Release Notes for 2.0.0

KubeSphere 2.0.0 was released on May 18th, 2019.

What's New in 2.0.0

Component Upgrades

• Support Kubernetes Kubernetes 1.13.5
• Integrate QingCloud Cloud Controller. After installing load balancer, QingCloud load balancer can be created through KubeSphere console and the backend workload is bound automatically. 
• Integrate QingStor CSI v0.3.0 storage plugin and support physical NeonSAN storage system. Support SAN storage service with high availability and high performance.
• Integrate QingCloud CSI v0.2.1 storage plugin and support many types of volume to create QingCloud block services.
• Harbor is upgraded to 1.7.5.
• GitLab is upgraded to 11.8.1.
• Prometheus is upgraded to 2.5.0.

Microservice Governance

• Integrate Istio 1.1.1 and support visualization of service mesh management.
• Enable the access to the project's external websites and the application traffic governance.
• Provide built-in sample microservice Bookinfo Application.
• Support traffic governance.
• Support traffic images.
• Provide load balancing of microservice based on Istio.
• Support canary release.
• Enable blue-green deployment.
• Enable circuit breaking.
• Enable microservice tracing.

DevOps (CI/CD Pipeline)

• CI/CD pipeline provides email notification and supports the email notification during construction.
• Enhance CI/CD graphical editing pipelines, and more pipelines for common plugins and execution conditions.
• Provide source code vulnerability scanning based on SonarQube 7.4.
• Support Source to Image feature.

Monitoring

• Provide Kubernetes component independent monitoring page including etcd, kube-apiserver and kube-scheduler.
• Optimize several monitoring algorithm.
• Optimize monitoring resources. Reduce Prometheus storage and the disk usage up to 80%.

Logging

• Provide unified log console in terms of tenant.
• Enable accurate and fuzzy retrieval.
• Support real-time and history logs.
• Support combined log query based on namespace, workload, Pod, container, key words and time limit.  
• Support detail page of single and direct logs. Pods and containers can be switched.
• FluentBit Operator supports logging gathering settings: ElasticSearch, Kafka and Fluentd can be added, activated or turned off as log collectors. Before sending to log collectors, you can configure filtering conditions for needed logs.

Alerting and Notifications

• Email notifications are available for cluster nodes and workload resources. 
• Notification rules: combined multiple monitoring resources are available. Different warning levels, detection cycle, push times and threshold can be configured.
• Time and notifiers can be set.
• Enable notification repeating rules for different levels.

Security Enhancement

• Fix RunC Container Escape Vulnerability Runc container breakout
• Fix Alpine Docker's image Vulnerability Alpine container shadow breakout
• Support single and multi-login configuration items.
• Verification code is required after multiple invalid logins.
• Enhance passwords' policy and prevent weak passwords.
• Others security enhancements.

Interface Optimization

• Optimize multiple user experience of console, such as the switch between DevOps project and other projects.
• Optimize many Chinese-English webpages.

Others

• Support Etcd backup and recovery.
• Support regular cleanup of the docker's image.

Bugs Fixes

• Fix delay updates of the resource and deleted pages.
• Fix the left dirty data after deleting the HPA workload.
• Fix incorrect Job status display.
• Correct resource quota, Pod usage and storage metrics algorithm.
• Adjust CPU usage percentages.
• many more bugfix

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.