1.18.3 Enterprise (July 11, 2024)

Enterprise LTS: Consul Enterprise 1.18 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release.

SECURITY:

• Upgrade envoy module dependencies to version 1.27.7, 1.28.5 and 1.29.7 or higher to resolve CVE-2024-39305 [GH-21524]
• Upgrade go version to 1.22.5 to address CVE-2024-24791 [GH-21507]
• Upgrade go-retryablehttp to address CVE-2024-6104 [GH-21384]
• agent: removed reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability [GH-21342]
• ui: Pin and namespace sub-module dependencies related to the Consul UI [GH-21378]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• mesh: update supported envoy version 1.29.4
• mesh: update supported envoy version 1.29.5 in addition to 1.28.4, 1.27.6. [GH-21277]
• upgrade go version to v1.22.3. [GH-21113]
• upgrade go version to v1.22.4. [GH-21265]

BUG FIXES:

• core: Fix multiple incorrect type conversion for potential overflows [GH-21251]
• core: Fix panic runtime error on AliasCheck [GH-21339]
• dns: Fixes a spam log message "Failed to parse TTL for prepared query..." that was always being logged on each prepared query evaluation. [GH-21381]
• terminating-gateway: (Enterprise Only) Fixed issue where enterprise metadata applied to linked services was the terminating-gateways enterprise metadata and not the linked services enterprise metadata. [GH-21382]
• txn: Fix a bug where mismatched Consul server versions could result in undetected data loss for when using newer Transaction verbs. [GH-21519]
• v2dns: Fix a regression where DNS SRV questions were returning duplicate hostnames instead of encoded IPs. This affected Nomad integrations with Consul. [GH-21361]
• v2dns: Fix a regression where DNS tags using the standard lookup syntax, tag.name.service.consul, were being disregarded. [GH-21361]