Release Notes

For additional information check our sprint demo videos and blogs.

1.50.0

Sprint Release: April 29th, 2022

Features:

• Add cypress UI tests around the Graph page Display menu
• Add cypress UI tests around the Services List page
• Improve Kiali server release pipeline using Github Actions
• Improve Kiali operator release pipeline using Github Actions
• Improve Helm charts release pipeline using Github Actions
• Improve Kiali site release pipeline using Github Actions

Fixes:

• Remove Snyk and consolidate on GitHub Dependabot
• Update operator’s Ansible base image
• Quite some logging
• Clean expired clients
• Minor Demo and Tutorial enhancements
• Fix to Destination Rule validation (.svc)
• Fix to Virtual Service YAML display

1.49.0

Sprint Release: April 8th, 2022

Features:

• Auth: Phase out usage of JWTs
• Kiali UI and Kiali Server can point to a single commit
• Add cypress UI tests around the Overview page
• Update Prometheus client lib
• Transfer frontend repo into kiali repo
• Hack script to create a Kind cluster in CI
• Feature flag to disable log browser
• Support Gateways workloads in user namespaces
• add the ability to add annotations to configmap.yaml

Fixes:

• ui crash with no gateways
• UI messages at INFO level look just like ERROR level messages
• fatal error: concurrent map writes

1.48.0

Sprint Release: March 18th, 2022

Features:

• Research a new Graph layout to support large topologies
• Improve the side panel in the Istio Config editor
• Reduce the number of requests to fetch health data on list pages
• Improve the representation of edges and connections in large topologies
• Add help messages for DestinationRules
• Add help messages for RequestAuthentications
• Add help messages for Gateways
• Add help messages for AuthorizationPolicies
• Add help messages for WorkloadGroups
• Add help messages for WorkloadEntries
• Add help messages for Sidecars
• Add help messages for ServiceEntries
• Add help messages for EnvoyFilters
• Reduce the number of requests to fetch health data on detail pages
• Research workload/service label filters on Graph
• Add help messages for VirtualServices
• Ensure all validations has object references
• Base side panel redesign for Istio config objects
• Improve crossnamespace Istio Gateways query in ServiceDetailsPage
• Envoy metrics look broken
• Develop a mock backend server for local UI work in scalability scenarios
• feat(multitenancy): support additional metric label for prometheus

Fixes:

• Sidecar Validations - Workloads should be from local namespace
• Gateway details warning - Missing validation reference
• Kiali graph is not working with disabled Istio’s /debug endpoints
• Mismatched Node Graph Type breaks UI in Application
• Misconfigured istiod_deployment_name causes a panic
• Namespace with External Registry Service only - UI Error Loading services
• Service List - Missing Configuration status
• “Could not fetch services list” Error
• KIA0003 for multiple Request Authentication
• Duration dropdown showing invalid durations
• Kiali shows KIA0701 for istio-system debug ports - but should not
• Istio Config List - Configuration icon load inconsistency
• cannot use a custom secret for Kiali identity
• Improve protection against graph numbers that are actually string variables
• Fix time selection issue in replay custom startTime picker

1.47.0

Sprint Release: February 25th, 2022

Features:

• Allow dynamic markers on editor according to Istio config object
• Introduce “preview” mode in Istio Config actions
• Add Istio Config Preview under wizard actions under istio config page
• Refactor Kiali Validations to better use the Istio registry information
• Refactor Kiali Validations according to Istio Registry usage model for listing Configs and Services
• Add Istio Config Preview under wizard actions under service details page
• Add graph generator for creating mock graph data

Fixes:

• (operator) CSV should define skipRange
• namespace excludes default regexes should only filter out namespaces that “starts-with” the patterns.
• Fix “xxx is not found as xxx” issue

1.46.0

Sprint Release: February 4th, 2022

Features:

• Add prerequisites in quick-start kiali.io to try kiali
• Create and sync namespace caches on startup
• publish the auto-generated docs for the kiali cr
• Instrument Kiali server with Jaeger
• Deprecate Iter8 extension in favor of a new model
• Validations: Support exportTo field

Fixes:

• Gateway Validation References - Contains self reference
• invalid link in kiali.io doc page istio.md
• Graph hide can hang browser when zoomed out enough to hide labels
• auth is broken according to molecule tests
• Trend lines feature broken in master

1.45.0

Sprint Release: January 14th, 2022

Features:

• Hide graph labels that are too small to read
• Add preview mode in overview page
• Graph: Correctly badge service nodes with the VS/Route icon
• (graph) Enable namespace and cluster boxing by default
• tests should use latest minikube and dex to keep up to date
• Support exportTo validation in ServicesEntries
• (operator) update operator to base image 1.10.1 (4.9)

Fixes:

• Jaeger http legacy protocol has problems in master
• Adjust font style in trace details comparison map
• fast click Idle Nodes (or other graph display options) can break UI
• Missing “KIA1106 More than one Virtual Service for same host” for cross-namespace cases
• Minigraph navigation broken
• “KIA1102 VirtualService is pointing to a non-existent gateway” shown only once.
• Wrong KIA1106 “More than one Virtual Service for same host”
• Number of regex.Compile() calls in multi_match_checker scales quadratically with hosts checked
• “Could not fetch services list” Error in Service view when selecting some namespaces
• Molecule “api-test” failure in graph generation on ossm 2.1
• Validations and TLS Endpoints Very Slow
• Reconciliation may fail when removing a namespace from a cluster immediately after removing it from spec.deployment.accessible_namespaces
• k8s service appProtocol is no reflected in config checks

1.44.0

Sprint Release: December 3rd, 2021

Features:

• Correct graph edge for Pod to Pod communication using destination_workload
• Make istiod ports configurable in kiali
• Support rootNamespace: administrative namespace for istio config
• Support rootNamespace in Peer Authentication validations
• Support rootNamespace in Sidecar validations
• access ingress_enabled for now to support older CRs
• Include an explanation about the lack of health information for TCP services (like a database)
• (operator) implement best practice guidelines to support multi-tenant installations
• Upgrade kubernetes/client-go version and update beta interfaces for workloads

Fixes:

• KIA1105: Virtual service routes may not point to any subset
• Possible memory leak in /api/istio/status endpoint
• Documentation doesn’t show how to configure Kiali

1.43.0

Sprint Release: November 12nd, 2021

Features:

• Allow Kiali Graphs to show EgressGateway traffic to ServiceEntry
• (Feature Request) Support mounting existing secret into Kiali Pod
• Calculate graph importance score
• Validations - Ensure ServiceEntry has WorkloadEntry addresses
• Support getting the root namespace from Istio configuration
• ingress created by Kiali CR does not include ingress class - need new deployment.ingress setting

Please note this introduces a backward-incompatible change. Users with the prior ingress settings defined in their Kiali CR will need to make an update. Other users are not affected. The previous ingress settings were:

deployment:
  ingress_enabled: <true|false>
  override_ingress_yaml:
    ...the override yaml here...

This has been changed to the following:

deployment:
  ingress:
    enabled: <true|false>
    override_yaml:
      ...the override yaml here...

• Update kiali.io docs to Kiali 1.36+
• Google OIDC allowed domains
• Include ServiceAccount info across console
• Add information about Istio overhead

Fixes:

• Workload Entry graph nodes display only “latest” version
• Kiali Documentation link from Master Head seems broken
• Crash in onCopy button in Envoy tab editors
• “More than one Gateway for the same host port combination” even with different ports
• Workload pod proxy logs shows details for Envoy app logging

1.42.0

Sprint Release: October 22nd, 2021

Features:

• Migrate to Docsy for kiali.io theme
• Add strong type mapping in Istio Kiali model
• Show mirroring info or badge on the graph
• Add a “Trendlines” option in the metrics tab
• Show gateway in istio config
• Add Sidecars on “Create Traffic Policies” namespace action
• Ability to pass custom headers to httputil.Post
• Add hostAliases field to kiali deployment manifests
• Kiali Istio dashboards incompatible with thanos-query

Fixes:

• URL parameters not persisted in inbound/outbound metric tabs
• Include Mesh Gateway in Create Traffic Routing - causes failure
• Potential Memory Leak in UI AuthenticationController
• More Sidecars on Configuration
• “missing span root” in graph side panel

1.41.0

Sprint Release: October 1st, 2021

Features:

• Add help for Graph shortcuts
• Add custom label aggregation in metrics tab
• Kiali Operator - Add ability to specify image SHA in Kiali CRs
• Improve discovery matcher process for Custom Dashboards
• Add SRE style metrics in the Overview namespace chart
• Be able to set the logging level for istio and envoy logs from Kiali UI
• Custom HTTP headers when connecting to Prometheus
• Display Envoy tab for workloads running Istio Proxy without Sidecar

Fixes:

• Workload page displays an error when accessing VirtualMachineInstance resource
• WorkloadEntry workload graph nodes have broken link
• Mesh internal ServiceEntry should be grouped in app box with workloads
• Error loading Graph - Namespace (kube-state-metrics) is excluded for Kiali
• Workloads flap between OK and Not Ready w/ Argo Rollout CR
• Unable to edit IstioConfig
• Kiali loading icon seems broken
• seg fault in IsMaistra status (found in Kiali v1.40.0)
• ansible option we use in operator code is being renamed

1.40.0

Sprint Release: September 10th, 2021

Features:

• Support exportTo validation in VirtualServices
• Add graph Factory Reset button
• Add help tooltip in the metrics tab
• Add info/tooltip on virtual service that doesn’t have a gateways section
• Support the new istio injection label
• Add indication if certificates are managed by Citadel or external tool
• Distinguish between VM based workloads and pod based workloads on the graph
• Identify and label WorkloadEntry graph nodes
• ci-kind-molecule-tests.sh should support installing OLM and testing with OLM-installed operator
• Docs and scripts regarding secrets and service accounts might need to be updated

Fixes:

• (validations) Don’t show KIA0203 when there are no VS referencing the DR subset
• Kiali Operator: Pods attempt to use auth secret when external service disabled
• Not able to build Molecule image
• Metrics charts can be too thin
• Some graph settings do not have query parms - can’t bookmark pages
• Workload’s page Actions dropdown is clickable in view_only_mode
• CRUD Permissions on events
• Kiali Login error when Prometheus fails to start

1.39.0

Sprint Release: August 20th, 2021

Features:

• generate metrics for validators
• (molecule) run molecule tests using a KinD cluster
• Remote cluster functionality should be configurable
• Update Kiali UI to latest Node.js LTS version
• Add a Molecule test to verify Grafana integration
• (operator) perform true “can_i” check to confirm the operator has correct permissions

Fixes:

• grafana-test fails - cannot look up grafana url successfully
• route created by operator doesn’t seem right
• Jaeger traces & spans fetching error

1.38

1.38.1

Mid-Sprint Release: August 6th, 2021

Fixes:

• Issues with clustering discovery
• Scripts not loading (404) on openid_error when Kiali is hosted in a subfolder (web_root: /kiali)
• Jaeger traces & spans fetching error
• helm-charts and istio addons doesn’t have default grafana in_cluster_url defined

1.38.0

Sprint Release: July 30th, 2021

Features:

• New badge/visualization for hostnames in Graph
• Enhanced logs viewing and correlation
• bump operator to newer minor-release of base image
• Add validation for “exportTo” fields of VirtualService, ServiceEntry
• Feature Request: Disable certain validations
• Display traffic scenario badges when present
• gRPC Streaming traffic
• Consider using tcp_received telemetry for graph generation
• community OLM metadata moving to new repos
• trivial case change to disconnected annotation value in operator metadata
• document the new dashboard annotations
• clean up upstream istio kiali addon install doc
• Display custom dashboards with more than two rows of graphs inside the card
• test custom dashboard overrides
• Use annotations to personalize CustomDashboards

Fixes:

• Scripts not loading (404) on openid_error when Kiali is hosted in a subfolder (web_root: /kiali)
• Issues with clustering discovery
• (operator) Playbook “create additional kiali labels…” fails due to unquoted string in label
• grafana links missing
• ERR GetAppTraces, Jaeger GRPC client error: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection closed
• molecule tests need to wait for CRD to be established
• Add missing warning on VirtualService “exportTo” field
• Exposing workloads with ServiceEntries makes Kiali show non-existing Services
• Cannot fetch proxy status on Istio master (1.11)

1.37.0

Sprint Release: July 9th, 2021

Features:

• Support for custom istio injection labels and values
• Metrics page: select all/none filter
• Add Gateway/VirtualService hostnames in Service details
• Add gateway validation to VirtualServices
• Services list should show when a VirtualService/DestinationRule is applied
• Unify style attribute for config validation icons
• (multi-cluster) Enhance support for mesh deployment models
• Add help icon in Wizards
• Support for custom CA certificates in OpenID authentication

Fixes:

• The namespaces that begins with kube are hidden but those should be OK
• Repeated queries on CustomMetrics
• kiali Cannot load the graph “invalid character ’d' looking for beginning of value”
• Duplicated application container on Workload Logs tab
• Metrics Settings are kept but not applied when switching metrics tabs
• (perf) pr #3975 introduced perf regression for /api/namespaces/bookinfo/services/details/graph endpoint
• Tooltip span not available

1.36.0

Sprint Release: June 18th, 2021

Features:

• Connect Listeners and Routes in the Envoy Config modal
• remove istio_component_namespaces config
• Research Metrics tab main layout
• Display throughput on the graph edges
• Move Envoy Details to Workload Details
• Pod table should reflect any container crash
• Consolidate Dashboards CRDs into main Kiali config, also handled via Kiali Operator
• convert community OLM metadata to new bundle format
• Add to graph indicator for Kiali scenarios
• move the support for old versions to CRD v1 when appropriate
• Internal metrics revisit

Fixes:

• Difference between App and Workload healths - causing inconsistency in Overview
• Wrong Health info at Service level
• Trace graph tooltip truncates long hostnames
• Circuit Breaker Badge is missing in the Graph
• clean up hack/istio/bookinfo* resources
• Health popover disappearing
• (helm)(operator) do not use deprecated Ingress kind - update to latest apiVersion
• Graph replay health is not correct
• Molecule tests broken for podman 3
• Possible false positive reported as violating KIA0202
• horizontal scroll problem on graph side panel trace tab detail