etcd/CHANGELOG-3.4.md

v3.4.0 (TBD)

v3.4.0 is not yet released.

Changed(Breaking Changes)

• Drop ACIs from official release.
  • AppC was officially suspended, as of late 2016.
  • acbuild is not maintained anymore.
  • *.aci files are not available from v3.4 release.
• Exit on empty hosts in advertise URLs.
  • Address advertise client URLs accepts empty hosts.
  • e.g. --advertise-client-urls=http://:2379.
  • e.g. --initial-advertise-peer-urls=http://:2380.
• Exit on shadowed environment variables.
  • Address error on shadowed environment variables.
• Migrate dependency management tool from glide to golang/dep.
  • <= 3.3 puts vendor directory under cmd/vendor directory to prevent conflicting transitive dependencies.
  • 3.4 moves cmd/vendor directory to vendor at repository root.
  • Remove recursive symlinks in cmd directory.
  • Now go get/install/build on etcd packages (e.g. clientv3, tools/benchmark) enforce builds with etcd vendor directory.
• Reorganize internal packages.
  • Rename "github.com/coreos/etcd/snap" to "github.com/coreos/etcd/internal/raftsnap".
  • Rename "github.com/coreos/etcd/discovery" to "github.com/coreos/etcd/internal/discovery".

Added(API)

• Add snapshot package for snapshot restore/save operations.
• Add watch_id field to etcdserverpb.WatchCreateRequest, allow user-provided watch ID to mvcc.
  • Corresponding watch_id is returned via etcdserverpb.WatchResponse, if any.
• Add raftAppliedIndex field to etcdserverpb.StatusResponse for current Raft applied index.
• Add errors field to etcdserverpb.StatusResponse for server-side error.
  • e.g. "etcdserver: no leader", "NOSPACE", "CORRUPT"

Added(v3 etcdctl)

• Add check datascale command.
• Add "raft applied index" to endpoint status.
• Add "errors" to endpoint status.

Package raft

• Improve Raft becomeLeader and stepLeader by keeping track of latest pb.EntryConfChange index.
  • Previously record pendingConf boolean field scanning the entire tail of the log, which can delay hearbeat send.
• Add raft.ErrProposalDropped.
  • Now (r *raft) Step returns raft.ErrProposalDropped if a proposal has been ignored.
  • e.g. a node is removed from cluster, ongoing leadership transfer, etc.
• Fix missing learner nodes on (n *node) ApplyConfChange.