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In the next release

  • Add tree and q params to /admin/metrics.json

0.9.0 2017-02-22

  • Admin dashboard:
    • Add retries stat, retry budget bar, and client pool bar.
    • Add colored border to clients to make them easier to distinguish.
    • Sorts clients and servers alphabetically.
    • Displays routers in the order that they are defined.
    • Namerd Admin now works with Dtabs of arbitrary size.
  • Naming and Routing:
    • Rename baseDtab router property to dtab.
    • Change the default dstPrefix from the protocol name to /svc.
    • Change the default HTTP identifier to the io.l5d.header.token identifier.
    • Add the ability to route basted on the dest request header when using the TTwitter Thrift protocol.
  • Metrics and Tracing:
    • Remove io.l5d.commonMetrics telemeter.
    • Add io.l5d.prometheus telemeter.
    • Remove the tracers router config in favor of the io.l5d.zipkin telemeter.
    • Add opt-out usage data collection.
  • Namers:
    • Update Marathon namer to evaluate an app's running state.
    • Add preferServiceAddress option to io.l5d.consul namer
    • Make io.l5d.consul case-insensitive
  • Add roundRobin as a load balancer option.
  • Add the clearContext server configuration option.
  • Fix query parameter decoding when rewriting proxied requests

0.8.6 2017-01-19

  • Add experimental StatsD telemeter
  • Admin dashboard
    • Add a log of recent requests
    • Now works if served at a non-root url
  • HTTP
    • Support the RFC 7329 Forwarded header
  • HTTP/2
    • H2 clients now properly advertise support for the “http2” protocol over ALPN
  • Introduce io.buoyant.hostportPfx and io.buoyant.porthostPfx namers for splitting port numbers out of hostnames
  • Add the io.l5d.rewrite namer for arbitrary reordering of path segments
  • Bug fixes:
    • Fix path identifier bug when slash precedes uri params
    • Fix subdomainOfPfx handling of hostnames with port numbers

0.8.5 2017-01-06

  • Introduce the grpc-gen and grpc-runtime projects, enabling code generation of gRPC clients and servers for Finagle.
  • Various bug fixes to the linkerd admin dashboard.
  • The default docker images now use a 64 bit JVM. A -32b docker image is also availble but does not support the boringssl TLS extensions required for ALPN, etc.
  • Marathon:
    • Support "ip per task" feature
  • Client failure accrual is now configurable via the failureAccrual parameter
  • Add io.l5d.namerd.http interpreter which uses namerd's streaming HTTP api
  • linkerd now writes the local dtab to the l5d-ctx-dtab header instead of dtab-local
  • Transformers:
    • Transformers will now prepend a prefix to the id of the bound names they modify.
    • Fix localhost transformer when used on systems with unresolvable hostname.

0.8.4 2016-12-05

  • Change default value of attemptTTwitterUpgrade to false
  • The io.l5d.consul and io.l5d.k8s namers are no longer experimental 🎉
  • H2 stabilization:
    • Fix the h2 protocol to gracefully handle connection loss and stream interruption.
    • RFC-compliant handling of connection-specific headers.
    • Routing failures are now surfaced as REFUSED_STREAM resets.
  • Add per-logical-destination stats to each concrete client.
  • Add io.l5d.static identifier

0.8.3 2016-11-07

  • Make several namers available to namerd that were missing
  • Fix crash when viewing the dtab playground
  • Announce to all routable addresses when announcing 0.0.0.0
  • Add experimental Apache Curator namer
  • Marathon:
    • Add authentication support to marathon namer
    • Add useHealthCheck option to marathon namer
  • Transformers:
    • Allow transformers to be applied to namers
    • Add Const and Replace transformers
    • Show transformers in the delegate UI
  • Kubernetes:
    • Add labelSelector option to k8s and k8s.external namers
    • Add hostNetwork option to k8s transformers to support CNI environments

0.8.2 2016-10-17

  • Consul namer can use .local to reference local agent's datacenter.
  • Add an ip option to admin configuration so that access to the admin server may be constrained.
  • Kubernetes integration:
    • Remove unused TLS options from the k8s storage plugin config.
    • Add k8s external namer for routing to k8s ingress services.
    • Improve error-handling behavior in k8s API clients.
  • Support serving the namerd namer interface over TLS.
  • Document namerd's HTTP API.
  • Improve retry metrics to include a total counter of all retry requests.
  • Fix a path-parsing bug in the io.l5d.path namer.
  • Provide a default log4j configuration so that netty logging is managed properly.
  • Improve HTTP server behavior with short-lived connections.
  • Add io.buoyant.rinet namer which is like inet but with the order of host and port reversed
  • The netty4 HTTP engine now works with TLS, supporting configurable ciphers, backed by BoringSSL!
  • Introduce experimental support for the h2 protocol, supporting gRPC! 🎈

0.8.1 2016-09-21

  • Fix missing data on the linkerd admin dashboard
  • Allow a non-default port to be specified for the etcd storage plugin

0.8.0 2016-09-20

  • Allow routers to be configured with a list of identifiers. If an identifier cannot assign a dest to a request, it falls back to the next one in the list.
    • Breaking Change: Identifier plugins must now return a RequestIdentification object.
  • Consul improvements:
    • Improve performance by only watching services as necessary and tearing down watches when they are no longer needed.
    • Add consistencyMode option to io.l5d.consul namer
    • Add readConsistencyMode and writeConsistencyMode options to io.l5d.consul dtab storage
    • Consul Namerd/DtabStore: failFast and failureAccrual is now disabled by default but can be enabled with the failFast option
  • Improve shutdown ordering to facilitate graceful shutdown.
    • Gracefully shutdown on SIGINT and SIGTERM.
  • Require tracer configuration instead of falling back to defaults, reducing logging noise.
  • Breaking Change: The debugTrace tracer configuration flag has been removed in favor of the io.l5d.tracelog telemeter.
  • Add io.l5d.header identifier for naming requests based on an HTTP header
  • Lowercase Host header value in io.l5d.methodAndHost identifier
  • Introduce transformers for post-processing the set of addresses returned by an interpreter.
    • Add k8s transformers to support linkerd-to-linkerd deployments when linkerd is deployed as a k8s daemonset.
  • Remove hop-by-hop headers for better HTTP proxy compliance

0.7.5

  • Beautiful new linkerd docs!!! 😍 https://linkerd.io/config/0.7.5/linkerd
  • HTTP response classifiers must not consider a request to be retryable when it has a chunked request body.
  • Fix query paramater encoding when rewriting proxied requests
  • Improve error handling and retry behavior of consul plugins.
  • Add useHealthCheck parameter to Consul Namer #589
  • The k8s namer will now resume watches if the connection is closed.
  • Improved the performance of the namerd HTTP API.
  • Configured namers are now available to other plugins
  • enableProbation is now disabled by default on clients. It leads to unexpected behavior in environments that reuse IP:PORT pairs across services in a close time proximity.

0.7.4

  • Dashboard: add toggling to the router clients to better handle large numbers of clients
  • namerd HTTP API:
    • Add resolve endpoint
    • All endpoints return json
  • Add authority metadata field to re-write HTTP host/:authority on demand
  • Consul improvements:
    • Add setHost parameter for Consul CatalogNamer to set authority metadata
    • Add auth token parameter to Consul Namer & Dtab Store
    • Add datacenter parameter to Consul Dtab Store
  • Add file-system based name interpreter.
  • Path identifier should only parse as many segments as requested
  • Introduce the telemetry plugin subsystem to support arbitrary stats exporters and to eventually supplant the tracers subsystem.
  • Add announcer support! linkerd can now announce to service discovery backends!
    • Add zk announcer.

0.7.3

  • Allow protocol-specific parameters to be inherited on servers #561.
  • Don't clear addr on k8s service deletion #567.
  • Modify namerd's /delegate http endpoint to return bound names #569.
  • Memoize status stats components #547.

0.7.2

  • Add support for tags in the io.l5d.consul namer.
  • Add an experimental io.l5d.consul storage backend for namerd.
  • linkerd should use last known good data if it get errors from namerd.
  • Fix exceptions when k8s namer encounters unexpected end of stream #551.
  • Expose HTTP codec parameters as configuration options.
  • Handle "too old" error when re-establishing Kubernetes watches.
  • Improve Java compatibility for Namers plugins.

0.7.1

  • Turn off HTTP decompression so that linkerd doesn't decompress and then recompress bodies.
  • Various bug fixes in the dtab UI
  • Optional dtab query parameter for selected Namerd HTTP Control API endpoints
  • Fix an issue where streaming was unintentionally disabled
  • Fix an issue with the io.l5d.serversets namer and residuals
  • Add a consume option to the io.l5d.path identifier to strip off the path segments that it reads from the URI.
  • Introduce a configurable Netty4 http implementation.

0.7.0

  • New default JVM settings scale up with traffic levels.
    • JVM_HEAP is now deprecated, you can now separately set JVM_HEAP_MIN and JVM_HEAP_MAX but you shouldn't need to adjust them thanks to the new defaults.
  • Overhaul HTTP headers:
    • l5d-ctx renamed to l5d-ctx-trace
    • l5d-ctx-deadline now propagates deadlines
    • l5d-ctx-dtab is now read, to replace dtab-local later.
    • l5d-dtab now honored as a replacement for dtab-local as specified by users.
    • l5d-dst-* no longer set on responses
  • Fix graceful connection teardown on streaming HTTP responses #482.
  • linkerd routers' timeoutMs configuration now applies on the server-side, so that the timeout acts as a global timeout rather than an individual request timeout.
  • Binding cache size is now configurable in linkerd and namerd
  • Use :: as the zk host delimiter in the zk leader namer
  • Admin site/dashboard UI improvements:
    • The linkerd dtab UI now works correctly with the namerd interpreter
    • Added server success rate graphs to the dashboard, improved responsiveness
    • Added the ability to navigate to a specific router's dashboard
    • Standardized the look and feel of the admin pages

0.6.0

  • Add zkLeader namer to allow discovery of services through ZooKeeper leader election.
  • Add HTTP path request identifier, which builds destinations from a configurable number of HTTP URI path segments.
  • Breaking Change! The path prefix /# now indicates that the path should be processed by a namer. A namer matches a path starting with /#/<prefix>.
  • Breaking Change! Rename many plugin kind names.
  • Breaking Change! Experimental plugins now require the experimental: true property to be set.
  • Breaking Change! Change the format for ZooKeeper hosts in the ZK storage config.

0.5.0

  • Add a debugTrace parameter to the tracers config section, which enables printing all traces to the console.
  • Add etcd backed dtab storage.
  • Introduce a default HTTP response classifier so that 5XX responses are marked as failures.
  • Add a retries client config section supporting configurable retry budgets and backoffs.
  • Automatically retry certain types of failures, as determined by response classifiers.
  • Remove TLS support from the k8s namer in favor of using kubectl proxy for securely communicating with the k8s cluster API.
  • Add an /admin/metrics/prometheus stats endpoint.

0.4.0

  • Add a bindingTimeoutMs router parameter to configure the maximum amount of time to spend binding a path.
  • Add experimental support for storing dtabs in Kubernetes via the ThirdPartyResource API (which must be enabled in your cluster).
  • Breaking api change in namerd: dtabs are now string-encoded rather than thrift-encoded.
  • Add /api/1/bind, /api/1/addr, and /api/1/delegate HTTP APIs to namerd
    • Most HTTP APIs now support ?watch=true for returning updates via a streaming response.
  • Add ACL and authentication support to the ZooKeeper DtabStore.
  • Support wildcards in dtabs!
  • New linkerd dashboard is now enabled by default!! 📈

0.3.1

  • Add beta version of linkerd dashboard version 2.0. Try it out at /dashboard on the linkerd admin site. 📈
  • Support Zipkin tracer configuration via config file, to enable automatic export of tracing data from linkerd to a Zipkin collector.
  • namerd's HTTP dtab API now supports the HEAD and DELETE methods
  • Tear-down address observations in namerd if a service is deleted

0.3.0

  • Added ✨ namerd ✨ : a service for managing linkerd (and finagle) name delegation.
  • Breaking change to configs: httpUriInDst is now specified under the identifier header (see linkerd/docs/config.md for add'l info)
  • Add a ttlMs marathon namer config option to configure the polling timeout against the marathon API.
  • Add a enableProbation config option for configuring a client's load balancer probation setting

0.2.1

  • Configs may now include a tracers section with pluggable tracers (although we don't provide any out of the box just yet)
  • namers configurations may now configure Namers or NameInterpreters to support richer namer behavior.
  • Add a loadBalancer section to the client config where a load balancer can be specified and configured. The load balancers that are currently supported are p2c, ewma, aperture, and heap.
  • Add a config.json admin endpoint which re-serializes the parsed linkerd config.
  • Add a maxConcurrentRequests config option to limit number of concurrent requests accepted by a server.
  • Add a hostConnectionPool client config section to control the number of connections maintained to destination hosts.
  • Add a attemptTTwitterUpgrade thrift client config option to control whether thrift protocol upgrade should be attempted.

