Release Notes for 3.3.0

DevOps

Features

• Add the Continuous Deployment feature, which supports GitOps and uses Argo CD as the backend, and users can view the status of continuous deployments in real time.
• Add the allowlist feature on the Basic Information page of a DevOps project to restrict the target repository and deployment location for continuous deployments.
• Add support for importing and managing code repositories.
• Add support for built-in CRD-based pipeline templates and parameter customization.
• Add support for viewing pipeline events.

Storage

Features

• Add support for tenant-level storage class permission management.
• Add the volume snapshot content management and volume snapshot class management features.
• Add support for automatic restart of deployments and statefulsets after a PVC has been changed.
• Add the PVC auto expansion feature, which automatically expands PVCs when remaining capacity is insufficient.

Multi-tenancy and Multi-cluster

Features

• Add a notification to remind users when the kubeconfig certificate of a cluster is about to expire.
• Add the kubesphere-config configmap, which provides the name of the current cluster.
• Add support for cluster-level member and role management.

Observability

Features

• Add process and thread monitoring metrics for containers.
• Add disk monitoring metrics that provide usage of each disk.
• Add support for importing Grafana templates to create custom monitoring dashboards of a namespace scope.
• Add support for defining separate data retention periods for container logs, resource events, and audit logs.

Enhancements & Updates

• Upgrade Alertmanager from v0.21.0 to v0.23.0.
• Upgrade Grafana from 7.4.3 to 8.3.3.
• Upgrade kube-state-metrics from v1.9.7 to v2.3.0.
• Upgrade node-exporter from v0.18.1 to v1.3.1.
• Upgrade Prometheus from v2.26.0 to v2.34.0.
• Upgrade Prometheus Operator from v0.43.2 to v0.55.1.
• Upgrade kube-rbac-proxy from v0.8.0 to v0.11.0.
• Upgrade configmap-reload from v0.3.0 to v0.5.0.
• Upgrade Thanos from v0.18.0 to v0.25.2.
• Upgrade kube-events from v0.3.0 to v0.4.0.
• Upgrade Fluent Bit Operator from v0.11.0 to v0.13.0.
• Upgrade Fluent Bit from v1.8.3 to v1.8.11.

KubeEdge Integration

Features

• Add support for logging in to common cluster nodes and edge nodes from the KubeSphere web console.

Enhancements & Updates

• Upgrade KubeEdge from v1.7.2 to v1.9.2.
• Remove EdgeWatcher.

Network

Enhancements & Updates

• Integrate OpenELB with KubeSphere for exposing LoadBalancer services.

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue where the gateway of a project is not deleted after the project is deleted.

App Store

Bug Fixes

• Fix a ks-controller-manager crash caused by Helm controller NPE errors.

Authentication & Authorization

Features

• Add support for manually disabling and enabling users.

User Experience

• Add a prompt when the audit log of Kubernetes has been enabled.
• Add the lifecycle management feature for containers.
• Add support for creating container environment variables in batches from secrets and configmaps.
• Add a time range selector on the Traffic Monitoring tab page.
• Add a message in the Audit Log Search dialog, which prompts users to enable the audit logs feature.
• Add more Istio parameters in ClusterConfiguration.
• Add support for more languages, for example, Turkish.
• Set the Token parameter on the webhook settings page as mandatory.
• Prevent passwords without uppercase letters set through the backend CLI.
• Fix an issue where no data is displayed on the Traffic Management and Tracing tab pages in a multi-cluster project.
• Fix an app installation failure, which occurs when users click buttons too fast.
• Fix an issue where container probes are still displayed after they are deleted.
• Fix an issue where statefulset creation fails when a volume is mounted to an init container.
• Prevent ks-apiserver and ks-controller-manager from restarting when the cluster configuration is changed.
• Optimize some UI texts.
• Optimize display of the service topology on the Service page.

For more information about issues and contributors of KubeSphere 3.3.0, see GitHub.

Thanks for the feedback. If you have a specific question about how to use KubeSphere, ask it on Slack. Open an issue in the GitHub repo if you want to report a problem or suggest an improvement.