consul/CHANGELOG.md

0.3.1 (Unreleased)

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed issue with service re-registration [GH-216]
• Fixed handling of -rejoin flag

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Improved handling of Serf snapshot data
• Increase reliability of failure detector

0.3.0 (June 13, 2014)

FEATURES:

• Better, faster, cleaner UI [GH-194] [GH-196]
• Sessions, which act as a binding layer between nodes, checks and KV data. [GH-162]
• Key locking. KV data integrates with sessions to enable distributed locking. [GH-162]
• DNS lookups can do stale reads and TTLs. [GH-200]
• Added new /v1/agent/self endpoint [GH-173]
• reload command can be used to trigger configuration reload from the CLI [GH-142]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• members has a much cleaner output format [GH-143]
• info includes build version information
• Sorted results for datacneter list [GH-198]
• Switch multiplexing to yamux
• Allow multiple CA certis in ca_file [GH-174]
• Enable logging to syslog. [GH-105]
• Allow raw key value lookup [GH-150]
• Log encryption enabled [GH-151]
• Support -rejoin to rejoin a cluster after a previous leave. [GH-110]
• Support the "any" wildcard for v1/health/state/ [GH-152]
• Defer sync of health check output [GH-157]
• Provide output for serfHealth check [GH-176]
• Datacenter name is validated [GH-169]
• Configurable syslog facilities [GH-170]
• Pipelining replication of writes
• Raft group commits
• Increased stability of leader terms
• Prevent previously left nodes from causing re-elections

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed memory leak in in-memory stats system
• Fixing race between RPC and Raft init [GH-160]
• Server-local RPC is avoids network [GH-148]
• Fixing builds for older OSX [GH-147]

MISC:

• Fixed missing prefixes on some log messages
• Removed the -role filter of members command
• Lots of docs fixes

0.2.1 (May 20, 2014)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Improved the URL formatting for the key/value editor in the Web UI. Importantly, the editor now allows editing keys with dashes in the name. [GH-119]
• The web UI now has cancel and delete folder actions in the key/value editor. [GH-124], [GH-122]
• Add flag to agent to write pid to a file. [GH-106]
• Time out commands if Raft exceeds command enqueue timeout
• Adding support for the -advertise CLI flag. [GH-156]
• Fixing potential name conflicts on the WAN gossip ring [GH-158]
• /v1/catalog/services returns an empty slice instead of null. [GH-145]
• members command returns exit code 2 if no results. [GH-116]

BUG FIXES:

• Renaming "seperator" to "separator". This is the correct spelling, but both spellings are respected for backwards compatibility. [GH-101]
• Private IP is properly found on Windows clients.
• Windows agents won't show "failed to decode" errors on every RPC request.
• Fixed memory leak with RPC clients. [GH-149]
• Serf name conflict resoultion disabled. [GH-97]
• Raft deadlock possibility fixed. [GH-141]

MISC:

• Updating to latest version of LMDB
• Reduced the limit of KV entries to 512KB. [GH-123].
• Warn if any Raft log exceeds 1MB
• Lots of docs fixes

0.2.0 (May 1, 2014)

FEATURES:

• Adding Web UI for Consul. This is enabled by providing the -ui-dir flag with the path to the web directory. The UI is visited at the standard HTTP address (Defaults to http://127.0.0.1:8500/). There is a demo available here.
• Adding new read consistency modes. ?consistent can be used for strongly consistent reads without caveats. ?stale can be used for stale reads to allow for higher throughput and read scalability. [GH-68]
• /v1/health/service/ endpoint can take an optional ?passing flag to filter to only nodes with passing results. [GH-57]
• The KV endpoint suports listing keys with the ?keys query parameter, and limited up to a seperator using ?seperator=.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Health check output goes into seperate Output field instead of overriding Notes. [GH-59]
• Adding a minimum check interval to prevent checks with extremely low intervals fork bombing. [GH-64]
• Raft peer set cleared on leave. [GH-69]
• Case insensitive parsing checks. [GH-78]
• Increase limit of DB size and Raft log on 64bit systems. [GH-81]
• Output of health checks limited to 4K. [GH-83]
• More warnings if GOMAXPROCS == 1 [GH-87]
• Added runtime information to consul info

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed 404 on /v1/agent/service/deregister and /v1/agent/check/deregister. [GH-95]
• Fixed JSON parsing for /v1/agent/check/register [GH-60]
• DNS parser can handler period in a tag name. [GH-39]
• "application/json" content-type is sent on HTTP requests. [GH-45]
• Work around for LMDB delete issue. [GH-85]
• Fixed tag gossip propogation for rapid restart. [GH-86]

MISC:

• More conservative timing values for Raft
• Provide a warning if attempting to commit a very large Raft entry
• Improved timeliness of registration when server is in bootstrap mode. [GH-72]

0.1.0 (April 17, 2014)

• Initial release