googleforgames/agones v1.37.0 on GitHub

This is the 1.37.0 release of Agones.

This release sees the first milestone of a over-a-year series of work on the functionality of arbitrary Counters and Lists attached to each GameServer!

We’ve also upgraded the following features: CountsAndLists to alpha, FleetAllocationOverflow to Beta, and PodHostName, ResetMetricsOnDelete, and SplitControllerAndExtensions to Stable - with defaults below.

CountsAndLists: This feature flag provides functionality for a configurable set of Counters or Lists be attached to GameServers with attached allocation and autoscaling functionality to provide a flexible implementation that can handle a wide range of use cases such as player tracking, high density game server room tracking, and could even be used for game specific game server allocation prioritization.

Documentation is a little sparse in this release, but will grow! We’re focusing on the reference material first and will then expand into more in-depth guides and integration patterns.

Note: Counters and Lists will eventually replace the Alpha functionality of Player Tracking, which will subsequently be removed from Agones. If you are currently using this Alpha feature, we would love for you to test (and ideally migrate to!) this new functionality to ensure it will meet all your needs.

FleetAllocationOverflow: Labels and/or annotations to GameServers that exceed the desired number of replicas in a GameServerSet. This occurs when the allocation of GameServers surpasses the specified replica count.

PodHostName: Enables the assignment of the GameServer’s name as the PodHostname.

ResetMetricsOnDelete: This feature instructs the metrics service to unregister and then re-register the relevant metrics view to reset their state immediately whenever an Agones resource is deleted.

SplitControllerAndExtensions: This feature introduces an important change in Agones for high availability. It separates the system's responsibilities into two binaries: the controller, which now handles Kubernetes object monitoring and uses a leader election system to keep only one active controller at a time, and a new horizontally scalable extensions binary, focused on managing webhook endpoints.

What's Changed

Implemented enhancements

Adds Counter conformance test by @igooch in #3488
Adds List SDK methods to simple-game-server by @igooch in #3500
Support appProtocol by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3502
Adds gameserver e2e test for Lists by @igooch in #3507
Adds fleet e2e test for lists by @igooch in #3510
Disable resync on SDK Server by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3508
Move PodHostName to Stable by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3517
Adds gameserverallocation e2e tests for Lists by @igooch in #3516
Move FleetAllocationOverflow to Beta by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3515
Move ResetMetricsOnDelete to Stable by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3518
Adds fleetauotscaler e2e test for Lists by @igooch in #3519
Another List fleet autoscaler e2e test by @igooch in #3521
Adds Go Conformance Tests for Lists by @igooch in #3524
Move CountsAndLists to Alpha by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3527
Move SplitControllerAndExtensions to Stable by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3523
Add clusterIP for agones-allocator in helm chart by @govargo in #3526
GKE Autopilot: Add support for Extended Duration pods by @zmerlynn in #3387
Counter and List Aggregate Fleet Metrics by @igooch in #3528
CountsAndLists: SDK Reference by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3537
Adds Counters and Lists REST API Conformance Tests by @igooch in #3546
CountsAndLists: Yaml Examples And References by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3552

Fixed bugs

Xonotic: gLibc incompatibility by @markmandel in #3495
Fixes occasional data race flake with TestSDKServerAddListValue by @igooch in #3505
handle static port policy by @ashutosji in #3375
Prevent Redundant Windows SDK Builds by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3520
CloudBuild: Fix for cache image rebuild by @markmandel in #3535

Other

Prep for release v1.37.0 by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3493
Test SuperTuxKart Image by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3496
Test Rust Image by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3499
Test cpp-simple image by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3497
Add steps to update performance test clusters when upgrading k8s version by @gongmax in #3501
Test NodeJS image by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3498
Bumps simple-game-server version to 0.22 by @igooch in #3504
xonotic image test by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3494
Bump helm install timeout to 10m by @zmerlynn in #3506
Add Shulker to the Agones adopters list by @jeremylvln in #3503
Remove warning on C# SDK Docs by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3525
Ensure ci/save_cache and ci/restore_cache images don't get deleted by cleanup policy by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3522
GH Action: Size label for PRs by @markmandel in #3532
Flake: TestControllerWatchGameServers by @markmandel in #3534
Go CRD Comment Updates for Counters and Lists by @markmandel in #3536
Simple Game Server Example: Upgrade Docker to 24.0.6 by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3531
CI: Fix 404 on CI link testing by @markmandel in #3542
Xonotic Example: Docker 24.0.6 by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3538
Bumps simple-game-server to 0.23 by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3543
Tweaks to Client SDK reference by @markmandel in #3541
Updates to Counter and List Alpha.proto Methods by @igooch in #3544
Docs: SDK implementation matrixes by @Kalaiselvi84 in #3545
Disable deletion protection for Autopilot test clusters by @gongmax in #3468

New Contributors

@jeremylvln made their first contribution in #3503

Full Changelog: v1.36.0...v1.37.0

Images available with this release:

Helm chart available with this release:

helm install agones agones/agones --version 1.37.0

Make sure to add our stable helm repository using helm repo add agones https://agones.dev/chart/stable