Aerospike Server Community Edition 5.7.0.7

Description

• For upgrading, or the unlikely event of downgrading, please refer to Special Upgrades.
• The Predicate Expression API is obsolete. The Aerospike Server and Client have scheduled removal with our next major Aerospike Server release. Use Aerospike Filter Expressions (added in version 5.2).
• The jobs info command is now officially deprecated and will continue to be supported through a deprecation period, after which it will be removed. jobs are now redundant with the new secondary index building methods and the following new info commands:
  • scan-show replaces scan-list.
  • query-show replaces query-list.
  • query-abort replaces query-kill.
• The configuration parameter batch-without-digests, now defaults to true, is deprecated and will be removed in six months. Customers using clients older than a year (around the time of Server 4.9 which introduced batch-without-digests) will now have to explicitly set the batch-without-digests configuration item to false.
• A number of Best Practices will be checked at startup. The Best Practices can be enforced by enabling the new enforce-best-practices configuration item.
• The security context configuration items enable-security and enable-ldap have been removed. The Server will not start if either enable-security or enable-ldap is present in the configuration file.
• Security will now be enabled simply by the presence of the security { } section in the configuration file. Similarly, LDAP will now be enabled simply by the presence of the ldap { } section within the security { } section of the configuration file.
• To use XDR with ACL auth-mode must be explicitly configured.
  • For more information please refer to: Securing with access control using PKI (versions 5.7+).
• We build on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 instead of CentOS 8 when creating rpm packages.
  • For more information please refer to: CentOS Linux EOL.
• Use Prometheus Exporter version 1.2.1 or later to run Prometheus Exporter with this version of Aerospike Server.

New Features

Improvements

• Enterprise & Community
  • [AER-6429] - (BATCH) Changed default value of service context configuration item batch-without-digests to true - the item is now deprecated.
  • [AER-6430] - (CLUSTERING) Reject the recluster info command if already reclustering.
  • [AER-6461] - (DEPLOYMENT) Sanity-check various system settings and server configuration items at startup.
  • [AER-6432] - (FABRIC) Handle fabric node list with a more granular hash and an improved node id hash function.
  • [AER-6459] - (GEO) Changed namespace geo2dsphere-within context configuration item max-level default from 30 to 20.
  • [AER-6455] - (INFO) Replaced scan-list and query-list with scan-show and query-show, renamed query-kill to query-abort.
  • [AER-6433] - (KVS) Switch write transactions from write-commit-level 'master' to 'all' if fabric send queues are overwhelmed.
  • [AER-6441] - (KVS) Reject replica writes if they are overwhelming the write queue.
  • [AER-6447] - (KVS) By default, exclude group and 'other' permissions when creating files.
  • [AER-6452] - (KVS) Removed non-essential sprig element counters, saving three bytes of overhead per sprig.
  • [AER-6470] - (KVS) Replaced fabric idle connection queue and storage device open file descriptor queues with lockless pools.
  • [AER-6471] - (KVS) Upgraded JEMalloc submodule to 'stable-4' version, plus modifications for Valgrind.
  • [AER-6434] - (LOGGING) Do not truncate the log file when (re)opening it during log rotation.
  • [AER-6460] - (LOGGING) Improved logging around duplicate node-ids.
  • [AER-6428] - (MIGRATION) Pause immigrations if they are overwhelming the write queue.
  • [AER-6450] - (SCAN) Queue dynamic set-index population jobs, to serialize them and reduce CPU usage.
  • [AER-6464] - (SINDEX) Secondary indexes store primary index references instead of digests - reduces memory footprint and improves garbage collection.
  • [AER-6476] - (STATS) Added system_thp_mem_kbytes statistic.
  • [AER-6436] - (STORAGE) Added namespace context configuration item max-record-size.
  • [AER-6468] - (STORAGE) Allow value of 0 for storage context configuration item defrag-startup-minimum, and made that the default.
• Enterprise Only
  • [AER-6454] - (ACL) Moved configuration item session-ttl from 'ldap' to 'security' context, and ldap-login-threads (renamed as login-threads) from 'security' to 'ldap' context.
  • [AER-6456] - (ACL) Removed security context configuration items enable-security and enable-ldap.
  • [AER-6462] - (ACL) Added support for PKI authentication.
  • [AER-6453] - (AUDIT) Added separate 'audit' logging context so that auditing via a regular log sink will not include all 'security' context logs.
  • [AER-6431] - (STATS) Added unreplicated_records statistic for strong-consistency namespaces.
  • [AER-6445] - (STORAGE) Added storage context configuration item encryption-old-key-file to support rotation of encryption keys.
  • [AER-6449] - (STORAGE) Updated storage compression submodules.
  • [AER-6440] - (XDR) Disallow DC context configuration items auth-user and auth-password-file for connector DCs.
  • [AER-6443] - (XDR) An 'xdr' context in the configuration file is no longer required in order to configure DCs dynamically.

Bug Fixes

Known Issues

• Known Issues: Server

Updates

• aerospike-tools 6.1.0