What's new in the YugabyteDB Anywhere v2024.1 STS release series

What follows are the release notes for all releases in the YugabyteDB Anywhere (YBA) v2024.1 series. Content will be added as new notable features and changes are available in the patch releases of the YBA v2024.1 series.

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v2024.1.3.0 - October 8, 2024

Build: 2024.1.3.0-b105

Third-party licenses: YugabyteDB, YugabyteDB Anywhere

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New features

• Improvement to OIDC-based Identity Provider authentication. When using an OIDC-based IdP to authenticate database access, changes by the IdP to the JWK (the key used to encrypt Java Web Tokens) are now automatically detected and handled properly.

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v2024.1.2.0 - September 3, 2024

Build: 2024.1.2.0-b77

Third-party licenses: YugabyteDB, YugabyteDB Anywhere

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New features

• YSQL Audit Logs - Support for producing and exporting audit logs of PostgreSQL statements (which is often required for compliance with government, financial, or ISO certifications) to a log aggregator. This is based on the pgaudit extension.

• Simplified UI for enabling Enhanced PostgreSQL Compatibility Mode. Added an option to toggle Enhanced PostgreSQL Compatibility during universe creation and editing.

• Kubernetes readiness probe. Added readiness probes for TServer and Master pods in YugabyteDB, supporting custom or default configurations, thereby enhancing stability by ensuring YSQL/YCQL and YB-Master pods are ready before traffic is routed.

• View CA certificate details. After adding a CA-signed certificate for Encryption in Transit, you can now view all the details entered during its creation for review and verification.

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v2024.1.1.0 - July 31, 2024

Build: 2024.1.1.0-b137

Third-party licenses: YugabyteDB, YugabyteDB Anywhere

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Highlights

CDC Observability EA

YugabyteDB Anywhere supports monitoring the status of replication slots when using PostgreSQL Logical Replication Protocol for Change Data Capture (CDC).

For more information, refer to CDC Observability.

New features

• Provider validation. When creating public cloud providers (for AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes providers, YugabyteDB Anywhere now performs validation checks on some user-inputted fields, reducing downstream errors and speeding the configuration process.
• Support for Exporting Metrics to a Separate, External Prometheus. YugabyteDB Anywhere supports export of universe time-series metrics to an external Prometheus instance. The documentation shows how to do this for both VM-based and Kubernetes-based universes.

v2024.1.0.0 - June 4, 2024

Build: 2024.1.0.0-b129

Third-party licenses: YugabyteDB, YugabyteDB Anywhere

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Highlights

Enhanced Postgres Compatibility Mode EA

We're pleased to announce the early access of the new Enhanced Postgres Compatibility Mode in the 2024.1.0.0 release. This mode enables you to take advantage of many new improvements in both PostgreSQL compatibility and performance parity, making it even easier to lift and shift your applications from PostgreSQL to YugabyteDB. When this mode is turned on, YugabyteDB uses the Read-Committed isolation mode, the Wait-on-Conflict concurrency mode for predictable P99 latencies, and the new Cost Based Optimizer EA that takes advantage of the distributed storage layer architecture and includes query pushdowns, LSM indexes, and batched nested loop joins to offer PostgreSQL-like performance.

You can enable the compatibility mode by setting the following flags on a universe:

yb_enable_read_committed_isolation=true
ysql_enable_read_request_caching=true
"ysql_pg_conf_csv": "yb_enable_base_scans_cost_model=true,"
                      "yb_bnl_batch_size=1024,"
                      "yb_fetch_row_limit=0,"
                      "yb_fetch_size_limit=1MB,"
                      "yb_use_hash_splitting_by_default=false"

Note: When enabling the cost models, ensure that packed row for colocated tables is enabled by setting the --ysql_enable_packed_row_for_colocated_table flag to true.

New Yugabyte Kubernetes Operator TP

The new Yugabyte Kubernetes Operator is a powerful tool designed to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of YugabyteDB clusters in Kubernetes environments. It streamlines database operations, reducing manual effort for developers and operators.

YugabyteDB Anywhere (YBA) CLI TP

YBA CLI is a brand-new open-source tool written in GoLang that's used to interact with YBA using shell commands. With minimal configuration, you can start running commands from the command line, providing functionality equivalent to that offered by the browser-based YBA interface and YBA REST APIs.

New features

• Kubernetes Resource Specification. You can configure CPU and memory needs for YB-TServer and YB-Master pods natively, instead of using the instance types API. EA

• Replace node. With this new node action, you can directly replace a database node in a universe with a new one to handle problematic nodes.

• Rollback after database upgrade. Ability to roll back an upgrade to the pre-upgrade release. (The release from which the database was upgraded). You can roll back a database upgrade only to the pre-upgrade release.

• Database registration simplification. Simplification of process for registering database versions (and their binaries) with YBA. The UX has been dramatically simplified. EA

• Force update of EIT certs. If EIT certs expire, customers can now "force update" the replacement of certs with new ones, removing the need to call Technical Support. EA

• Support for OIDC groups in YugabyteDB Anywhere. In support of role-based access control (RBAC), ability to assign YugabyteDB Anywhere roles to groups from an OIDC-based Identity Provider. EA

• Decoupling. YBA can now be upgraded to a version without requiring its database universe(s) to be upgraded. Versioning is now independent. This is enabled by features including, a published compatibility matrix and database registration simplification.

• YBA HA enhancements. Simplified user experience for active/passive YBA deployments.

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