easegress-v2.0.0

v2.0.0 (2022-07-07)

Easegress v2.0.0 is now released. This is the second major release of Easegress.
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Docker image

• docker pull megaease/easegress:v2.0.0

What's new?

Significant changes in Easegress 2.0:

• Protocol Independent Pipeline
  • One pipeline implementation for all protocols, such as HTTP, MQTT, TCP, etc.
  • All protocols in one pipeline instance.
• Decoupling of control logic and business logic.
  • Resilence filters are removed and resilience policies are now defined in the pipeline.
  • Resilience policies are injected into filters that support resilience, e.g. the Proxy filter.
• Multiple APIs Orchestration.
  • Multiple requests and responses can be used during processing.
  • Add filters RequestBuilder and ResponseBuilder, new requests and responses can be easily created based on the existing requests and responses.

Detailed Changes

• pipeline

  • protocol-independent pipeline, Pipeline replaces HTTPPipeline, MQTTPipeline and etc.
  • add RequestBuilder filter, ResponseBuilder filter and built-in filter END.
  • add the support of namespace.
  • add the support of filter alias.
  • remove Retryer, CircuitBreaker and TimeLimiter filters, and add support of resilience policies on the pipeline.

• resilience

  • resilience policies can be easily reused, they are defined on pipeline and injected into filters that support resilience.

• tracing

  • tracing is now using Zipkin B3 format.

• cluster

  • drop the support of dynamic cluster management.
  • depreciated configuration method is removed.

Compatibility

Please note this release is not fully compatible with previous releases:

• please rename HTTPPipeline to Pipeline.
• if you are using Retryer, CircuitBreaker, TimeLimiter, APIAggregator, please refer this document and this document to make necessary changes.
• please follow this document to migrate your filters to v2.0.
• PLEASE BACKUP YOUR v1.x INSTALLATION BEFORE UPGRADING TO v2.0.