Portworx Data Services Release Notes

Release 123.32; Build 1092​

August 22, 2024

Fixes​

The following issue has been fixed in this release:

Release 123.31; Build 1542​

August 12, 2024

Fixes​

The following issue has been fixed in this release:

Known Issue​

Release 123.3; Build 1088​

May 08, 2024

New Feature​

PGVECTOR extension for PostgreSQL

PDS now supports the PGVECTOR extension to PostgreSQL. This extension is designed to enhance database functionality by enabling efficient vector operations directly within your PostgreSQL environment.

For more information about using the shared_preload_libraries parameter, refer to the updated list of supported configuration parameters for PostgreSQL.

Release 123.2; Build 1087​

April 25, 2024

Enhancement​

New configuration parameter for PostgreSQL

PDS now supports the USE_SLOTS configuration parameter in the PostgreSQL data service. This new parameter provides administrators with enhanced control over replication slots. Setting this parameter enables more efficient management of replication processes by allowing users to specify whether a particular slot should be used for replication tasks.

For more information, refer to the updated list of supported configuration parameters for PostgreSQL.

Release 123.1; Build 1085​

April 18, 2024

Enhancement​

New configuration parameters for PostgreSQL

• TRACK_COMMIT_TIMESTAMP: allows you to record the commit timestamp of transactions. It is particularly useful for applications that require tracking of transaction times for auditing or synchronization purposes.
• PGLOGICAL_CONFLICT_RESOLUTION: introduces options for handling conflicts during logical replication. It offers flexibility in managing how data inconsistencies are resolved, which is crucial for maintaining data integrity across distributed systems.

For more information, refer to the updated list of supported configuration parameters for PostgreSQL.

Deprecation​

The PostgreSQL version 12.x is now deprecated.

Release 123; Build 1084​

December 19, 2023

New data service versions​

PDS supports the following new data service versions in this release:

• Cassandra: 4.0.11, 4.1.3
• Consul: 1.14.10, 1.15.6, 1.16.2
• Couchbase: 7.2.2
• Kafka: 3.5.1, 3.6.0
• MongoDB Enterprise: 6.0.11, 7.0.3
• MySQL: 8.0.34
• PostgreSQL: 12.17, 13.13, 14.10, 15.5, 16.1
• RabbitMQ: 3.11.23, 3.12.6
• Redis: 7.0.14
• ZooKeeper: 3.8.3, 3.9.1

TLS support for MongoDB Enterprise​

PDS now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) for MongoDB Enterprise. This enhancement ensures secure communication for MongoDB instances within the PDS environment.

The implementation involves changes to the cert-manager Helm chart to generate combined PEM files, which MongoDB uses for TLS. Run the following command to upgrade or install cert-manager with version v1.11.0 and to enable the feature gate AdditionalCertificateOutputFormats, which results in cert-manager generating combined PEM files for MongoDB TLS:

helm upgrade --install \
  cert-manager jetstack/cert-manager \
  --namespace cert-manager \
  --create-namespace \
  --version v1.11.0 \
  --set installCRDs=true \
  --set featureGates="AdditionalCertificateOutputFormats=true" --set webhook.extraArgs={--feature-gates="AdditionalCertificateOutputFormats=true"}

where:

• helm upgrade --install: Helm command to upgrade or install a chart. It ensures that the specified release is created if it doesn't exist or upgraded if it already does.
• cert-manager: Name of the Helm release, which is a named instance of a chart.
• jetstack/cert-manager: Specifies the Helm chart repository and the chart name to be installed or upgraded. In this case, it's using the cert-manager chart from the Jetstack repository.
• --namespace cert-manager: Sets the Kubernetes namespace for the cert-manager installation to cert-manager.
• --create-namespace: Instructs Helm to create the specified namespace if it doesn't already exist.
• --version v1.11.0: Specifies the version of the cert-manager chart to be installed or upgraded. In this case, it's version 1.11.0.
• --set installCRDs=true: Sets a Helm value to true, indicating that custom resource definitions (CRDs) should be installed. cert-manager uses CRDs to define its custom resources.
• --set featureGates="AdditionalCertificateOutputFormats=true": Sets a Helm value related to feature gates. It enables the AdditionalCertificateOutputFormats feature gate, which is a feature in cert-manager for generating combined PEM files.
• --set webhook.extraArgs={--feature-gates="AdditionalCertificateOutputFormats=true"}: Sets additional extra arguments for the cert-manager webhook, specifically enabling the AdditionalCertificateOutputFormats feature gate.

