# Consul 1.9.0 Beta1 released

**URL:** <https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/consul-1-9-0-beta1-released/15665>\
**Category:** Consul\
**Created:** [October 14, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/consul-1-9-0-beta1-released/15665 "2020-10-14T16:59:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/consul-1-9-0-beta1-released/15665/1 "2020-10-14T16:59:56Z")

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Hello Everyone,

We are excited to announce the first beta release for Consul 1.9.0.

**NOTE** This beta release does not have a forward compatibility guarantee and certain functionality may change that will be incompatible with the General Availability release. Please only use the beta releases to test functionality and upgrades with clusters that can be lost.

Below are a few of the major new features in Consul 1.9:

- Service Mesh Topology Visualization

- Application Aware Intentions (L7 Intentions)

- Streaming

This release also has two major enhancements to our Kubernetes integration

- CRDs

- Open shift support

Besides the above, this release brings several bug fixes and enhancements, highlights include:

- [`consul snapshot inspect`](https://www.consul.io/commands/snapshot/inspect) includes additional information in verbose mode
- Node and service counts are emitted as metrics
- The Vault CA provider includes support for auto-renewing token leases
- Support for specifying [Envoy Load balancing policies](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/load-balancing-envoy) when defining service resolvers
- Allow client agents to be configured with an advertised reconnect timeout to control how long until the nodes are reaped by others in the cluster.

See the [announcement blog post](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-consul-1-9) for more info. The full list of changes may be found in the[changelog](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.9.0-beta1/CHANGELOG.md).

Links:

Changelog -[https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.9.0-beta1/CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.9.0-beta1/CHANGELOG.md)

Binaries - [https://releases.hashicorp.com/consul/1.9.0-beta1/](https://releases.hashicorp.com/consul/1.9.0-beta1/)

Blog - [https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-consul-1-9](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-consul-1-9)

Load Balancing Services in Consul Service Mesh with Envoy - [https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/load-balancing-envoy](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/load-balancing-envoy)

Manage Service Intentions in Consul Service Mesh using Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) -[https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-configuration-entries](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-configuration-entries)

We encourage you to experiment with these new features, but recommend against using this build in a production environment. Depending on feedback and resolving outstanding issues, we may release further betas or release candidates, and will publish a final, generally available 1.9 release when appropriate.

Thank you to our active community members who have been invaluable in adding new features, reporting bugs, and improving the documentation for Consul in this release!

Thanks,

Consul Team

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**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/consul-1-9-0-beta1-released/15665/2 "2020-10-14T17:02:21Z")

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