v1.18.1
Release date: Dec 21, 2022
Important announcements:
- Alert on the impending deprecation of
postgresql
as a label to identify the CNP cluster. In the remote case you have used this label, please start using thek8s.enterprisedb.io/cluster
label instead (#1130) - Recognizing Armando Ruocco (@armru) as a new EDB Postgres for Kubernetes maintainer for his consistent and impactful contributions (#1167)
- Remove ARMv7 support (#1092)
- FINAL patch release for 1.16: 1.16.5. Release 1.16 reaches end of life.
Enhancements:
- Customize labels and annotations for the service account: add a service account template that can be used, for example, to make authentication easier via identity management on GKE or EKS via IRSA (#1105)
- Add
nodeAffinity
support (#1182) - allows for richer scheduling options - Improve compatibility with Istio: add support for Istio’s quit endpoint so that jobs with Istio sidecars do not run indefinitely (#967)
- Allow fields remapping in JSON logs: helpful for use cases where the
level
andts
fields might interfere with the existing logging (#843) - Add
fio
command to the kubectl-cnp plugin (#1097) - Add rpm/deb package for kubectl-cnp plugin (#1008)
- Update default PostgreSQL version for new cluster definitions to 15.1 (#908)
- Documentation
- Remove references to CNP sandbox (#1120) - the CNP sandbox has been deprecated, in favor of instructions on monitoring in the Quickstart documentation
- Link to the "Release updates" discussion (#1148) - the release updates discussion will become the default channel for release announcements and discussions
- Document emeritus status for maintainers in GOVERNANCE.md (#1033) - explains how maintainers should proceed if they are not ready to continue contributing
- Improve instructions on creating pull requests (#1132)
- Troubleshooting emergency backup instructions (#1184)
Fixes:
- Ensure PGDATA permissions on bootstrap are properly set to 750 (#1164)
- Ensure the PVC containing WALs is deleted when scaling down the cluster (#1135)
- Fix missing ApiVersion and Kind in the pgbench manifest when using
--dry-run
(#1088) - Ensure that we create secrets and services only when not found (#1145)
- Respect configured pg-wal when restoring (#1216)
- Filter out replicas from nodeToClusters map (#1194)
Technical enhancements:
- Use
ciclops
for test summary (#1064): rely on the ciclops GitHub action to provide summaries of the E2E suite, inheriting improvements from that project - Add backport pull request workflow (#965) - automatically backport patches to release branches if they are so annotated
- Make the operator log level configurable in e2e test suite (#1094)
- Enable test execution based on labels (#951)
- Update Go version from 1.18 to 1.19 (#1166)