The Consul Team has announced the general availability of Consul 1.6.0, a multi-cloud service networking platform that enables connecting and securing services across various runtime platforms and public or private clouds. The release introduces several major new features for Consul Connect, including L7 traffic management with advanced configuration entry types, mesh gateways, and intention & CA replication, which enable increased reliability and deployment patterns such as HTTP path-based routing and traffic shifting. This update is the result of community feedback and improvements made during the pre-release period, and it includes a number of bug fixes and removals of deprecated features. The release binaries can be downloaded, and a live demo of new features can be watched via a webinar.