Known Issue​

Release 122; Build 1081​

November 15, 2023

New Features​

Enhanced storage size management

You can now increase storage size for your deployed data services by following this procedure in the PDS UI. This enhancement provides greater flexibility and control over your data service resources. However, you cannot reduce the storage size once initially set during deployment is not supported.

Additionally, for users who have deployed data services with Helm chart versions prior to 1.22.0, updating to the latest Helm chart version is necessary to take advantage of this feature. PDS does not offer support for expanding storage size for these older versions.

Deployment health statuses update​

The deployment health statuses, accessible through the deployment status API end point, have undergone the following modifications:

See deployment health states in the PDS documentation for more information.

New data service version

PDS now supports the Elasticsearch data service version 8.10.2. See the Elasticsearch data service supported versions.

Release 121; Build 1075​

September 29, 2023

New Features​

Proxy server support for target clusters

PDS now provides proxy server support for target clusters. This capability elevates security, optimizes performance, and grants precise control over outbound communication traffic, ensuring a more robust and efficient network environment for your clusters.

Learn more about setting up different types of proxies here.

Custom registry support

PDS now provides the ability to specify and utilize custom image registries for storing and deploying PDS custom images. This feature offers flexibility in scenarios where private image registries are preferred or when custom image repositories are needed, providing greater control over your PDS deployments.

Learn more about obtaining custom images and configuring PDS components to utilize the custom image registry here.

Secure PostgreSQL provisioning with PDS

This update details a streamlined procedure for provisioning PostgreSQL databases with Transport Security Layer (TLS) in Kubernetes clusters using PDS. It also highlights the importance of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for secure management of ServiceIdentities within isolated namespaces.

Learn more about integrating ServiceIdentities with namespaces, configuring RBAC at a namespace level, and how to provision PostgreSQL with PDS here.

Known issue​

Release 120; Build 1070​

August 28, 2023

New Features​

One-click restore 

From this release, PDS enables you to easily restore your data and system configuration from a previously saved backup. See the Restore a backup section to learn how to restore the state of your database to a specific point in time, minimizing data loss and reducing downtime.

Copilot

Copilot, in PDS, is an AI-powered tool that helps you to interact with databases using natural language queries instead of writing complex SQL queries. Copilot understands and interprets natural language inputs and translates them into appropriate database queries. This simplifies the process of querying databases and eliminates the need for you to have in-depth knowledge of database systems.

See the Copilot section to learn how you can interact with it.

New data service version

PDS now supports the Couchbase data service version 7.2.0. See the Couchbase data service supported versions.

Known issues​

Release 119; Build 1057​

July 12, 2023

Improvement​

PDS has improved the way it handles real-time deployment events, which are retained for a week instead of 60 minutes. This will help with analysis and troubleshooting of data service deployment issues. See View deployment health for more information.

Known issues​

Release 118; Build 1052​

June 08, 2023

New Feature​

The Deployment details page now includes the Last seen information, which helps you determine when PDS was last able to successfully retrieve the status of the data service. This information can assist you in troubleshooting the issue and restoring the disconnected data service. For more information, see Deployment dashboard.

Improvement​

PDS has improved the way it manages default users. For most data services, PDS now creates additional users beyond the default pds user. For more information about the users created by PDS for each data service and their corresponding permissions, see PDS users and permissions.

Known issues​

Release 117; Build 1048​

May 16, 2023

New Features​

Data services dashboard

PDS now provides the new data services dashboard, which helps to:

• view the list of deployed data services
• filter by data services, deployment states and deployment targets
• get an overview of each data service
• perform operations such as backup, delete, and update each data service

For more information, see Data services dashboard.

Availability of new data service

This release includes the MS SQL Server version 2019-CU18-rhel-8.5 data service. See here for the available MS SQL Server data service versions.

Release 116; Build 1041​

April 13, 2023

New Features​

Pod Security Admission

The Pod Security Admission (PSA) feature is a critical security enhancement introduced in the Kubernetes platform, which helps to enforce security policies by controlling the creation and deployment of pods. PSA allows cluster administrators to define security policies that are applied at the time of pod creation, ensuring that only trusted pods are deployed in the cluster.

For more information about the security levels currently implemented in PDS, see Pod Security Admission.

New Kubernetes versions and platforms support

PDS now supports the:

• Kubernetes versions 1.25 and 1.26
• OCP version 4.12

See Prerequisites and Supported versions for all the supported platforms and versions.

Known issue​

Release 115; Build 1036​

March 28, 2023

Latest Portworx version compatibility

PDS is now compatible with the Portworx 2.13.x versions.

You can find a list of supported target clusters and the corresponding Portworx versions in the Prerequisites topic.

Known issues​

Fixed issues​

This release fixes the following issues:

Release 114; Build 1028​

February 24, 2023

New Features​

Static IP support

PDS now supports static IPs, which you can whitelist in your firewall rules. For more information, see Static IPs support.

Improvement​

The Portworx CSI provisioner is used as a default provisioner for Prometheus volumes in new PDS installations. The Portworx in-tree provisioner is deprecated and its support may be discontinued in future PDS releases.

Known issues​

Release 113; Build - 1025​

January 26, 2023

New Features​

Availability of new data services

This release includes the following new data services:

• Consul
• Couchbase
• Elasticsearch
• MongoDB Enterprise

See the supported versions for MongoDB Enterprise and Elasticsearch data services..

Ability to add any users

The PDS administrator can now add users without a valid Portworx account to an existing PDS account. For more information about adding users, see Add users.

Deprecation announcement​

From this release, support for the following legacy Portworx installations is deprecated:

• Portworx with CSI driver disabled: By default, the CSI driver will be enabled on new Portworx installations. On the older Portworx installations, you can enable the CSI driver.
• DaemonSet installation: PDS is compatible with the Portworx Operator installation. You can migrate the existing Portworx installed from a DaemonSet to the Operator.

Known issues​

Release 112; Build - 1022​

December 15, 2022

This release provides a seamless experience with many UI improvements reported in the earlier versions.

Known issues​

Release 111; Build - 1020​

December 08, 2022

New Features​

New data service versions

This release includes the following new data service versions:

• MySQL: 8.0.31

• Redis: 7.0.5

Known issues​

Release 110; Build - 1016​

November 15, 2022

New Features​

Portworx CSI support

PDS now allows you to choose Portworx CSI with the PDS chart version 1.9.0 or newer.
For more information about the new storage options, see Add or manage a storage option template.

Ability to add user API keys

You can add user API keys, in the PDS Profile page, to authenticate and authorize API calls to PDS and automate your work with PDS.
For more information, see Add user API keys.

Filter data services and deployment targets

The new search and filter options in the data service deployments and the deployment targets pages help you find one or more specific entries from the entire list.
For more information, see Filter data services.

Anthos support

PDS now supports the Anthos platform version 1.21.

New data service versions

This release includes the following new data service versions:

• Cassandra: 4.0.6

• Kafka: 3.2.3

• RabbitMQ: 3.10.9

IMPORTANT: From this release, you must install the PDS chart version 1.9.0 or newer to ensure new PostgreSQL versions are compatible with older versions (until the chart version 1.8.1).

New Kubernetes versions

PDS supports the following new Kubernetes versions in this release:

• Vanilla Kubernetes: version 1.24.0

• OCP: versions 4.11 and 4.10

Latest Portworx version compatibility

PDS is now compatible with the latest Portworx version 2.12.0.

You can view all supported target clusters and compatible Portworx versions in the Prerequisites topic.

Known issues​

Release - 109; Build - 1011​

October 18, 2022

New Features​

Sample templates to configure data services

PDS provides the sample Application Configuration and Resource Settings templates with predefined parameters. You can copy these sample templates, modify the parameters (if necessary), and easily configure your data services for deployment.
For more information about using these sample templates, refer to the Configure data services topic.

Update a data service

PDS automatically detects if an updated version is available for a data service. You can then update the data service to the latest version with a single-click. For more information, refer to the Update a data service topic.

Availability of MySQL

PDS now includes the MySQL version 8.0.30 as a data service.

Ensure that you install the pds-target Helm chart 1.8.1 or a newer version before deploying the MySQL data service.

New target cluster

PDS now supports the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) version 1.23.8-gke.1900 as a target cluster.
For more information about all supported target clusters, refer to the Prerequisites topic.

Ensure that you install the pds-target Helm chart 1.8.1 or a newer version before deploying the target cluster.

New PostgreSQL version

PDS now supports the PostgreSQL version 14.5.
You can view the supported PostgreSQL data service versions here.

Improvements​

PDS has upgraded or enhanced functionality in the following areas:

• Persistent Volumes created for data service deployments in a target cluster contain PDS labels to make them easier to identify.

• The annotations or labels to mark loadbalancers in target clusters as internal were extended to cover more cloud providers.

Known issues​

Release - 108; Build - 1007​

September 15, 2022

New Features​

New target clusters

PDS now supports vSphere with Tanzu, Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE1), and RKE2 as target clusters.

Ensure that you install the pds-target Helm chart 1.7.1 or a newer version before deploying these target clusters.

Google Cloud backup credential and target

You can now add Google Cloud compatible backup credentials and backup targets in PDS.
For more information, refer to the Configure backup credentials and Configure Google Cloud targets topics.

Known issue​

Release - 107; Build - 1001​

August 18, 2022

New Features​

Upgrade Kubernetes cluster

In the Settings → Deployment Targets page → each deployed cluster, an Upgrade button is available now.
For more information, refer to the upgrade PDS system on a target Kubernetes cluster topic.

Release and build number

PDS now includes the About page in the Settings menu, which displays the current PDS release, build details, and the end user terms for reference.

Removal of advanced deployment settings

The dns_zone and load_balancer_source_ranges parameters in the data service deployment dialog box → Advanced section are removed from this release.

Known issues​

July 19, 2022​

New Features​

Availability of Redis

PDS now includes Redis version 7.0.2 as a data service.

Data service version and image selection

You can now deploy more than one data service version in PDS, and the corresponding image for that version.
For more information about selecting the version and image, refer to the Procedure to deploy a data service section.

Restrictions for selecting nodes per target cluster

PDS now allows you to select only a specific number of nodes to deploy each data service on a target cluster. You can select the nodes from the Deploy a data service dialog box → No. of Nodes dropdown.
For more information about the available number of nodes for each data service, refer to the Node restrictions section.

Add an empty application configuration template

You can now add an empty Application Configuration Template, and specify the application configuration parameters later when you deploy a data service.
For more information about adding an empty template, refer to the Add an empty template topic.

Known issue​

June 30, 2022​

This release provides a seamless experience with a reduced number of vulnerabilities reported in the earlier versions.

New Feature​

You can now view the status of your deployments. To view real-time events:

1. In the Deployments page, select a deployed data service.

2. In the deployment details page, select the vertical ellipsis button next to Edit. From the options, select View Deployment Health.

3. In the Deployment Health window, select the Events tab.

   tip

   You can also click the node hexagons, in the deployment details page, to view the Deployment Health window.

The status descriptions help you know the following information about your deployment:

• whether it is failed or created successfully

• reasons for the failure

• timestamp

Known issue​

Jun 20, 2022​

Known issue​

May 25, 2022​

Known issue​

Apr 28, 2022​

Announcing general availability for Portworx Data Services!

Known issues​