Release Notes for 3.0.0

How to get v3.0.0

• Install KubeSphere v3.0.0 on Linux
• Install KubeSphere v3.0.0 on existing Kubernetes

Release Notes

Installer

FEATURES

• A brand-new installer: KubeKey, v1.0.0, which is a turnkey solution to installing Kubernetes with KubeSphere on different platforms. It is more easy to use and reduces the dependency on OS environment

UPGRADES & ENHANCEMENTS

• Be compatible with Kubernetes 1.15.x, 1.16.x, 1.17.x and 1.18.x for ks-installer, v3.0.0
• KubeKey officially supports Kubernetes 1.15.12, 1.16.13, 1.17.9 and 1.18.6 (Please avoid using KubeKey to install Kubernetes 1.15 to 1.15.5 and 1.16 to 1.16.2, because Kubernetes has an API validation issue)
• Add support for EulerOS, UOS and KylinOS
• Add support for Kunpeng and Phytium CPU
• Use ClusterConfiguration CRD to store ks-installer's configuration instead of ConfigMap

Cluster Management

FEATURES

• Support management of multiple Kubernetes clusters
• Support Federated Deployment and Federated StatefulSet across multiple clusters

Observability

FEATURES

• Support custom monitoring for 3rd-party application metrics in KubeSphere console
• Add Kubernetes and KubeSphere auditing support, including audit event archiving, searching and alerting
• Add Kubernetes event management support, including Kubernetes event archiving, searching and alerting based by kube-events
• Add tenant control to auditing and support Kubernetes event searching. A tenant user can only search his or her own auditing logs and Kubernetes events
• Support archiving auditing logs and Kubernetes events to Elasticsearch, Kafka or Fluentd
• Add multi-tenant notification support by Notification Manager
• Support Alertmanager v0.21.0

UPGRADES & ENHANCEMENTS

• Upgrade Prometheus Operator to v0.38.3 (KubeSphere customized version )
• Upgrade Prometheus to v2.20.1
• Upgrade Node Exporter to v0.18.1
• Upgrade kube-state-metrics to v1.9.6
• Upgrade metrics server to v0.3.7
• metrics-server is enabled by default (Disabled if KubeSphere is installed on existing Kubernetes)
• Upgrade Fluent Bit Operator to v0.2.0
• Upgrade Fluent Bit to v1.4.6
• Significantly improve log searching performance
• Allow platform admins to view pod logs from deleted namespaces
• Adjust the display style of log searching results in Toolbox
• Optimize log collection configuration for log files on pod's volume

BUG FIXES

• Fix time skew in metric graphs for newly created namespaces (#2868)
• Fix workload-level alerting not working as expected (#2834)
• Fix no metric data for NotReady nodes

DevOps

FEATURES

• Refactor DevOps framework, and use CRDs to manage DevOps resources

UPGRADES & ENHANCEMENTS

• Remove Sonarqube from installer default packages, and support for external Sonarqube

BUG FIXES

• Fix the issue that DevOps permission data is missing in a very limited number of cases

• Fix the issue that the Button in the Stage page doesn't work (#449)

• Fix the issue that the parameterized pipeline failed to send the parameter's value (#2699)

App Store

FEATURES

• Support Helm V3
• Support deploying application templates onto multiple clusters
• Support application template upgrade
• Users can view events that occur during repository synchronization

UPGRADES & ENHANCEMENTS

• Users can use the same application repository name

• Support the application template which contains CRDs

• Merge all OpenPitrix services into one service

• Support HTTP basic authentication when adding an application repository

• Add and upgrade below apps in App Store:

  App Name	App Version	Chart Version
  AWS EBS CSI Driver	0.5.0	0.3.0
  AWS EFS CSI Driver	0.3.0	0.1.0
  AWS FSX CSI Driver	0.1.0	0.1.0
  Elasticsearch Exporter	1.1.0	3.3.0
  etcd	3.3.12	0.1.1
  Harbor	2.0.0	1.4.0
  Memcached	1.5.20	3.2.3
  Minio master		5.0.26
  MongoDB	4.2.1	0.3.0
  MySQL	5.7.30	1.6.6
  MySQL Exporter	0.11.0	0.5.3
  Nginx	1.18.0	1.3.2
  PorterLB	0.3-alpha	0.1.3
  PostgreSQL	12.0	0.3.2
  RabbitMQ	3.8.1	0.3.0
  Redis	5.0.5	0.3.2
  Redis Exporter	1.3.4	3.4.1
  Tomcat	8.5.41	0.4.1+1

BUG FIXES

• Fix the issue of insufficient length of attachment IDs

Network

FEATURES

• Support project network isolation by adding controllers to manage custom project network policies
• Support workspace network isolation
• Support adding, viewing, modifying and deleting native Kubernetes network policies

Service Mesh

FEATURES

• Support cleaning Jaeger ES Indexer

UPGRADES & ENHANCEMENTS

• Upgrade Istio to v1.4.8

Storage

FEATURES

• Support volume snapshot management
• Support storage capacity management
• Support volume monitoring

Security

FEATURES

• Support LDAP and OAuth login
• Support custom workspace roles
• Support custom DevOps project roles
• Support access control across multiple clusters
• Support pod security context (#1453)

UPGRADES & ENHANCEMENTS

• Simplify the role definition
• Optimize built-in roles

BUG FIXES

• Fix the issue of login failure due to node clock skew

Globalization

FEATURES

• Add support for new languages in the web console, including Spanish and Traditional Chinese

User Experience

FEATURES

• Add support for history record viewing in Toolbox. Users can re-visit the Clusters/Workspaces/Projects/DevOps Projects that they recently visited, which can also be launched through shortcut keys

UPGRADES & ENHANCEMENTS

• Refactor global navigation
• Refactor breadcrumbs in detail pages
• Refactor data watching in the resources list
• Simplify project creation
• Refactor composing application creation, and support creating a composing application through YAML
• Support workload revision through YAML
• Optimize the display of log query results
• Refactor app store deployment form
• Support helm chart schema (#schema-files)

BUG FIXES

• Fix the error when editing ingress annotations (#1931)
• Fix container probes when editing in workload edit template modal
• Fix XSS security problems of the server-side templates

Thanks for the feedback. If you have a specific question about how to use KubeSphere, ask it on Slack. Open an issue in the GitHub repo if you want to report a problem or suggest an improvement.