CHANGELOG-4.0.md

Previous change logs can be found at CHANGELOG-3.x.

The minimum recommended etcd versions to run in production are 3.2.28+, 3.3.18+, and 3.4.2+.

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v4.0.0 (TBD)

See code changes and v4.0 upgrade guide for any breaking changes.

Again, before running upgrades from any previous release, please make sure to read change logs below and v4.0 upgrade guide.

Breaking Changes

• Secure etcd by default?
• Change /health endpoint output.
  • Previously, {"health":"true"}.
  • Now, {"health":true}.
  • Breaks Kubernetes kubectl get componentstatuses command.
• Deprecate etcd --proxy* flags; no more v2 proxy.
• Deprecate v2 storage backend; no more v2 store.
  • v2 API is still supported via v2 emulation.
• Deprecate etcdctl backup command.
• clientv3.Client.KeepAlive(ctx context.Context, id LeaseID) (<-chan *LeaseKeepAliveResponse, error) is now clientv4.Client.KeepAlive(ctx context.Context, id LeaseID) <-chan *LeaseKeepAliveResponse.
  • Similar to Watch, KeepAlive does not return errors.
  • If there's an unknown server error, kill all open channels and create a new stream on the next KeepAlive call.
• Rename github.com/coreos/client to github.com/coreos/clientv2.
• etcd --experimental-initial-corrupt-check has been deprecated.
  • Use etcd --initial-corrupt-check instead.
• etcd --experimental-corrupt-check-time has been deprecated.
  • Use etcd --corrupt-check-time instead.
• Enable TLS 1.13, deprecate TLS cipher suites.

etcd server

• etcd --initial-corrupt-check flag is now stable (etcd --experimental-initial-corrupt-check has been deprecated).
  • etcd --initial-corrupt-check=true by default, to check cluster database hashes before serving client/peer traffic.
• etcd --corrupt-check-time flag is now stable (etcd --experimental-corrupt-check-time has been deprecated).
  • etcd --corrupt-check-time=12h by default, to check cluster database hashes for every 12-hour.
• Enable TLS 1.13, deprecate TLS cipher suites.

Go

• Require Go 2.

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