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v2.12.3.0 - April 8, 2022

Build: 2.12.3.0-b19

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docker pull yugabytedb/yugabyte:2.12.3.0-b19

New features

Yugabyte Platform

N/A

Database

N/A

Improvements

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-2785] Add description to maintenance window
  • [PLAT-3510] Improve ysqlsh connectivity command when TLS is enabled
  • [PLAT-3514] Add wait method in task executor to gracefully abort subtasks running loops to check status

Database

  • [10498] [DocDB] Prioritize automatic splitting of large tablets.
  • [10837] [DocDB] Allow manual splitting for tables with TTL and max file size for compactions
  • [11470] [YSQL] Make FK check happen in parallel
  • [11877] [YSQL] Allow yb_db_admin role to use event triggers

Bugs

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-3263] Fix coordinates for Sao Paulo
  • [PLAT-3537] Delete not resolved alerts with sourceUuid = null
  • [PLAT-3550] [TLS] Enabling TLS off task is failing

Database

  • [9421] [xCluster] Disallowing drop or truncate tables
  • [10594] [YSQL] Add sub-query AfterTrigger block for constraint checking in CopyFrom operation
  • [10837] [DocDB] Disable tablet splitting for TTL-enabled tables
  • [11273] [DocDB] Tables with custom replication policy for live replicas should not follow cluster configuration policy for read replicas
  • [11806] [YSQL] Avoid creating a distributed transaction for a single row UPDATE on a indexed table if indexed columns are not updated
  • [11875] [DocDB] Disable PITR if sequences were updated since the restore time
  • [11911] [YSQL] Use correct tuple descriptor
  • [11916] [xCluster] Eliminate Master Leader RPC when Updating Peers
  • [11918] [YSQL] Disallow pushing down RowComparisonExpression when there is a hash column in the index key
  • [11932] [DST] Acquire correct shared in-memory locks for explicit row locking
  • [11946] [DST] [PITR] Correctly set op ID when replaying snapshot operations during tablet bootstrap
  • [11956] [YBase] Master RPCs should retry if the master is unreachable
  • [11805] [YSQL] Avoid setting read time on client if possible

Known issues

Yugabyte Platform

  • If you create a universe with TLS off, attempting to enable TLS later will fail. This issue will be resolved in an upcoming release.

Database

N/A

v2.12.2.0 - March 30, 2022

Build: 2.12.2.0-b58

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Docker

docker pull yugabytedb/yugabyte:2.12.2.0-b58

New features

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-2031] Certificate rotation for Kubernetes universes
  • [PLAT-3159] Adding Ubuntu 20 support (x86 and ARM)

Database

  • [4873] [YSQL] Support backup/restore for multi-tablet range-split relations
  • [9019] CDC SDK Client API and Java Console Subscriber (BETA)
  • [11551] [YSQL] Create a new admin role called yb_db_admin

Improvements

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-2810] Simplifying adding instance types for AWS
  • [PLAT-2832] [PLAT-2848] [PLAT-3074] Limit Shell process output to 2MB
  • [PLAT-3168] Improvement - Instances are left behind if AddNodeToUniverse fails followed by delete node task.
  • [PLAT-3190] Turn off write read test metric collection based on runtime config
  • [PLAT-3222] [PLAT-3226] altering release regex for almalinux
  • [PLAT-3329] Revert client admin operation timeout to 120secs from 30 secs.
  • [PLAT-3426] Remove resource consuming metrics collection and prevent collect_metrics.sh parallel execution

Database

  • [8892] [11369] [11465] [DocDB] yb_backup performance improvements for large number of tablets
  • [10243] Add Gflag for tcmalloc gc release threshold
  • [10709] [YBase] Add a background task to retire old metrics.
  • [11258] [YCQL] Change timeout for saturated workers
  • [11327] [YSQL] Use FK batching in case of ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY
  • [11383] [YSQL] Backup/Restore support for UDT/Enum types
  • [11398] [YBase] Autotune server_tcmalloc_max_total_thread_cache_bytes better
  • [11463] [YSQL] Pushdown RowComparisonExpression filters
  • [11480] [YSQL] Import Fix memory leak in IndexScan node with reordering
  • [11668] [YSQL] Allow yb_db_admin to CREATE/ALTER bypassrls attribute
  • [11781] Set xCluster service queue size to 5000
  • [YCQL] Use the same memory allocator for rapidjson::Document objects in Jsonb::FromJsonbInternal

