update changelog and version (#20913)

CHANGELOG.md

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+## 1.18.1 (March 26, 2024)
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+Enterprise LTS: Consul Enterprise 1.18 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release.
+
+BREAKING CHANGES:
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+* ui: Adds a "Link to HCP Consul Central" modal with integration to side-nav and link to HCP banner. There will be an option to disable the Link to HCP banner from the UI in a follow-up release. [[GH-20474](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20474)]
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+SECURITY:
+
+* Update `google.golang.org/protobuf` to v1.33.0 to address [CVE-2024-24786](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24786). [[GH-20801](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20801)]
+* Update the Consul Build Go base image to `alpine3.19`. This resolves CVEs
+  [CVE-2023-52425](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52425)
+  [CVE-2023-52426](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52426) [[GH-20812](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20812)]
+* Upgrade to use Go `1.21.8`. This resolves CVEs
+  [CVE-2024-24783](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24783) (`crypto/x509`).
+  [CVE-2023-45290](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45290) (`net/http`).
+  [CVE-2023-45289](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45289) (`net/http`, `net/http/cookiejar`).
+  [CVE-2024-24785](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24785) (`html/template`).
+  [CVE-2024-24784](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24784) (`net/mail`). [[GH-20812](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20812)]
+
+IMPROVEMENTS:
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+* api: Randomize the returned server list for the WatchServers gRPC endpoint. [[GH-20866](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20866)]
+* partitions: **(Enterprise only)** Allow disabling of Gossip per Partition [[GH-20669](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20669)]
+* snapshot agent: **(Enterprise only)** Add support for multiple snapshot destinations using the `backup_destinations` config file object.
+* xds: Improved the performance of xDS server side load balancing. Its slightly improved in Consul CE with drastic CPU usage reductions in Consul Enterprise. [[GH-20672](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20672)]
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+BUG FIXES:
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+* audit-logs: **(Enterprise Only)** Fixes non ASCII characters in audit logs because of gzip. [[GH-20345](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20345)]
+* connect: Fix issue where Consul-dataplane xDS sessions would not utilize the streaming backend for wan-federated queries. [[GH-20868](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20868)]
+* connect: Fix potential goroutine leak in xDS stream handling. [[GH-20866](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20866)]
+* connect: Fix xDS deadlock that could result in proxies being unable to start. [[GH-20867](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20867)]
+* ingress-gateway: **(Enterprise Only)** Fix a bug where on update, Ingress Gateways lost all upstreams for listeners with wildcard services in a different namespace.
+
+## 1.18.0 (February 27, 2024)
+
+BREAKING CHANGES:
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+* config-entries: Allow disabling request and idle timeouts with negative values in service router and service resolver config entries. [[GH-19992](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/19992)]
+* telemetry: Adds fix to always use the value of `telemetry.disable_hostname` when determining whether to prefix gauge-type metrics with the hostname of the Consul agent. Previously, if only the default metric sink was enabled, this configuration was ignored and always treated as `true`, even though its default value is `false`. [[GH-20312](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20312)]
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+SECURITY:
+
+* Update `golang.org/x/crypto` to v0.17.0 to address [CVE-2023-48795](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48795). [[GH-20023](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20023)]
+* connect: Update supported envoy versions to 1.24.12, 1.25.11, 1.26.6, 1.27.2 to address [CVE-2023-44487](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-jhv4-f7mr-xx76) [[GH-19306](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/19306)]
+* mesh: Update Envoy versions to 1.28.1, 1.27.3, and 1.26.7 to address [CVE-2024-23324](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-gq3v-vvhj-96j6), [CVE-2024-23325](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-5m7c-mrwr-pm26), [CVE-2024-23322](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-6p83-mfmh-qv38), [CVE-2024-23323](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-x278-4w4x-r7ch), [CVE-2024-23327](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-4h5x-x9vh-m29j), [CVE-2023-44487](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-jhv4-f7mr-xx76), [GH-20589](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20589)], [CVE-2023-44487](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-jhv4-f7mr-xx76), and [[GH-19879](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/19879)]
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+FEATURES:
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+* acl: add policy bindtype to binding rules. [[GH-19499](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/19499)]
+* agent: Introduces a new agent config default_intention_policy to decouple the default intention behavior from ACLs [[GH-20544](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20544)]
+* agent: **(Enterprise Only)** Add fault injection filter support for Consul Service Mesh
+* cloud: Adds new API/CLI to initiate and manage linking a Consul cluster to HCP Consul Central [[GH-20312](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20312)]
+* dns: adds experimental support for a refactored DNS server that is v1 and v2 Catalog compatible.
+  Use `v2dns` in the `experiments` agent config to enable.
+  It will automatically be enabled when using the `resource-apis` (Catalog v2) experiment.
+  The new DNS implementation will be the default in Consul 1.19.
+  See the [Consul 1.18.x Release Notes](https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/release-notes/consul/v1_18_x) for deprecated DNS features. [[GH-20643](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20643)]
+* ui: Added a banner to let users link their clusters to HCP [[GH-20275](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20275)]
+* ui: Adds a redirect and warning message around unavailable UI with V2 enabled [[GH-20359](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20359)]
+* ui: adds V2CatalogEnabled to config that is passed to the ui [[GH-20353](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20353)]
+* v2: prevent use of the v2 experiments in secondary datacenters for now [[GH-20299](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20299)]
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+IMPROVEMENTS:
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+* cloud: unconditionally add Access-Control-Expose-Headers HTTP header [[GH-20220](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20220)]
+* connect: Replace usage of deprecated Envoy field `envoy.config.core.v3.HeaderValueOption.append`. [[GH-20078](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20078)]
+* connect: Replace usage of deprecated Envoy fields `envoy.config.route.v3.HeaderMatcher.safe_regex_match` and `envoy.type.matcher.v3.RegexMatcher.google_re2`. [[GH-20013](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20013)]
+* docs: add Link API documentation [[GH-20308](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20308)]
+* resource: lowercase names enforced for v2 resources only. [[GH-19218](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/19218)]
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+BUG FIXES:
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+* dns: SERVFAIL when resolving not found PTR records. [[GH-20679](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20679)]
+* raft:  Fix panic during downgrade from enterprise to oss. [[GH-19311](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/19311)]
+* server: Ensure controllers are automatically restarted on internal stream errors. [[GH-20642](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20642)]
+* server: Ensure internal streams are properly terminated on snapshot restore. [[GH-20642](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20642)]
+* snapshot-agent: **(Enterprise only)** Fix a bug with static AWS credentials where one of the key id or secret key is provided via config file and the other is provided via an environment variable.
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 ## 1.17.2 (January 23, 2024)
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