v2.1.0 [2021-11-08]

In addition to the list of changes below, please also see the official release notes for other important information about this release.

influx CLI moved to separate repository

The influx CLI has been moved to its own GitHub repository. Release artifacts produced by influxdb are impacted as follows:

• Release archives (.tar.gz and .zip) no longer contain the influx binary.
• The influxdb2 package (.deb and .rpm) no longer contains the influx binary. Instead, it declares a recommended dependency on the new influx-cli package.
• The quay.io/influxdb/influxdb image no longer contains the influx binary. Users are recommended to migrate to the influxdb image hosted in DockerHub.

With this change, versions of the influx CLI and influxd server are not guaranteed to exactly match. Please use influxd version or the /health endpoint when checking the version of the installed/running server.

Features

1. 21218: Add the properties of a static legend for line graphs and band plots
2. 21367: List users via the API now supports pagination
3. 21543: Added influxd configuration flag --sqlite-path for specifying a user-defined path to the SQLite database file
4. 21543: Updated influxd configuration flag --store to work with string values disk or memory. Memory continues to store metadata in-memory for testing; disk will persist metadata to disk via bolt and SQLite
5. 21547: Allow hiding the tooltip independently of the static legend
6. 21584: Added the api/v2/backup/metadata endpoint for backing up both KV and SQL metadata, and the api/v2/restore/sql for restoring SQL metadata
7. 21635: Port influxd inspect verify-seriesfile to 2.x
8. 21621: Add storage-wal-max-concurrent-writes config option to influxd to enable tuning memory pressure under heavy write load
9. 21621: Add storage-wal-max-write-delay config option to influxd to prevent deadlocks when the WAL is overloaded with concurrent writes
10. 21615: Ported the influxd inspect verify-tsm command from 1.x
11. 21646: Ported the influxd inspect verify-tombstone command from 1.x
12. 21761: Ported the influxd inspect dump-tsm command from 1.x
13. 21788: Ported the influxd inspect report-tsi command from 1.x
14. 21784: Ported the influxd inspect dumptsi command from 1.x
15. 21786: Ported the influxd inspect deletetsm command from 1.x
16. 21888: Ported the influxd inspect dump-wal command from 1.x
17. 21828: Added the command influx inspect verify-wal
18. 21814: Ported the influxd inspect report-tsm command from 1.x
19. 21936: Ported the influxd inspect build-tsi command from 1.x
20. 21938: Added route to delete individual secret
21. 21972: Added support for notebooks and annotations
22. 22311: Add storage-no-validate-field-size config to influxd to disable enforcement of max field size
23. 22322: Add support for merge_hll, sum_hll, and count_hll in InfluxQL
24. 22476: Allow new telegraf input plugins and update toml
25. 22607: Update push down window logic for location option
26. 22617: Add --storage-write-timeout flag to set write request timeouts
27. 22396: Show measurement database and retention policy wildcards
28. 22590: New recovery subcommand allows creating recovery user/token
29. 22629: Return new operator token during backup overwrite
30. 22635: update window planner rules for location changes to support fixed offsets
31. 22634: enable writing to remote hosts via to() and experimental.to()
32. 22498: Add Bearer token auth
33. 22669: Enable new dashboard autorefresh
34. 22674: list-bucket API supports pagination when filtering by org
35. 22810: Recommend influxd downgrade when encountering an unknown metadata migration during startup
36. 22816: Update flux to v0.139.0
37. 22818: Add influxd downgrade command for downgrading metadata stores be compatible with previous versions of InfluxDB
38. 22819: Update UI to OSS-2.1.2

Bug Fixes

1. 21648: Change static legend's hide to show to let users decide if they want it
2. 22448: Log API errors to server logs and tell clients to check the server logs for the error message
3. 22545: Sync series segment to disk after writing
4. 22604: Do not allow shard creation to create overlapping shards
5. 22650: Don't drop shard-group durations when upgrading DBs