**Enterprise LTS**: Consul Enterprise 1.15 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release.
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)]
IMPROVEMENTS:
* api: Randomize the returned server list for the WatchServers gRPC endpoint. [[GH-20866](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/20866)]
BUG FIXES:
* 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.
* 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.