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v2.13.0.0 - March 7, 2022

Build: 2.13.0.0-b42

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New Features

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-1670] Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 Support

  • [PLAT-2365] [UI] Filters and sorting on alert configuration page

  • [PLAT-2405] Add and edit Gflags in universe creation

  • [PLAT-2515] [PLAT-2509] [PLAT-2507] New xCluster UI

  • [PLAT-2575] Support for Hashicorp Vault PKI for TLS certificates (EncryptionInTransit)

  • [PLAT-2591] YSQL_DUMP based backup-create and backup-restore

  • [PLAT-2615] UI Support for LDAP

  • [PLAT-2619] Azure provider to support multiple subscriptions

  • [PLAT-2627] Allow multi-keyspace backups in new backups API

  • [PLAT-2658] Integrate t3 instance type support

  • [PLAT-2743] [UI] Add alerts to the Universe page

  • [PLAT-2755] G-flag improvements, error handling and fixes

  • [PLAT-2766] Can now delete paused gcp instances

  • [PLAT-2799] [PLAT-2816] [PLAT-2987] UI implementation for OIDC configuration

  • [PLAT-2953] Add Service Account support for LDAP

  • [PLAT-2963] Filter Gflags in Add Gflag dropdown.

  • [PLAT-2964] Hashicorp Vault support is available by default.

  • [PLAT-2994] Support date range filtering for universe logs

  • [PLAT-3002] Equinix KMS is now deprecated

  • APIs:

    • [PLAT-2383] New Delete Backup APIs
    • [PLAT-2384] Get and List Backups API
    • [PLAT-2385] Edit backup API changes
    • [PLAT-2387] Create and List Schedule API
    • [PLAT-2390] New Delete Schedule API
    • [PLAT-2391] Edit the backup schedule API
    • [PLAT-2670] New Delete Customer Configuration API
    • [PLAT-2845] Added a new API endpoint to create self signed certificates
    • [PLAT-2993] Add the "List Support Bundles" API

Database

  • [1931] [CDC] Add command in yb-admin to support set WAL retention
  • [2040] [YSQL] Framework for expression pushdown
  • [4873] [YSQL] Support backup/restore for multi-tablet range-split relations
  • [9019] Change Data Capture: Client API and Java Console Subscriber
  • [9950] [YSQL] Add support for TRUNCATE table RESTART IDENTITY and CONTINUE IDENTITY
  • [10330] [YSQL] Add cluster tag to Postgres logs
  • [10331] [YSQL] Ability to suppress .cc logging in postgresql* files
  • [10513] [DocDB] Adding file deletion option to universal compaction picker (TTL expiry)
  • [10783] [Geo] Automatic creation of transaction status tables
  • [11157] [xCluster] xcluster tablegroup replication
  • [11294] [DocDB] Support use of MonoTime for understanding latencies better
  • [11353] [Geo] Create transaction tables automatically with tablespace update
  • [11383] [YSQL] Backup/Restore support for UDT/Enum types
  • [11448] yb-admin: Add option to list all followers of tablets in list_tablets

