Announcing Linkerd2 edge-20.1.1

Eliza Weisman
 

Hello Linkerd users,
 
Today, we're very pleased to announce the first Linkerd 2 release of 2020: edge-19.12.3! 🎉
 
To install this edge release, run:
 
Full release notes:

This edge release includes experimental improvements to the Linkerd proxy's
request buffering and backpressure infrastructure.

Additionally, we've fixed several bugs when installing Linkerd with Helm,
updated the CLI to allow using both port numbers and port ranges with the
--skip-inbound-ports and --skip-outbound-ports flags, and fixed a dashboard
error that can occur if the dashboard is open in a browser while updating Linkerd.

Note: The linkerd-proxy version included with this release is more
experimental than usual. We'd love your help testing, but be aware that there
might be stability issues.

  • CLI
    • Added the ability to pass both port numbers and port ranges to
      --skip-inbound-ports and --skip-outbound-ports (thanks to @javaducky!)
  • Controller
    • Fixed a race condition in the linkerd-web service
    • Updated Prometheus to 2.15.2 (thanks @Pothulapati)
  • Web UI
    • Fixed an error when refreshing an already open dashboard when the Linkerd
      version has changed
  • Proxy
    • Internal changes to the proxy's request buffering and backpressure
      infrastructure
  • Helm
    • Fixed the linkerd-cni Helm chart not setting proper namespace annotations
      and labels
    • Fixed certificate issuance lifetime not being set when installing through
      Helm
    • More improvements to Helm best practices (thanks to @Pothulapati!)

As always, we're excited to hear your feedback! Please try out the new release and send
questions/comments to us on this mailing list, and bugs via 
GitHub.

Enjoy!
- Eliza

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