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KrakenD 0.8 released
by Albert Lombarte
KrakenD 0.8 is a significant release as it brings numerous code changes and functionality. The framework brings +100 commits, the gateway +50 commits and even more changes in the components. A lot of refactoring and component updates has taken place. The big picture is a move from a single binary application to become a package with several internal binaries.
See the details below.
KrakenD framework
The KrakenD framework brings +100 commits compared to 0.7. Several changes in the router functionality have been done: two new routers are available, being Chi and httpmux. Also, the Mux router has now the same features that the Gin router had (like multi-method). The router changes have been driven mostly thanks to the community.
The most significant changes are:
- New routers! Chi and httpmux
- Mux based routers add multiple methods in same URL pattern (thanks to the Mail.ru team, Спасибо!). Mux based features now are like the Gin’s ones
- Added integration tests that complement the existing unit tests.
- Mixing mandatory and optional query strings parameters is now possible
- Error interface added
- Shadow backends or Traffic mirroring is now available
- Improved response headers
- Bugfixing in sequential backends (cascading requests)
- A detailed HTTP executor
Link to 0.8.0 release notes
KrakenD API Gateway
The KrakenD API Gateway binary comes with all the framework updates and all the component changes (listed in krakend-contrib), which is a considerable list!.
The project has split into a package for building the CE gateway and several binaries. It also brings now tons of integration tests!
The summary of changes is:
- Updated to Go 1.12
- Many improvements on the logging:
- Startup logs
- GELF formatter
- Logstash logger integration
- Added logging to the circuit breaker to warn every time the circuit is opened/closed (Thanks to Letgo, gràcies!)
- Metrics log removed
- Forbidden and unauthorized responses
- New CEL module (JWT, request, and response), see below
- Client headers are now case insensitive
- Added a wildcard option to forward all query strings and headers to the backend
- Possibility to include error details into the response
- Etcd client updated to 3.3
- Influx client updated
- Reuse OAuth2 client sessions
- JWK client supports local CA
- Chained token rejecters
Between 0.7 and 0.8, we published an intermediate release 0.7.1 which only updated Go to 1.11.5. This release was to make sure the crypto/elliptic Go bug didn’t affect KrakenD.
Link to 0.8.0 release notes
Middleware and other features
New middleware, changes and other components for KrakenD worth mentioning.
- CEL module (docs): A new component to add additional logic using the Common Expression Language.
Components upgraded:
- Circuit breaker
- Influx
- Etcd
- Rate Limit
- Metrics
- Oauth2
- JOSE
- Spew
- NewRelic
- Opencensus
- Logrus
- Logstash
- Consul
- XML
- RSS
- gRPC
- Bloomfilter
All the middleware and components are listed in our krakend-contrib repository.
Contributors
Special thanks to individuals of the open source community who helped us with this release, shown in no particular order:
- Rafa Gómez
- Pavel Mozhchil
- Aldi Perdana
- Alexander Babenko
- Ildar Usmanov
- Felipe Astroza Araya
- 谢灼贤
- Ricardo Moreira
Join now our #krakend channel at Gophers on Slack.
Enjoy KrakenD!
