yugabyte/yugabyte-db v2.8.1

v2.8.1.0 (Released January 4, 2022)

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v2.8.1.0 - January 4, 2022

Build: 2.8.1.0-b37

Downloads

Docker

docker pull yugabytedb/yugabyte:2.8.1.0-b37

New features

Yugabyte Platform

• [PLAT-2295] [PLAT-2296] Timezone Selector on user profile
• [PLAT-2306] Add UI support for GCP user tags

Database

• [7809] [YSQL] Add session flag to enable non-transactional writes on COPY
• [10094] [DocDB] Implemented advanced delta encoding/decoding optimized for DocDB-specific rocksdb keys
• [10204] [YSQL] Add functionality for the yb_fdw role
• [10473] Implement YSQL Follower reads.
• [10563] [xCluster] Create Rename Replication Command

Improvements

Yugabyte Platform

• [PLAT-506] Allow custom port in AWS host base
• [PLAT-2103] [UI] [Encr at rest] AWS credentials enabled when IAM is checked in
• [PLAT-2298] Allow outOfOrder migrations and ignoreMissingMigrations
• [PLAT-2420] ".local" as a TLD in AWS host base
• [PLAT-2522] Backport Migrations for LDAP support
• Add leader blacklisting to UpgradeTaskBase, Stop Processes, upgradeKubernetes, and handling rf1 universes
• Update certs to use certLabel as CN

Database

• [10428] [DocDB] Improve logging for SST file expiration
• [10482] [DST] Rate-limit Create/Delete Snapshot requests
• [10503] [DocDB] Add GFlag to trust value-level TTL metadata during file expiration.
• [10543] [YCQL] Allow NULL in filtering clauses WHERE/IF inside IN/NOT IN operators in SELECT statement.
• [10579] [YSQL] Import libpq: reject extraneous data after SSL or GSS encryption handshake.
• [10655] [YSQL] Add --postmaster_cgroup gflag to tserver
• [10883] [YSQL] Rename the GUC for disabling transactional writes

Bug fixes

Yugabyte Platform

• [10907] [Backup] Prevent double config file uploading.
• [PLAT-1990] Ensure universe size doesn't change dramatically during a full move
• [PLAT-2080] Set Universe keys before starting tserver on encrption at rest enabled universes.
• [PLAT-2101] Save button doesn't throw field errors when all the fields are empty
• [PLAT-2102] Stop creation of KMS configs with duplicate name
• [PLAT-2298] Disable third-party flyway plugin in yugabundle
• [PLAT-2121] [UI] [KMS UI] displaying Successfully added even when it fails to add KMS config
• [PLAT-2177] Avoid adding duplicate delete backup tasks to tasks queue
• [PLAT-2246] Fix Timezone UI Bugs
• [PLAT-2311] API Should return region active status
• [PLAT-2314] [PLAT-2321] Fix backup util behavior on error for onprem providers
• [PLAT-2339] [UI] Disable toggle TLS / cert rotation dialogs in UI for k8s universes
• [PLAT-2351] Disable upgrade to systemd for manually provisioned universes
• [PLAT-2373] Get rid of repeated migrations
• [PLAT-2400] Universe scaling out by adding nodes keeps new nodes in blacklisted state.
• [PLAT-2427] [UI] No way to remove region from provider
• [PLAT-2498] Fix for Wrong timestamps in Health Check and Users Tab
• [PLAT-2517] Fix typo (missing backslash) in the priority-regex for prometheus in replicated.yaml

Database

• [10256] [PITR] Fix Incorrect Restore logic for System Catalog tables
• [10591] [YSQL] COPY for partitioned table writes to parent instead of child nodes
• [10646] [YSQL] fix client backfill timeout

Known issues

Yugabyte Platform

• N/A

Database

• N/A