Release notes for 1.11.0

Container images

docker.io/scylladb/scylla-operator:1.11.0

Changes By Kind (since 1.10.0)

Feature

• E2E for cluster connection via Ingress (#1076,@zimnx)
• Add imagePullSecrets support in Scylla helm chart (#1213,@Kavinraja-G)
• Expose external seeds in ScyllaCluster (#1321,@rzetelskik)
• Add new ways of exposing ScyllaCluster outside (#1359,@zimnx)
• Update dependencies (#1363,@tnozicka)
• Migrate leader election to leases only (#1364,@tnozicka)
• Add experimental gather and must-gather commands (#1368,@tnozicka)
• Promote automatic client to node TLS certificates to beta (#1407,@tnozicka)
• Introspect operator image to prevent skew with the sidecar (#1425,@tnozicka)
• Update ScyllaDB Monitoring to 4.4.5 (#1477,@tnozicka)

Bug

• Create missing mount points when tuning nodes (#1335,@tnozicka)
• Stop any ongoing cleanup on Job termination and on cleanup startup (#1345,@zimnx)
• Add full support for named and tagged image references (#1346,@rzetelskik)
• Fix a race condition in seed election algorithm (#1388,@rzetelskik)
• Fix waiting for waitGroup in ScyllaCluster Orphaned PV e2e test (#1391,@rzetelskik)
• Fix must-gather podman command in postsubmit's 'Dump cluster state' job (#1430,@rzetelskik)
• Fix logs in orphaned PV controller (#1431,@rzetelskik)
• Remove explicit copying of replace label between Service instances (#1442,@rzetelskik)
• Explicitly set TLS CQL shard aware port (#1451,@zimnx)
• Fix namespaced must-gather (#1457,@tnozicka)
• Set ScyllaCluster placement requirements on cleanup Jobs (#1495,@zimnx)

Documentation

• Fix backup field name in scylla cluster spec documentation (#1056,@shivamarora1)
• Fix link to documentation about Scylla Manager Agent configuration (#1122,@tzach)
• Enable building docs for v1.10 (#1329,@zimnx)
• Mark 1.10 as latest stable version in documentation (#1353,@zimnx)
• Stop building and publishing documentation for 1.7 (#1354,@zimnx)
• Update release schedule (#1355,@zimnx)
• Add 1.10 to support matrix (#1356,@zimnx)
• Remove duplicate list entry in index.rst (#1360,@pappybuck)
• Align release schedule with team sprints (#1361,@tnozicka)
• Fix typo in alternator documentation (#1404,@yankeexe)
• Add notes about system_auth RF configuration to the documentation (#1419,@rzetelskik)
• Add documentation about new ScyllaCluster's exposing options (#1432,@zimnx)
• Add Multi Datacenter ScyllaDB cluster deployment documentation (#1486,@rzetelskik)
• Fix example file in 'Setting up nodes for ScyllaDB' of 'Deploying Scylla on EKS' documentation page (#1498,@rzetelskik)
• Fix steps ordering in EKS and GKE documentation pages (#1499,@rzetelskik)
• Add support and must-gather documentation (#1518,@tnozicka)
• Describe Manager and Monitoring in MultiDC docs (#1531,@zimnx)
• Remove myst.xref_missing suppression in Sphinx config (#1534,@rzetelskik)

Flaky/Failing Test

• Remove haproxy tunning that breaks GKE (#1332,@tnozicka)
• Ignore not found errors when gathering artifacts (#1333,@tnozicka)
• Bump ScyllaDB version used in replace via HostID e2e to latest 5.2.6 (#1337,@zimnx)
• Raise default ScyllaCluster storage capacity for e2es (#1342,@tnozicka)
• Skip systemd dependent unit test when systemd is not available (#1369,@zimnx)
• Fix systemd unit test (#1386,@zimnx)
• Fix hosts comparison after replacement in orphaned PV e2e test (#1392,@rzetelskik)
• Revert gocql bump back to v1.7.3 (#1408,@rzetelskik)
• Fix the cluster label selector in e2e helpers (#1423,@rzetelskik)

Other

• Point all traffic targeting default backend to correct port (#1180,@zimnx)
• Enhance handling of non-integer values around replica checks in Operator Helm Chart (#1257,@akukhar)
• Add enhancement proposal for controlling external seeds (#1306,@rzetelskik)
• Fix variable defaulting and undefined variables in docs Makefile (#1327,@tnozicka)
• Add OWNERS (#1330,@tnozicka)
• Remove GH presubmits in favour of Prow (#1331,@tnozicka)
• Enable pending replace e2e test awaiting for 2023.1.0 release (#1338,@zimnx)
• Increase e2e parallel jobs timeout (#1339,@zimnx)
• Wait for artifact collection on e2e failures (#1351,@tnozicka)
• Limit parallelism in e2e test suites in GH Action postsubmits (#1352,@zimnx)
• Add enhancement proposal for exposing ScyllaCluster (#1357,@zimnx)
• Bump ScyllaDB to 5.2.7 in examples, Helm charts and e2e suites (#1370,@zimnx)
• Use generic pointer.Ptr in entire project (#1371,@zimnx)
• Increase fs.aio-max-nr on CI worker nodes (#1382,@rzetelskik)
• Migrate GH Actions installing Kubernetes to pkgs.k8s.io (#1393,@zimnx)
• Annotate E2E namespaces with parallel process and full text of a ginkgo node (#1401,@rzetelskik)
• Add enhancement proposal to support Alternator API (#1406,@tnozicka)
• Remove artificial sleep for stale conntrack entries from E2E tests (#1417,@rzetelskik)
• Pin tags to 1.11 (#1444,@zimnx)
• Use the same tag version of gen-release-notes when preparing them (#1473,@zimnx)
• Add 'externalSeeds' support to ScyllaDB Helm chart (#1491,@rzetelskik)
• Don't use docs CI from master (#1500,@tnozicka)
• Replace recommonmark with MyST-Parser in docs (#1530,@rzetelskik)
• Catch up poetry to 1.5 and fix path detection (#1536,@rzetelskik)
• Update ScyllaDB Documentation Theme to 1.6 (#1537,@rzetelskik)
• Fix GH Action installing kubernetes (#1538,@zimnx)