Release Notes#

This document contains release notes for changes to Montplex Cache for each version up to July 5, 2024.

July 5, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• When creating a Runtime, the number of worker nodes is now automatically calculated based on the total memory in the availability zone.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed the total memory display on the Cache expansion page.
• Fixed inconsistency between the frontend Cache status and backend running status.
• Fixed incorrect display of hit rate monitoring metrics.
• Fixed an issue where the maintenance end time was not displayed when initializing Runtime with multiple version numbers provided.

June 25, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added display of member count and Cache count to the project list.
• Adjusted monitoring metrics and added some new metrics.
• Adjusted invitation logic so that only Organization Owners or Project Owners can invite users.
• Adjusted project deletion logic so that only Organization Owners can delete projects.
• Updated official website documentation.
• For Kubernetes readiness probe, replaced redis-ping with mc-ping for more granular status control.
• Added MCGI migration interface for active replacement of EKS nodes.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Moved the Cache underlying resource Runtime to a top-level menu item.
• Optimized the issue where the Cache list in a project was not automatically displayed when switching projects.
• Fixed an issue where Owners in an organization could not view security credentials.
• Fixed an issue where Owners in an organization could not delete other Owners.
• Adjusted the logic for Owners in an organization deleting themselves - they can no longer delete themselves.
• Fixed some minor bugs related to mc-server pre-launch and slot migration.

June 9, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Restructured the console pages and permission system, adding a layered structure of organizations and projects to manage underlying Cache resources.
• Added permission access system for organizations, projects, and users.
• Modified the content of user invitation emails.
• Adjusted the S3 BUCKET to be a dropdown list when creating Runtime resources.
• Controlled the kubernetes service selector for switching POD traffic.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Added unit display for Runtime resource monitoring metrics.
• Fixed error reporting for parameter exceptions when creating Runtime resources.
• Added display of VPC attributes for Runtime.

May 24, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added 'Playground' feature to Montplex Console. This allows users to test Montplex Cache without registering an account.
• Adjusted Region selection list, excluding CN and GOV parts.
• Added Cache shard memory size to the Cache shard list.
• Added project name to Cache overview.
• Refactored mc-cluster sharding functionality.
• Automatically create ServiceAccount in each new kubernetes namespace for s3 permission control.
• mc-server pre-launch service assigns a monotonically increasing switch-id to each new POD.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed an issue where the last login time was not updated during login.

May 10, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Support for different VPCs within the same region.
• Added check for maximum memory limit per instance.
• Added mc-server-dict-train functionality for compression dictionary training on specific RDB data.
• Support for mc-server to handle hash data compression.
• Enhanced CI/CD to support generation of multi-platform docker images.
• Support for globally consistent slotmap update functionality.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Enabled new mc-server to replace old mc-server when mc-server status is abnormal.

April 26, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added support for proxy node group HPA.
• Added display of worker node group status.
• Correctly set mc-server loading and async-loading flags in mc-server start and duplication processes.
• Support for mc-server to handle string object compression.
• Support for mc-server pre-launch functionality in conjunction with mc-controller.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed checkpoint/restore functionality to ensure each restore never fails.
• Fixed timeout issue caused by slow deletion of aws objects when deleting clusters.

April 12, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added Montplex Cache proxy support for AWS EC2 spot instances. Administrators can set spot instance percentage in the console.
• Remove alarm rules when deleting runtime clusters.
• Support for mc-server slot migration process.
• Updated slot migration process.
• Added DNS resolution functionality to aof-proxy, supporting kubernetes service routing.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Changed memory limit of POD to 'Mi' instead of 'MB'.
• Fixed incorrect use of POD labels.

March 29, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• BYOC support for AWS IAM roles.
• Support for user-defined POD labels for specific targets.
• Support for simplified checkpoint task scheduling.
• Support for mc-server pre-launch process for quick switching between mc-servers.
• Separated core process of mc-server restore functionality from mc-server POD to reduce unnecessary memory usage.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed bug in slot migration process, correctly calculating aof sequence during mc-cluster scaling.

March 15, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added alarm module for monitoring cache status in BYOC.
• Updated mc-operator CRD Model to version 0.0.5.
• Support for POD node affinity configuration for selecting Kubernetes nodes.
• Added aof-proxy component for proxying real-time AOF message transmission between different mc-servers.
• Support for communication with mc-controller using http protocol.
• Code refactoring for libuv and file tailer.

March 1, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added business groups to manage users under the same account.
• Integrated with mc-operator, supporting mc-group CRD.
• Added Github Action configuration for CI/CD process.
• Support for POD service-account configuration for aws permission control.
• Added aof-sender component for loading AOF log files.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed bug in log data refresh.

January 19, 2024#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Modified build tool logic to reuse subnets when using the same availability zone.
• Support for automatic metadata database upgrade.
• log-center supports writing AOF data in SYNC mode.
• log-center supports writing AOF data in ASYNC mode.
• log-center supports checkpoint and subscribe commands.
• Support for refreshing AOF to EBS every 10ms.
• Support for automatic AOF splitting based on time and size.
• Support for GETAOFS and DELAOFS commands.
• Added dockerfile support for CI/CD process.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed monitoring bug in file tailer.

December 22, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added active monitoring module to BYOC to display runtime cluster status.
• Support for loading AOF files without writing to disk using FIFO.
• Support for communication between mc-migrator and mc-importer using custom message format.
• Support for MC SWITCH-PROTO command to switch between standard redis resp2 message format and mc custom message format.
• Added file tailer functionality to monitor local AOF file changes.

November 24, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Redesigned homepage.
• Refactored mc-server checkpoint/restore process.
• Refactored mc-migration process.
• Support for globally consistent slotmap update process with mc-controller.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed resource clearing issue.

October 27, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added proxy module and AWS load balancer to BYOC to support BYOC.
• Support for slot migration process, working with mc-server to complete slot migration.
• Support for libuv for asynchronous communication between mc-addons, and between mc-addons and mc-server.

September 29, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Provided Docker image of build tools for BYOC.
• Support for kubernetes containerization.
• Refactored checkpoint/restore process.
• Support for s3 AOF parallel upload.

September 15, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) functionality. Users can create Montplex Cache using their own cloud accounts.
• Added internal rpc-server for internal service communication.
• Support for checkpoint/restore process of mc-server.

August 18, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Implemented automatic failover.
• Added support for enterprise BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) option.
• Optimized and improved partial Redis compatibility.

July 9, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Montplex official website.
• Support for S3 AOF parallel download.

June 25, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added support for Beijing region on Alibaba Cloud.
• Added Redis Sentinel support for failover functionality.
• Support for Redis cluster functionality.
• Added isSubscription for logged-in users.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed error reporting issue for insufficient region length.

June 17, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Updated free version QPS limit to 1000 when creating Montplex Cache.
• Added email push system to remind users via email before free cache expires.
• Changed welcome email content.

June 10, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added cost monitoring to Montplex Console, updating total user consumption price daily.
• Changed Auth0 user password login to use Auth0 verification login.
• Added verification code verification functionality for first-time login.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed verification code issue during login testing.

June 3, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added Redis cache monitoring charts to Montplex Console, displaying key numbers, hit rate, memory usage, and QPS.
• Added throughput statistics to track read and write bytes.
• Added email verification process for first-time login users.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed issue where users registered with Auth0 login couldn't create cache normally after email verification.

May 27, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added capacity-based "pay-as-you-go" option, limited to 100M.
• Added throughput limit for cache instances created by free users, capacity limit of 1G, QPS limit of 5000.
• Added multi-availability zone support when creating Montplex Cache instances, including AWS us-east-1, ap-east-1, and ap-southeast-1.
• Set a limit of 5 serverless Montplex Cache instances for free users, each cache instance valid for 7 days.
• Integrated Auth0 login support, including GitHub and Google OAuth login options.

May 11, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Changed fee billing unit step to 100MB.
• Changed fee organization details list and cache service ID by month.
• Added sending welcome email on first login.

April 25, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added concept of primary availability zone.
• Added READ REDIS BY CIDR/LOW LATENCY DEMOS.
• Added fee bar payment interface.
• Added Stripe event Webhook API.

April 08, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Modified monthly billing logic for fees.
• Added Redis monitoring metrics report.
• Added functionality to modify Conf for management.
• Added tools for online quick upgrade or debugging.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed first month fee log issue.
• Fixed bug in getting region list.

March 23, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Refreshed cache service to etcd after Pod runs.
• Added cache service rename API.
• Added cache service list, including terminated ones.
• Added billing logic by organization.
• Changed Web server listening port.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed issue of generating token before pod status is complete.
• Fixed Dockerfile proxy script path issue.

March 08, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added cloud provider region list API interface.
• Added Auth0 logout functionality.
• Added Auth0 login functionality.
• Tested Webhook build.
• Added initialization code.

February 23, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added Engula www build/deploy steps.
• Changed CIDR block range for user selection.
• When creating dms cluster, need to set localIpFilterPre.
• Added need to add controller VPC security inbound rule to access DMS proxy.
• Added DB VPC security inbound rule for DB Connect.
• Added logic to delete subnet before deleting VPC.

January 18, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added deployment steps in README.
• Changed warning message to start with capital letter.
• Changed default configuration items for DMS proxy.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed SSH connection when password == ''.

January 5, 2023#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Used default security group/routing table after creating VPC.
• Added method to extract AWS resource user ID.
• Changed to always create VPC for one user/one region.
• Changed user creation application to input peering VPC/DB VPC CIDR blocks.

December 03, 2022#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added Record sql transaction support.
• Added EC2 termination functionality.
• Replica synchronization no longer requires setting cluster node of master (if one already exists).
• Added waiting mechanism after Peer Connection Accept.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed namespace uniqueness bug.

November 16, 2022#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added slave master auth configuration item.
• Wait for replica offset verification, supporting both replica changes and shard changes (replica > 0).
• Changed node ID string to not include cluster version.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed disabling failover if replica status is not normal.

November 01, 2022#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added ability for Web console to execute failover operations.
• Refactored extraction of GET EC2 AWS resource list/GET master resource list/GET replica.
• Added waiting for replica offset task completion. Skip immediately.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed Engula DMS cluster initialization. Node exporter needs to bind '/', skip conflict check.
• Fixed shard must be 1 when shutting down cluster.
• Fixed reduce shard after application creation (no last cluster version).

October 14, 2022#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Changed button display/hide depending on proxy status.
• Moved settings page view directory.
• Added MONT user CIDR block prefix when creating user.
• Changed user cidrBlockPrefix valid check rule.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed Linux packed JS file issue. Removed SWFOBJECT.

September 28, 2022#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Changed shard update button to only show when program is running.
• Changed job log view refresh to every 2 seconds.
• Changed Log4J2 default Appender to daily log file.
• Added node deletion. These nodes are not needed when shards/replicas are reduced.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed issue where previous job initialization object was not empty on job log view.

August 12, 2022#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added job logs, displaying job details.
• Displays log information when performing slot migration.
• Added functionality to wait and detect node status completion after creating EC2.

✨ Bug Fixes#

• Fixed Alive Checker Post result filter URI.

August 1, 2022#

✨ New or Improved Features#

• Added initial code.
• Added initial project README.
• Changed admin password encryption method.