open-nomad/CHANGELOG.md

0.4.0 (UNRELEASED)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• api: Tasks are no longer allowed to have slashes in their name [GH-1210]
• cli: Remove the eval-monitor command. Users should switch to nomad eval-status -monitor.
• config: Consul configuration has been moved from client options map to consul block under client configuration

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: Scheduler reuses blocked evaluations to avoid unbounded creation of evaluations under high contention [GH-1199]
• core: Scheduler stores placement failures in evaluations, no longer generating failed allocations for debug information [GH-1188]
• api: Faster JSON response encoding [GH-1182]
• api: Gzip compress HTTP API requests [GH-1203]
• api: Plan api introduced for the Job endpoint [GH-1168]
• api: Job endpoint can enforce Job Modify Index to ensure job is being modified from a known state [GH-1243]
• api/client: Add resource usage APIs for retrieving tasks/allocations/host resource usage [GH-1189]
• cli: Deprecate eval-monitor and introduce eval-status [GH-1206]
• cli: Unify the fs family of commands to be a single command [GH-1150]
• cli: Introduce nomad plan to dry-run a job through the scheduler and determine its effects [GH-1181]
• cli: node-status command displays host resource usage and allocation resources [GH-1261]
• cli: Region flag and environment variable introduced to set region forwarding. Automatic region forwarding for run and plan [GH-1237]
• client: If Consul is available, automatically bootstrap Nomad Client using the _nomad service in Consul. Nomad Servers now register themselves with Consul to make this possible. [GH-1201]
• drivers: Qemu and Java can be run without an artifact being download. Useful if the artifact exists inside a chrooted directory [GH-1262]
• driver/docker: Added a client options to set SELinux labels for container bind mounts. [GH-788]
• server: If Consul is available, automatically bootstrap Nomad Servers using the _nomad service in Consul. [GH-1276]

BUG FIXES:

• core: Improve garbage collection of allocations and nodes [GH-1256]
• core: Fix a potential deadlock if establishing leadership fails and is retried [GH-1231]
• core: Do not restart successful batch jobs when the node is removed/drained [GH-1205]
• core: Updated User, Meta or Resources in a task cause create/destroy updates [GH-1128, GH-1153]
• core: Fix blocked evaluations being run without properly accounting for priority [GH-1183]
• api: Tasks are no longer allowed to have slashes in their name [GH-1210]
• client: Delete tmp files used to communicate with execcutor [GH-1241]
• client: Prevent the client from restoring with incorrect task state [GH-1294]
• discovery: Ensure service and check names are unique [GH-1143, GH-1144]
• driver/docker: Ensure docker client doesn't time out after a minute. [GH-1184]
• driver/java: Fix issue in which Java on darwin attempted to chroot [GH-1262]
• driver/docker: Fix issue in which logs could be spliced [GH-1322]

0.3.2 (April 22, 2016)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: Garbage collection partitioned to avoid system delays [GH-1012]
• core: Allow count zero task groups to enable blue/green deploys [GH-931]
• core: Validate driver configurations when submitting jobs [GH-1062, GH-1089]
• core: Job Deregister forces an evaluation for the job even if it doesn't exist [GH-981]
• core: Rename successfully finished allocations to "Complete" rather than "Dead" for clarity [GH-975]
• cli: alloc-status explains restart decisions [GH-984]
• cli: node-drain -self drains the local node [GH-1068]
• cli: node-status -self queries the local node [GH-1004]
• cli: Destructive commands now require confirmation [GH-983]
• cli: alloc-status display is less verbose by default [GH-946]
• cli: server-members displays the current leader in each region [GH-935]
• cli: run has an -output flag to emit a JSON version of the job [GH-990]
• cli: New inspect command to display a submitted job's specification [GH-952]
• cli: node-status display is less verbose by default and shows a node's total resources [GH-946]
• client: artifact source can be interpreted [GH-1070]
• client: Add IP and Port environment variables [GH-1099]
• client: Nomad fingerprinter to detect client's version [GH-965]
• client: Tasks can interpret Meta set in the task group and job [GH-985]
• client: All tasks in a task group are killed when a task fails [GH-962]
• client: Pass environment variables from host to exec based tasks [GH-970]
• client: Allow task's to be run as particular user [GH-950, GH-978]
• client: artifact block now supports downloading paths relative to the task's directory [GH-944]
• docker: Timeout communications with Docker Daemon to avoid deadlocks with misbehaving Docker Daemon [GH-1117]
• discovery: Support script based health checks [GH-986]
• discovery: Allowing registration of services which don't expose ports [GH-1092]
• driver/docker: Support for tty and interactive options [GH-1059]
• jobspec: Improved validation of services referencing port labels [GH-1097]
• periodic: Periodic jobs are always evaluated in UTC timezone [GH-1074]

BUG FIXES:

• core: Prevent garbage collection of running batch jobs [GH-989]
• core: Trigger System scheduler when Node drain is disabled [GH-1106]
• core: Fix issue where in-place updated allocation double counted resources [GH-957]
• core: Fix drained, batched allocations from being migrated indefinitely [GH-1086]
• client: Garbage collect Docker containers on exit [GH-1071]
• client: Fix common exec failures on CentOS and Amazon Linux [GH-1009]
• client: Fix S3 artifact downloading with IAM credentials [GH-1113]
• client: Fix handling of environment variables containing multiple equal signs [GH-1115]

0.3.1 (March 16, 2016)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• Service names that dont conform to RFC-1123 and RFC-2782 will fail validation. To fix, change service name to conform to the RFCs before running the job [GH-915]
• Jobs that downloaded artifacts will have to be updated to the new syntax and be resubmitted. The new syntax consolidates artifacts to the task rather than being duplicated inside each driver config [GH-921]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• cli: Validate job file schemas [GH-900]
• client: Add environment variables for task name, allocation ID/Name/Index [GH-869, GH-896]
• client: Starting task is retried under the restart policy if the error is recoverable [GH-859]
• client: Allow tasks to download artifacts, which can be archives, prior to starting [GH-921]
• config: Validate Nomad configuration files [GH-910]
• config: Client config allows reserving resources [GH-910]
• driver/docker: Support for ECR [GH-858]
• driver/docker: Periodic Fingerprinting [GH-893]
• driver/docker: Preventing port reservation for log collection on Unix platforms [GH-897]
• driver/rkt: Pass DNS information to rkt driver [GH-892]
• jobspec: Require RFC-1123 and RFC-2782 valid service names [GH-915]

BUG FIXES:

• core: No longer cancel evaluations that are delayed in the plan queue [GH-884]
• api: Guard client/fs/ APIs from being accessed on a non-client node [GH-890]
• client: Allow dashes in variable names during interprelation [GH-857]
• client: Updating kill timeout adheres to operator specified maximum value [GH-878]
• client: Fix a case in which clients would pull but not run allocations [GH-906]
• consul: Remove concurrent map access [GH-874]
• driver/exec: Stopping tasks with more than one pid in a cgroup [GH-855]
• executor/linux: Add /run/resolvconf/ to chroot so DNS works [GH-905]

0.3.0 (February 25, 2016)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• Stdout and Stderr log files of tasks have moved from task/local to alloc/logs [GH-851]
• Any users of the runtime environment variable $NOMAD_PORT_ will need to update to the new ${NOMAD_ADDR_} varriable [GH-704]
• Service names that include periods will fail validation. To fix, remove any periods from the service name before running the job [GH-770]
• Task resources are now validated and enforce minimum resources. If a job specifies resources below the minimum they will need to be updated [GH-739]
• Node ID is no longer specifiable. For users who have set a custom Node ID, the node should be drained before Nomad is updated and the data_dir should be deleted before starting for the first time [GH-675]
• Users of custom restart policies should update to the new syntax which adds a mode field. The mode can be either fail or delay. The default for batch and service jobs is fail and delay respectively [GH-594]
• All jobs that interpret variables in constraints or driver configurations will need to be updated to the new syntax which wraps the interpreted variable in curly braces. ($node.class becomes ${node.class}) [GH-760]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: Populate job status [GH-663]
• core: Cgroup fingerprinter [GH-712]
• core: Node class constraint [GH-618]
• core: User specifiable kill timeout [GH-624]
• core: Job queueing via blocked evaluations [GH-726]
• core: Only reschedule failed batch allocations [GH-746]
• core: Add available nodes by DC to AllocMetrics [GH-619]
• core: Improve scheduler retry logic under contention [GH-787]
• core: Computed node class and stack optimization [GH-691, GH-708]
• core: Improved restart policy with more user configuration [GH-594]
• core: Periodic specification for jobs [GH-540, GH-657, GH-659, GH-668]
• core: Batch jobs are garbage collected from the Nomad Servers [GH-586]
• core: Free half the CPUs on leader node for use in plan queue and evaluation broker [GH-812]
• core: Seed random number generator used to randomize node traversal order during scheduling [GH-808]
• core: Performance improvements [GH-823, GH-825, GH-827, GH-830, GH-832, GH-833, GH-834, GH-839]
• core/api: System garbage collection endpoint [GH-828]
• core/api: Allow users to set arbitrary headers via agent config [GH-699]
• core/cli: Prefix based lookups of allocs/nodes/evals/jobs [GH-575]
• core/cli: Print short identifiers and UX cleanup [GH-675, GH-693, GH-692]
• core/client: Client pulls minimum set of required allocations [GH-731]
• cli: Output of agent-info is sorted [GH-617]
• cli: Eval monitor detects zero wait condition [GH-776]
• cli: Ability to navigate allocation directories [GH-709, GH-798]
• client: Batch allocation updates to the server [GH-835]
• client: Log rotation for all drivers [GH-685, GH-763, GH-819]
• client: Only download artifacts from http, https, and S3 [GH-841]
• client: Create a tmp/ directory inside each task directory [GH-757]
• client: Store when an allocation was received by the client [GH-821]
• client: Heartbeating and saving state resilient under high load [GH-811]
• client: Handle updates to tasks Restart Policy and KillTimeout [GH-751]
• client: Killing a driver handle is retried with an exponential backoff [GH-809]
• client: Send Node to server when periodic fingerprinters change Node attributes/metadata [GH-749]
• client/api: File-system access to allocation directories [GH-669]
• drivers: Validate the "command" field contains a single value [GH-842]
• drivers: Interpret Nomad variables in environment variables/args [GH-653]
• driver/rkt: Add support for CPU/Memory isolation [GH-610]
• driver/rkt: Add support for mounting alloc/task directory [GH-645]
• driver/docker: Support for .dockercfg based auth for private registries [GH-773]

