v1.14 Release Planning

[JoshVanL]

Release Tracking Board

Release lead: @mikeee
Release lead shadow(s): -
Perf test lead: @cicoyle
Longhaul test: @elena-kolevska
Build manager: @JoshVanL

Read about the Dapr release lifecycle

Milestone dates

Feature definition starts: 12th March 2024 (12/03/2024)
Feature definition ends: 26th March 2024 (26/03/2024)
Feature freeze: 14th May 2024 -> 28th May 2024
Code freeze (Endgame starts ~2 weeks stabilization): 28th May 2024 -> 11th June 2024
RC Release day: 28th May 2024 -> 11th June 2024
Release day: 11th June 2024 -> 25th June 2024
Announcement day: 26th June 2024 (TENTATIVE) < - Docs, Samples and Runtime, CLI, Release notes

Feature proposals that impact multiple repos, that maintainers can use to triage

Priorities for this release

• [P0] Metrics - low cardinality improvement proposal#58
• [P0] Workflow memory leak?
• [P0] Distributed Scheduler Implementation POC: Distributed Scheduler #7246 @cicoyle
  • go-sdk implementation go-sdk#561 @mikeee
  • Tracking branch: https://github.com/cicoyle/dapr/tree/feat-dist-scheduler
• [P0] Namespaced actors Cross namespace actor invocation problem #3786 @elena-kolevska - wip no proposal needed - Namespaced actors (Multitenant placement service) #7745
• [P0] Pubsub bidirectional streams Proposal #52 @JoshVanL
  • API -> health/z checks -> split subscriptions into new structures
  • SDK
  • Proposal: Support dynamic (on-demand) subscribe and unsubscribe of topics by user app #814 @JoshVanL
• [P1] Finish standardization of env vars java-sdk
  • java-sdk java-sdk#1028 @artursouza
• [P0] Opencensus -> Open telemetry dapr#7703
• [P0] go1.22 upgrade for runtime Bump to Go 1.22 - Pin latest contrib with Go 1.22 #7713
  • components-contrib Support and use Go 1.22 components-contrib#3372
    • consider deprecation of binding- cloudwego/kitex

PRs - Open to Review:

• Distributed Scheduler - Scheduler: Building Block & Control Plane Service  #7761
• Distributed Scheduler (CLI) - WIP: Distributed Scheduler CLI Changes cli#1405
• Distributed Scheduler (Go-SDK) - [WIP] - Implement distributed scheduler building block go-sdk#562
• Bi-directional subscription streaming - Subscriptions: bi-directional subscription streaming- subscribe on no healthz. #7757
• Namespaced actors - Namespaced actors (Multitenant placement service) #7745
• OpenCensus -> OpenTelemetry - Upgrade otel to 1.25.0 #7735
• Metrics Path Matching (Low Cardinality) - HTTP Metrics Path Matching #7746
• Update dependencies - security: up dependencies to fix security vulnerabilities #7681
• Fixing perfs - Fix Perf Test Regression #7677
• Java-SDK grpc standardization - Implements full spec of gRPC endpoint. java-sdk#1042

Not prioritized / Non-blocking

• SDKs
• [P1] Finish standardization of env vars dotnet-sdk/rust-sdk
  • dotnet-sdk dotnet-sdk#1254 @artursouza
  • rust-sdk rust-sdk#150 @mikeee
  • Actor state TTLs [Proposal]: Actor State TTL #5899
• [P1] Components init/status health reporting Proposal #54 @JoshVanL
• Component resiliency? components-contrib#1863
• Workflow to phase 2 -> issue to be created
• Bulk-pubsub [EPIC] Make Bulk Pubsub APIs stable #5567 @mukundansundar
• [P1] Distributed lock to stable Proposal #43
• [P1] x509 auth for components Proposal #51
• [P1] Auto-configure middleware pipelines via priority and pipeline type properties Proposal: Auto-configure middleware pipelines via priority and pipeline type properties #6660 @ItalyPaleAle
• [P1] Support for Azure Cache for Redis - EntraID auth method (All Redis components) components-contrib#3088 @berndverst
• [P1] Watch and operate on a particular namespace rather than all namespaces Dapr control plane components do not adapt to run in a single namespace #6611 @yaron2

Release Tracking Board

Moved to v1.15

Repo milestones

Dapr - https://github.com/dapr/dapr/milestone/21
CLI - https://github.com/dapr/cli/milestone/15
Docs - https://github.com/dapr/docs/milestone/17
Components-contrib - https://github.com/dapr/components-contrib/milestone/15
Java-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/java-sdk/milestone/12
Python-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/python-sdk/milestone/14
Dotnet-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/dotnet-sdk/milestone/19
Js-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/js-sdk/milestone/15
Go-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/go-sdk/milestone/11
Rust-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/rust-sdk/milestone/1
Dashboard: Not releasing
Quickstarts (aka Tutorials) - @dapr/maintainers-quickstarts

[shubham1172]

JavaScript SDK milestone https://github.com/dapr/js-sdk/milestone/15

[m3nax]

I think the dotnet SDK milestone is: https://github.com/dapr/dotnet-sdk/milestone/19

[mikeee]

19

Indeed it is, thanks for reminding!