What's new in the v2.7 latest release series

v2.7.0 - May 5, 2021

Yugabyte release 2.7.0 builds on our work in the 2.5 series, which fed into the 2.4 stable release. With release 2.7.0, we're planning development on a number of new features, as well as refinements to existing functionality.

Build: 2.7.0.0-b17

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New Features

Yugabyte Platform

• Yugabyte Platform High Availability is now available in BETA. With this feature, you can deploy multiple platforms in an active-standby cluster, ensuring you can always monitor and manage your platform-managed universes regardless of outages to any particular platform in the HA cluster.
• [7225] [7228] [UI] Enable the OpenShift tab, marked as beta

Core Database

• [2717] YSQL: Support ALTER FUNCTION command
• [6985] YSQL: Add simple UNIQUE column
• Point in time restore:
  • [7121] Extend yb-admin restore_snapshot to use a custom time
  • [7126] PITR: Introduce snapshot schedule

Improvements

Yugabyte Platform

• [5535] [Platform] Remove stale instance configs after cloud provider is deleted (#6975)
• [5624] Show pricing info for Azure
• [5626] Enable Hosted Zone for Azure
• [5628] [Azure] Support regions with no availability zones
• [5807] Add toggle to show deleted backups
• [5838] [Platform] Add node link to corresponding Azure portal URL
• [5840] Add user tags for Azure universes
• [5841] Show only Azure VMs that meet minimum requirements
• [6321] [Platform] Support using Shared Gallery Images when creating Azure universes
• [6681] [Platform] Show kubectl command for Kubernetes pods in Connect modal (#7506)
• [6712] Fix issue with JDK incompatibility in Java RPC client
• [6756] [Platform] Created date showing up as "Invalid Date". (#7158)
• [7024] [Platform] Unable to edit number of nodes in AZ section (#7350)
• [7054] [YW] Add conditional checks for hiding specific platform elements in non-platform mode.
• [7372] [Platform] Skip running periodic schedules when in follower mode
• [7433] [Platform] Standby instances backup time not consistent after restoring active instance
• [7443] [Platform] Fixed live query details side panel doesn’t go away after unchecked
• [7445] [Platform] Add pagination for slow queries
• [7472] [Platform] Hide the Upgrade button from info card on Pause universe. (#7504)
• [7475] Use more recent CentOS-7 base image for GCP universe VMs
• [7493] [Platform] Menu shows 0 appended to "Upgrade Software0" - Removed 0
• [7548] [Platform] Set versions for google modules in requirements.txt
• [7549] [Platform] Platform uses public IP instead of private IP to connect to Azure universes
• [7576] Ensure rsync is available on latest GCP image
• [Platform] Use more recent CentOS-7 base image for GCP universe VMs #7475
• [Platform] parsing of df output is fragile and may fail in case of "safe" error in df #7402

Core Database

• [4944] YSQL performance improvements in TTL-related computations
• [5922] YCQL: Improve audit logging
• [7359] YSQL: Support adding primary key to a table with tablespace
• [7366] YSQL: Allow getting current SQL query in pggate for debug logging
• [7404] YSQL: Extend CHECKPOINT to have beta noop functionality
• [7418] [7463] YSQL: Import the 'force' option for the Drop Database command
• [7532] Master performance improvements: reduce the scope of catalog manager state lock in ScopedLeaderSharedLock constructor

Bug Fixes

Core Database

• [5383] YSQL bug fixes for Jepsen

Known Issues

Yugabyte Platform

N/A

Core Database

N/A

Notes