Improvements

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-131] Added custom cert validation for preflight checks
  • [PLAT-134] Preflight checks for Azure backup configuration creation
  • [PLAT-580] Allow multiple xcluster between same source/target pair
  • [PLAT-580] Include lag metric data in xcluster GET response
  • [PLAT-1865] add filtering provider by name to list endpoint
  • [PLAT-1871] Add TTl/expiration for support bundle
  • [PLAT-1926] GP: Backups handling
  • [PLAT-2164] Make ReadOnlyClusterCreate retryable
  • [PLAT-2366] [UI] Suspend alerts during maintenance window
  • [PLAT-2379] [PLAT-2386] Rewrite the backup restore code
  • [PLAT-2449] Enable smart instance resizing as part of "edit universe" action
  • [PLAT-2530] Use DB transaction to lock Universe and any DB changes in the callback during the locking
  • [PLAT-2553] Node Comparison Feature in Metrics Page (Backend)
  • [PLAT-2588] Task Improvement - Make Backup task clean up processes on abort
  • [PLAT-2593] Support change in ownership of the DB during restore operation
  • [PLAT-2603] Migration - Support multiple backup types
  • [PLAT-2608] UTs for RestoreManagerYb
  • [PLAT-2611] Use rootCA expiry date when generating node certificates
  • [PLAT-2613] Adding a runtime configuration flag to retain shellprocess cmdOutputLogs.
  • [PLAT-2641] Task Improvement - CreateUniverse retry for on-prem nodes does not work due to precheck failure
  • [PLAT-2673] Validating custom keypair with AWS
  • [PLAT-2719] Allow path style access for non-standard endpoints in S3 backup configurations
  • [PLAT-2736] Add feature flag for path style access in S3 backup configuration
  • [PLAT-2769] [UI] Migrate User Listing from Profile Page to User Management Tab
  • [PLAT-2772] Accept additional parameters in CreateUniverse API for custom AMI flow from Cloud
  • [PLAT-2784] Add support for dev db-versions while listing Gflags
  • [PLAT-2785] Add description to maintenance window
  • [PLAT-2802] [UI] Banner to indicate the User page has moved under admin
  • [PLAT-2805] Default OIDC runtime configuration to static conf
  • [PLAT-2810] Simplifying adding instance types for AWS
  • [PLAT-2856] Remove PostgreSQL metrics storage.
  • [PLAT-2856] Use threads instead of processes for health checks parallelism
  • [PLAT-2890] Add 2.12 major db version gflags metadata
  • [PLAT-2905] [UI] Support for Creating Hashicorp Vault Cert in Encryption at Transit
  • [PLAT-2906] [UI] Support for Edit Hashicorp Vault Cert in Encryption at Transit
  • [PLAT-2935] Bump up timeouts for API calls which need master leader to be available.
  • [PLAT-2978] Change Hashicorp Vault KEK to have name such that it can be used between multiple configurations as long as the configuration parameters matches.
  • [PLAT-2985] [PLAT-2926] Adding delay and show warning message on non rolling selection
  • [PLAT-3010] Update Azure images to support Azure time sync by default
  • [PLAT-3014] UTs for Create Backup
  • [PLAT-3019] Make alert configuration name filter match on name part and be case insensitive
  • [PLAT-3036] Task Improvement - Improve task listing API performance
  • [PLAT-3059] Add LDAPS and StartTls Support
  • [PLAT-3075] [UI] Support for TLS/SSL
  • [PLAT-3077] Populate backup entries with backup size
  • [PLAT-3095] [LDAP] [UI] Label and Tooltip Changes
  • [PLAT-3106] [PLAT-3096] HashicorpVaultConfigParams handling
  • [PLAT-3107] Alert in case token in Hashicorp Vault configuration is close to expiry
  • [PLAT-3144] Enable leader blacklisting by default
  • [PLAT-3170] Filter backups on actionType field in listing API query
  • [PLAT-3187] Exclude prometheusv2 directory from platform backup tar
  • [PLAT-3199] [UI] Enable options to download CA and client cert for the Hashicorp (Backend support exists)
  • [PLAT-3221] G-Flag metadata for 2.13 db version
  • [PLAT-3272] Support Bundle json_alias and convert utilities to singleton
  • [Platform] [Kubernetes] Use az.updateConfig for in-cluster credentials (#10928)
  • [Platform] Updated the azcopy and node-exporter version (#11375)

Database

  • [1805] [DocDB] Added metrics to track compaction tasks, files, and bytes split by active, paused, and queued.
  • [3637] [DocDB] Updated Pause and Resume Logs to Include Compaction Job ID
  • [6428] [DST] Ensure uniform distribution of tablets right at create table time
  • [8023] [11142] [YQL] Enable DocDB to process lookups on a subset of the range key
  • [8732] [YSQL] [Backups] [Geo] Storing Geo-Partitioned Backups to Regional Object Storage Buckets
  • [8892] [11465] [11369] [DocDB] yb_backup performance improvements for large number of tablets
  • [9387] [YBase] Add a tool to unsafely recover from loss of majority replicas
  • [9468] [YSQL] Ensure clients don't see serialization errors in READ COMMITTED isolation (Part-3)
  • [10243] Add gflag for tcmalloc gc release threshold. Auto-tune mem_tracker_tcmalloc_gc_release_bytes.
  • [10536] [10828] [Geo] Consolidate TS txn status tablet cache update into one RPC
  • [10709] [YBase] Add a background task to retire old metrics.
  • [10730] [xCluster] Add force option to delete_CDC_streams CLI
  • [10842] [DocDB] Use same drive for wal and data tablet files
  • [10874] [xCluster] [DocDB] Support tablet splits on the producer
  • [10900] [YBase] Allow the user to specify the UUID for master removal
  • [10912] Send truncate colocated requests for the indexes associated with the table
  • [10932] Various improvements for clusters with skewed clock
  • [11149] [DocDB] sst_dump: show table properties
  • [11185] [DocDB] added local server time to internal server UI footer
  • [11266] [YSQL] Use session flag to set non transactional writes for index inserts
  • [11274] [YSQL] Add connection metrics to SQL server Prometheus endpoint
  • [11398] [YBase] Autotune server_tcmalloc_max_total_thread_cache_bytes better
  • [11432] [YCQL] Move batch id generator as field of AuditLogger
  • [11480] [YSQL] Import Fix memory leak in IndexScan node with reordering
  • [11513] [YSQL] Parallelize read requests with remote filter
  • [adhoc] [DST] Return PublicAddressAllowed directly from UsePublicIp.
  • [DST] Change modify_placement_info of yb-admin to specify number of copies of each Cloud.Region.Zone (#11037)
  • [YSQL] add extra metric for SingleShardTransaction metric
  • [YSQL] add gflag log_ysql_catalog_versions
  • [YSQL] Rename SingleShardTransaction metric name

