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 FEATURES:
 
+* **Connect Feature Beta**: This version includes a major new feature for Consul named Connect. Connect enables secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. For more details and links to demos and getting started guides, see the [announcement blog post](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/consul-1-2-service-mesh). 
+  * Connect must be enabled explicitly in configuration so upgrading a cluster will not affect any existing functionality until it's enabled.
+  * This is a Beta release, we don't recommend enabling this in production yet. Please see the documentation for more information.
 * dns: Enable PTR record lookups for services with IPs that have no registered node [[PR-4083](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/4083)]
 
 IMPROVEMENTS: