CDNLite v1.7.0

CDNLite — Release Notes

Changes since v1.6.0

This release focuses on making CDNLite more production-ready by improving reporting foundations, analytics scalability, edge hot-path performance, deployment configuration, CI validation, and project documentation.

Added

• Added Phase 1 reporting foundation:

  • Database workload budgets.
  • Telemetry ingest batch diagnostics.
  • Reporting watermarks.
  • Reconciliation tables.
  • Current summary read model.
  • Reporting query budget support.
  • New reporting foundation database migration.
  • Contract tests for reporting boundaries.

• Added Phase 2 analytics scalability:

  • Asynchronous usage recalculation jobs.
  • Job status API support.
  • Idempotent aggregate upserts.
  • Analytics cache schema.
  • Bounded summary metadata.
  • Dashboard feedback for queued analytics jobs.

• Added Phase 3 edge hot-path performance improvements:

  • Worker-local config caching.
  • Last-known-good config reload behavior.
  • Bounded shared-memory telemetry queues.
  • Queue health visibility.
  • Configurable edge capacity defaults.
  • Telemetry queue implementation for OpenResty edge workers.

• Added new CI and validation tooling:

  • One-shot phase runner.
  • Phase manifests for Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3.
  • Platform stress test script.
  • Stress scenario definitions.
  • Expanded smoke and end-to-end validation scripts.

• Added new database migrations and schema updates:

  • Reporting foundation tables and indexes.
  • Async analytics aggregation tables.
  • Shared-hosting origin defaults.
  • Operations report audit/range indexes.
  • Config snapshot report index.
  • Usage aggregate range indexes.

• Added operations documentation:

  • Database architecture guide.
  • Database migration guide updates.
  • Phase 1 evidence documentation.
  • Expanded setup and troubleshooting docs.

Changed

• Improved collector ingestion and reporting services for better usage processing, reporting accuracy, and operational diagnostics.
• Improved analytics dashboard behavior and API typing for usage data.
• Improved DataTable and horizontal scrolling UI components.
• Updated domain origins/rules UI behavior and tests.
• Improved origin health handling and origin selection logic.
• Updated edge config loading to reduce repeated filesystem reads and improve runtime stability.
• Updated deployment examples and generated deployment output with additional environment defaults.
• Updated Docker Compose and edge/starter deployment templates.
• Reorganized roadmap documentation into a single canonical roadmap under docs/ROADMAP.md.
• Removed old duplicate roadmap files from root/docs legacy paths.
• Updated OpenAPI/API documentation, architecture docs, setup docs, and troubleshooting docs.

Fixed

• Fixed config snapshot activation/auditing behavior.
• Fixed domain rule label wording around user-modified status.
• Fixed e2e validation around config version checks.
• Improved origin fixture behavior for HTTPS/SNI validation.
• Improved verify-mode self-signed origin checks.
• Removed reliance on transient metrics spool in e2e activity lookup.
• Adjusted regression and contract tests for DNS, SSL, reporting, origin health, edge, and analytics flows.

Security

• Added and updated security guidance around:

  • Local-only defaults.
  • Secret handling.
  • Edge token rotation.
  • TLS configuration.
  • External dashboard authentication.
  • PowerDNS API exposure.

Notes

This release is primarily an infrastructure, reliability, and performance release. The biggest internal changes are the new reporting/analytics foundation and the edge hot-path telemetry/config improvements. Operators should review the new database migrations and deployment environment examples before upgrading.

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.7.0