Consul

2.0.2 (July 8, 2026)

SECURITY:

• Upgrade alpine base image version to 3.24 to address [CVE-2026-41989], [ALPINE-CVE-2026-2100]. [GH-23711]
• dependency: Upgrade Serf and Memberlist to use the latest versions. [GH-23704]
• xds: Return errors when injecting the L4 intention (RBAC) filter or the mTLS transport socket onto an inbound public listener, so the listener is not served without intention enforcement or mTLS. [GH-23686]

FEATURES:

• config-entry(api-gateway): (Enterprise only) Add ExtAuthzFilter to HTTPRoute Filters and gateway-wide ExtAuthz toggle to the api-gateway config entry [GH-23703]
• config-entry: (Enterprise only) Addition of External Processor (ext_proc) Envoy Extension support to api-gateway and connect-proxy [GH-23705]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• ci: upgrade GitHub Actions that used the deprecated Node 20 runtime to Node 24, and restore GOTOOLCHAIN=auto after setup-go so backward-compatibility and integration test lanes resolve the correct Go toolchain. [GH-23687]
• connect: update support for nomad and vault version to v2.0.3 [GH-23624]
• deps: Migrate armon/go-metrics to hashicorp/go-metrics and update Go dependencies across all modules [GH-23635]

BUG FIXES:

• xds: only emit the client cert SDS block when both CertFile and KeyFile are set. [GH-23679]