v2.8.2

This is a bug fix release.

In particular, the feature of Throughput Samplers known as UseClusterSize did not work, leading to odd results. This release fixes that problem.

It also allows the new SendKey feature to be controlled with environment variables and the command line.

2.8.2 2024-09-13

Changes

• fix: assertion for ClusterSizer (#1329) | Yingrong Zhao
• feat: Allow SendKey to be set via command line and env var (#1323) | Mike Goldsmith
• feat: add SendKey envvar config metadata (#1331) | Yingrong Zhao
• maint: run smoke test in CI (#1316) | Yingrong Zhao

v2.8.1

2.8.1 2024-09-05

This is a bugfix update; it replaces v2.8.0, which has been withdrawn.

These release notes incorporate all of the 2.8.0 updates as well.

This release has many features designed to help manage and operate Refinery at scale.
It also includes some features to help in writing sampling rules (in and not-in operators, root.)
See full details in the Release Notes.

Features

• feat: add IN operator (#1302) | Kent Quirk
• feat: support layered (multiple) configuration files (#1301) | Kent Quirk
• feat: Add a cache to the cache (#1296) | Kent Quirk
• feat: support configure refinery to use redis in cluster mode (#1294) | Yingrong Zhao
• feat: allow root. in field list for dynamic sampler (#1275) | Yingrong Zhao
• feat: redistribute traces on peer membership changes (#1268) | Yingrong Zhao
• feat: Add SpanLimit (includes some config changes) (#1266) | Kent Quirk
• feat: redistribute remaining traces during shutdown (#1261) | Yingrong Zhao
• feat: Allow more complex key behavior (#1263) | Kent Quirk
• feat: unregister peer asap on shutdown (#1260) | Yingrong Zhao

Fixes

• fix: load peer list in sharder once manually on startup (#1314) | Yingrong Zhao*
• fix: periodically clean up recent_dropped_traces cache (#1312) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: revert the revert -- that wasn't the problem (#1311) | Kent Quirk
• fix: revert "Use HTTP/2 for all upstream and peer-to-peer connections… (#1310) | Kent Quirk
• fix: join peer list only after refinery is ready to accept traffic (#1309) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: use float histogram for otel metrics (#1303) | Kent Quirk
• fix: escape use input in debug route (#1299) | Tyler Helmuth
• fix: use trace.DescendantCount for span limit (#1297) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: support TLS connections to Redis (#1285) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: only set send reason to span limit if it's configured (#1290) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: record previous value of sampler counter metrics so they report correctly (#1281) | Kent Quirk
• fix: set up tls for redis when it's enabled | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: don't read more than max bytes from a request (#1282) | Kent Quirk
• fix: allow draining traces even if only 1 peer left (#1278) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: record sample rate in decision cache during stress relief (#1273) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: SpanLimit shouldn't add SendDelay (#1272) | Kent Quirk
• fix: Use HTTP/2 for all upstream and peer-to-peer connections (#1269) | Irving Popovetsky

Maintenance

• maint: Add some extra logging to pubsub systems (#1308) | Kent Quirk
• maint: Add warning about cli flags (#1293) | Tyler Helmuth
• maint: Delete unused Dockerfile (#1292) | Tyler Helmuth
• maint: add a docker'd Redis TLS local setup (#1291) | Robb Kidd
• maint: change default for MaxSendMsgSize and MaxRcvMsgSize. (#1289) | Kent Quirk
• maint: use non-forked cuckoofilter again (#1287) | Kent Quirk
• maint(deps): bump the minor-patch group with 13 updates (#1304) | dependabot[bot]
• maint(deps): bump the minor-patch group with 4 updates (#1262) | dependabot[bot]
• refactor: Remove error returns from config functions, fix tests. (#1259) | Kent Quirk
• docs: fix CacheCapacity documentation (#1267) | Kent Quirk

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.8.1

v2.7.1

2.7.1 2024-08-15

This is a bug fix release.
Sending compressed event or batch payloads that are larger than 5MB will now result in a HTTP 400 "failed to parse event" error response to clients.

Fixes

• fix: don't read more than max bytes from a request (#1276) | Kent Quirk

v2.7.0

2.7.0 2024-07-29

This release incorporates a new publish/subscribe (pubsub) system for faster and cleaner communication between Refinery nodes.
In particular, the way Refinery uses Redis has changed.
See full details in the Release Notes.

Features

• feat: Add metrics to pubsub and peers (#1226) | Kent Quirk
• feat: add otel tracing support for Refinery internal operations (#1218) | Yingrong Zhao
• feat: Add some useful generics (#1206) | Kent Quirk
• feat: gossip config reload information (#1241) | Kent Quirk
• feat: Health/Ready system imported from R3 (#1231) | Kent Quirk
• feat: peer management on pubsub via callbacks (#1220) | Kent Quirk
• feat: track config hash on config reload (#1212) | Yingrong Zhao
• feat: use pub/sub for stress relief (#1221) | Yingrong Zhao
• feat: Working, tested, but unused pubsub system (#1205) | Kent Quirk

Fixes

• fix: add injection tags for configwatcher (#1246) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: add peer logging, add debug log of peers (#1239) | Kent Quirk
• fix: allow a single node to activate stress relief mode during significant load increase (#1256) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: allow sending otel tracing to non honeycomb backend (#1219) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: Change pubsub interface to use callbacks. (#1217) | Kent Quirk
• fix: clean up a print line (#1250) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: FilePeers implies no Redis (#1251) | Kent Quirk
• fix: make sure stress relief pub/sub topic is consistent (#1245) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: make sure to inject Health object as a pointer (#1237) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: Record hashes at startup in metrics (#1252) | Kent Quirk
• fix: reduce pub/sub messages from stress relief (#1248) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: remove otel-config-go as a dependency (#1240) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: remove personal api keys (#1253) | Kent Quirk
• fix: Root spans must have a non-empty parent ID field (#1236) | Mike Goldsmith
• fix: sharder should use peer identity from Peers package (#1249) | Yingrong Zhao

Maintenance

• docs: Tweak docs for reload (#1247) | Kent Quirk
• docs: update vulnerability reporting process (#1224) | [Robb Kidd](https://github.com/Robb Kidd)
• maint: add instrumentation for GoRedisPubSub (#1229) | Yingrong Zhao
• maint: Add jitter to peer traffic, fix startup (#1227) | Kent Quirk
• maint: change targeted arch to arm for local development Dockerfile (#1228) | Yingrong Zhao
• maint: last changes before the final release prep (#1254) | Kent Quirk
• maint: update doc based on config changes (#1243) | Yingrong Zhao
• maint: Update licenses (#1244) | [Tyler Helmuth](https://github.com/Tyler Helmuth)
• maint(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.64.0 to 1.64.1 (#1223) | dependabot[bot]
• maint(deps): bump the minor-patch group across 1 directory with 9 updates (#1232) | dependabot[bot]

v2.6.1

What's Changed

🐛 Fixes

• fix: Don’t consider log events as root spans by @MikeGoldsmith in #1208

🛠 Maintenance

• maint(deps): bump the minor-patch group with 9 updates by @dependabot in #1198

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.6.1

v2.6.0

What's Changed

💡 Enhancements

• feat: Add OTLP log endpoints (gRPC & HTTP) by @MikeGoldsmith in #1187
• feat: Allow URL encoded dataset in libhoney endpoint paths by @MikeGoldsmith in #1199

🛠 Maintenance

• maint: bump Husky to v0.30.0 by @TylerHelmuth in #1190
• maint: bump libhoney-go to v1.23.0 by @MikeGoldsmith in #1192
• maint: Bump libhoney-go to v1.23.1 by @MikeGoldsmith in #1200

Full Changelog: v2.5.2...v2.6.0

v2.5.2

Release v2.5.2 2024-05-22

This release fixes a race condition in OTel Metrics that caused Refinery to crash.
This update is recommended for everyone who has OTelMetrics enabled.

Fixes

• fix: correct race condition in OTel metrics (#1165) | Kent Quirk

Thanks to Joshua Jones for the bug report and diagnosis.

v2.5.1

2.5.1 2024-05-15

Fixes

• fix: Clarify what has-root-span does (#1114) | Phillip Carter
• fix: Add validation for ingest keys (#1066) | Kent Quirk
• fix: Deal with locking issues at startup (#1060) | Kent Quirk
• fix: Update cache lookup to use read lock (#1145) | Joshua Jones

Maintenance

• maint: Bump protobuf (#1058) | Kent Quirk
• maint(deps): bump the minor-patch group with 4 updates (#1073) | dependabot[bot]

v2.5.0

v2.5.0 2024-03-12

The main feature is support of Honeycomb Classic ingest keys; there is also a performance improvement for the new
root. rule feature, and a new metric to track traces dropped by rules.

Features

• feat: new metric for drops caused by rules (#1047) | Kent Quirk
• feat: Shortcut evaluation of rules containing 'root.' (#1018) | Kent Quirk
• feat: support Classic Ingest Keys (#1043) | Jason Harley

Fixes

• fix: change validation type for PeerManagement.Peers to be url (#1046) | Yingrong Zhao
• fix: defaulttrue now shows up in docs as bool (#1045) | Kent Quirk
• fix: Support 'none' as a logger type (#1034) | Kent Quirk

Maintenance

• maint: add labels to release.yml for auto-generated grouping (#1042) | Jamie Danielson
• maint(deps): bump the minor-patch group with 12 updates (#1030) | dependabot[bot]
• maint: group minor/patch dep updates (#1028) | Alex Boten

v2.4.3

A bug fix release for a regression introduced in the 2.4.2 bug fix release. It was possible to trigger 500 errors in Refinery's OTLP error responses when sending traces in an unsupported content-type. This release is a recommended upgrade for anyone sending OTLP data to Refinery.

🐛 Fixes

• fix: upgrade husky to handle and add tests for invalid content type errors (#1019) | Mike Goldsmith & Robb Kidd

Full Changelog: v2.4.2...v2.4.3