [[GH-3859](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3859)]
* agent: Added support for gRPC health checks that probe the standard gRPC health endpoint. [[GH-3073](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3073)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where health checks added to services with tags would cause extra periodic writes to the Consul servers, even if nothing had changed. This could cause extra churn on downstream applications like consul-template or Fabio. [[GH-3845](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3845)]
* agent: Fixed several areas where reading from catalog, health, or agent HTTP endpoints could make unintended mofidications to Consul's state in a way that would cause unnecessary anti-entropy syncs back to the Consul servers. This could cause extra churn on downstream applications like consul-template or Fabio. [[GH-3867](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3867)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where Serf events for failed Consul servers weren't being proactively processed by the RPC router. This would prvent Consul from proactively choosing a new server, and would instead wait for a failed RPC request before choosing a new server. This exposed clients to a failed request, when often the proactive switching would avoid that. [[GH-3864](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3864)]
* agent: Updated Consul's HTTP server to ban all URLs containing non-printable characters (a bad request status will be returned for these cases). This affects some user-facing areas like key/value entry key names which are carried in URLs. [[GH-3762](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3762)]
* agent: Added agent-side telemetry around Catalog APIs to provide insight on Consul's operation from the user's perspecive. [[GH-3765](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3765)]
* api: Added missing `CheckID` and `Name` fields to API client's `AgentServiceCheck` structure so that IDs and names can be set when registering checks with services. [[GH-3788](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3788)]
* agent: Ignore malformed leftover service/check files and warn about them instead of refusing to start. [[GH-1221](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1221)]
* agent: Stopped looging messages about zero RTTs when updating network coordinates since they are not harmful to the algorithm. Since we are still trying to find the root cause of these zero measurements, we added new metrics counters so these are still observable. [[GH-3789](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3789)]
* server: (Consul Enterprise) Fixed an issue where unhealthy servers were not replaced in a redundancy zone by autopilot (servers previously needed to be removed in order for a replacement to occur).
* ui: Added a URI escape around key/value keys so that it's not possible to create unexpected partial key names when entering characters like `?` inside a key. [[GH-3760](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3760)]
* agent: Updated Serf to activate a new feature that resizes its internal message broadcast queue size based on the cluster size. This helps control the amount of memory used by the agent, but prevents spurious warnings about dropped messages in very large Consul clusters. The intent queue warnings have also been disabled since queue telemetry was already available and a simple fixed limit isn't applicable to all clusters, so it could cause a high rate of warnings about intent queue depth that were not useful or indicative of an actual issue. [[GH-3705](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3705)]
* agent: Updates posener/complete library to 1.0, which allows autocomplete for flags after an equal sign, and simplifies autocomplete functions. [[GH-3646](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3646)]
* agent: Updated memberlist to pull in a fix for negative RTT measurements and their associated log messages about rejected coordinates. [[GH-3704](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3704)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where node metadata specified via command line arguments overrode node metadata specified by configuration files, instead of merging as was done in versions of Consul prior to 1.0. [[GH-3716](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3716)]
* agent: Fixed an issue with the /v1/session/create API where it wasn't possible to create a session without the `serfHealth` check. This is now possible again by including the `checks` key in the JSON body with an empty list. [[GH-3732](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3732)]
* agent: Fixed an issue with anti-entropy syncing where checks for services with tags would cause periodic updates to the catalog, even when nothing had changed, causing the Raft index to grow slowly (~2 minutes per node per check) over time, and causing unnecessary writes and wake ups for blocking queries. [[GH-3642](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3642)], [[GH-3259](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3259)]
* server: Fixed an issue with KV store tombstone tracking where bin tracking was being confused by monotonic time information carried in time stamps, resulting in many unnecessary bins. [[GH-3670](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3670)]
* server: Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to disable Autopilot's dead server cleanup behavior using configuration files. [[GH-3730](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3730)]
* server: Removed the 60 second timeout when restoring snapshots, which could cause large restores to fail on slower servers. [[GH-3326](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3326)]
* **New Auto Join Cloud Providers:** Retry join support was added for Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud), Digital Ocean, OpenStack, and Scaleway. Instance metadata can be used with these to make it easy to form Consul clusters. [[GH-3634](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3634)]
* **HTTP/2 Support:** If TLS is enabled on a Consul agent it will automatically negotiate to use HTTP/2 for suitably configured clients accessing the client API. This allows clients to multiplex requests over the same TCP connection, such as multiple, simultaneous blocking queries. [[GH-3657](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3657)]
* agent: (Consul Enterprise) Added [AWS KMS support](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingKMSEncryption.html) for S3 snapshots using the snapshot agent.
* agent: Watches in the Consul agent can now be configured to invoke an HTTP endpoint instead of an executable. [[GH-3305](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3305)]
* agent: Added a new [`-config-format`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_config_format) command line option which can be set to `hcl` or `json` to specify the format of configuration files. This is useful for cases where the file name cannot be controlled in order to provide the required extension. [[GH-3620](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3620)]
* agent: DNS recursors can now be specified as [go-sockaddr](https://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/go-sockaddr/template) templates. [[GH-2932](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2932)]
* agent: Serf snapshots no longer save network coordinate information. This enables recovery from errors upon agent restart. [[GH-489](https://github.com/hashicorp/serf/issues/489)]
* agent: Added defensive code to prevent out of range ping times from infecting network coordinates. Updates to the coordinate system with negative round trip times or round trip times higher than 10 seconds will log an error but will be ignored.
* agent: The agent now warns when there are extra unparsed command line arguments and refuses to start. [[GH-3397](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3397)]
* agent: Updated go-sockaddr library to get CoreOS route detection fixes and the new `mask` functionality. [[GH-3633](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3633)]
* agent: Added a new [`enable_agent_tls_for_checks`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/config-files.html#enable_agent_tls_for_checks) configuration option that allows HTTP health checks for services requiring 2-way TLS to be checked using the agent's credentials. [[GH-3364](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3364)]
* agent: Made logging of health check status more uniform and moved log entries with full check output from DEBUG to TRACE level for less noise. [[GH-3683](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3683)]
* agent: Consul 1.0 shipped with an issue where `Args` was erroneously named `ScriptArgs` for health check definitions in the /v1/agent/check/register and /v1/agent/service/register APIs. Added code to accept `Args` so that the JSON format matches that of health checks in configuration files. The `ScriptArgs` form will still be supported for backwards compatibility. [[GH-3587](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3587)]
* agent: Docker container checks running on Linux could get into a flapping state because the Docker agent seems to close the connection prematurely even though the body is transferred. This caused a "connection reset by peer" error which put the check into `critical` state. As of Consul 1.0.1 the "connection reset by peer" error is ignored for the `/exec/<execID>/start` command of the Docker API. [[GH-3576](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3576)]
* agent: Added new form of `consul.http.*` metrics that were accidentally left out of Consul 1.0. [[GH-3654](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3654)]
* agent: Fixed an issue with the server manager where periodic server client connection rebalancing could select a failed server. This affects agents in client mode, as well as servers talking to other servers, including over the WAN. [[GH-3463](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3463)]
* agent: IPv6 addresses without port numbers and without surrounding brackets are now properly handled for joins. This affects all join types, but in particular this was discovered with AWS joins where the APIs return addresses formatted this way. [[GH-3671](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3671)]
* agent: Fixed a rare startup panic of the Consul agent related to the LAN Serf instance ordering with the router manager. [[GH-3680](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3680)]
* agent: Added back an exception for the `snapshot_agent` config key so that those configs can again live alongside Consul's configs. [[GH-3678](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3678)]
* dns: Fixed an issue were components of a host name near the datacenter could be quietly ignored (eg. `foo.service.dc1.extra.consul` would silently ignore `.extra`); now an `NXDOMAIN` error will be returned. [[GH-3200](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3200)]
* server: Fixed an issue where performing rolling updates of Consul servers could result in an outage from old servers remaining in the cluster. Consul's Autopilot would normally remove old servers when new ones come online, but it was also waiting to promote servers to voters in pairs to maintain an odd quorum size. The pairwise promotion feature was removed so that servers become voters as soon as they are stable, allowing Autopilot to remove old servers in a safer way. When upgrading from Consul 1.0, you may need to manually force-leave old servers as part of a rolling update to Consul 1.0.1. [[GH-3611](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3611)]
* server: Fixed a deadlock where tombstone garbage collection for the KV store could block other KV operations, stalling writes on the leader. [[GH-3700](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3700)]
