KrakenD 1.2.0 released

🚀 Summary of changes for CEv1.2

KrakenD 1.2.0 adds a health endpoint, array manipulation, safejson encoding, Datadog integration, JWT claims as url parameters, and many other features and bugfixes.

• Added a /__health endpoint
• Removed the wording whitelist and blacklist from all our products (#BlackLivesMatter)
• Datadog integration
• Array manipulation available after merging multiple backends
• All KRAKEND_-like environment vars to override configuration
• A lot of small features and bugfixes
• Flatmap (array manipulation) now also at endpoint level
• Removed wording with racist connotations whitelist and blacklist. Now using allow and deny instead.
• Upgrade go to 1.15.
• support for the append operation added
• Added a new supported encoding safejson
• support for nested targets added
• Client plugin example fixed
• Do not copy nil readers on no-op
• Nested sequential params
• Clone also the request body in the CloneRequest method
• The /__debug/ endpoint accepts now any method
• Use the weight of the SRV record to generate the list of hosts when resolving a service name
• Decompress gzipped responses before parsing them
• Added a /__health endpoint
• Ability to use collections in sequential proxy as input (collection filters)
• Support using JWT claims as backend url params
• Mutual TLS between KrakenD and clients added
• Check that headers aren’t nil on Lua scripts
• Pub/sub module ignores empty hosts
• Lua scripts can now send custom errors
• The RunServer can be injected into the executor builder
• Integration test for CORS with auto-redirects added
• CORS mw for gin removed and added as a RunServer wrapper so it’s always executed
• Support for namespaced custom claims added
• Added more integration tests
• Bad request status code added on JSON Schema validation
• Configuration can be overriden with KRAKEND_-like environment vars
• Integration with Datadog
• Add ca-certificates as dependency on debian
• Allow “sequential proxy” to work with a POST, PUT and DELETE if there are only GET methods before (thanks to Alphyron)
• Updated CEL engine with more features
• Added a label name to circuit breakers to identify activity from different circuits in the logs and traces.
• XML encoder supports now ISO-8859-1 encoding (in addition to UTF8)

Upgrading to the latest version is always advised.