website: add note for consul migrate utility.

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## Consul 0.6
Consul version 0.6 is a very large release with many enhancements and
optimizations. Changes to be aware of during an upgrade are categorized below.
#### Data store changes
Consul changed the format used to store data on the server nodes in version 0.5
(see 0.5.1 notes below for details). Previously, Consul would automatically
detect data directories using the old LMDB format, and convert them to the newer
BoltDB format. This automatic upgrade has been removed for Consul 0.6, and
instead a safeguard has been put in place which will prevent Consul from booting
if the old directory format is detected.
It is still possible to migrate from a 0.5.x version of Consul to 0.6+ using the
[consul-migrate](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-migrate) CLI utility. This
is the same tool that was previously embedded into Consul. See the
[releases](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-migrate/releases) page for
downloadable versions of the tool.
#### ACL Enhancements
Consul 0.6 introduces enhancements to the ACL system which may require special
handling: