HashiCorp has released Consul 1.15, which simplifies user onboarding, enhances troubleshooting workflows, and reduces operational complexity. This release includes several important new features such as Envoy access logging, Consul Envoy extensions, service-to-service troubleshooting, Linux VM runtime support in Consul-native API gateway (Beta), Consul server rate limiting, and an experimental Raft write-ahead log storage backend. These features aim to improve the overall experience for users of Consul, a tool used for service discovery and service mesh management. The new release provides enhancements for all types of Consul users, including those leveraging it for serverless functions, and is designed to enable a consistent enterprise-ready control plane to discover and securely connect any application.