* ui: Fixed an XSS issue with Consul's built-in web UI where node names were not being properly escaped. [[GH-3578](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3578)]
* **Raft Protocol Now Defaults to 3:** The [`-raft-protocol`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_raft_protocol) default has been changed from 2 to 3, enabling all [Autopilot](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/autopilot.html) features by default. Version 3 requires Consul running 0.8.0 or newer on all servers in order to work, so if you are upgrading with older servers in a cluster then you will need to set this back to 2 in order to upgrade. See [Raft Protocol Version Compatibility](https://www.consul.io/docs/upgrade-specific.html#raft-protocol-version-compatibility) for more details. Also the format of `peers.json` used for outage recovery is different when running with the lastest Raft protocol. See [Manual Recovery Using peers.json](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/outage.html#manual-recovery-using-peers-json) for a description of the required format. [[GH-3477](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3477)]
* **Config Files Require an Extension:** As part of supporting the [HCL](https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl#syntax) format for Consul's config files, an `.hcl` or `.json` extension is required for all config files loaded by Consul, even when using the [`-config-file`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_config_file) argument to specify a file directly. [[GH-3480](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3480)]
* **Deprecated Options Have Been Removed:** All of Consul's previously deprecated command line flags and config options have been removed, so these will need to be mapped to their equivalents before upgrading. [[GH-3480](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3480)]
* **`statsite_prefix` Renamed to `metrics_prefix`:** Since the `statsite_prefix` configuration option applied to all telemetry providers, `statsite_prefix` was renamed to [`metrics_prefix`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/config-files.html#telemetry-metrics_prefix). Configuration files will need to be updated when upgrading to this version of Consul. [[GH-3498](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3498)]
* **`advertise_addrs` Removed:** This configuration option was removed since it was redundant with `advertise_addr` and `advertise_addr_wan` in combination with `ports` and also wrongly stated that you could configure both host and port. [[GH-3516](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3516)]
* **Escaping Behavior Changed for go-discover Configs:** The format for [`-retry-join`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_retry_join) and [`-retry-join-wan`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_retry_join_wan) values that use [go-discover](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-discover) Cloud auto joining has changed. Values in `key=val` sequences must no longer be URL encoded and can be provided as literals as long as they do not contain spaces, backslashes `\` or double quotes `"`. If values contain these characters then use double quotes as in `"some key"="some value"`. Special characters within a double quoted string can be escaped with a backslash `\`. [[GH-3417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3417)]
* **HTTP Verbs are Enforced in Many HTTP APIs:** Many endpoints in the HTTP API that previously took any HTTP verb now check for specific HTTP verbs and enforce them. This may break clients relying on the old behavior. [[GH-3405](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3405)]
* **Unauthorized KV Requests Return 403:** When ACLs are enabled, reading a key with an unauthorized token returns a 403. This previously returned a 404 response.
* **Config Section of Agent Self Endpoint has Changed:** The /v1/agent/self endpoint's `Config` section has often been in flux as it was directly returning one of Consul's internal data structures. This configuration structure has been moved under `DebugConfig`, and is documents as for debugging use and subject to change, and a small set of elements of `Config` have been maintained and documented. See [Read Configuration](https://www.consul.io/api/agent.html#read-configuration) endpoint documentation for details. [[GH-3532](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3532)]
* **Deprecated `configtest` Command Removed:** The `configtest` command was deprecated and has been superseded by the `validate` command.
* **Undocumented Flags in `validate` Command Removed:** The `validate` command supported the `-config-file` and `-config-dir` command line flags but did not document them. This support has been removed since the flags are not required.
* **Metric Names Updated:** Metric names no longer start with `consul.consul`. To help with transitioning dashboards and other metric consumers, the field `enable_deprecated_names` has been added to the telemetry section of the config, which will enable metrics with the old naming scheme to be sent alongside the new ones. [[GH-3535](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3535)]
* **Checks Validated On Agent Startup:** Consul agents now validate health check definitions in their configuration and will fail at startup if any checks are invalid. In previous versions of Consul, invalid health checks would get skipped. [[GH-3559](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3559)]
* **Support for HCL Config Files:** Consul now supports HashiCorp's [HCL](https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl#syntax) format for config files. This is easier to work with than JSON and supports comments. As part of this change, all config files will need to have either an `.hcl` or `.json` extension in order to specify their format. [[GH-3480](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3480)]
* **Support for Binding to Multiple Addresses:** Consul now supports binding to multiple addresses for its HTTP, HTTPS, and DNS services. You can provide a space-separated list of addresses to [`-client`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_client) and [`addresses`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/config-files.html#addresses) configurations, or specify a [go-sockaddr](https://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/go-sockaddr/template) template that resolves to multiple addresses. [[GH-3480](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3480)]
* **Support for RFC1464 DNS TXT records:** Consul DNS responses now contain the node meta data encoded according to RFC1464 as TXT records. [[GH-3343](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3343)]
* **Support for Running Subproccesses Directly Without a Shell:** Consul agent checks and watches now support an `args` configuration which is a list of arguments to run for the subprocess, which runs the subprocess directly without a shell. The old `script` and `handler` configurations are now deprecated (specify a shell explicitly if you require one). A `-shell=false` option is also available on `consul lock`, `consul watch`, and `consul exec` to run the subprocesses associated with those without a shell. [[GH-3509](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3509)]
* **Sentinel Integration:** (Consul Enterprise) Consul's ACL system integrates with [Sentinel](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/sentinel.html) to enable code policies that apply to KV writes.
* agent: Added support to detect public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on AWS. [[GH-3471](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3471)]
* agent: Improved /v1/operator/raft/configuration endpoint which allows Consul to avoid an extra agent RPC call for the `consul operator raft list-peers` command. [[GH-3449](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3449)]
* agent: Improved ACL system for the KV store to support list permissions. This behavior can be opted in. For more information, see the [ACL Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/acl.html#list-policy-for-keys). [[GH-3511](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3511)]
* agent: Updates miekg/dns library to later version to pick up bug fixes and improvements. [[GH-3547](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3547)]
* agent: Added automatic retries to the RPC path, and a brief RPC drain time when servers leave. These changes make Consul more robust during graceful leaves of Consul servers, such as during upgrades, and help shield applications from "no leader" errors. These are configured with new [`performance`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/config-files.html#performance) options. [[GH-3514](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3514)]
* agent: Added a new `discard_check_output` agent-level configuration option that can be used to trade off write load to the Consul servers vs. visibility of health check output. This is reloadable so it can be toggled without fully restarting the agent. [[GH-3562](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3562)]
* api: Updated the API client to ride out network errors when monitoring locks and semaphores. [[GH-3553](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3553)]
* cli: `consul lock` and `consul watch` commands will forward `TERM` and `KILL` signals to their child subprocess. [[GH-3509](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3509)]
* cli: Added support for [autocompletion](https://www.consul.io/docs/commands/index.html#autocompletion). [[GH-3412](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3412)]
* server: Updated BoltDB to final version 1.3.1. [[GH-3502](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3502)]
* server: Improved dead member reap algorithm to fix edge cases where servers could get left behind. [[GH-3452](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3452)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where disabling both the http and https interfaces would cause a watch-related error on agent startup, even when no watches were defined. [[GH-3425](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3425)]
* agent: Added an additional step to kill health check scripts that timeout on all platforms except Windows, and added a wait so that it's not possible to run multiple instances of the same health check script at the same time. [[GH-3565](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3565)]
* cli: If the `consul operator raft list-peers` command encounters an error it will now exit with a non-zero exit code. [[GH-3513](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3513)]
* server: Fixed an issue where the leader server could get into a state where it was no longer performing the periodic leader loop duties and unable to serve consistent reads after a barrier timeout error. [[GH-3545](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3545)]
* **LAN Network Segments:** (Consul Enterprise) Added a new [Network Segments](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/segments.html) capability which allows users to configure Consul to support segmented LAN topologies with multiple, distinct gossip pools. [[GH-3431](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3431)]
* **WAN Join for Cloud Providers:** Added WAN support for retry join for Cloud providers via go-discover, including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and SoftLayer. This uses the same "provider" syntax supported for `-retry-join` via the `-retry-join-wan` configuration. [[GH-3406](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3406)]
* **RPC Rate Limiter:** Consul agents in client mode have a new [`limits`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/config-files.html#limits) configuration that enables a rate limit on RPC calls the agent makes to Consul servers. [[GH-3140](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3140)]
