Need confirmation on whether Strict path handling has been introduced in qconsul 1.20.0

Hello,
Our App team said they are using com.orbitz.consul client(https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.orbitz.consul/consul-client/1.5.3) in Java code and were able to access consul key using either of this in consul 1.18.0.
exception-service/master//dyno-config.yml
exception-service/master/dyno-config.yml

But with consul 1.20.0 It is not able to access key using double slash like exception-service/master//dyno-config.yml and getting error key not found.

Can someone confirm if Strict path handling has been introduced in consul 1.20.0 meaning path with double slash(//) are no longer automatically normalized.