Bugs

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-1822] Timeout occurs during file descriptor health check
  • [PLAT-2547] Fix resize and pause for universes
  • [PLAT-2817] Ignore overlay file systems during health check
  • [PLAT-2848] [PLAT-3074] Clean exit handler terminate pools on exit and shutdown logging
  • [PLAT-2949] On-Exit we platform should fail pending tasks with Abort state
  • [PLAT-3061] [UI] [HA] The paste button doesn't work for pasting the key in standby node
  • [PLAT-3113] [PLAT-3116] [xCluster] Lag metrics Graph is same for all Replication setups
  • [PLAT-3146] Delete orphaned/unattached resources on Azure when the instance is not created due to failure
  • [PLAT-3169] [PLAT-3171] Use provider KUBECONFIG in NodeUniverseManager (#11567)
  • [PLAT-3176] Clean up old root volumes after an upgraded node is removed or universe is deleted
  • [PLAT-3187] Exclude prometheusv2 directory from platform backup tar
  • [PLAT-3188] Fix health check failure after cert rotation
  • [PLAT-3215] Fix overload alerts
  • [PLAT-3228] Atomically set task state with error message for failed and aborted tasks in TaskExecutor.
  • [PLAT-3231] Fix running ysql upgrade on 2.9 release
  • [PLAT-3232] UI doesn't allow to change the preferred AZ during Edit Universe of a multi-region universe
  • [PLAT-3254] Universe creation on GCP is failing if scratch SSD is used
  • [PLAT-3294] Allow user to do node operations when the node is in stopping state after a task failure
  • [PLAT-3311] Backend must validate the input for edit universe task
  • [PLAT-3338] Upgrade Software action doesn't recreate symlinks in master
  • [PLAT-3390] [xCluster] Lag metrics shows NaN ms with BackUp/Restore scenario
  • [PLAT-3432] Backup scheduler doesn't do backups if the last/previous task wasn't marked as finished
  • [PLAT-3446] Fix null check in UniverseUpdateRootCert for rootCert privateKey
  • [PLAT-3465] Start Master action should check/update the master folder before starting the process
  • [Platform] Fix disable cert verify check for s3cmd in Backup Config

Database

  • [7378] [YSQL] Use colocation ID instead of table OID for colocation
  • [8980] [DST] Fix AutomaticTabletSplittingMovesToNextPhase and WriteRows helper to write data transactionally
  • [9468] [YSQL] Ensure clients don't see serialization errors in READ COMMITTED isolation (Part-3)
  • [9547] [YSQL] alter table of parent geo-partitioned table affects select on child
  • [9877] [DocDB] Fix xCluster Stream Deletion Race Condition
  • [10162] [DST] Do not filter out ApplyTransactionState records during post split compaction.
  • [10163] [DocDB] Regular DB special records could affect the correctness of a middle key calculation for split
  • [10605] [DocDB] Add has_split_parent_tablet_id() check in tablet split manager.
  • [10723] [YSQL] Add dependency between tables and users, reuse existing drop flow
  • [10746] [DST] Don't abort transactions during tablet shutdown in case of tablet split or LB move.
  • [11095] [YCQL] Reduce conversion between rapidjson::Document and common::Jsonb, take 1.5
  • [11118] [DocDB] Add empty path to sorted drive list when empty path reported by TS to avoid log spamming.
  • [11150] [YSQL] Fix renaming of matviews to pg_temp_xxxx after non-concurrent refresh
  • [11189] [DocDB] In a cluster with custom tablespaces, load balancing gets skipped for tables in a colocated database that opt out of colocation
  • [11258] [YCQL] Add timeout for prepare child
  • [11379] [Backup] deleting all regional folders for multi-region backup
  • [11393] [YSQL] Fixing the TServer crash caused by transaction abort returning error status
  • [11425] [YSQL] Fix foreign data wrapper (FDW) dangling reference bug
  • [11437] [DocDB] Verify parent tablet is not tracked by task before adding to compacting or scheduled splits.
  • [11527] [YQL] Correctly create range bound when IN list is empty
  • [11574] [DST] Handle empty aborted_subtxn_set response from transaction coordinator during upgrade.
  • [11630] [YSQL] Exception handling in stored procedure creates two internal sub-txns instead of one if READ COMMITTED isolation
  • [11662] [YSQL] Fix asan issue for TestPgIsolationRegress
  • [11730] [Geo] Fix non-local transaction errors running ysql_upgrade on geo-partitioned clusters
  • [11767] [Backups] Fix restoring colocated DB to DB with the same ID
  • [11799] [YSQL] [DocDB] Update all tablets when a remote server is unreachable
  • [DB-224] [YSQL] redact password in pg stat tables and logging
  • [YSQL] Redact auth key from logs on YSQL upgrade command

Known issues

Yugabyte Platform

  • If you create a universe with TLS off, attempting to enable TLS later will fail. This issue will be resolved in an upcoming release.

