---
layout: docs
page_title: 0.49.x
description: >-
  Consul on Kubernetes release notes for version 0.49.x
---

# Consul on Kubernetes 0.49.0

## Release Highlights

- **Consul CNI Plugin - OpenShift support**: Support for OpenShift and Multus CNI plugin [[GH-1527](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1527)]

- **Consul API Gateway secondary datacenter support**: Use global ACL auth method to provision ACL tokens for API Gateway in secondary datacenter and Set primary datacenter flag when deploying controller into secondary datacenter with federation enabled [[GH-1481](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1481)]

- **Cluster Peering**: Utilize new `use_auto_cert` value to gRPC TLS config when auto-encrypt is enabled. [[GH-1541](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1541)]

- **Service tag annotation improvements**: Support escaped commas in service tag annotations for pods which use consul.hashicorp.com/connect-service-tags or consul.hashicorp.com/service-tags. [[GH-1532](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1532)]
  
- **MaxInboundConnections in service-defaults CRD**: Add support for MaxInboundConnections on the Service Defaults CRD. [[GH-1437](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1437)]

## Supported Software

- Consul 1.11.x, Consul 1.12.x and Consul 1.13.1+
- Kubernetes 1.19.x - 1.24.x 
- Kubectl 1.19+
- Helm 3.2+
- Envoy proxy support is determined by the Consul version deployed. Refer to
  [Envoy Integration](/consul/docs/connect/proxies/envoy) for details.

## Upgrading

For detailed information on upgrading, please refer to the [Upgrades page](/consul/docs/k8s/upgrade)

## Known Issues
The following issues are know to exist in the v0.49.0 release: 

- Kubernetes 1.25.x is not supported as the [Pod Security Admission controller](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/08/25/pod-security-admission-stable/) is currently not supported by Consul K8s. 

## Changelogs

The changelogs for this major release version and any maintenance versions are listed below.

~> **Note:** The following link takes you to the changelogs on the GitHub website.

- [0.49.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/releases/tag/v0.49.0)
- [0.49.1](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/releases/tag/v0.49.1)
- [0.49.2](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/releases/tag/v0.49.2)
- [0.49.3](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/releases/tag/v0.49.3)
- [0.49.4](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/releases/tag/v0.49.4)