BUG FIXES:

• core: Node drain could only be partially applied [GH-750]
• core: Fix panic when eval Ack occurs at delivery limit [GH-790]
• cli: Handle parsing of un-named ports [GH-604]
• cli: Enforce absolute paths for data directories [GH-622]
• client: Cleanup of the allocation directory [GH-755]
• client: Improved stability under high contention [GH-789]
• client: Handle non-200 codes when parsing AWS metadata [GH-614]
• client: Unmounted of shared alloc dir when client is rebooted [GH-755]
• client/consul: Service name changes handled properly [GH-766]
• driver/rkt: handle broader format of rkt version outputs [GH-745]
• driver/qemu: failed to load image and kvm accelerator fixes [GH-656]

0.2.3 (December 17, 2015)

BUG FIXES:

• core: Task States not being properly updated [GH-600]
• client: Fixes for user lookup to support CoreOS [GH-591]
• discovery: Using a random prefix for nomad managed services [GH-579]
• discovery: De-Registering Tasks while Nomad sleeps before failed tasks are restarted.
• discovery: Fixes for service registration when multiple allocations are bin packed on a node [GH-583]
• configuration: Sort configuration files [GH-588]
• cli: RetryInterval was not being applied properly [GH-601]

0.2.2 (December 11, 2015)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: Enable raw_exec driver in dev mode [GH-558]
• cli: Server join/retry-join command line and config options [GH-527]
• cli: Nomad reports which config files are loaded at start time, or if none are loaded [GH-536], [GH-553]

BUG FIXES:

• core: Send syslog to LOCAL0 by default as previously documented [GH-547]
• client: remove all calls to default logger [GH-570]
• consul: Nomad is less noisy when Consul is not running [GH-567]
• consul: Nomad only deregisters services that it created [GH-568]
• driver/exec: Shutdown a task now sends the interrupt signal first to the process before forcefully killing it. [GH-543]
• driver/docker: Docker driver no longer leaks unix domain socket connections [GH-556]
• fingerprint/network: Now correctly detects interfaces on Windows [GH-382]

0.2.1 (November 28, 2015)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: Can specify a whitelist for activating drivers [GH-467]
• core: Can specify a whitelist for activating fingerprinters [GH-488]
• core/api: Can list all known regions in the cluster [GH-495]
• client/spawn: spawn package tests made portable (work on Windows) [GH-442]
• client/executor: executor package tests made portable (work on Windows) [GH-497]
• client/driver: driver package tests made portable (work on windows) [GH-502]
• client/discovery: Added more consul client api configuration options [GH-503]
• driver/docker: Added TLS client options to the config file [GH-480]
• jobspec: More flexibility in naming Services [GH-509]

BUG FIXES:

• core: Shared reference to DynamicPorts caused port conflicts when scheduling count > 1 [GH-494]
• client/restart policy: Not restarting Batch Jobs if the exit code is 0 [GH-491]
• client/service discovery: Make Service IDs unique [GH-479]
• client/service: Fixes update to check definitions and services which are already registered [GH-498]
• driver/docker: Expose the container port instead of the host port [GH-466]
• driver/docker: Support port_map for static ports [GH-476]
• driver/docker: Pass 0.2.0-style port environment variables to the docker container [GH-476]
• jobspec: distinct_hosts constraint can be specified as a boolean (previously panicked) [GH-501]