* agent: Switched to using a read lock for the agent's RPC dispatcher, which prevents RPC calls from getting serialized. [[GH-3376](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3376)]
* agent: When joining a cluster, Consul now skips the unique node ID constraint for Consul members running Consul older than 0.8.5. This makes it easier to upgrade to newer versions of Consul in an existing cluster with non-unique node IDs. [[GH-3070](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3070)]
* build: Upgraded Go version to 1.9. [[GH-3428](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3428)]
* server: Consul servers can re-establish quorum after all of them change their IP addresses upon a restart. [[GH-1580](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1580)]
* ui: Changed text area font family to monospace to make it easier to manage complex text blocks. [[GH-3521](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3521)]
* agent: Fixed an issue with consul watches not triggering when ACLs are enabled. [[GH-3392](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3392)]
* agent: Updated memberlist library for a deadlock fix. [[GH-3396](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3396)]
* agent: Fixed a panic when retrieving NS or SOA records on Consul clients (non-servers). This also changed the Consul server list to come from the catalog and not the agent's local state when serving these requests, so the results are consistent across a cluster. [[GH-3407](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3407)]
* cli: Updated the CLI library to pull in a fix that prevents all subcommands from being shown when showing the agent's usage list; now just top-level commands are shown. [[GH-3448](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3448)]
* server: Fixed an issue with Consul snapshots not saving on Windows because of errors with the `fsync` syscall. [[GH-3409](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3409)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where the old `-retry-join-{ec2,azure,gce}` command line flags were not being honored. [[GH-3384](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3384)]
* server: Reverted the change that made unauthorized KV queries return 403 instead of 404 because it had a minor bug that affected the operation of Vault, and in addition to fixing the bug, we identified an additional case that needed to be covered. This restores the <= 0.9.0 behavior until we can get a complete fix. [[GH-2637](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2637)]
* **Secure ACL Token Introduction:** It's now possible to manage Consul's ACL tokens without having to place any tokens inside configuration files. This supports introduction of tokens as well as rotating. This is enabled with two new APIs:
* A new [`/v1/agent/token`](https://www.consul.io/api/agent.html#update-acl-tokens) API allows an agent's ACL tokens to be introduced without placing them into config files, and to update them without restarting the agent. See the [ACL Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/acl.html#create-an-agent-token) for an example. This was extended to ACL replication as well, along with a new [`enable_acl_replication`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/config-files.html#enable_acl_replication) config option. [GH-3324,GH-3357]
* A new [`/v1/acl/bootstrap`](https://www.consul.io/api/acl.html#bootstrap-acls) allows a cluster's first management token to be created without using the `acl_master_token` configuration. See the [ACL Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/acl.html#bootstrapping-acls) for an example. [[GH-3349](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3349)]
* **Metrics Viewing Endpoint:** A new [`/v1/agent/metrics`](https://www.consul.io/api/agent.html#view-metrics) API displays the current values of internally tracked metrics. [[GH-3369](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3369)]
* agent: Retry Join for Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and (new) SoftLayer is now handled through the https://github.com/hashicorp/go-discover library. With this all `-retry-join-{ec2,azure,gce}-*` parameters have been deprecated in favor of a unified configuration. See [`-retry-join`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_retry_join) for details. [GH-3282,GH-3351]
* agent: Reports a more detailed error message if the LAN or WAN Serf instance fails to bind to an address. [[GH-3312](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3312)]
* agent: Added NS records and corrected SOA records to allow Consul's DNS interface to work properly with zone delegation. [[GH-1301](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1301)]
* agent: Added support for sending metrics with labels/tags to supported backends. [[GH-3369](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3369)]
* agent: Added a new `prefix_filter` option in the `telemetry` config to allow fine-grained allowing/blocking the sending of certain metrics by prefix. [[GH-3369](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3369)]
* cli: Added a `-child-exit-code` option to `consul lock` so that it propagates an error code of 2 if the child process exits with an error. [[GH-947](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/947)]
* docs: Added a new [Geo Failover Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/geo-failover.html) showing how to use prepared queries to implement geo failover policies for services. [[GH-3328](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3328)]
* docs: Added a new [Consul with Containers Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/consul-containers.html) showing critical aspects of operating a Consul cluster that's run inside containers. [[GH-3347](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3347)]
* server: Added a `RemoveEmptyTags` option to prepared query templates which will strip out any empty strings in the tags list before executing a query. This is useful when interpolating into tags in a way where the tag is optional, and where searching for an empty tag would yield no results from the query. [[GH-2151](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2151)]
* server: Implemented a much faster recursive delete algorithm for the KV store. It has been benchmarked to be up to 100X faster on recursive deletes that affect millions of keys. [GH-1278, GH-3313]
* agent: Clean up temporary files during disk write errors when persisting services and checks. [[GH-3207](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3207)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where DNS and client bind address templates were not being parsed via the go-sockaddr library. [[GH-3322](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3322)]
* agent: Fixed status code on all KV store operations that fail due to an ACL issue. They now return a 403 status code, rather than a 404. [[GH-2637](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2637)]
* agent: Fixed quoting issues in script health check on Windows. [[GH-1875](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1875)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where `consul monitor` would exit on any empty log line. [[GH-3253](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3253)]
* server: Updated raft library to fix issue with machine crashes causing snapshot files to not get saved to disk [[GH-3362](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3362)]
* agent: Added a new [`enable_script_checks`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_enable_script_checks) configuration option that defaults to `false`, meaning that in order to allow an agent to run health checks that execute scripts, this will need to be configured and set to `true`. This provides a safer out-of-the-box configuration for Consul where operators must opt-in to allow script-based health checks. [[GH-3087](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3087)]
* api: Reworked `context` support in the API client to more closely match the Go standard library, and added context support to write requests in addition to read requests. [GH-3273, GH-2992]
* ui: Since the UI is now bundled with the application we no longer provide a separate UI package for downloading. [[GH-3292](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3292)]
* agent: Added a new [`block_endpoints`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/config-files.html#block_endpoints) configuration option that allows blocking HTTP API endpoints by prefix. This allows operators to completely disallow access to specific endpoints on a given agent. [[GH-3252](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3252)]
* cli: Added a new [`consul catalog`](https://www.consul.io/docs/commands/catalog.html) command for reading datacenters, nodes, and services from the catalog. [[GH-3204](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3204)]
* server: (Consul Enterprise) Added a new [`consul operator area update`](https://www.consul.io/docs/commands/operator/area.html#update) command and corresponding HTTP endpoint to allow for transitioning the TLS setting of network areas at runtime. [[GH-3075](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3075)]
* server: (Consul Enterprise) Added a new `UpgradeVersionTag` field to the Autopilot config to allow for using the migration feature to roll out configuration or cluster changes, without having to upgrade Consul itself.
* agent: Removed registration of the `consul` service from the agent since it's already handled by the leader. This means that Consul servers no longer need to have an `acl_agent_token` with write access to the `consul` service if ACLs are enabled. [[GH-3248](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3248)]
* agent: Changed /v1/acl/clone response to 403 (from 404) when trying to clone an ACL that doesn't exist. [[GH-1113](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1113)]
* agent: Changed the `consul exec` ACL resolution logic to use the `acl_agent_token` if it's available. This lets operators configure an `acl_agent_token` with the required `write` privilieges to the `_rexec` prefix of the KV store without giving this to the `acl_token`, which would expose those privileges to users as well. [[GH-3160](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3160)]
* agent: Updated memberlist to get latest LAN gossip tuning based on the [Lifeguard paper published by Hashicorp Research](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/making-gossip-more-robust-with-lifeguard/). [[GH-3287](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3287)]
* api: Added the ability to pass in a `context` as part of the `QueryOptions` during a request. This provides a way to cancel outstanding blocking queries. [[GH-3195](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3195)]
* api: Changed signature for "done" channels on `agent.Monitor()` and `session.RenewPeriodic` methods to make them more compatible with `context`. [[GH-3271](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3271)]
* docs: Added a complete end-to-end example of ACL bootstrapping in the [ACL Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/acl.html#bootstrapping-acls). [[GH-3248](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3248)]
* vendor: Updated golang.org/x/sys/unix to support IBM s390 platforms. [[GH-3240](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3240)]
* agent: rewrote Docker health checks without using the Docker client and its dependencies. [[GH-3270](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3270)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where watch plans would take up to 10 minutes to close their connections and give up their file descriptors after reloading Consul. [[GH-3018](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3018)]
* agent: (Consul Enterprise) Fixed an issue with the snapshot agent where it could get stuck trying to obtain the leader lock after an extended server outage.