0.2.0

  • This release contains breaking changes to the configuration file format. linkerd config files are now a bit more explicit and less "magical", in the following ways:
    • Router configuration options can no longer be specified globally at the root level of the config file, but must be specified per-router.
    • All routers must now include a servers section; previously, a default server port would be used if none was provided.
  • New thriftProtocol config option allows the thrift protocol to be specified. We currently support binary (default) and compact.
  • Added traffic routing support for marathon apps with slashes in their ids.
  • Resolved a browser-compatibility issue in the admin page for those not using the latest-and-greatest Chrome/Firefox/Safari.

0.1.0

  • Introduce Marathon-backed service discovery, for routing traffic in Mesos.
  • Add new boundPath client TLS module for per-service TLS authentication.
  • Upgrade to Finagle 6.33, the latest and greatest in Finagle-based technology.

0.0.11

  • TLS, for real this time.
  • Configuration updates: config now includes a client section, where you can configure client-specific parameters.

0.0.10

  • We now support end-to-end TLS! However, verification is currently limited to global certs. See linkerd#64 for more on the upcoming roadmap.
  • Prep work for "transparent TLS". Look for this in upcoming releases.
  • Prep work for being able to generate Docker images from the repo, in service of a glorious containerized future.
  • Dashboard improvements! Now harder, faster, better, and also stronger!

0.0.9

  • Include ZooKeeper ServerSet support, for real this time.

0.0.8

  • Big new feature alert! We now have Zookeeper ServerSet support.
  • Server-side TLS support! Stay tuned for more security features coming in future releases...
  • Added CONTRIBUTING.md with Contributor License Agreement. We are ready to receive your honorable pull requests!
  • New thriftMethodInDst config option to allow for routing based on thrift method names.
  • Admin port now configurable via an admin/port config parameters, for those of you who have Opinions About Ports.
  • DTab explorer admin page now supports inspecting DTabs for all configured routers.
  • New /routers.json endpoint with runtime router state.
  • We now have a slack channel! Operators are standing by to field YOUR questions today.
  • Admin site redesign to match linkerd.io, now with favicon!

0.0.7

This is a big release! Get ready.

  • Brand new name: 🌅 linkerd 🎈
  • We're open source! This release is under Apache License v2.
  • Tons of documentation on https://linkerd.io!
  • This release adds config file support! You can express all your routing, listening, and protocol configuration needs in one convenient YAML file! See docs for how this works.

0.0.6

  • Admin UI now features 25% more amazingness. 🌈
  • Preliminary "pure" thrift support.
    • Default is framed transport with binary encoding; buffered transport also supported.
    • Out of the box, the router is configured to listen for thrift on port 4141 (i.e. in addition to HTTP on port 4140), and forwards thrift calls to localhost:9998. This will almost definitely change in the future.
  • Tons of performance tuning. We're benchmarking sub-1ms p99 request latency and 40k+ qps throughput. Working on memory footprint reduction next.
  • By popular demand, HTTP response code stats are now exported in metrics.json.
  • Configurability still limited to what you can change in config.sh and disco/. Expect improvements here soon.

0.0.5

  • Fancy Request Volume graph in the Admin page.
  • Hide some internal interfaces from the Admin page.
  • Modified interface labels to work in twitter-server's admin.

0.0.4

  • Experimental Mux protocol support, for Advanced Users Only.
  • New Admin UI that tries to not look like it was built by engineers.

0.0.3

  • Using sophisticated shell script technology, we now ensure you have a sufficient Java version (we require JDK 8) before attempting to start the router.
  • Upgrades to a newer version of the Finagle library.
  • More information added to HTTP tracing:
    • Host header
    • Transfer-Encoding header
  • New configuration options for HTTP routing
    • Routing by URI can be disabled, which simplifies many common use-cases
    • Allow internal and external http service prefixes to be specified on the command-line
  • Fixed the "downstream clients" admin interface

0.0.2

  • Router start/stop commands now detect if the router is currently running, easily preventing a whole class of easily-preventable errors.
  • Tarball permissions are fixed.
  • New support for Consul-backed service discovery, if files aren't good enough for ya.

0.0.1

First release of the Buoyant Application Router.

  • Complete with router script to start/stop/restart the router!
  • Router is pre-configured with sane defaults for running locally.
  • Filesystem-backed service discovery mechanism.