0.2.0 (November 18, 2015)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• core: HTTP API /v1/node/<id>/allocations returns full Allocation and not stub [GH-402]
• core: Removed weight and hard/soft fields in constraints [GH-351]
• drivers: Qemu and Java driver configurations have been updated to both use artifact_source as the source for external images/jars to be ran
• jobspec: New reserved and dynamic port specification [GH-415]
• jobspec/drivers: Driver configuration supports arbitrary struct to be passed in jobspec [GH-415]

FEATURES:

• core: Blocking queries supported in API [GH-366]
• core: System Scheduler that runs tasks on every node [GH-287]
• core: Regexp, version and lexical ordering constraints [GH-271]
• core: distinctHost constraint ensures Task Groups are running on distinct clients [GH-321]
• core: Service block definition with Consul registration [GH-463, GH-460, GH-458, GH-455, GH-446, GH-425]
• client: GCE Fingerprinting [GH-215]
• client: Restart policy for task groups enforced by the client [GH-369, GH-393]
• driver/rawexec: Raw Fork/Exec Driver [GH-237]
• driver/rkt: Experimental Rkt Driver [GH-165, GH-247]
• drivers: Add support for downloading external artifacts to execute for Exec, Raw exec drivers [GH-381]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: Configurable Node GC threshold [GH-362]
• core: Overlap plan verification and plan application for increased throughput [GH-272]
• cli: Output of alloc-status also displays task state [GH-424]
• cli: Output of server-members is sorted [GH-323]
• cli: Show node attributes in node-status [GH-313]
• client/fingerprint: Network fingerprinter detects interface suitable for use, rather than defaulting to eth0 [GH-334, GH-356]
• client: Client Restore State properly reattaches to tasks and recreates them as needed [GH-364, GH-380, GH-388, GH-392, GH-394, GH-397, GH-408]
• client: Periodic Fingerprinting [GH-391]
• client: Precise snapshotting of TaskRunner and AllocRunner [GH-403, GH-411]
• client: Task State is tracked by client [GH-416]
• client: Test Skip Detection [GH-221]
• driver/docker: Can now specify auth for docker pull [GH-390]
• driver/docker: Can now specify DNS and DNSSearch options [GH-390]
• driver/docker: Can now specify the container's hostname [GH-426]
• driver/docker: Containers now have names based on the task name. [GH-389]
• driver/docker: Mount task local and alloc directory to docker containers [GH-290]
• driver/docker: Now accepts any value for network_mode to support userspace networking plugins in docker 1.9
• driver/java: Pass JVM options in java driver [GH-293, GH-297]
• drivers: Use BlkioWeight rather than BlkioThrottleReadIopsDevice [GH-222]
• jobspec and drivers: Driver configuration supports arbitrary struct to be passed in jobspec [GH-415]

BUG FIXES:

• core: Nomad Client/Server RPC codec encodes strings properly [GH-420]
• core: Reset Nack timer in response to scheduler operations [GH-325]
• core: Scheduler checks for updates to environment variables [GH-327]
• cli: Fix crash when -config was given a directory or empty path [GH-119]
• client/fingerprint: Use correct local interface on OS X [GH-361, GH-365]
• client: Nomad Client doesn't restart failed containers [GH-198]
• client: Reap spawn-daemon process, avoiding a zombie process [GH-240]
• client: Resource exhausted errors because of link-speed zero [GH-146, GH-205]
• client: Restarting Nomad Client leads to orphaned containers [GH-159]
• driver/docker: Apply SELinux label for mounting directories in docker [GH-377]
• driver/docker: Docker driver exposes ports when creating container [GH-212, GH-412]
• driver/docker: Docker driver uses docker environment variables correctly [GH-407]
• driver/qemu: Qemu fingerprint and tests work on both windows/linux [GH-352]

0.1.2 (October 6, 2015)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• client: Nomad client cleans allocations on exit when in dev mode [GH-214]
• drivers: Use go-getter for artifact retrieval, add artifact support to Exec, Raw Exec drivers [GH-288]

0.1.1 (October 5, 2015)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• cli: Nomad Client configurable from command-line [GH-191]
• client/fingerprint: Native IP detection and user specifiable network interface for fingerprinting [GH-189]
• driver/docker: Docker networking mode is configurable [GH-184]
• drivers: Set task environment variables [GH-206]

BUG FIXES:

• client/fingerprint: Network fingerprinting failed if default network interface did not exist [GH-189]
• client: Fixed issue where network resources throughput would be set to 0 MBits if the link speed could not be determined [GH-205]
• client: Improved detection of Nomad binary [GH-181]
• driver/docker: Docker dynamic port mapping were not being set properly [GH-199]

0.1.0 (September 28, 2015)

• Initial release