* agent: Fixed HTTP health checks to allow them to set the `Host` header correctly on outgoing requests. [[GH-3203](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3203)]
* agent: Serf snapshots can now auto recover from disk write errors without needing a restart. [[GH-1744](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1744)]
* agent: Fixed log redacting code to properly remove tokens from log lines with ACL tokens in the URL itself: `/v1/acl/clone/:uuid`, `/v1/acl/destroy/:uuid`, `/v1/acl/info/:uuid`. [[GH-3276](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3276)]
* agent: Fixed an issue in the Docker client where Docker checks would get EOF errors trying to connect to a volume-mounted Docker socket. [[GH-3254](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3254)]
* agent: Fixed a crash when using Azure auto discovery. [[GH-3193](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3193)]
* agent: Added `node` read privileges to the `acl_agent_master_token` by default so it can see all nodes, which enables it to be used with operations like `consul members`. [[GH-3113](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3113)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where enabling [`-disable-keyring-file`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_disable_keyring_file) would cause gossip encryption to be disabled. [[GH-3243](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3243)]
* agent: Fixed a race condition where checks that are not associated with any existing services were allowed to persist. [[GH-3297](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3297)]
* server: Updated the Raft library to pull in a fix where servers that are very far behind in replication can get stuck in a loop trying to install snapshots. [[GH-3201](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3201)]
* server: Fixed a rare but serious deadlock where the Consul leader routine could get stuck with the Raft internal leader routine while waiting for the initial barrier after a leader election. [[GH-3230](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3230)]
* server: Added automatic cleanup of failed Raft snapshots. [[GH-3258](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3258)]
* server: (Consul Enterprise) Fixed an issue where networks areas would not be able to be added when the server restarts if the Raft log contained a specific sequence of adds and deletes for network areas with the same peer datacenter.
* ui: Provided a path to reset the ACL token when the current token is invalid. Previously, the UI would get stuck on the error page and it wasn't possible to get back to the settings. [[GH-2370](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2370)]
* ui: Removed an extra fetch of the nodes resource when loading the UI. [[GH-3245](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3245)]
* ui: Changed default ACL token type to "client" when creating ACLs. [[GH-3246](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3246)]
* ui: Display a 404 error instead of a 200 when trying to load a nonexistent node. [[GH-3251](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3251)]
* agent: Parse values given to `?passing` for health endpoints. Previously Consul only checked for the existence of the querystring, not the value. That means using `?passing=false` would actually still include passing values. Consul now parses the value given to passing as a boolean. If no value is provided, the old behavior remains. This may be a breaking change for some users, but the old experience was incorrect and caused enough confusion to warrant changing it. [GH-2212, GH-3136]
* agent: The default value of [`-disable-host-node-id`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_disable_host_node_id) has been changed from false to true. This means you need to opt-in to host-based node IDs and by default Consul will generate a random node ID. A high number of users struggled to deploy newer versions of Consul with host-based IDs because of various edge cases of how the host IDs work in Docker, on specially-provisioned machines, etc. so changing this from opt-out to opt-in will ease operations for many Consul users. [[GH-3171](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3171)]
* agent: Added a `-disable-keyring-file` option to prevent writing keyring data to disk. [[GH-3145](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3145)]
* agent: Added automatic notify to systemd on Linux after LAN join is complete, which makes it easier to order services that depend on Consul being available. [[GH-2121](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2121)]
* agent: The `http_api_response_headers` config has been moved into a new `http_config` struct, so the old form is still supported but is deprecated. [[GH-3142](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3142)]
* dns: Added support for EDNS(0) size adjustments if set in the request frame. This allows DNS responses via UDP which are larger than the standard 512 bytes max if the requesting client can support it. [GH-1980, GH-3131]
* server: Added a startup warning for servers when expecting to bootstrap with an even number of nodes. [[GH-1282](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1282)]
* agent: Fixed a regression where configuring -1 for the port was no longer disabling the DNS server. [[GH-3135](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3135)]
* agent: Fix `consul leave` shutdown race. When shutting down an agent via the `consul leave` command on the command line the output would be `EOF` instead of `Graceful leave completed` [[GH-2880](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2880)]
* agent: Show a better error message than 'EOF' when attempting to join with the wrong gossip key. [[GH-1013](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1013)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where the `Method` and `Header` features of HTTP health checks were not being applied. [[GH-3178](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3178)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where internally-configured watches were not working because of an incorrect protocol error, and unified internal watch handling during reloads of the Consul agent. [[GH-3177](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3177)]
* server: Fixed an issue where the leader could return stale data duing queries as it is starting up. [[GH-2644](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2644)]
* agent: Added a method for [transitioning to gossip encryption on an existing cluster](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/encryption.html#configuring-gossip-encryption-on-an-existing-cluster). [[GH-3079](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3079)]
* agent: Added a method for [transitioning to TLS on an existing cluster](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/encryption.html#configuring-tls-on-an-existing-cluster). [[GH-1705](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1705)]
* agent: Added support for [RetryJoin on Azure](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#retry_join_azure). [[GH-2978](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2978)]
* agent: (Consul Enterprise) Added [AWS server side encryption support](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingServerSideEncryption.html) for S3 snapshots using the snapshot agent.
* agent: Added a check which prevents advertising or setting a service to a zero address (`0.0.0.0`, `[::]`, `::`). [[GH-2961](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2961)]
* agent: Allow binding to any public IPv6 address with `::` [[GH-2285](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2285)]
* agent: Removed SCADA-related code for Atlas and deprecated all Atlas-related configuration options. [[GH-3032](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3032)]
* agent: Added support for custom check id and name when registering checks along with a service. [[GH-3047](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3047)]
* agent: Updated [go-sockaddr](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-sockaddr) library to add support for new helper functions in bind address templates (`GetPrivateIPs`, `GetPublicIPs`), new math functions, and to pick up fixes for issues with detecting addresses on multi-homed hosts. [[GH-3068](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3068)]
* agent: Watches now reset their index back to zero after an error, or if the index goes backwards, which allows watches to recover after a server restart with fresh state. [[GH-2621](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2621)]
* agent: HTTP health checks now support custom method and headers. [[GH-1184](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1184)], [[GH-2474](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2474)], [[GH-2657](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2657)], [[GH-3106](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3106)]
* agent: Increased the graceful leave timeout from 5 to 15 seconds. [[GH-3121](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3121)]
* agent: Added additional logging when the agent handles signals and when it exits. [[GH-3124](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3124)]
* build: Added support for linux/arm64 binaries. [[GH-3042](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3042)]
* build: Consul now builds with Go 1.8.3. [[GH-3074](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3074)]
* ui: Added a sticky scroll to the KV side panel so the KV edit box always stays in place. [[GH-2812](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2812)]
* agent: Added defensive code to prevent agents from infecting the network coordinates with `NaN` or `Inf` values, and added code to clean up in environments where this has happened. [[GH-3023](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3023)]
* api: Added code to always read from the body of a request so that connections will always be returned to the pool. [[GH-2850](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2850)]
* build: Added a vendor fix to allow compilation on Illumos. [[GH-3024](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3024)]
* cli: Fixed an issue where `consul exec` would return a 0 exit code, even when there were nodes that didn't respond. [[GH-2757](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2757)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where NAT-configured agents with a non-routable advertise address would refuse to make RPC connections to Consul servers. This was a regression related to GH-2822 in Consul 0.8.2. [[GH-3028](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3028)]
* api: HttpClient now defaults to nil in the client config and will be generated if left blank. A NewHttpClient function has been added for creating an HttpClient with a custom Transport or TLS config. [[GH-2922](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2922)]
* agent: Added an error at agent startup time if both `-ui` and `-ui-dir` are configured together. [[GH-2576](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2576)]
* agent: Added the datacenter of a node to the catalog, health, and query API endpoints which contain a Node structure. [[GH-2713](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2713)]
* agent: Added the `ca_path`, `tls_cipher_suites`, and `tls_prefer_server_cipher_suites` options to give more flexibility around configuring TLS. [[GH-2963](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2963)]
* agent: Reduced the timeouts for the `-dev` server mode so that the development server starts up almost instantly. [[GH-2984](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2984)]
* agent: Added `verify_incoming_rpc` and `verify_incoming_https` options for more granular control over incoming TLS enforcement. [[GH-2974](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2974)]
* agent: Use bind address as source for outgoing connections. [[GH-2822](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2822)]
* api: Added the ACL replication status endpoint to the Go API client library. [[GH-2947](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2947)]
