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1.1.4

09/04/2018

Graphite 1.1.4 is now available for usage. Please note that this is a bugfix release for the stable Graphite 1.1.x branch and it's recommended for production usage. It also contains some improvements backported from the master branch.

Main features

• Django 2 and Python 3.7 support for carbon and graphite-web
• SSL transport for carbon (carbon-c-relay compatible)
• new parameters DESTINATIONS_POOL_REPLICAS, MAX_RECEIVER_CONNECTIONS for carbon
• improving performance for big responses from cluster hosts (see REMOTE_BUFFER_SIZE in config) for graphite-web
• many other improvements and bug fixes, please see full list below (with PR number and contributor name)

Thanks a lot for all Graphite contributors and users! You are the best!

Source bundles are available from GitHub:

• https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/archive/1.1.4.tar.gz
• https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/archive/1.1.4.tar.gz
• https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/archive/1.1.4.tar.gz
• https://github.com/graphite-project/carbonate/archive/1.1.4.tar.gz

Graphite can also be installed from PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/>_ via pip <http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html>_. PyPI bundles are here:

• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/graphite-web/
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/carbon/
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/whisper/
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/carbonate/

Upgrading

Please upgrade whisper, carbon and graphite-web - they contain valuable bugfixes and improvements. If you are using carbonate it also should be upgraded.

Incompatible changes

None

Security Notes

None

New features

Graphite-Web ^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Django 2 support (@piotr1212 #2278)
• improve performance of keepLastValue (@DanCech #2285)
• handle highest/lowest thresholds specified as numeric strings (@DanCech #2294)
• Fail hard (@clusterfudge #2303)
• Allow history tracking in composer (@yuzawa-san #2304)
• Better support for variant in ceres (@tharvik #2307)
• Document timestamp -1 in carbon protocol (@piotr1212 #2309)
• Efficient reading (@clusterfudge #2314)
• Added Skyline to the Monitoring section (@earthgekko #2319)
• Add support for WhiteNoise 4 (@piotr1212 #2333)
• Add Django 2.1 and Python 3.7 to Travis tests (@piotr1212 #2336 )
• add doc note about equal sign in rewrite rule's pattern (@YevhenLukomskyi #2339)

Carbon ^^^^^^

• Add hint about whisper-resize.py near retention settings, (@helmo #775 #777)
• Improve error message for parse errors in storage-schemas (@piotr1212 #780)
• Support two new config options to enable SSL transport. (@postwait #793)
• Add Python 3.7 testing to Travis (@piotr1212 #795)
• carbon.conf.example: add more TCP_KEEPALIVE (@iksaif #798)
• Allow strategies to return None (@iksaif #799)
• Add stop accept() when we reach MAX_RECEIVER_CONNECTIONS (@iksaif #800)
• Add DESTINATIONS_POOL_REPLICAS (@iksaif #801)

Whisper ^^^^^^^

• Include tests in PyPI distributions (@sbraz, #253)
• Add Python 3.7 testing to Travis (@piotr1212 #257)

Carbonate ^^^^^^^^^

• Use the scandir version of os.walk if possible (@deejay1, PR#99)
• Include LICENSE in MANIFEST.in (@deejay1, PR#100)

Bug Fixes

Graphite-Web ^^^^^^^^^^^^

• skip ceres tests if not installed (@piotr1212 #2276)
• Fix LDAP email address (@kajla #2277)
• fix typo: matric -> metric in feeding-carbon.rst (@ngash #2281)
• Fixing typo in docs (@deniszh #2284)
• hashing: bisect fix for py3 (@piotr1212 #2291)
• Generate error when find query is empty (@deniszh #2295)
• replace raise StopIteration with return pep-0479 (@piotr1212 #2300)
• carbonlink: set the type of the recv buffer explicitly to bytes (@piotr1212 #2301)
• clarify 'maxDataPoints' (@Dieterbe #2302)
• Fix get_real_metric_path for paths where an intermediate directory is a symlink (@yadsirhc #2326)
• Latest whitenoise is not supported by graphite (@ellisvlad #2331)
• convert prefetched values generator to reusable iterator (@TimWhalen #2322)
• backport v4 compatibility (@deniszh #2340)

Carbon ^^^^^^

• Don't leak file descriptors in instrumentation (@deejay1, #770)
• Fix logging on py3 Twisted > 16 (@piotr1212, #774)
• hashing, fix bisect on py3 (@piotr1212 #778)
• replace raise StopIteration with return pep-0479 (@piotr1212, #779)
• rewrite is handled in pipeline now (@DanCech, #790)
• aggregator: hide "Allocating new metric" (@iksaif @796)
• Fix compatibility issues (@deniszh #802)
• import setUpRandomResolver only for new Twisted (@deniszh, #806)

Whisper ^^^^^^^

• Make rrd2whisper.py run with Python 3 (@msk, #254)
• E722 do not use bare except (@piotr1212, #255)
• backport v4 compatibility (@deniszh #259)

Carbonate ^^^^^^^^^

• None