What's New in v8.0.x

These are the highlights of new features or additions to existing features in 8.0.0. For the complete list of all changes see this Github PR list.

Overview

• ATS 8.0.0 Release Notes
  • 1,242 closed PRs
  • 94 closed issues

New Features

• Proxy protocol v1 incoming connection support

• Moving to YAML for configuration
  • Logging configuration - logging.yaml
    
  • SSL/TLS incoming and outgoing configuration - ssl_server_name.yaml
    
  • more configuration files to be converted in the future
• SNI Config enables configuration of inbound and outbound TLS attributes on a per server name basis.  This feature is configured via ssl_server_name.config.
• Openssl ASYNC_*_job support available during TLS handshake.  Enabled via proxy.config.ssl.async.handshake.enabled.  Crypto engines can be specified via an openssl.cnf file specifed in proxy.config.ssl.engine.conf_file.
• External manipulation of the cache via the Cache Tool.
• Body factory now supports default per custom set.
• Remap address specifications can now be in CIDR notation.
• Graceful shutdown.  The "--drain" option is added on traffic_ctl server restart and stop.
  
  

Future Deprecated Features

• None

New Configuration Options

• proxy.config.ssl.server.TLSv1_3.cipher_suites - configures the cipher_suites for TLS v1.3 connections from client
• proxy.config.ssl.client.TLSv1_3.cipher_suites - configures the cipher_suites for TLSv1.3 connections to origin or next hop
  
• proxy.config.http.insert_forwarded - support for the Forwarded header.
• proxy.config.http.negative_caching_list - control the status codes that are negatively cached.
  
• proxy.config.http.insert_request_via_str - More control over the contents of the Via header.
  
• proxy.config.diags.debug.client_ip - enable debug messages for transactions from a specific IP address.
  

New Log Fields

• crec - error code which TS received
• ctec - error code which TS transmitted
• crsc - Cache Result Sub-Code. More specific code to complement the Cache Result Code.
  

New Metrics

• Event loop metrics.
• proxy.process.tcp.total_accepts.

New Promoted Plugins

• cache_promote - provides a means to control when an object should be allowed to enter the cache
• cachekey -  allows some common cache key manipulations based on various HTTP request components
• lua - implement ATS plugin by writing Lua script instead of C code
• escalate - try an alternate origin when the origin server in the remap rule is either unavailable or returns specific HTTP error codes

New Plugins (in experimental)

• access_control - common use-cases related to providing access control to the objects stored in CDN cache
• fq_pacing - rate limit an individual TCP connection, based on Linux support for the Fair Queuing qdisc
• prefetch - increase the cache-hit ratio for a sequence of objects which URL paths follow a common pattern
• tls_bridge - enable secure transit via paired ATS instances
• traffic_dump - dump transactions in replay file format.
• uri_signing - implements the draft URI Signing protocol documented here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-cdni-uri-signing-12

Existing Plugins

• The existing plugins were updated to be more stylistically correct and be better examples.

• header_rewrite - the INBOUND condition was added.

Developer Notices

• C++17 is now required for building.
• A specific callback can be added to a hook only once.
• New internal libraries - BufferWriter, TextView
• Transaction and Session arguments are now separately reserved.  Similar arguments are supported for TSVConn instances.