higress Releases

Mar 5, 2024

Focuses on developer experience and Wasm capabilities, including Redis support for Wasm plugins, custom listening ports, and improvements to the console UI/SDK.

Mar 4, 2024

A significant performance and resource management update. It drastically reduces the time for resource changes to take effect (from ~15s to ~1s) by enabling SRDS (Service Registry Discovery Service) by default and implementing Gateway API support.

Feb 20, 2024

Feb 4, 2024

Jan 11, 2024

This release focuses on stability and operational improvements, including bug fixes for gzip configuration, the addition of a new SNI-misdirect plugin, and the introduction of debug and global-option capabilities. It also enhances tooling by adding Windows support for hgctl.

Jan 9, 2024

The update introduces significant new plugins and configuration capabilities, such as the key-auth plugin and Nginx-compatible canary routing. It also improves service discovery reliability and adds features for handling HTTP2RPC bodies and profile management.

Dec 21, 2023

Dec 20, 2023

Nov 16, 2023

This release marks a major feature expansion by adding support for Gateway API v1beta1 and standalone installation modes. It introduces new authentication plugins like OIDC and request transformers, alongside infrastructure improvements like fallback clusters.

Nov 3, 2023

v1.2.0 enhances the gateway's extensibility by adding new cluster support (Consul) and WASM plugins (Basic-auth). It also introduces a comprehensive profile management system for installation and upgrade commands, and deepens integration with Gateway API.

Sep 22, 2023

This maintenance release improves the plugin ecosystem by adding a Rust SDK for WASM plugins and updating to TinyGo. It also introduces a dedicated base image and enhances service discovery with Consul support.

Aug 11, 2023

v1.1.0 brings significant routing flexibility by supporting direct HTTP-to-Dubbo-RPC translation and remote debug capabilities. It expands the plugin ecosystem with Rust support and AI proxy plugins while improving deployment flexibility across namespaces and custom registries.

Jul 10, 2023

A hotfix release focused on stabilizing the Higress Console, specifically improving JWT policy compatibility and fixing several Helm Chart configuration errors.

Jun 17, 2023

This is the first General Availability (GA) release of Higress, featuring a robust plugin system supporting multi-layer Wasm configuration, header manipulation, and path rewriting. It includes critical fixes for service discovery and compatibility with older Kubernetes versions.

May 22, 2023

May 9, 2023

Apr 10, 2023

Apr 9, 2023

This release focuses on observability by adding support for monitoring metrics integrated with the CorazaWAF plugin.

Feb 13, 2023

This update modifies the default installation behavior to ensure Higress only listens to Ingress resources with the specific `higress` class, preventing conflicts with other ingress controllers.

Feb 3, 2023