* cli: Added Raft protocol version to output of `operator raft list-peers` command.[[GH-2929](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2929)]
* ui: Added optional JSON validation when editing KV entries in the web UI. [[GH-2712](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2712)]
* ui: Updated ACL guide links and made guides open in a new tab. [[GH-3010](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3010)]
* server: Fixed a panic when the tombstone garbage collector was stopped. [[GH-2087](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2087)]
* server: Fixed a panic in Autopilot that could occur when a node is elected but cannot complete leader establishment and steps back down. [[GH-2980](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2980)]
* server: Added a new peers.json format that allows outage recovery when using Raft protocol version 3 and higher. Previously, you'd have to set the Raft protocol version back to 2 in order to manually recover a cluster. See https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/outage.html#manual-recovery-using-peers-json for more details. [[GH-3003](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3003)]
* ui: Add and update favicons [[GH-2945](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2945)]
* agent: Node IDs derived from host information are now hashed to prevent things like common server hardware from generating IDs with a common prefix across nodes. [[GH-2884](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2884)]
* agent: Added new `-disable-host-node-id` CLI flag and `disable_host_node_id` config option to the Consul agent to prevent it from using information from the host when generating a node ID. This will result in a random node ID, which is useful when running multiple Consul agents on the same host for testing purposes. Having this built-in eases configuring a random node ID when running in containers. [[GH-2877](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2877)]
* agent: Removed useless "==> Caught signal: broken pipe" logging since that often results from problems sending telemetry or broken incoming client connections; operators don't need to be alerted to these. [[GH-2768](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2768)]
* cli: Added TLS options for setting the client/CA certificates to use when communicating with Consul. These can be provided through environment variables or command line flags. [[GH-2914](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2914)]
* build: Consul is now built with Go 1.8.1. [[GH-2888](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2888)]
* ui: Updates Consul assets to new branding. [[GH-2898](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2898)]
* api: Added missing Raft index fields to AgentService and Node structures. [[GH-2882](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2882)]
* server: Fixed an issue where flood joins would not work with IPv6 addresses. [[GH-2878](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2878)]
* server: Fixed an issue where electing a 0.8.x leader during an upgrade would cause a panic in older servers. [[GH-2889](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2889)]
* server: Fixed an issue where tracking of leadership changes could become incorrect when changes occurred very rapidly. This could manifest as a panic in Autopilot, but could have caused other issues with multiple leader management routines running simultaneously. [[GH-2896](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2896)]
* server: Fixed a panic when checking ACLs on a session that doesn't exist. [[GH-2624](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2624)]
* **Command-Line Interface RPC Deprecation:** The RPC client interface has been removed. All CLI commands that used RPC and the `-rpc-addr` flag to communicate with Consul have been converted to use the HTTP API and the appropriate flags for it, and the `rpc` field has been removed from the port and address binding configs. You will need to remove these fields from your config files and update any scripts that passed a custom `-rpc-addr` to the following commands: `force-leave`, `info`, `join`, `keyring`, `leave`, `members`, `monitor`, `reload`
* **Version 8 ACLs Are Now Opt-Out:** The [`acl_enforce_version_8`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#acl_enforce_version_8) configuration now defaults to `true` to enable [full version 8 ACL support](https://www.consul.io/docs/internals/acl.html#version_8_acls) by default. If you are upgrading an existing cluster with ACLs enabled, you will need to set this to `false` during the upgrade on **both Consul agents and Consul servers**. Version 8 ACLs were also changed so that [`acl_datacenter`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#acl_datacenter) must be set on agents in order to enable the agent-side enforcement of ACLs. This makes for a smoother experience in clusters where ACLs aren't enabled at all, but where the agents would have to wait to contact a Consul server before learning that. [[GH-2844](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2844)]
* **Remote Exec Is Now Opt-In:** The default for [`disable_remote_exec`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#disable_remote_exec) was changed to "true", so now operators need to opt-in to having agents support running commands remotely via [`consul exec`](/docs/commands/exec.html). [[GH-2854](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2854)]
* **Raft Protocol Compatibility:** When upgrading to Consul 0.8.0 from a version lower than 0.7.0, users will need to
set the [`-raft-protocol`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_raft_protocol) option to 1 in order to maintain backwards compatibility with the old servers during the upgrade. See [Upgrading Specific Versions](https://www.consul.io/docs/upgrade-specific.html) guide for more details.
* **Autopilot:** A set of features has been added to allow for automatic operator-friendly management of Consul servers. For more information about Autopilot, see the [Autopilot Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/autopilot.html).
- **Dead Server Cleanup:** Dead servers will periodically be cleaned up and removed from the Raft peer set, to prevent them from interfering with the quorum size and leader elections.
- **Server Health Checking:** An internal health check has been added to track the stability of servers. The thresholds of this health check are tunable as part of the [Autopilot configuration](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#autopilot) and the status can be viewed through the [`/v1/operator/autopilot/health`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/operator.html#autopilot-health) HTTP endpoint.
- **New Server Stabilization:** When a new server is added to the cluster, there will be a waiting period where it must be healthy and stable for a certain amount of time before being promoted to a full, voting member. This threshold can be configured using the new [`server_stabilization_time`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#server_stabilization_time) setting.
- **Advanced Redundancy:** (Consul Enterprise) A new [`-non-voting-server`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_non_voting_server) option flag has been added for Consul servers to configure a server that does not participate in the Raft quorum. This can be used to add read scalability to a cluster in cases where a high volume of reads to servers are needed, but non-voting servers can be lost without causing an outage. There's also a new [`redundancy_zone_tag`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#redundancy_zone_tag) configuration that allows Autopilot to manage separating servers into zones for redundancy. Only one server in each zone can be a voting member at one time. This helps when Consul servers are managed with automatic replacement with a system like a resource scheduler or auto-scaling group. Extra non-voting servers in each zone will be available as hot standbys (that help with read-scaling) that can be quickly promoted into service when the voting server in a zone fails.
- **Upgrade Orchestration:** (Consul Enterprise) Autopilot will automatically orchestrate an upgrade strategy for Consul servers where it will initially add newer versions of Consul servers as non-voters, wait for a full set of newer versioned servers to be added, and then gradually swap into service as voters and swap out older versioned servers to non-voters. This allows operators to safely bring up new servers, wait for the upgrade to be complete, and then terminate the old servers.
* **Network Areas:** (Consul Enterprise) A new capability has been added which allows operators to define network areas that join together two Consul datacenters. Unlike Consul's WAN feature, network areas use just the server RPC port for communication, and pairwise relationships can be made between arbitrary datacenters, so not all servers need to be fully connected. This allows for complex topologies among Consul datacenters like hub/spoke and more general trees. See the [Network Areas Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/areas.html) for more details.
* **WAN Soft Fail:** Request routing between servers in the WAN is now more robust by treating Serf failures as advisory but not final. This means that if there are issues between some subset of the servers in the WAN, Consul will still be able to route RPC requests as long as RPCs are actually still working. Prior to WAN Soft Fail, any datacenters having connectivity problems on the WAN would mean that all DCs might potentially stop sending RPCs to those datacenters. [[GH-2801](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2801)]
* **WAN Join Flooding:** A new routine was added that looks for Consul servers in the LAN and makes sure that they are joined into the WAN as well. This catches up up newly-added servers onto the WAN as soon as they join the LAN, keeping them in sync automatically. [[GH-2801](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2801)]
* **Validate command:** To provide consistency across our products, the `configtest` command has been deprecated and replaced with the `validate` command (to match Nomad and Terraform). The `configtest` command will be removed in Consul 0.9. [[GH-2732](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2732)]
* agent: Fixed a missing case where gossip would stop flowing to dead nodes for a short while. [[GH-2722](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2722)]
* agent: Changed agent to seed Go's random number generator. [[GH-2722](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2722)]
* agent: Serf snapshots no longer have the executable bit set on the file. [[GH-2722](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2722)]
* agent: Consul is now built with Go 1.8. [[GH-2752](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2752)]
* agent: Updated aws-sdk-go version (used for EC2 auto join) for Go 1.8 compatibility. [[GH-2755](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2755)]
* agent: User-supplied node IDs are now normalized to lower-case. [[GH-2798](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2798)]
* agent: Added checks to enforce uniqueness of agent node IDs at cluster join time and when registering with the catalog. [[GH-2832](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2832)]
* cli: Standardized handling of CLI options for connecting to the Consul agent. This makes sure that the same set of flags and environment variables works in all CLI commands (see https://www.consul.io/docs/commands/index.html#environment-variables). [[GH-2717](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2717)]
* cli: Updated go-cleanhttp library for better HTTP connection handling between CLI commands and the Consul agent (tunes reuse settings). [[GH-2735](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2735)]
* cli: The `operator raft` subcommand has had its two modes split into the `list-peers` and `remove-peer` subcommands. The old flags for these will continue to work for backwards compatibility, but will be removed in Consul 0.9.