Bug Fixes

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-580] Fix sync API bug with previously-existing xcluster configs
  • [PLAT-1770] Incorrect Status in UI for a failed task
  • [PLAT-1786] Disabled releases should not appear while creating universe
  • [PLAT-2224] Disable renaming of table during restore flow.
  • [PLAT-2240] GP: Correct data replicas allocation when default region is defined
  • [PLAT-2241] [Backups] Replace non-unicode symbols in a tool output decode
  • [PLAT-2508] [xCluster] Missing graph view at Replication tab UI
  • [PLAT-2518] Fixing ulimits for systemd universes
  • [PLAT-2523] Onprem: Remove/Add node leaves the platform "node_instance" Postgres DB table in a corrupted state
  • [PLAT-2537] Fix alert count for read-only user
  • [PLAT-2547] Fix resize and pause for universes
  • [PLAT-2558] [UI] Edit Read Replica Button failing
  • [PLAT-2566] [UI] Unable to create Read Replica until reselect provider (no accessKeyCode in payload)
  • [PLAT-2585] Fix the metrics inconsistency
  • [PLAT-2617] Adding dbname additionally while connecting ysqlsh
  • [PLAT-2622] Allow adding instance with trailing slash in address
  • [PLAT-2625] [HA] [UI] Change the button to "paste" instead of "copy" in Key field of Standby Nodes
  • [PLAT-2634] Fix xcluster APIs for HA-enabled platform deployments
  • [PLAT-2643] [LDAP] [UI] Actions -> Edit Roles against a user should be disabled if that user is a LDAP user
  • [PLAT-2643] Persistent local role for LDAP user
  • [PLAT-2645] Make LDAP User Non-Primary
  • [PLAT-2646] [LDAP] [UI] Hide password fields for LDAP Users
  • [PLAT-2658] Validation for Hashicorp Vault address field not working
  • [PLAT-2664] {"updateInProgress": " true"} fails to reset on task failure
  • [PLAT-2672] Skip system_platform DB in 'All namespaces' YSQL backup
  • [PLAT-2679] [PLAT-2686] [PLAT-2682] gflag feature and universe creation ui bugs
  • [PLAT-2681] Hashicorp configuration - attempting to add a configuration fails when transit mount path specified does not have any keys
  • [PLAT-2690] Run upgrade_ysql during universe upgrade
  • [PLAT-2692] Platform LDAP Fixes
  • [PLAT-2699] Hide Vault configurations on KMS Listing and Universe Manage Encryption at-Rest ( based on feature flag )
  • [PLAT-2700] Fix OOM kills alert for cron universe + fix QueryAlerts execution
  • [PLAT-2701] Instances getting added to incorrect provider in onprem multi-provider config
  • [PLAT-2705] Platform restart can leave some tasks in incomplete stuck state
  • [PLAT-2709] [PLAT-2722] Build error and gflag editor option ux improvement
  • [PLAT-2720] Change default instance type to c5.4xlarge in universe creation
  • [PLAT-2729] Move OIDC to runtime config
  • [PLAT-2746] Use kubernetes java client instead of kubectl command line
  • [PLAT-2747] Modify gflags override task during various action for shell mode
  • [PLAT-2752] Increase running task beating time interval from 1sec to 10secs.
  • [PLAT-2763] DestroyUniverse leaks instance in cloud provider if Platform exits before the node IP is updated.
  • [PLAT-2765] Redact GCP creds in provider creation audit log
  • [PLAT-2767] Exception is logged repetately for paused universe due to attempt to send universe keys to nodes.
  • [PLAT-2779] [PLAT-2780] Gflag UI clean up and enhancemnts
  • [PLAT-2790] RunYsqlUpgrade subtask should not be run on upgrades of universes with YSQL disabled
  • [PLAT-2813] Local changes in Universe object in transaction in lockUniverse are overwritten by another fetch of the Universe from DB into a different object.
