ent-changelog-1.18.12

1.18.12 Enterprise (June 18, 2025)

This release is created to share the Consul Enterprise changelog and notify consumers of availability. The attached source and assets do not include Consul Enterprise code and should not be used in place of official Docker images or binaries.

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

SECURITY:

• security: Upgrade UBI base image version to address CVE CVE-2025-4802 CVE-2024-40896 CVE-2024-12243 CVE-2025-24528 CVE-2025-3277 CVE-2024-12133 CVE-2024-57970 CVE-2025-31115 [GH-22409]
• cli: update tls ca and cert create to reduce excessive file perms for generated public files [GH-22286]
• connect: Added non default namespace and partition checks to ConnectCA CSR requests. [GH-22376]
• security: Upgrade Go to 1.23.10. [GH-22412]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• config: Warn about invalid characters in datacenter resulting in non-generation of X.509 certificates when using external CA for agent TLS communication. [GH-22382]

BUG FIXES:

• http: return a clear error when both Service.Service and Service.ID are missing during catalog registration [GH-22381]
• license: (Enterprise only) Fixed issue where usage metrics are not written to the snapshot to export the license data. [GH-10668]