Release notes
Review summaries of the main changes in the Gloo Gateway 1.18 release.
Make sure that you review the breaking changes đĨ that were introduced in this release and the impact that they have on your current environment.
Introduction
The release notes include important installation changes and known issues. They also highlight ways that you can take advantage of new features or enhancements to improve your product usage.
For more information, see the following related resources:
- Open source changelog or enterprise changelog: A full list of changes, including the ability to compare previous patch and minor versions.
- Upgrade guide: Steps to upgrade from the previous minor version to the current version.
- Version reference: Information about Solo’s version support.
đĨ Breaking changes
Review details about the following breaking changes. To review when breaking changes were released, you can use the comparison feature of the open source changelog or enterprise changelog. The severity is intended as a guide to help you assess how much attention to pay to this area during the upgrade, but can vary depending on your environment.
đ¨ High
Review severe changes that can impact production and require manual intervention.
đ Medium
Review changes that might have impact to production and require manual intervention, but possibly not until the next version is released.
âšī¸ Low
Review informational updates that you might want to implement but that are unlikely to materially impact production.
- No low-severity changes are currently reported.
âī¸ Installation changes
In addition to comparing differences across versions in the changelog, review the following installation changes from the previous minor version to version 1.19.
- No installation changes are currently reported.
đ New features
Review the following new features that are introduced in version 1.19 and that you can enable in your environment.
Gloo UI for Gloo Gateway
You can install the Gloo UI with a separate Helm chart to get an at-a-glance view of the configuration, health, and compliance status of your Gloo Gateway setup and the workloads in your cluster.
To learn more about the Gloo UI and the features it provides, see the following links:
Use Gloo Gateway as a waypoint proxy
If you run an ambient mesh in your cluster, such as by using the Solo distribution of Istio or the community ambient version, you can use Gloo Gateway as a waypoint proxy to apply Layer 7 policies to the workloads in the ambient mesh.
To learn more about this feature, see Use Gloo Gateway as a waypoint proxy.
đ Feature changes
Review the following changes that might impact how you use certain features in your Gloo Gateway environment.