* cli: Added an `-id` flag to the `operator raft remove-peer` command to allow removing a peer by ID. [[GH-2847](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2847)]
* dns: Allows the `.service` tag to be optional in RFC 2782 lookups. [[GH-2690](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2690)]
* server: Changed the internal `EnsureRegistration` RPC endpoint to prevent registering checks that aren't associated with the top-level node being registered. [[GH-2846](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2846)]
* agent: Fixed an issue with `consul watch` not working when http was listening on a unix socket. [[GH-2385](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2385)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where checks and services could not sync deregister operations back to the catalog when version 8 ACL support is enabled. [[GH-2818](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2818)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where agents could use the ACL token registered with a service when registering checks for the same service that were registered with a different ACL token. [[GH-2829](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2829)]
* cli: Fixed `consul kv` commands not reading the `CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN` environment variable. [[GH-2566](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2566)]
* cli: Fixed an issue where prefixing an address with a protocol (such as 'http://' or 'https://') in `-http-addr` or `CONSUL_HTTP_ADDR` would give an error.
* cli: Fixed an issue where error messages would get printed to stdout instead of stderr. [[GH-2548](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2548)]
* server: Fixed an issue with version 8 ACLs where servers couldn't deregister nodes from the catalog during reconciliation. [[GH-2792](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2792)] This fix was generalized and applied to registering nodes as well. [[GH-2826](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2826)]
* server: Fixed an issue where servers could temporarily roll back changes to a node's metadata or tagged addresses when making updates to the node's health checks. [[GH-2826](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2826)]
* server: Fixed an issue where the service name `consul` was not subject to service ACL policies with version 8 ACLs enabled. [[GH-2816](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2816)]
* server: Fixed a rare but serious issue where Consul servers could panic when performing a large delete operation followed by a specific sequence of other updates to related parts of the state store (affects KV, sessions, prepared queries, and the catalog). [[GH-2724](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2724)]
* agent: Integrated gopsutil library to use built in host UUID as node ID, if available, instead of a randomly generated UUID. This makes it easier for other applications on the same host to generate the same node ID without coordinating with Consul. [[GH-2697](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2697)]
* agent: Added a configuration option, `tls_min_version`, for setting the minimum allowed TLS version used for the HTTP API and RPC. [[GH-2699](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2699)]
* agent: Added a `relay-factor` option to keyring operations to allow nodes to relay their response through N randomly-chosen other nodes in the cluster. [[GH-2704](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2704)]
* build: Consul is now built with Go 1.7.5. [[GH-2682](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2682)]
* dns: Add ability to lookup Consul agents by either their Node ID or Node Name through the node interface (e.g. DNS `(node-id|node-name).node.consul`). [[GH-2702](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2702)]
* dns: Fixed an issue where SRV lookups for services on a node registered with non-IP addresses were missing the CNAME record in the additional section of the response. [[GH-2695](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2695)]
* **KV Import/Export CLI:** `consul kv export` and `consul kv import` can be used to move parts of the KV tree between disconnected consul clusters, using JSON as the intermediate representation. [[GH-2633](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2633)]
* **Node Metadata:** Support for assigning user-defined metadata key/value pairs to nodes has been added. This can be viewed when looking up node info, and can be used to filter the results of various catalog and health endpoints. For more information, see the [Catalog](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/catalog.html), [Health](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/health.html), and [Prepared Query](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/query.html) endpoint documentation, as well as the [Node Meta](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_node_meta) section of the agent configuration. [[GH-2654](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2654)]
* **Node Identifiers:** Consul agents can now be configured with a unique identifier, or they will generate one at startup that will persist across agent restarts. This identifier is designed to represent a node across all time, even if the name or address of the node changes. Identifiers are currently only exposed in node-related endpoints, but they will be used in future versions of Consul to help manage Consul servers and the Raft quorum in a more robust manner, as the quorum is currently tracked via addresses, which can change. [[GH-2661](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2661)]
* **Improved Blocking Queries:** Consul's [blocking query](https://www.consul.io/api/index.html#blocking-queries) implementation was improved to provide a much more fine-grained mechanism for detecting changes. For example, in previous versions of Consul blocking to wait on a change to a specific service would result in a wake up if any service changed. Now, wake ups are scoped to the specific service being watched, if possible. This support has been added to all endpoints that support blocking queries, nothing new is required to take advantage of this feature. [[GH-2671](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2671)]
* **GCE auto-discovery:** New `-retry-join-gce` configuration options added to allow bootstrapping by automatically discovering Google Cloud instances with a given tag at startup. [[GH-2570](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2570)]
* build: Consul is now built with Go 1.7.4. [[GH-2676](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2676)]
* cli: `consul kv get` now has a `-base64` flag to base 64 encode the value. [[GH-2631](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2631)]
* cli: `consul kv put` now has a `-base64` flag for setting values which are base 64 encoded. [[GH-2632](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2632)]
* ui: Added a notice that JS is required when viewing the web UI with JS disabled. [[GH-2636](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2636)]
* agent: Redacted the AWS access key and secret key ID from the /v1/agent/self output so they are not disclosed. [[GH-2677](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2677)]
* agent: Fixed a rare startup panic due to a Raft/Serf race condition. [[GH-1899](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1899)]
* cli: Fixed a panic when an empty quoted argument was given to `consul kv put`. [[GH-2635](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2635)]
* tests: Fixed a race condition with check mock's map usage. [[GH-2578](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2578)]
* **Keyring API:** A new `/v1/operator/keyring` HTTP endpoint was added that allows for performing operations such as list, install, use, and remove on the encryption keys in the gossip keyring. See the [Keyring Endpoint](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/operator.html#keyring) for more details. [[GH-2509](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2509)]
* **Monitor API:** A new `/v1/agent/monitor` HTTP endpoint was added to allow for viewing streaming log output from the agent, similar to the `consul monitor` command. See the [Monitor Endpoint](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/agent.html#agent_monitor) for more details. [[GH-2511](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2511)]
* **Reload API:** A new `/v1/agent/reload` HTTP endpoint was added for triggering a reload of the agent's configuration. See the [Reload Endpoint](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/agent.html#agent_reload) for more details. [[GH-2516](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2516)]
* **Leave API:** A new `/v1/agent/leave` HTTP endpoint was added for causing an agent to gracefully shutdown and leave the cluster (previously, only `force-leave` was present in the HTTP API). See the [Leave Endpoint](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/agent.html#agent_leave) for more details. [[GH-2516](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2516)]
* **Bind Address Templates (beta):** Consul agents now allow [go-sockaddr/template](https://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/go-sockaddr/template) syntax to be used for any bind address configuration (`advertise_addr`, `bind_addr`, `client_addr`, and others). This allows for easy creation of immutable images for Consul that can fetch their own address based on an interface name, network CIDR, address family from an actual RFC number, and many other possible schemes. This feature is in beta and we may tweak the template syntax before final release, but we encourage the community to try this and provide feedback. [[GH-2563](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2563)]
* **Complete ACL Coverage (beta):** Consul 0.8 will feature complete ACL coverage for all of Consul. To ease the transition to the new policies, a beta version of complete ACL support was added to help with testing and migration to the new features. Please see the [ACLs Internals Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/internals/acl.html#version_8_acls) for more details. [GH-2594, GH-2592, GH-2590]
* agent: Defaults to `?pretty` JSON for HTTP API requests when in `-dev` mode. [[GH-2518](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2518)]
* agent: Updated Circonus metrics library and added new Circonus configration options for Consul for customizing check display name and tags. [[GH-2555](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2555)]
* agent: Added a checksum to UDP gossip messages to guard against packet corruption. [[GH-2574](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2574)]
* agent: Check whether a snapshot needs to be taken more often (every 5 seconds instead of 2 minutes) to keep the raft file smaller and to avoid doing huge truncations when writing lots of entries very quickly. [[GH-2591](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2591)]
* agent: Allow gossiping to suspected/recently dead nodes. [[GH-2593](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2593)]
* agent: Changed the gossip suspicion timeout to grow smoothly as the number of nodes grows. [[GH-2593](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2593)]
* agent: Added a deprecation notice for Atlas features to the CLI and docs. [[GH-2597](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2597)]
* agent: Give a better error message when the given data-dir is not a directory. [[GH-2529](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2529)]
* agent: Fixed a panic when SIGPIPE signal was received. [[GH-2404](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2404)]
* api: Added missing Raft index fields to `CatalogService` structure. [[GH-2366](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2366)]
* api: Added missing notes field to `AgentServiceCheck` structure. [[GH-2336](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2336)]