Database

N/A

v2.12.1.0 - February 22, 2022

Build: 2.12.1.0-b41

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Docker

docker pull yugabytedb/yugabyte:2.12.1.0-b41

New features

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-1885] Hashicorp Vault Integration is now GA
  • [PLAT-2341] UI support for Multiple on-prem provider instances
  • [PLAT-2362] Maintenance windows API and backend
  • [PLAT-2382] New backups API
  • [PLAT-2401] [PLAT-2404] New GFlag form component and validation for user entries
  • [PLAT-2402] UI form for user to add/edit Gflags in more accurate way
  • [PLAT-2403] Add Multiple G-flags from free text (JSON)
  • [PLAT-2479] LDAP Integration with Platform
  • [PLAT-2535] Add API endpoint for aborting tasks
  • [PLAT-2553] Node Comparison Feature in Metrics Page (Backend)
  • [PLAT-2562] UI support for abort task capability
  • [PLAT-2658] Integrate t3 instance type support
  • [PLAT-2750] YSQL_DUMP based backup-create and backup-restore
  • [PLAT-2766] Can now delete paused GCP instances
  • [PLAT-2996] Added Service Account Support
  • [PLAT-3020] [PLAT-3021] [PLAT-3022] LDAP UI & User Listing Page migration
  • [PLAT-3021] Pre Requisite for LDAP UI & Migrate User Listing from Profile Page to User Management Tab
  • [PLAT-3060] Add LDAPS and StartTls Support

Database

  • [8032] [YSQL] Add support for ALTER TYPE .. RENAME TO
  • [10451] [ysql] Add support for ADD CONSTRAINT .. UNIQUE .. USING INDEX
  • [10509] [10510] [YSQL] Add support for CREATE, DROP, and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW

Improvements

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-2588] Make Backup task clean up processes on abort
  • [PLAT-2637] Add follower_lag_ms metric to priority regex list (replicated.yml)
  • [PLAT-2854] [PLAT-2873] Gflag UI improvements-2, disabled releases should not appear while creating universe
  • [PLAT-2891] [PLAT-2890] Add 2.12 major DB version Gflags metadata
  • [PLAT-2865] [UI] Filters and sorting on alert configuration page
  • [PLAT-2883] Add HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, NO_PROXY environment variable to replicated.yml
  • [PLAT-131] Added custom cert validation for preflight checks
  • [PLAT-580] Allow multiple xcluster between same source/target pair
  • [PLAT-580] Improve xcluster lag metric error handling
  • [PLAT-580] Include lag metric data in xcluster GET response
  • [PLAT-2164] Improvement - Make ReadOnlyClusterCreate retryable
  • [PLAT-2794] Move OIDC to runtime config
  • [PLAT-2917] Preflight checks for Azure backup config creation
  • [PLAT-2982] [PLAT-2963] Filter gflags in add gflag dropdown.
  • [PLAT-3002] [PLAT-3048] Deprecate Equinix KMS support in Platform
  • [PLAT-3036] Improvement - Improve task listing API performance
  • [PLAT-3042] [PLAT-3043] [PLAT-3044] [PLAT-3045] [PLAT-3076] feat: gflag ui enhancements and fix usability issues.
  • [PLAT-3090] Improvement - Universe is in locked state after GFlagsUpgrade fails in ModifyBlackListTask subtask
  • [PLAT-3095] [LDAP] [UI] Label and Tooltip Changes
  • [PLAT-3095] Label and Tooltip Changes
  • [PLAT-3101] [PLAT-3102] [PLAT-3103] [PLAT-3104] [PLAT-3105] [PLAT-3123] Xcluster UI Improvements
  • [PLAT-3112] Improvement - Wrong Task Type on UI for add read replica retry after an abort
  • [Platform] Updated the azcopy and node-exporter version (#11449)

Equinix KMS deprecated

Support for the Equinix KMS has been deprecated as of this release.

Database

  • [8023] [11142] [YQL] Enable DocDB to process lookups on a subset of the range key
  • [8732] [YSQL] [Backups] [Geo] Storing Geo-Partitioned Backups to Regional Object Storage Buckets
  • [10513] [DocDB] Adding file deletion option to universal compaction picker (TTL expiry)
  • [10536] [10828] [Geo] Consolidate TS txn status tablet cache update into one RPC
  • [10605] [DocDB] Refactor Tablet Split Manager to rebuild its state of existing splits periodically.
  • [10730] [xCluster] Add force option to delete_CDC_streams CLI
  • [11263] [DocDB] Disable automatic tablet splitting in 2.12 release.

