ANN: Consul 1.6.0 (final) Released

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R.B. Boyer

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Aug 26, 2019, 1:44:48 PM8/26/19
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Hello everyone,

 

We're really excited to release Consul 1.6.0. For more information about the 1.6.0 release, see the blog post here or watch the keynote from HashiConf EU. This release is focused on additional features for Consul Connect, Consul's service mesh solution.

 

Here are some highlights of what was shipped through the whole series of prerelease and final builds:

 

  • L7 Traffic Management. There are now new configuration entry types that enable advanced traffic management patterns for service-to-service requests. The additional configuration entry kinds, service-resolver, service-splitter, and service-router, enable increased reliability with advanced service failover, and deployment patterns such as HTTP path-based routing, and traffic shifting. Read more here.

  • Mesh Gateways. Mesh gateways are Envoy proxies at the edge of a network, which enable services in separate networking environments to easily communicate with each other. They are configured by Consul using a similar mechanism as sidecar proxies. Read more here.

  • Intention & CA Replication. These features make connecting services across logical datacenters in Consul possible, and are vital building blocks for mesh gateways. Note this feature was previously part of Consul Enterprise.

  • Updated filtering language. It now includes  substring and regular expression matching on string values.

  • Removed Managed Connect Proxies. These were previously deprecated in v1.3.0 and are now gone.

Known Issues

 

  • Auto Encrypt. Clients with auto_encrypt enabled won't be able to start because of [GH-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.

 

Thank you to our active community members who have been invaluable in adding new features, reporting bugs, and improving the documentation for Consul in this release!

 

Please see the complete changelog for details on the release:

 

https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.6.0/CHANGELOG.md

 

The release binaries can be downloaded here:

 

https://releases.hashicorp.com/consul/1.6.0/

 

-- The Consul Team


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