* api: Changed type of `AgentServiceCheck.TLSSkipVerify` from `string` to `bool`. [[GH-2530](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2530)]
* api: Added new `HealthChecks.AggregatedStatus()` method that makes it easy get an overall health status from a list of checks. [[GH-2544](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2544)]
* api: Changed type of `KVTxnOp.Verb` from `string` to `KVOp`. [[GH-2531](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2531)]
* cli: Fixed an issue with the `consul kv put` command where a negative value would be interpreted as an argument to read from standard input. [[GH-2526](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2526)]
* ui: Fixed an issue where extra commas would be shown around service tags. [[GH-2340](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2340)]
* ui: Customized Bootstrap config to avoid missing font file references. [[GH-2485](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2485)]
* ui: Removed "Deregister" button as removing nodes from the catalog isn't a common operation and leads to lots of user confusion. [[GH-2541](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2541)]
* Child process reaping support has been removed, along with the `reap` configuration option. Reaping is also done via [dumb-init](https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init) in the [Consul Docker image](https://github.com/hashicorp/docker-consul), so removing it from Consul itself simplifies the code and eases future maintainence for Consul. If you are running Consul as PID 1 in a container you will need to arrange for a wrapper process to reap child processes. [[GH-1988](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1988)]
* The default for `max_stale` has been increased to a near-indefinite threshold (10 years) to allow DNS queries to continue to be served in the event of a long outage with no leader. A new telemetry counter has also been added at `consul.dns.stale_queries` to track when agents serve DNS queries that are over a certain staleness (>5 seconds). [[GH-2481](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2481)]
* The api package's `PreparedQuery.Delete()` method now takes `WriteOptions` instead of `QueryOptions`. [[GH-2417](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2417)]
* **Key/Value Store Command Line Interface:** New `consul kv` commands were added for easy access to all basic key/value store operations. [[GH-2360](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2360)]
* **Snapshot/Restore:** A new /v1/snapshot HTTP endpoint and corresponding set of `consul snapshot` commands were added for easy point-in-time snapshots for disaster recovery. Snapshots include all state managed by Consul's Raft [consensus protocol](/docs/internals/consensus.html), including Key/Value Entries, Service Catalog, Prepared Queries, Sessions, and ACLs. Snapshots can be restored on the fly into a completely fresh cluster. [[GH-2396](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2396)]
* **AWS auto-discovery:** New `-retry-join-ec2` configuration options added to allow bootstrapping by automatically discovering AWS instances with a given tag key/value at startup. [[GH-2459](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2459)]
* api: All session options can now be set when using `api.Lock()`. [[GH-2372](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2372)]
* agent: Added the ability to bind Serf WAN and LAN to different interfaces than the general bind address. [[GH-2007](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2007)]
* agent: Added a new `tls_skip_verify` configuration option for HTTP checks. [[GH-1984](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1984)]
* build: Consul is now built with Go 1.7.3. [[GH-2281](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2281)]
* agent: Fixed a Go race issue with log buffering at startup. [[GH-2262](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2262)]
* agent: Fixed a panic during anti-entropy sync for services and checks. [[GH-2125](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2125)]
* agent: Fixed an issue on Windows where "wsarecv" errors were logged when CLI commands accessed the RPC interface. [[GH-2356](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2356)]
* agent: Syslog initialization will now retry on errors for up to 60 seconds to avoid a race condition at system startup. [[GH-1610](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1610)]
* agent: Fixed a panic when both -dev and -bootstrap-expect flags were provided. [[GH-2464](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2464)]
* agent: Added a retry with backoff when a session fails to invalidate after expiring. [[GH-2435](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2435)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where Consul would fail to start because of leftover malformed check/service state files. [[GH-1221](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1221)]
* agent: Log a warning instead of success when attempting to deregister a nonexistent service. [[GH-2492](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2492)]
* api: Trim leading slashes from keys/prefixes when querying KV endpoints to avoid a bug with redirects in Go 1.7 (golang/go#4800). [[GH-2403](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2403)]
* dns: Fixed external services that pointed to consul addresses (CNAME records) not resolving to A-records. [[GH-1228](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1228)]
* dns: Fixed an issue with SRV lookups where the service address was different from the node's. [[GH-832](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/832)]
* dns: Fixed an issue where truncated records from a recursor query were improperly reported as errors. [[GH-2384](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2384)]
* server: Fixed the port numbers in the sample JSON inside peers.info. [[GH-2391](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2391)]
* The default behavior of `leave_on_terminate` and `skip_leave_on_interrupt` are now dependent on whether or not the agent is acting as a server or client. When Consul is started as a server the defaults for these are `false` and `true`, respectively, which means that you have to explicitly configure a server to leave the cluster. When Consul is started as a client the defaults are the opposite, which means by default, clients will leave the cluster if shutdown or interrupted. [[GH-1909](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1909)] [[GH-2320](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2320)]
* The `allow_stale` configuration for DNS queries to the Consul agent now defaults to `true`, allowing for better utilization of available Consul servers and higher throughput at the expense of weaker consistency. This is almost always an acceptable tradeoff for DNS queries, but this can be reconfigured to use the old default behavior if desired. [[GH-2315](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2315)]
* Output from HTTP checks is truncated to 4k when stored on the servers, similar to script check output. [[GH-1952](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1952)]
* Consul's Go API client will now send ACL tokens using HTTP headers instead of query parameters, requiring Consul 0.6.0 or later. [[GH-2233](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2233)]
* Removed support for protocol version 1, so Consul 0.7 is no longer compatible with Consul versions prior to 0.3. [[GH-2259](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2259)]
* The Raft peers information in `consul info` has changed format and includes information about the suffrage of a server, which will be used in future versions of Consul. [[GH-2222](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2222)]
* New [`translate_wan_addrs`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#translate_wan_addrs) behavior from [[GH-2118](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2118)] translates addresses in HTTP responses and could break clients that are expecting local addresses. A new `X-Consul-Translate-Addresses` header was added to allow clients to detect if translation is enabled for HTTP responses, and a "lan" tag was added to `TaggedAddresses` for clients that need the local address regardless of translation. [[GH-2280](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2280)]
* The behavior of the `peers.json` file is different in this version of Consul. This file won't normally be present and is used only during outage recovery. Be sure to read the updated [Outage Recovery Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/outage.html) for details. [[GH-2222](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2222)]
* Consul's default Raft timing is now set to work more reliably on lower-performance servers, which allows small clusters to use lower cost compute at the expense of reduced performance for failed leader detection and leader elections. You will need to configure Consul to get the same performance as before. See the new [Server Performance](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/performance.html) guide for more details. [[GH-2303](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2303)]
* **Transactional Key/Value API:** A new `/v1/txn` API was added that allows for atomic updates to and fetches from multiple entries in the key/value store inside of an atomic transaction. This includes conditional updates based on obtaining locks, and all other key/value store operations. See the [Key/Value Store Endpoint](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/kv.html#txn) for more details. [[GH-2028](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2028)]
* **Native ACL Replication:** Added a built-in full replication capability for ACLs. Non-ACL datacenters can now replicate the complete ACL set locally to their state store and fall back to that if there's an outage. Additionally, this provides a good way to make a backup ACL datacenter, or to migrate the ACL datacenter to a different one. See the [ACL Internals Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/internals/acl.html#replication) for more details. [[GH-2237](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2237)]
* **Server Connection Rebalancing:** Consul agents will now periodically reconnect to available Consul servers in order to redistribute their RPC query load. Consul clients will, by default, attempt to establish a new connection every 120s to 180s unless the size of the cluster is sufficiently large. The rate at which agents begin to query new servers is proportional to the size of the Consul cluster (servers should never receive more than 64 new connections per second per Consul server as a result of rebalancing). Clusters in stable environments who use `allow_stale` should see a more even distribution of query load across all of their Consul servers. [[GH-1743](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1743)]
* **Raft Updates and Consul Operator Interface:** This version of Consul upgrades to "stage one" of the v2 HashiCorp Raft library. This version offers improved handling of cluster membership changes and recovery after a loss of quorum. This version also provides a foundation for new features that will appear in future Consul versions once the remainder of the v2 library is complete. [[GH-2222](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2222)] <br> Consul's default Raft timing is now set to work more reliably on lower-performance servers, which allows small clusters to use lower cost compute at the expense of reduced performance for failed leader detection and leader elections. You will need to configure Consul to get the same performance as before. See the new [Server Performance](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/performance.html) guide for more details. [[GH-2303](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2303)] <br> Servers will now abort bootstrapping if they detect an existing cluster with configured Raft peers. This will help prevent safe but spurious leader elections when introducing new nodes with `bootstrap_expect` enabled into an existing cluster. [[GH-2319](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2319)] <br> Added new `consul operator` command, HTTP endpoint, and associated ACL to allow Consul operators to view and update the Raft configuration. This allows a stale server to be removed from the Raft peers without requiring downtime and peers.json recovery file use. See the new [Consul Operator Command](https://www.consul.io/docs/commands/operator.html) and the [Consul Operator Endpoint](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/operator.html) for details, as well as the updated [Outage Recovery Guide](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/outage.html). [[GH-2312](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2312)]
