Release Notes for 1.11.7

Release notes for DC/OS 1.11.7

DC/OS 1.11.7 was released on November 1, 2018.

DC/OS 1.11.7 includes the following components:

Issues Fixed in DC/OS 1.11.7

GUI

  • DCOS-20222 - Add an error message when environment variables are input without keys.
  • DCOS-42365 - Set total resource counts to display in the pods table.
  • DCOS_OSS-1961 - Secure pod container fields to prevent instances of unprompted swallowing when pod is edited via JSON Editor.

Marathon

  • DCOS_OSS-4193 - Resolve MSPH-2018-0004(Mesosphere Customer Advisory) where Marathon fails to launch if the first DC/OS master is down with the introduction of ping zk-1 in DC/OS 1.11.5.

Mesos

  • COPS-3172/DCOS-40120/DCOS-42667 - Fix instances where parent containers may get stuck in DESTROYING state when there is a simultaneous health check running to create nested containers.

Metrics

  • DCOS-39103 - Consolidate DC/OS metrics agent service error messages in instances when the Docker daemon becomes unresponsive.
  • DCOS_OSS-3918 - Downrate logs to debug in occurrences of NaN data point values to reduce log size and free disk space.

Platform

  • DCOS_OSS-4127 - Add additional data (timestamp for dmesg, timedatectl, distro version, systemd unit status, pods endpoint) into DC/OS diagnostics bundle.

Security Enterprise

  • DCOS-42156 - Add root permissions to dcos_marathon in order to launch MoM.
  • DCOS-42814 - Upgrade CockroachDB from 1.1.8 to 1.1.9.

About DC/OS 1.11

DC/OS 1.11 includes many new capabilities with a focus on:

  • Managing clusters across multiple clouds. Enterprise
  • Production Kubernetes-as-a-service.
  • Enhanced data security. Enterprise
  • Updated data services.

Provide feedback on the new features and services at support.mesosphere.com.

New Features and Capabilities

Platform

  • Multi-region management - Enables a DC/OS cluster to span multiple datacenters, clouds, and remote branches while providing a unified management and control cluster. View the documentation. Enterprise
  • Linked clusters - A cluster link is a unidirectional relationship between one cluster and another. You can add and remove links from one cluster to another cluster using the DC/OS CLI. Once a link is set up, you can easily switch between clusters using the CLI or UI. View the documentation. Enterprise
  • Fault domain awareness - Use fault domain awareness to make your services highly available and to allow for increased capacity when needed. View the documentation. Enterprise
  • Decommission nodes - Support for permanently decommissioning nodes makes it easier to manage spot cloud instances, allowing for immediate task rescheduling. View the documentation
  • UCR

Networking

  • Edge-LB 1.0. View the documentation. Enterprise
  • IPv6 is now supported for Docker containers.
  • Performance improvements to the DC/OS network stack - All networking components (minuteman, navstar, spartan) are aggregated into a single systemd unit called dcos-net. Read this note to learn more about the re-factoring of the network stack.
  • The configuration parameter dns_forward_zones now takes a list of objects instead of nested lists (DCOS_OSS-1733). View the documentation to understand its usage.

Security Enterprise

  • Secrets Management Service
    • Secrets can now be binary files in addition to environment variables.
    • Hierarchical access control is now supported.

Monitoring

Storage

  • DC/OS Storage Service 0.1 (beta) - DSS users will be able to dynamically create volumes based upon profiles or policies to fine-tune their applications storage requirements. This feature leverages the industry-standard Container Storage Interface (CSI) to streamline the development of storage features in DC/OS by Mesosphere and our community and partner ecosystems. View the documentation.Enterprise
  • Pods now support persistent volumes. View the documentation.Beta

NOTE: Because these storage features are beta in 1.11, they must be explicitly enabled in the config.yaml file when installing DC/OS. Beta features are not recommended for production usage, but are a good indication of the direction the project is headed.

Updated DC/OS Data Services

  • TLS encryption for DC/OS Kafka, DC/OS Cassandra, DC/OS Elastic, and DC/OS HDFS is now supported. Enterprise
  • Fault domain awareness for DC/OS Kafka, DC/OS Cassandra, DC/OS Elastic and DC/OS HDFS. Use fault domain awareness to make your services highly available and to allow for increased capacity when needed. Enterprise
  • New API endpoint to pause a node for DC/OS Kafka, DC/OS Cassandra, DC/OS Elastic, and DC/OS HDFS. Use this endpoint to relaunch a node in an idle command state for debugging purposes.
  • New DC/OS Kafka ZooKeeper service. View the documentation.
  • You can now select a DC/OS data service version from a dropdown menu in the DC/OS UI.
  • Improved scalability for all DC/OS data services.