Bugs

Yugabyte Platform

  • [PLAT-2241] Fix for the error: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
  • [PLAT-2366] [UI] Suspend alerts during maintenance window
  • [PLAT-2508] Missing graph view at Replication tab UI
  • [PLAT-2518] Fixing ulimits for systemd universes
  • [PLAT-2523] Onprem: Remove/Add node leaves the platform "node_instance" Postgres DB table in a corrupted state
  • [PLAT-2585] Fix the metrics inconsistency
  • [PLAT-2622] allow adding instance with trailing slash in address
  • [PLAT-2673] Validating custom keypair with AWS
  • [PLAT-2689] Missing backslash () in Prometheus YAML for expired_transactions (replicated)
  • [PLAT-2705] Platform restart can leave some tasks in incomplete stuck state
  • [PLAT-2708] Some fixes for parallel tests execution
  • [PLAT-2763] DestroyUniverse leaks instance in cloud provider if Platform exits before the node IP is updated.
  • [PLAT-2767] Exception is logged repeatedly for paused universe due to attempt to send universe keys to nodes.
  • [PLAT-2772] [PLAT-2860] Accept additional parameters in CreateUniverse API for custom AMI flow from Cloud
  • [PLAT-2813] Investigate why local changes in Universe object in transaction in lockUniverse is overwritten by another fetch of the Universe from DB into a different object.
  • [PLAT-2858] Restore fails as universe key cannot be decrypted using new universe.
  • [PLAT-2859] [PLAT-2617] Adding DB name additionally while connecting ysqlsh
  • [PLAT-2863] GP: Backups handling
  • [PLAT-2866] xCluster Add remove tables model is incorrect
  • [PLAT-2869] GP: Correct data replicas allocation when default region is defined
  • [PLAT-2870] [UI] Unable to create Read Replica until reselect provider (no accessKeyCode in payload)
  • [PLAT-2888] [PLAT-2224] Disable renaming of table during restore flow.
  • [PLAT-2889] [HA] [UI] Change the button to "paste" instead of "copy" in Key field of Standby Nodes
  • [PLAT-2910] fix: UI breaks if the value for a flag is a large string
  • [PLAT-2912] [PLAT-2913] Hide change password fields and disable role editing for ldap users
  • [PLAT-2920] [Alert] UI Issues in New Alert filter in Alert Policies tab
  • [PLAT-2935] Bump up timeouts for API calls which need master leader to be available.
  • [PLAT-2941] fix: Remove the email check for LDAP users
  • [PLAT-2947] [Alerts] [UI] UI Issues in Alert Maintenance Screen
  • [PLAT-2974] Delete Windows AD user when user does not exist on login attempt
  • [PLAT-2978] Change Hashicorp vault KEK to have name such that it can be used between multiple configs as long as the config params matches.
  • [PLAT-2989] Universe upgrade failed due to "Error running
  • [PLAT-3006] [UI] xcluster Replication tab crash
  • [PLAT-3047] Fix runtime config logging for LDAP and OIDC
  • [PLAT-3056] [UI] Universe Metrics -> Replication graph is empty
  • [PLAT-3084] UI doesn't send the payload with "false" when we set ldap_enable_start_tls and enable_ldaps
  • [PLAT-3097] Fix preflight check for manual provisioned nodes
  • [PLAT-3101] [xCluster] Timezone mismatch in different tabs of xCluster(Replication Tab)
  • [PLAT-3133] Azure backups failure because of SSH commands bundling

Database

  • [4692] [YSQL] Stop scan before the client timeout
  • [10347] [DocDB] Only call ShouldSplitValidCandidate for automatic splits.
  • [10818] [DocDB] Fix max metrics aggregation metadata to match the entry with the max value
  • [10879] [Geo] Fix TS crash when accessing nonlocal data from a local transaction
  • [10912] Send truncate colocated requests for the indexes associated with the table
  • [10995] Release the memtable mutex before going to sleep.
  • [11038] [YSQL] Check return status for PG gate functions
  • [11047] [11072] [YSQL] Fix two issues with large OID
  • [11090] [YSQL] Fix incorrect scan result due to scan key pushdown
  • [11094] [YSQL] Fix Postgres exception handling
  • [11167] [YSQL] Release resources on YbScanDesc freeing
  • [11195] [DST] [PITR] Disallow consecutive restores guarded by a flag
  • [11198] [DocDB] Restores should not fail if tablet is moved/deleted off a tserver
  • [11206] [YSQL] [Upgrade] Make YSQL upgrade do nothing when YSQL is not enabled
  • [11230] [YSQL] Block planner peeking at YB indexes
  • [11262] [YSQL] Fix assertion failure on where clause with < any operator
  • [11335] [DocDB] Restore should return an error if it hits max number of retries
  • [11346] [YSQL] Fix bug in YBCIsSingleRowUpdateOrDelete
  • [11347] [YSQL] Fix bug in ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY
  • [11440] [YSQL] Drop temp table when session terminates
  • [YCQL] Move batch ID generator as field of AuditLogger

Known issues

Yugabyte Platform

N/A

Database

N/A

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