Release Notes
For additional information check our sprint demo videos and blogs.
1.44.0
Sprint Release: December 3rd, 2021
Features:
- Correct graph edge for Pod to Pod communication using destination_workload
- Make istiod ports configurable in kiali
- Support rootNamespace: administrative namespace for istio config
- Support rootNamespace in Peer Authentication validations
- Support rootNamespace in Sidecar validations
- access ingress_enabled for now to support older CRs
- Include an explanation about the lack of health information for TCP services (like a database)
- (operator) implement best practice guidelines to support multi-tenant installations
- Upgrade kubernetes/client-go version and update beta interfaces for workloads
Fixes:
- KIA1105: Virtual service routes may not point to any subset
- Possible memory leak in /api/istio/status endpoint
- Documentation doesn’t show how to configure Kiali
1.43.0
Sprint Release: November 12nd, 2021
Features:
- Allow Kiali Graphs to show EgressGateway traffic to ServiceEntry
- (Feature Request) Support mounting existing secret into Kiali Pod
- Calculate graph importance score
- Validations - Ensure ServiceEntry has WorkloadEntry addresses
- Support getting the root namespace from Istio configuration
- ingress created by Kiali CR does not include ingress class - need new deployment.ingress setting
Please note this introduces a backward-incompatible change. Users with the prior ingress settings defined in their Kiali CR will need to make an update. Other users are not affected. The previous ingress settings were:
deployment:
ingress_enabled: <true|false>
override_ingress_yaml:
...the override yaml here...
This has been changed to the following:
deployment:
ingress:
enabled: <true|false>
override_yaml:
...the override yaml here...
- Update kiali.io docs to Kiali 1.36+
- Google OIDC allowed domains
- Include ServiceAccount info across console
- Add information about Istio overhead
Fixes:
- Workload Entry graph nodes display only “latest” version
- Kiali Documentation link from Master Head seems broken
- Crash in onCopy button in Envoy tab editors
- “More than one Gateway for the same host port combination” even with different ports
- Workload pod proxy logs shows details for Envoy app logging
1.42.0
Sprint Release: October 22nd, 2021
Features:
- Migrate to Docsy for kiali.io theme
- Add strong type mapping in Istio Kiali model
- Show mirroring info or badge on the graph
- Add a “Trendlines” option in the metrics tab
- Show gateway in istio config
- Add Sidecars on “Create Traffic Policies” namespace action
- Ability to pass custom headers to httputil.Post
- Add hostAliases field to kiali deployment manifests
- Kiali Istio dashboards incompatible with thanos-query
Fixes:
- URL parameters not persisted in inbound/outbound metric tabs
- Include Mesh Gateway in Create Traffic Routing - causes failure
- Potential Memory Leak in UI AuthenticationController
- More Sidecars on Configuration
- “missing span root” in graph side panel
1.41.0
Sprint Release: October 1st, 2021
Features:
- Add help for Graph shortcuts
- Add custom label aggregation in metrics tab
- Kiali Operator - Add ability to specify image SHA in Kiali CRs
- Improve discovery matcher process for Custom Dashboards
- Add SRE style metrics in the Overview namespace chart
- Be able to set the logging level for istio and envoy logs from Kiali UI
- Custom HTTP headers when connecting to Prometheus
- Display Envoy tab for workloads running Istio Proxy without Sidecar
Fixes:
- Workload page displays an error when accessing VirtualMachineInstance resource
- WorkloadEntry workload graph nodes have broken link
- Mesh internal ServiceEntry should be grouped in app box with workloads
- Error loading Graph - Namespace (kube-state-metrics) is excluded for Kiali
- Workloads flap between OK and Not Ready w/ Argo Rollout CR
- Unable to edit IstioConfig
- Kiali loading icon seems broken
- seg fault in IsMaistra status (found in Kiali v1.40.0)
- ansible option we use in operator code is being renamed
1.40.0
Sprint Release: September 10th, 2021
Features:
- Support exportTo validation in VirtualServices
- Add graph Factory Reset button
- Add help tooltip in the metrics tab
- Add info/tooltip on virtual service that doesn’t have a gateways section
- Support the new istio injection label
- Add indication if certificates are managed by Citadel or external tool
- Distinguish between VM based workloads and pod based workloads on the graph
- Identify and label WorkloadEntry graph nodes
- ci-kind-molecule-tests.sh should support installing OLM and testing with OLM-installed operator
- Docs and scripts regarding secrets and service accounts might need to be updated
Fixes:
- (validations) Don’t show KIA0203 when there are no VS referencing the DR subset
