1.2.0 (March 7, 2017)

Changes

• Cluster discovery service (CDS) API.

• Outlier detection (passive health checking).

• Envoy configuration is now checked against a JSON schema.

• Ring hash consistent load balancer, as well as HTTP consistent hash routing based on a policy.

• Vastly enhanced global rate limit configuration via the HTTP rate limiting filter.

• HTTP routing to a cluster retrieved from a header.

• Weighted cluster HTTP routing.

• Auto host rewrite during HTTP routing.

• Regex header matching during HTTP routing.

• HTTP access log runtime filter.

• LightStep tracer parent/child span association.

• Route discovery service (RDS) API.

• HTTP router x-envoy-upstream-rq-timeout-alt-response header support.

• use_original_dst and bind_to_port listener options (useful for iptables based transparent proxy support).

• TCP proxy filter route table support.

• Configurable stats flush interval.

• Various third party library upgrades, including using BoringSSL as the default SSL provider.

• No longer maintain closed HTTP/2 streams for priority calculations. Leads to substantial memory savings for large meshes.

• Numerous small changes and fixes not listed here.