Release Apache APISIX 0.8

Released on 2019/09/30

This release brings many new features, such as stream proxy, support MQTT protocol proxy, and support for ARM platform, and proxy rewrite plugin.

Core

• 🌅 support stand-alone mode: using yaml to update configurations of APISIX, more friendly to kubernetes. #464
• 🌅 support stream proxy. #513
• 🌅 support consumer bind plugins. #544
• support domain name in upstream, not only IP. #522
• ignored upstream node when it's weight is 0. #536

Plugins

• 🌅 MQTT Proxy: support to load balance MQTT by client_id, both support MQTT 3.1 and 5.0. #513
• proxy-rewrite: rewrite uri, schema, host for upstream. #594

ARM

• 🌅 APISIX can run normally under Ubuntu 18.04 of ARM64 architecture, so you can use APISIX as IoT gateway with MQTT plugin.

lua-resty-*

• lua-resty-ipmatcher
  • support IPv6
  • IP white/black list, route.
• lua-resty-radixtree
  • allow to specify multiple host, remote_addr and uri.
  • allow to define user-function to filter request.
  • use lua-resty-ipmatcher instead of lua-resty-iputils, lua-resty-ipmatcher matches fast and support IPv6.

Bugfix

• healthcheck: the checker name is wrong if APISIX works under multiple processes. #568

Dependencies

• removed lua-tinyyaml from source code base, and install through Luarocks.