- Kiali Operator: Pods attempt to use auth secret when external service disabled
- Not able to build Molecule image
- Metrics charts can be too thin
- Some graph settings do not have query parms - can’t bookmark pages
- Workload’s page Actions dropdown is clickable in view_only_mode
- CRUD Permissions on events
- Kiali Login error when Prometheus fails to start
1.39.0
Sprint Release: August 20th, 2021
Features:
- generate metrics for validators
- (molecule) run molecule tests using a KinD cluster
- Remote cluster functionality should be configurable
- Update Kiali UI to latest Node.js LTS version
- Add a Molecule test to verify Grafana integration
- (operator) perform true “can_i” check to confirm the operator has correct permissions
Fixes:
- grafana-test fails - cannot look up grafana url successfully
- route created by operator doesn’t seem right
- Jaeger traces & spans fetching error
1.38
1.38.1
Mid-Sprint Release: August 6th, 2021
Fixes:
- Issues with clustering discovery
- Scripts not loading (404) on openid_error when Kiali is hosted in a subfolder (web_root: /kiali)
- Jaeger traces & spans fetching error
- helm-charts and istio addons doesn’t have default grafana in_cluster_url defined
1.38.0
Sprint Release: July 30th, 2021
Features:
- New badge/visualization for hostnames in Graph
- Enhanced logs viewing and correlation
- bump operator to newer minor-release of base image
- Add validation for “exportTo” fields of VirtualService, ServiceEntry
- Feature Request: Disable certain validations
- Display traffic scenario badges when present
- gRPC Streaming traffic
- Consider using tcp_received telemetry for graph generation
- community OLM metadata moving to new repos
- trivial case change to disconnected annotation value in operator metadata
- document the new dashboard annotations
- clean up upstream istio kiali addon install doc
- Display custom dashboards with more than two rows of graphs inside the card
- test custom dashboard overrides
- Use annotations to personalize CustomDashboards
Fixes:
- Scripts not loading (404) on openid_error when Kiali is hosted in a subfolder (web_root: /kiali)
- Issues with clustering discovery
- (operator) Playbook “create additional kiali labels…” fails due to unquoted string in label
- grafana links missing
- ERR GetAppTraces, Jaeger GRPC client error: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection closed
- molecule tests need to wait for CRD to be established
- Add missing warning on VirtualService “exportTo” field
- Exposing workloads with ServiceEntries makes Kiali show non-existing Services
- Cannot fetch proxy status on Istio master (1.11)
1.37.0
Sprint Release: July 9th, 2021
Features:
- Support for custom istio injection labels and values
- Metrics page: select all/none filter
- Add Gateway/VirtualService hostnames in Service details
- Add gateway validation to VirtualServices
- Services list should show when a VirtualService/DestinationRule is applied
- Unify style attribute for config validation icons
- (multi-cluster) Enhance support for mesh deployment models
- Add help icon in Wizards
- Support for custom CA certificates in OpenID authentication
Fixes:
- The namespaces that begins with
kube
are hidden but those should be OK - Repeated queries on CustomMetrics
- kiali Cannot load the graph “invalid character ’d' looking for beginning of value”
- Duplicated application container on Workload Logs tab
- Metrics Settings are kept but not applied when switching metrics tabs
- (perf) pr #3975 introduced perf regression for /api/namespaces/bookinfo/services/details/graph endpoint
- Tooltip span not available
1.36.0
Sprint Release: June 18th, 2021
Features:
- Connect Listeners and Routes in the Envoy Config modal
- remove istio_component_namespaces config
- Research Metrics tab main layout
- Display throughput on the graph edges
- Move Envoy Details to Workload Details
- Pod table should reflect any container crash
- Consolidate Dashboards CRDs into main Kiali config, also handled via Kiali Operator
- convert community OLM metadata to new bundle format
- Add to graph indicator for Kiali scenarios
- move the support for old versions to CRD v1 when appropriate
- Internal metrics revisit
Fixes:
- Difference between App and Workload healths - causing inconsistency in Overview
- Wrong Health info at Service level
- Trace graph tooltip truncates long hostnames
- Circuit Breaker Badge is missing in the Graph
- clean up hack/istio/bookinfo* resources
- Health popover disappearing
- (helm)(operator) do not use deprecated Ingress kind - update to latest apiVersion
- Graph replay health is not correct
- Molecule tests broken for podman 3
- Possible false positive reported as violating KIA0202
- horizontal scroll problem on graph side panel trace tab detail