  • [PLAT-2848] [PLAT-3072] Clean exit handler terminate pools on exit and shutdown logging
  • [PLAT-2858] Restore fails as universe key cannot be decrypted using new universe.
  • [PLAT-2896] Universe upgrade failed due to "Error running upgrade_[YSQL] Network
  • [PLAT-2903] UI breaks if the value for a flag is a large string.
  • [PLAT-2911] Remove the email check for LDAP users
  • [PlAT-2916] Delete LDAP User when User does not exist on Windows AD server
  • [PLAT-2920] [Alert] UI Issues in New Alert filter in Alert Policies tab
  • [PLAT-2947] [Alerts] [UI] UI Issues in Alert Maintenance Screen
  • [PLAT-2949] On-Exit we platform should fail pending tasks with Abort state
  • [PLAT-2952] Refactored support bundle to extend to other files
  • [PLAT-2972] [PLAT-2971] Gflag usability issues
  • [PLAT-2975] Return Backup size from yb_backup script
  • [PLAT-2982] Fix Most used master gflag response error.
  • [PLAT-2983] issues with edit gflag modal
  • [PLAT-2986] [PLAT-2997] LDAP toggle usability issues and UI support for Service Account
  • [PLAT-2999] Unset the universeLocked flag in UniverseTaskBase when unlockUniverse is successful
  • [PLAT-3005] [UI] xcluster Replication tab crash
  • [PLAT-3007] Redirect to yb url for OIDC auth
  • [PLAT-3037] [PLAT-3039] [PLAT-3046] UI invalidates a correct LDAP URL, tooltip and label change
  • [PLAT-3041] Fix runtime configuration logging for LDAP and OIDC
  • [PLAT-3050] [UI] Universe Metrics -> Replication graph is empty
  • [PLAT-3072] [PLAT-2848] [PLAT-2832] Limit Shell process output to 2MB
  • [PLAT-3080] Abort V2 backups using task framework
  • [PLAT-3084] UI doesn't send the payload with "false" when we set ldap_enable_start_tls and enable_ldaps
  • [PLAT-3090] Universe is in locked state after GFlagsUpgrade fails in ModifyBlackListTask subtask
  • [PLAT-3097] Fix preflight check for manual provisioned nodes
  • [PLAT-3101] [xCluster] Timezone mismatch in different tabs of xCluster(Replication Tab)
  • [PLAT-3105] [PLAT-3101] [PLAT-3103] [PLAT-3102] [PLAT-3105] Fixed mutliple Xcluster UI issues
  • [PLAT-3107] Merge issue fix
  • [PLAT-3111] Replace exception with warning in yb_backup
  • [PLAT-3112] Wrong Task Type on UI for add read replica retry after an abort
  • [PLAT-3124] Smart resize doesn't check that current instance has ephemeral drives
  • [PLAT-3128] Fix Support Origin URL default
  • [PLAT-3133] Azure backups failure because of SSH commands bundling
  • [PLAT-3146] Delete orphaned/unattached resources on Azure when the instance is not created due to failure
  • [PLAT-3168] Instances are left behind if AddNodeToUniverse fails followed by delete node task.
  • [PLAT-3169] [PLAT-3171] Use provider KUBECONFIG in NodeUniverseManager (#11550)
  • [PLAT-3184] Invalid Credentials when saving AWS KMS config
  • [PLAT-3188] client certificates are not updated in $HOME/.yugabytedb dir due to which Health check fails.
  • [PLAT-3188] Fix health check failure after cert rotation
  • [PLAT-3213] Fixed "PLAT-2994 broken universe creation"
  • [PLAT-3215] Fix overload alerts
  • [PLAT-3223] Make backup GC interval a static runtime config
  • [PLAT-3228] Atomically set task state with error message for failed and aborted tasks in TaskExecutor.
  • [PLAT-3231] Fix running YSQL upgrade on 2.9 release
  • [PLAT-3232] UI doesn't allow to change the preferred AZ during Edit Universe of a multi-region universe
  • [PLAT-3237] List backup minor fixes
  • [PLAT-3242] Fix client certificate usage
  • [PLAT-3254] Universe creation on GCP is failing if scratch SSD is used

