Adding change log and version upgrade (#22857)

updated change log and version

Author: panman90

CHANGELOG.md

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+## 1.22.0-rc1 (September 30, 2025)
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+SECURITY:
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+* connect: Upgrade Consul's bundled Envoy version to 1.35.3 and remove support for 1.31.10. This update also includes a fix to prevent Envoy (v1.35+) startup failures by only configuring the TLS transport socket when the CA bundle is present. [[GH-22824](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22824)]
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+FEATURES:
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+* Added support to register a service in consul with multiple ports [[GH-22769](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22769)]
+* agent: Added IsDualStack utility function to detect if the agent is configured for both IPv4 and IPv6 (dual-stack mode) based on its bind address retrieved from "agent/self" API. [[GH-22741](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22741)]
+* install: Updated license information displayed during post-install
+* ipv6: addtition of ip6tables changes for ipv6 and dual stack support [[GH-22787](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22787)]
+* oidc: add client authentication using JWT assertion and PKCE. default PKCE is enabled. [[GH-22732](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22732)]
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+IMPROVEMENTS:
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+* api: Added a new API (/v1/operator/utilization) to support enterprise API for Manual Snapshot Reporting [[GH-22837](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22837)]
+* cmd: Added new subcommand `consul operator utilization [-today-only] [-message] [-y]` to generate a bundle with census utilization snapshot. Main flow is implemented in consul-enterprise
+http: Added a new API Handler for `/v1/operator/utilization`. Core functionality to be implemented in consul-enterprise
+agent: Always enabled census metrics collection with configurable option to export it to Hashicorp Reporting [[GH-22843](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22843)]
+* cli: `snapshot agent` now supports authenticating to Azure Blob Storage using Azure Managed Service Identities (MSI). [[GH-11171](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/11171)]
+* command: connect envoy bootstrap defaults to 127.0.0.1 in IPv4-only environment and to ::1 in IPv6/DualStack environment. [[GH-22763](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22763)]
+* connect: default upstream.local_bind_address to ::1 for IPv6 agent bind address [[GH-22773](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22773)]
+* proxy: default proxy.local_service_address to ::1 for IPv6 agent bind address [[GH-22772](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22772)]
+* ui: Improved accessibility features in the Consul UI to enhance usability for users with disabilities [[GH-22770](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22770)]
+* ui: Replace yarn with pnpm for package management [[GH-22790](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22790)]
+* ui: auth method config values were overflowing. This PR fixes the issue and adds word break for table elements with large content. [[GH-22813](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22813)]
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+BUG FIXES:
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+* ui: Allow FQDN to be displayed in the Consul web interface. [[GH-22779](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22779)]
+* ui: fixes the issue where namespaces where disappearing and Welcome to Namespace screen showed up after tab switching [[GH-22789](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22789)]
+* ui: fixes the issue where when doing deletes of multiple tokens or policies, the three dots on the right hand side stops responding after the first delete. [[GH-22752](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/22752)]
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 ## 1.21.5 (September 21, 2025)
 
 SECURITY:

version/VERSION

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-1.22.0-dev
+1.22.0-rc1