yugabyte/yugabyte-db v2.7.0

v2.7.0.0 (Released May 5, 2021)

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v2.7.0 - May 5, 2021

Yugabyte release 2.7.0 builds on our work in the 2.5 series, which fed into the 2.4 stable release. With release 2.7.0, we're planning development on a number of new features, as well as refinements to existing functionality.

Build: 2.7.0.0-b17

Downloads

Docker

docker pull yugabytedb/yugabyte:2.7.0.0-b17

New Features

Yugabyte Platform

• Yugabyte Platform High Availability is now available in BETA. With this feature, you can deploy multiple platforms in an active-standby cluster, ensuring you can always monitor and manage your platform-managed universes regardless of outages to any particular platform in the HA cluster.
• [7225] [7228] [UI] Enable the OpenShift tab, marked as beta

Core Database

• [2717] YSQL: Support ALTER FUNCTION command
• [6985] YSQL: Add simple UNIQUE column
• Point in time restore:
  • [7121] Extend yb-admin restore_snapshot to use a custom time
  • [7126] PITR: Introduce snapshot schedule

Improvements

Yugabyte Platform

• [5535] [Platform] Remove stale instance configs after cloud provider is deleted (#6975)
• [5624] Show pricing info for Azure
• [5626] Enable Hosted Zone for Azure
• [5628] [Azure] Support regions with no availability zones
• [5807] Add toggle to show deleted backups
• [5838] [Platform] Add node link to corresponding Azure portal URL
• [5840] Add user tags for Azure universes
• [5841] Show only Azure VMs that meet minimum requirements
• [6321] [Platform] Support using Shared Gallery Images when creating Azure universes
• [6681] [Platform] Show kubectl command for Kubernetes pods in Connect modal (#7506)
• [6712] Fix issue with JDK incompatibility in Java RPC client
• [6756] [Platform] Created date showing up as "Invalid Date". (#7158)
• [7024] [Platform] Unable to edit number of nodes in AZ section (#7350)
• [7054] [YW] Add conditional checks for hiding specific platform elements in non-platform mode.
• [7372] [Platform] Skip running periodic schedules when in follower mode
• [7433] [Platform] Standby instances backup time not consistent after restoring active instance
• [7443] [Platform] Fixed live query details side panel doesn’t go away after unchecked
• [7445] [Platform] Add pagination for slow queries
• [7472] [Platform] Hide the Upgrade button from info card on Pause universe. (#7504)
• [7475] Use more recent CentOS-7 base image for GCP universe VMs
• [7493] [Platform] Menu shows 0 appended to "Upgrade Software0" - Removed 0
• [7548] [Platform] Set versions for google modules in requirements.txt
• [7549] [Platform] Platform uses public IP instead of private IP to connect to Azure universes
• [7576] Ensure rsync is available on latest GCP image
• [Platform] Use more recent CentOS-7 base image for GCP universe VMs #7475
• [Platform] parsing of df output is fragile and may fail in case of "safe" error in df #7402

Core Database

• [4944] YSQL performance improvements in TTL-related computations
• [5922] YCQL: Improve audit logging
• [7359] YSQL: Support adding primary key to a table with tablespace
• [7366] YSQL: Allow getting current SQL query in pggate for debug logging
• [7404] YSQL: Extend CHECKPOINT to have beta noop functionality
• [7418] [7463] YSQL: Import the 'force' option for the Drop Database command
• [7532] Master performance improvements: reduce the scope of catalog manager state lock in ScopedLeaderSharedLock constructor

Bug Fixes

Core Database

• [5383] YSQL bug fixes for Jepsen

Known Issues

Yugabyte Platform

N/A

Core Database

N/A

Notes

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Starting with v2.2, Yugabyte release versions follow a new release versioning convention. The latest release series, denoted by MAJOR.ODD, incrementally introduces new features and changes and is intended for development and testing only. Revision releases, denoted by MAJOR.ODD.REVISION versioning, can include new features and changes that might break backwards compatibility. For more information, see Supported and planned releases.

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