The new global management plane for Consul is now generally available, providing full visibility and control for both self-managed and HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters. This feature offers significant benefits to Consul operators, including quick bootstrapping of Kubernetes clusters, health status viewing, and discovery of all services registered with the Consul clusters in a centralized view. The global service catalog search allows users to see a single view of all discovered and registered services across all Consul clusters, regardless of their location, while version labels enable users to determine whether their deployed Consul clusters are within the Consul version support policy and update them if needed.