CHANGELOG 1.5

v1.5.1

2020-09-16

Download

https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.5.1

Container Image

velero/velero:v1.5.1

Documentation

https://velero.io/docs/v1.5/

Upgrading

https://velero.io/docs/v1.5/upgrade-to-1.5/

Highlights

• Auto Volume Backup Using Restic with --default-volumes-to-restic flag
• DeleteItemAction plugins
• Code modernization
• Restore Hooks: InitContianer Restore Hooks and Exec Restore Hooks

All Changes

• 🏃‍♂️ add shortnames for CRDs (#2911, @ashish-amarnath)
• Use format version instead of version on velero backup describe since version has been deprecated (#2901, @jenting)
• fix EnableAPIGroupersions output log format (#2882, @jenting)
• Convert ServerStatusRequest controller to kubebuilder (#2838, @carlisia)
• rename the PV if VolumeSnapshotter has modified the PV name (#2835, @pawanpraka1)
• Implement post-restore exec hooks in pod containers (#2804, @areed)
• Check for errors on restic backup command (#2863, @dymurray)
• 🐛 fix passing LDFLAGS across build stages (#2853, @ashish-amarnath)
• Feature: Invoke DeleteItemAction plugins based on backup contents when a backup is deleted. (#2815, @nrb)
• When JSON logging format is enabled, place error message at "error.message" instead of "error" for compatibility with Elasticsearch/ELK and the Elastic Common Schema (#2830, @bgagnon)
• discovery Helper support get GroupVersionResource and an APIResource from GroupVersionKind (#2764, @runzexia)
• Migrate site from Jekyll to Hugo (#2720, @tbatard)
• Add the DeleteItemAction plugin type (#2808, @nrb)
• 🐛 Manually patch the generated yaml for restore CRD as a hacky workaround (#2814, @ashish-amarnath)
• Setup crd validation github action on k8s versions (#2805, @ashish-amarnath)
• 🐛 Supply command to run restic-wait init container (#2802, @ashish-amarnath)
• Make init and exec restore hooks as optional in restore hookSpec (#2793, @ashish-amarnath)
• Implement restore hooks injecting init containers into pod spec (#2787, @ashish-amarnath)
• Pass default-volumes-to-restic flag from create schedule to backup (#2776, @ashish-amarnath)
• Enhance Backup to support backing up resources in specific orders and add --ordered-resources option to support this feature. (#2724, @phuong)
• Fix inconsistent type for the "resource" structured logging field (#2796, @bgagnon)
• Add the ability to set the allowPrivilegeEscalation flag in the securityContext for the Restic restore helper. (#2792, @doughepi)
• Add cacert flag for velero backup-location create (#2778, @jenting)
• Exclude volumes mounting secrets and configmaps from defaulting volume backups to restic (#2762, @ashish-amarnath)
• Add types to implement restore hooks (#2761, @ashish-amarnath)
• Add wait group and error channel for restore hooks to restore context. (#2755, @areed)
• Refactor image builds to use buildx for multi arch image building (#2754, @robreus)
• Add annotation key constants for restore hooks (#2750, @ashish-amarnath)
• Adds Start and CompletionTimestamp to RestoreStatus Displays the Timestamps when issued a print or describe (#2748, @thejasbabu)
• Move pkg/backup/item_hook_handlers.go to internal/hook (#2734, @nrb)
• add metrics for restic back up operation (#2719, @ashish-amarnath)
• StorageGrid compatibility by removing explicit gzip accept header setting (#2712, @fvsqr)
• restic: add support for setting SecurityContext (runAsUser, runAsGroup) for restore (#2621, @jaygridley)
• Add backupValidationFailureTotal to metrics (#2714, @kathpeony)
• bump Kubernetes module dependencies to v0.18.4 to fix https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/2540 by adding code compatibility with kubernetes v1.18 (#2651, @laverya)
• Add a BSL controller to handle validation + update BSL status phase (validation removed from the server and no longer blocks when there's any invalid BSL) (#2674, @carlisia)
• updated acceptable values on cron schedule from 0-7 to 0-6 (#2676, @dthrasher)
• Improve velero download doc (#2660, @carlisia)
• Update basic-install and release-instructions documentation for Windows Chocolatey package (#2638, @adamrushuk)
• move CSI plugin out of prototype into beta (#2636, @ashish-amarnath)
• Add a new supported provider for an object storage plugin for Storj (#2635, @jessicagreben)
• Update basic-install.md documentation: Add windows cli installation option via chocolatey (#2629, @adamrushuk)
• Documentation: Update Jekyll to 4.1.0. Switch from redcarpet to kramdown for Markdown renderer (#2625, @tbatard)
• improve builder image handling so that we don't rebuild each make shell (#2620, @mauilion)
  • first check if there are pending changed on the build-image dockerfile if so build it.
  • then check if there is an image in the registry if so pull it.
  • then build an image cause we don't have a cached image. (this handles the backward compat case.)
  • fix make clean to clear go mod cache before removing dirs (for containerized builds)
• Add linter checks to Makefile (#2615, @tbatard)
• add a CI check for a changelog file (#2613, @ashish-amarnath)
• implement option to back up all volumes by default with restic (#2611, @ashish-amarnath)
• When a timeout string can't be parsed, log the error as a warning instead of silently consuming the error. (#2610, @nrb)
• Azure: support using aad-pod-identity auth when using restic (#2602, @skriss)
• log a warning instead of erroring if an additional item returned from a plugin can't be found in the Kubernetes API (#2595, @skriss)
• when creating new backup from schedule from cli, allow backup name to be automatically generated (#2569, @cblecker)
• Convert manifests + BSL api client to kubebuilder (#2561, @carlisia)
• backup/restore: reinstantiate backup store just before uploading artifacts to ensure credentials are up-to-date (#2550, @skriss)