Database

  • [499] [DocDB] Fixed overflow bug when printing records in during a compaction.
  • [4692] [YSQL] Stop scan before the client timeout
  • [8206] [DST] Allow DeleteTable to succeed even if one of its tablets present on a DEAD tserver
  • [8980] [DST] Fix AutomaticTabletSplittingMovesToNextPhase and WriteRows helper to write data transactionally
  • [9421] [xCluster] Disallowing drop or truncate tables
  • [9877] [DocDB] Fix xCluster Stream Deletion Race Condition
  • [10162] [DST] Do not filter out ApplyTransactionState records during post split compaction.
  • [10163] [DocDB] Regular DB special records could affect the correctness of a middle key calculation for split
  • [10172] [DST] Allow CreateTable even if only majority of replicas can be created
  • [10235] [YCQL] Only check bind vars on known table
  • [10347] [DocDB] Only call ShouldSplitValidCandidate for automatic splits.
  • [10438] [DocDB] Changing default values for rocksdb_compact_flush_rate_limit_ flags
  • [10438] [DocDB] Make rocksdb_compact_flush_rate_limit_bytes_per_sec be shared across rocksdbs on a node
  • [10605] [DocDB] Refactor Tablet Split Manager to rebuild its state of existing splits periodically.
  • [10611] [xCluster] Slow SetupReplication requests when using too many tables
  • [10816] [11150] [YSQL] Fix renaming of matviews to pg_temp_xxxx after non-concurrent refresh
  • [10818] [DocDB] Fix max metrics aggregation metadata to match the entry with the max value
  • [10864] [YSQL] Place tablegroups correctly at creation
  • [10879] [Geo] Fix TS crash when accessing nonlocal data from a local transaction
  • [10914] [Logs] de-duplicate fail tags
  • [10995] Release the memtable mutex before going to sleep.
  • [11010] [DocDB] Fixed CoarseBackoffWaiter busy loop on aarch64
  • [11024] [DocDB] Enable -Wsign-compare, -Wdeprecated, and -Wshorten-64-to-32 flags
  • [11038] [YSQL] Check return status for PG gate functions
  • [11044] [DST] Drop outstanding_tablet_split_limit to 1
  • [11047] [11072] [YSQL] Fix two issues with large OID
  • [11054] [YCQL] Aggregate updates to JSONB column before inserting Subdoc
  • [11066] Fix crash in case of read for share w/o transaction
  • [11077] [YSQL] Fix tuple visibility when selecting from a temp table's unique indexed column
  • [11090] [YSQL] Fix incorrect scan result due to scan key pushdown
  • [11094] [YSQL] Fix Postgres exception handling
  • [11095] [YCQL] Reduce conversion between rapidjson::Document and common::Jsonb
  • [11118] [DocDB] Add empty path to sorted drive list when empty path reported by TS to avoid log spamming.
  • [11162] [YSQL] Check the length parameter before calling memcpy
  • [11167] [YSQL] Release resources on YbScanDesc freeing
  • [11179] [DocDB] Fix selecting random free port
  • [11181] Use majority_replicated_op_id when sending update consensus to followers
  • [11189] [DocDB] In a cluster with custom tablespaces, load balancing gets skipped for tables in a colocated database that opt out of colocation
  • [11195] [DST] [PITR] Disallow consecutive restores guarded by a flag
  • [11198] [DocDB] Restores should not fail if tablet is moved/deleted off a tserver
  • [11206] [YSQL] [Upgrade] Make YSQL upgrade do nothing when YSQL is not enabled
  • [11230] [YSQL] Block planner peeking at YB indexes
  • [11236] [YSQL] Apply non-zero offset after checking against NULL pointer
  • [11238] [DocDB] Fixed TSAN issue relating to job_id in CompactionTask
  • [11258] [YCQL] Add timeout for prepare child, change timeout for saturated workers
  • [11262] [YSQL] Fix assertion failure on where clause with < any operator
  • [11335] [DocDB] Restore should return an error if it hits max number of retries
  • [11346] [YSQL] Fix bug in YBCIsSingleRowUpdateOrDelete
  • [11347] [YSQL] Fix bug in ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY
  • [11393] [YSQL] Fixing the TServer crash caused by transaction abort returning error status
  • [11402] [Geo] Use version number instead of hash for indicating updates to transaction tables
  • [11409] [DocDB] Skip creating write batch while applying and removing intents, writing to rocksdb
  • [11425] [YSQL] Fix foreign data wrapper (FDW) dangling reference bug
  • [11429] Add missed retries in yb_backup script
  • [11437] [DocDB] Verify parent tablet is not tracked by task before adding to compacting or scheduled splits.
  • [11440] [YSQL] Drop temp table when session terminates
  • [11468] Keep old timestamps in SSTables in the data-patcher tool
  • [11484] [CQL] Use the same memory allocator for rapidjson::Document objects in Jsonb::FromJsonbInternal
  • [11509] [Geo] Fix error when loading from an older version of sys catalog
  • [11527] [YSQL] Correctly create range bound when IN list is empty
  • [11633] Distinguish temp and foreign tables for batch COPY

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