Introduction
This article provides urgent guidance regarding a known regression identified in the initial February patch releases for Consul and Consul Enterprise. To ensure cluster stability, HashiCorp has released a set of corrective patches today.
Scenario
You are currently running or were planning to deploy the following impacted versions released earlier this month:
Consul OSS: 1.22.4
Consul Enterprise: 1.22.4-ent, 1.21.10-ent, 1.18.20-ent
Recommendation
Immediately upgrade your Consul environment to the latest corrective patch release.
To resolve the issues identified in the initial releases, you should move to the next incremental version available as of today:
Upgrade 1.22.4 to 1.22.5
Upgrade 1.22.4-ent to 1.22.5-ent
Upgrade 1.21.10-ent to 1.21.11-ent
Upgrade 1.18.20-ent to 1.18.21-ent
These updated February patches contain the necessary fixes for the regressions found in the previous versions and are now the recommended stable releases for production environments.