Gloo Mesh Enterprise versions
View supported Gloo Mesh Enterprise versions and their release cycle.
Supported versions
Solo supports n-3
versions for Gloo Mesh Enterprise. Within each Gloo Mesh Enterprise version, different open source project versions are supported, including n-4
version support for Solo distributions of Istio.
The following versions of Gloo Mesh Enterprise are supported with the compatible open source project versions of Istio and Kubernetes. Later versions of the open source projects that are released after Gloo Mesh Enterprise might also work, but are not tested as part of the Gloo Mesh Enterprise release.
Gloo Mesh Enterprise | Release date | Supported Solo distributions of Istio and related Kubernetes versions tested by Solo |
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2.6 | 15 Aug 2024 |
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2.5 | 09 Jan 2024 |
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2.4 | 28 Aug 2023 |
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2.3 | 17 Apr 2023 |
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Solo distributions of Istio
For information about Solo distributions of Istio, see the Solo distribution of Istio reference.
Release lifecycle
Solo supports n-3
for Gloo Mesh Enterprise and n-4
for Solo distributions of Istio.
Typically, Gloo Mesh Enterprise releases a new minor version, n
, each quarter. When the new minor version is released, the previous n-4
for Gloo Mesh Enterprise or n-5
for Solo distributions of Istio become unsupported. Make sure that you run a supported version for production environments, and keep that version upgraded to the latest patch version so that you have the latest security fixes. For more information, see the upgrade guide.
Version | Supported? | Type | Description |
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n | Yes | Latest | The latest stable version is the default version when you view the documentation. New features are typically not developed for the latest version, but the version is actively maintained for security patches, bugs, and documentation. |
n-2 n-3 Istio only: n-4 | Yes | Stable | Supported versions up to n-3 (and n-4 for Solo distributions of Istio) continue to receive support for security patches, bugs, and documentation. |
n+1 | No | Beta | Active feature development happens on the main branch as part of the development of a beta version. When the n+1 beta version is prepared as a release candidate, new feature development is suspended until this version becomes the new n . New features and development work on main is subject to change, not necessarily fully tested, and not supported. |
n-4 Istio only: n-5 | No | Unsupported | Versions that are n-4 (and n-5 for Solo distributions of Istio) or older are no longer supported or maintained. Upgrade your release to a stable version to continue to receive support. |
Gloo feature maturity
Solo periodically provides new features in minor releases of Gloo versions. To receive feedback and improve functionality for real use cases, these features are often released according to a feature maturity model. As the features are improved and stabilized, they are gradually moved through the stages of alpha, beta, and general availability (GA) support. Review the following table for the comparison points between each stage of feature maturity. To see the maturity of a feature, check the feature’s documentation.
Comparison point | Alpha | Beta | GA |
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API | Can and will likely change | Unlikely to change | No change |
Implementation | Can and will likely change | Can change, but user experience is maintained | No changes that affect user experience |
Upgrade paths | Not guaranteed | Not guaranteed | Provided and tested |
Requests for enhancement (RFEs) and bug fixes | RFEs and bug fixes prioritized | RFEs and bug fixes prioritized | Fully supported |
Documentation | Not guaranteed and supplied with warnings | Supplied with warnings | Fully supplied |
Automated testing | Internal testing, but little testing with real use cases | Internal testing and some testing with real use cases | Fully tested and validated with real use cases |
Suggested usage | Exploration and feedback | Testing setups, demos, and POCs | Production setups |
Feature gates
To review the required Gloo versions for specific features that you can optionally enable, see Feature gates.
Open source packages in Gloo Mesh Enterprise
For specific versions of open sources packages that are bundled with Gloo Mesh Enterprise, see the entries in the open source attribution. For more information on where these open source packages are retrieved from, see the go.mod documentation.
Download a specific image
You can download a particular image for Gloo Mesh Enterprise, such as for the following use cases.
- To download and transfer these images if your environment does not have public network access or cannot pull public images, for an air-gapped installation.
- To use a custom build that aligns with compliance standards such as Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS).
Get the version tag that you want to use in the changelog, such as 2.6.5.
To download the package for all Gloo components that you deploy in your management and workload clusters, append the
<version_tag>
to the following URL.https://storage.googleapis.com/gloo-platform/helm-charts/gloo-platform-<version_tag>.tgz
Optional: For FIPS-compliant images, open the
values.yaml
file in the downloaded package, search for theimage
section, and append-fips
to the tag, such as in the following example.... glooMgmtServer: image: pullPolicy: IfNotPresent registry: gcr.io/gloo-mesh repository: gloo-mesh-mgmt-server tag: 2.6.5-fips
Optional: If you need to pull the images locally, such as for an air-gapped installation, you can use the information you retrieved from the
images
section in thevalues.yaml
file to pull the image. For example, you might use the followingdocker pull
command for a FIPS image. Repeat this step for each image that you want to build locally and push to a private repository.docker pull gcr.io/gloo-mesh/gloo-mesh-mgmt-server:2.6.5-fips
Use these packages when you install Gloo Mesh Enterprise.