- **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)
- **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)]