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  Consul on Kubernetes release notes for version 0.49.x
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# Consul on Kubernetes 0.49.0

## Release Highlights

- **Consul CNI Plugin - OpenShift support**: Support for OpenShift and Multus CNI plugin [GH-1527]

- **Consul API Gateway secondary datacenter support**: Use global ACL auth method to provision ACL tokens for API Gateway in secondary datacenter and Set primary datacenter flag when deploying controller into secondary datacenter with federation enabled [GH-1481]

- **Cluster Peering**: Utilize new `use_auto_cert` value to gRPC TLS config when auto-encrypt is enabled. [GH-1541]

- **Service tag annotation improvements**: Support escaped commas in service tag annotations for pods which use consul.hashicorp.com/connect-service-tags or consul.hashicorp.com/service-tags. [GH-1532]
  
- **MaxInboundConnections in service-defaults CRD**: Add support for MaxInboundConnections on the Service Defaults CRD. [[GH-1437](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1437)]

## Supported Software

- Consul 1.11.x, Consul 1.12.x and Consul 1.13.1+
- Kubernetes 1.19-1.24
- Kubectl 1.19+
- Helm 3.2+
- Envoy proxy support is determined by the Consul version deployed. Refer to
  [Envoy Integration](/docs/connect/proxies/envoy) for details.

## Upgrading

For detailed information on upgrading, please refer to the [Upgrades page](/docs/k8s/upgrade)

## Known Issues
The following issues are know to exist in the v0.49.0 release: 

- Kubernetes 1.25 is not supported as the [pod security admission controller](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/08/25/pod-security-admission-stable/) is not supported by Consul K8s. 

## Changelogs

The changelogs for this major release version and any maintenance versions are listed below.

~> **Note:** The following link takes you to the changelogs on the GitHub website.

- [0.49.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/releases/tag/v0.49.0)