Consul - v1.9.16

1.9.16 (February 28, 2022)

FEATURES:

• ca: support using an external root CA with the vault CA provider [GH-11910]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• sentinel: (Enterprise Only) Sentinel now uses SHA256 to generate policy ids
• server: conditionally avoid writing a config entry to raft if it was already the same [GH-12321]

BUG FIXES:

• agent: Parse datacenter from Create/Delete requests for AuthMethods and BindingRules. [GH-12370]
• areas: (Enterprise Only) Fixes a bug when using Yamux pool ( for servers version 1.7.3 and later), the entire pool was locked while connecting to a remote location, which could potentially take a long time. [GH-1368]
• server: (Enterprise only) Namespace deletion will now attempt to delete as many namespaced config entries as possible instead of halting on the first deletion that failed.
• server: partly fix config entry replication issue that prevents replication in some circumstances [GH-12307]
• ui: Ensure we always display the Policy default preview in the Namespace editing form [GH-12316]