1.16.0-rc1 (June 12, 2023)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• api: The /v1/health/connect/ and /v1/health/ingress/ endpoints now immediately return 403 "Permission Denied" errors whenever a token with insufficient service:read permissions is provided. Prior to this change, the endpoints returned a success code with an empty result list when a token with insufficient permissions was provided. [GH-17424]
• peering: Removed deprecated backward-compatibility behavior. Upstream overrides in service-defaults will now only apply to peer upstreams when the peer field is provided. Visit the 1.16.x upgrade instructions for more information. [GH-16957]

SECURITY:

• audit-logging: (Enterprise only) limit v1/operator/audit-hash endpoint to ACL token with operator:read privileges.

FEATURES:

• api: (Enterprise only) Add POST /v1/operator/audit-hash endpoint to calculate the hash of the data used by the audit log hash function and salt.
• cli: (Enterprise only) Add a new consul operator audit hash command to retrieve and compare the hash of the data used by the audit log hash function and salt.
• cli: Adds new command - consul services export - for exporting a service to a peer or partition [GH-15654]
• connect: (Consul Enterprise only) Implement order-by-locality failover.
• mesh: Add new permissive mTLS mode that allows sidecar proxies to forward incoming traffic unmodified to the application. This adds AllowEnablingPermissiveMutualTLS setting to the mesh config entry and the MutualTLSMode setting to proxy-defaults and service-defaults. [GH-17035]
• mesh: Support configuring JWT authentication in Envoy. [GH-17452]
• server: (Enterprise Only) added server side RPC requests IP based read/write rate-limiter. [GH-4633]
• server: (Enterprise Only) allow automatic license utilization reporting. [GH-5102]
• server: added server side RPC requests global read/write rate-limiter. [GH-16292]
• xds: Add property-override built-in Envoy extension that directly patches Envoy resources. [GH-17487]
• xds: Add a built-in Envoy extension that inserts External Authorization (ext_authz) network and HTTP filters. [GH-17495]
• xds: Add a built-in Envoy extension that inserts Wasm HTTP filters. [GH-16877]
• xds: Add a built-in Envoy extension that inserts Wasm network filters. [GH-17505]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• api: Support filtering for config entries. [GH-17183]
• cli: Add -filter option to consul config list for filtering config entries. [GH-17183]
• api: Enable setting query options on agent force-leave endpoint. [GH-15987]
• audit-logging: (Enterprise only) enable error response and request body logging [GH-5669]
• audit-logging: (Enterprise only) enable error response and request body logging
• ca: automatically set up Vault's auto-tidy setting for tidy_expired_issuers when using Vault as a CA provider. [GH-17138]
• ca: support Vault agent auto-auth config for Vault CA provider using AliCloud authentication. [GH-16224]
• ca: support Vault agent auto-auth config for Vault CA provider using AppRole authentication. [GH-16259]
• ca: support Vault agent auto-auth config for Vault CA provider using Azure MSI authentication. [GH-16298]
• ca: support Vault agent auto-auth config for Vault CA provider using JWT authentication. [GH-16266]
• ca: support Vault agent auto-auth config for Vault CA provider using Kubernetes authentication. [GH-16262]
• command: Adds ACL enabled to status output on agent startup. [GH-17086]
• command: Allow creating ACL Token TTL with greater than 24 hours with the -expires-ttl flag. [GH-17066]
• connect: (Enterprise Only) Add support for specifying "Partition" and "Namespace" in Prepared Queries failover rules.
• connect: update supported envoy versions to 1.23.10, 1.24.8, 1.25.7, 1.26.2 [GH-17546]
• connect: update supported envoy versions to 1.23.8, 1.24.6, 1.25.4, 1.26.0 [GH-5200]
• fix metric names in /docs/agent/telemetry [GH-17577]
• gateway: Change status condition reason for invalid certificate on a listener from "Accepted" to "ResolvedRefs". [GH-17115]
• http: accept query parameters datacenter, ap (enterprise-only), and namespace (enterprise-only). Both short-hand and long-hand forms of these query params are now supported via the HTTP API (dc/datacenter, ap/partition, ns/namespace). [GH-17525]
• systemd: set service type to notify. [GH-16845]
• ui: Update alerts to Hds::Alert component [GH-16412]
• ui: Update to use Hds::Toast component to show notifications [GH-16519]
• ui: update from and to design-system-components button Hds::Button [GH-16251]
• ui: update typography to styles from hds [GH-16577]

BUG FIXES:

• Fix a race condition where an event is published before the data associated is commited to memdb. [GH-16871]
• gateways: (Enterprise only) Fixed a bug in API gateways where gateway configuration objects in non-default partitions did not reconcile properly. [GH-17581]
• gateways: Fixed a bug in API gateways where binding a route that only targets a service imported from a peer results in the programmed gateway having no routes. [GH-17609]
• gateways: Fixed a bug where API gateways were not being taken into account in determining xDS rate limits. [GH-17631]
• peering: Fixes a bug where the importing partition was not added to peered failover targets, which causes issues when the importing partition is a non-default partition. [GH-16673]
• ui: fixes ui tests run on CI [GH-16428]
• xds: Fixed a bug where modifying ACLs on a token being actively used for an xDS connection caused all xDS updates to fail. [GH-17566]