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+---
+layout: docs
+page_title: 0.49.x
+description: >-
+  Consul on Kubernetes release notes for version 0.49.x
+---
+
+# Consul on Kubernetes 0.49.0
+
+## Release Highlights
+
+- **Consul CNI Plugin - OpenShift support**: Support for OpenShift and Multus CNI plugin [[GH-1527](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1527)]
+
+- **Consul API Gateway secondary datacenter support**: Use global ACL auth method to provision ACL tokens for API Gateway in secondary datacenter and Set primary datacenter flag when deploying controller into secondary datacenter with federation enabled [[GH-1481](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1481)]
+
+- **Cluster Peering**: Utilize new `use_auto_cert` value to gRPC TLS config when auto-encrypt is enabled. [[GH-1541](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1541)]
+
+- **Service tag annotation improvements**: Support escaped commas in service tag annotations for pods which use consul.hashicorp.com/connect-service-tags or consul.hashicorp.com/service-tags. [[GH-1532](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1532)]
+  
+- **MaxInboundConnections in service-defaults CRD**: Add support for MaxInboundConnections on the Service Defaults CRD. [[GH-1437](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1437)]
+
+## Supported Software
+
+- Consul 1.11.x, Consul 1.12.x and Consul 1.13.1+
+- Kubernetes 1.19-1.24
+- Kubectl 1.19+
+- Helm 3.2+
+- Envoy proxy support is determined by the Consul version deployed. Refer to
+  [Envoy Integration](/docs/connect/proxies/envoy) for details.
+
+## Upgrading
+
+For detailed information on upgrading, please refer to the [Upgrades page](/docs/k8s/upgrade)
+
+## Known Issues
+The following issues are know to exist in the v0.49.0 release: 
+
+- Kubernetes 1.25 is not supported as the [Pod Security Admission controller](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/08/25/pod-security-admission-stable/) is currently not supported by Consul K8s. 
+
+## Changelogs
+
+The changelogs for this major release version and any maintenance versions are listed below.
+
+~> **Note:** The following link takes you to the changelogs on the GitHub website.
+
+- [0.49.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/releases/tag/v0.49.0)
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