* **Serf Lifeguard Updates:** Implemented a new set of feedback controls for the gossip layer that help prevent degraded nodes that can't meet the soft real-time requirements from erroneously causing `serfHealth` flapping in other, healthy nodes. This feature tunes itself automatically and requires no configuration. [[GH-2101](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2101)]
* **Prepared Query Near Parameter:** Prepared queries support baking in a new `Near` sorting parameter. This allows results to be sorted by network round trip time based on a static node, or based on the round trip time from the Consul agent where the request originated. This can be used to find a co-located service instance is one is available, with a transparent fallback to the next best alternate instance otherwise. [[GH-2137](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2137)]
* **Automatic Service Deregistration:** Added a new `deregister_critical_service_after` timeout field for health checks which will cause the service associated with that check to get deregistered if the check is critical for longer than the timeout. This is useful for cleanup of health checks registered natively by applications, or in other situations where services may not always be cleanly shutdown. [[GH-679](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/679)]
* **WAN Address Translation Everywhere:** Extended the [`translate_wan_addrs`](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#translate_wan_addrs) config option to also translate node addresses in HTTP responses, making it easy to use this feature from non-DNS clients. [[GH-2118](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2118)]
* **RPC Retries:** Consul will now retry RPC calls that result in "no leader" errors for up to 5 seconds. This allows agents to ride out leader elections with a delayed response vs. an error. [[GH-2175](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2175)]
* **Circonus Telemetry Support:** Added support for Circonus as a telemetry destination. [[GH-2193](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2193)]
* agent: Reap time for failed nodes is now configurable via new `reconnect_timeout` and `reconnect_timeout_wan` config options ([use with caution](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#reconnect_timeout)). [[GH-1935](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1935)]
* agent: Joins based on a DNS lookup will use TCP and attempt to join with the full list of returned addresses. [[GH-2101](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2101)]
* agent: Consul will now refuse to start with a helpful message if the same UNIX socket is used for more than one listening endpoint. [[GH-1910](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1910)]
* agent: Removed an obsolete warning message when Consul starts on Windows. [[GH-1920](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1920)]
* agent: Defaults bind address to 127.0.0.1 when running in `-dev` mode. [[GH-1878](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1878)]
* agent: Added version information to the log when Consul starts up. [[GH-1404](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1404)]
* agent: Added timing metrics for HTTP requests in the form of `consul.http.<verb>.<path>`. [[GH-2256](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2256)]
* build: Updated all vendored dependencies. [[GH-2258](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2258)]
* build: Consul releases are now built with Go 1.6.3. [[GH-2260](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2260)]
* checks: Script checks now support an optional `timeout` parameter. [[GH-1762](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1762)]
* checks: HTTP health checks limit saved output to 4K to avoid performance issues. [[GH-1952](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1952)]
* cli: Added a `-stale` mode for watchers to allow them to pull data from any Consul server, not just the leader. [[GH-2045](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2045)] [[GH-917](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/917)]
* dns: Consul agents can now limit the number of UDP answers returned via the DNS interface. The default number of UDP answers is `3`, however by adjusting the `dns_config.udp_answer_limit` configuration parameter, it is now possible to limit the results down to `1`. This tunable provides environments where RFC3484 section 6, rule 9 is enforced with an important workaround in order to preserve the desired behavior of randomized DNS results. Most modern environments will not need to adjust this setting as this RFC was made obsolete by RFC 6724\. See the [agent options](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#udp_answer_limit) documentation for additional details for when this should be used. [[GH-1712](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1712)]
* dns: Consul now compresses all DNS responses by default. This prevents issues when recursing records that were originally compressed, where Consul would sometimes generate an invalid, uncompressed response that was too large. [[GH-2266](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2266)]
* dns: Added a new `recursor_timeout` configuration option to set the timeout for Consul's internal DNS client that's used for recursing queries to upstream DNS servers. [[GH-2321](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2321)]
* dns: Added a new `-dns-port` command line option so this can be set without a config file. [[GH-2263](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2263)]
* ui: Added a new network tomography visualization to the UI. [[GH-2046](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2046)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where a health check's output never updates if the check status doesn't change after the Consul agent starts. [[GH-1934](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1934)]
* agent: External services can now be registered with ACL tokens. [[GH-1738](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1738)]
* agent: Fixed an issue where large events affecting many nodes could cause infinite intent rebroadcasts, leading to many log messages about intent queue overflows. [[GH-1062](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1062)]
* agent: Gossip encryption keys are now validated before being made persistent in the keyring, avoiding delayed feedback at runtime. [[GH-1299](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1299)]
* dns: Fixed an issue where DNS requests for SRV records could be incorrectly trimmed, resulting in an ADDITIONAL section that was out of sync with the ANSWER. [[GH-1931](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1931)]
* dns: Fixed two issues where DNS requests for SRV records on a prepared query that failed over would report the wrong domain and fail to translate addresses. [[GH-2218](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2218)] [[GH-2220](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2220)]
* server: Fixed a deadlock related to sorting the list of available datacenters by round trip time. [[GH-2130](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2130)]
* server: Fixed an issue with the state store's immutable radix tree that would prevent it from using cached modified objects during transactions, leading to extra copies and increased memory / GC pressure. [[GH-2106](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2106)]
* server: Upgraded Bolt DB to v1.2.1 to fix an issue on Windows where Consul would sometimes fail to start due to open user-mapped sections. [[GH-2203](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2203)]
Consul to avoid conflicts with other packages [[GH-1310](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1310)] [[GH-1327](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/1327)]
allow registrations before upgrading to prevent a service disruption. [[GH-506](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/506)] [[GH-465](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/465)]
failure detector (health check), but are managed by the servers. [[GH-524](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/524)] [[GH-172](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/172)]
address that is different from the agent. [[GH-229](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/229)] [[GH-570](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/570)]
* Support KV Delete with Check-And-Set [[GH-589](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/589)]
* Support for distributed locks and semaphores in API client [[GH-594](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/594)] [[GH-600](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/600)]
* Support for native HTTP health checks [[GH-592](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/592)]
* Support for node and service maintenance modes [[GH-606](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/606)]
* Added new "consul maint" command to easily toggle maintenance modes [[GH-625](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/625)]
without the applications being Consul aware. [[GH-619](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/619)]
* Multiple checks can be associated with a service [[GH-591](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/591)] [[GH-230](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/230)]
* Added configuration to set custom HTTP headers (CORS) [[GH-558](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/558)]
* Reject invalid configurations to simplify validation [[GH-576](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/576)]
* Guard against accidental cluster mixing [[GH-580](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/580)] [[GH-260](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/260)]
* Added option to filter DNS results on warning [[GH-595](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/595)]
* Improve write throughput with raft log caching [[GH-604](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/604)]
* Added ability to bind RPC and HTTP listeners to UNIX sockets [[GH-587](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/587)] [[GH-612](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/612)]
* Use "critical" health state instead of "unknown" [[GH-341](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/341)]
* Consul service can be targeted for exec [[GH-344](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/344)]
* Provide debug logging for session invalidation [[GH-390](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/390)]
* Added "Deregister" button to UI [[GH-364](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/364)]
* Added `enable_truncate` DNS configuration flag [[GH-376](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/376)]
* Reduce mmap() size on 32bit systems [[GH-265](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/265)]
* Temporary state is cleaned after an abort [[GH-338](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/338)] [[GH-178](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/178)]
