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GridGain 8.8.3 Release Notes

New Features

GridGain 8.8.3 provides access to a variety of new features and improvements.

Randomization of Checkpoint Interval

Starting this version, the user can randomize the checkpoint interval. In rare cases, identically configured checkpoint frequency of all cluster nodes may increase the transaction processing time. The new functionality allows to avoid this issue.

Randomization can be done using the control utility. The value is defined as a percentage of the checkpoint frequency.

control.sh  --property set --name checkpoint.deviation --val 25
control.bat  --property set --name checkpoint.deviation --val 25

Changes in Behavior

Internals of Entries Deletion Are Reworked

Before this version, markers for deleted entries (often called "tombstones") were kept on the Java heap for some time after they had been deleted - this was the requirement of the distributed cache protocol for consistency guarantees. This led to certain issues, including increased Java heap memory usage and GC pressure.

Starting this version, "tombstones" are stored off-heap instead of on-heap.

For most users, this change is completely transparent. However, use cases with a lot of deletions may see the following non-functional changes:

  • Heap usage may decrease;

  • Off-heap usage may increase;

  • Update performance may slightly decrease.

Known Issues

Rolling Upgrade Fails to Start when Security is Enabled

In GridGain 8.8.3, starting a rolling upgrade with the security feature enabled may cause the Authorization failed error.

Workaround: Use the control-utility.sh to start the rolling upgrade and explicitly specify the coordinator node host with the --host xxxx --port xxxx parameters (coordinator node is the oldest node in cluster topology).

Improvements and Fixed Issues

Community Edition Changes

GG-32723

Cluster SQL Engine

Fixed an issue that caused omitting of NOT NULL constraint validation for columns that were part of compound primary key.

GG-32699

Platforms & Thin Clients

.NET: Fixed DllNotFoundException in single file deployment on .NET 5

GG-32673

Control Center Agent

Fixed an issue that led to incorrect calculation of query execution time.

GG-32657

Cluster Storage Engine

Added an ability to randomize the checkpoint interval.

GG-32651

Cluster Rolling Upgrade

Fixed an issue where control utility could not finish rolling upgrade procedure.

GG-32643

Platforms & Thin Clients

.NET Thin Client: Added an automated check confirming that client binary configuration is compatible to server binary configuration on client start.

GG-32622

Platforms & Thin Clients

.NET: Added services exceptions interoperability between java and .NET

GG-32596

Cluster Rolling Upgrade

Fixed an issue when the rolling-upgrade procedure could be erroneously considered as finished one after the cluster restart.

GG-32583

Cluster Storage Engine

Fixed a bug that caused wrong initialization of CPU checkpoint thread pool.

GG-32544

Cluster SQL Engine

Fixed PK index tree corruption issue.

GG-32543

Platforms & Thin Clients

.NET: Fixed inferred SQL table name when query entity value type was generic.

GG-32517

Cluster SQL Engine

Fixed an issue when CREATE TABLE did not use encryptionEnabled property of cache template.

GG-32516

Platforms & Thin Clients

.NET: Fixed arrays and collections deserialization when elements shared a reference to the same object.

GG-32510

Cluster Communication

Fixed a bug when messaging-related metrics were updated before full initialization of Tcp Communication SPI.

GG-32499

Cluster Storage Engine

Fixed an issue when transactions could freeze on server nodes after the node that started the transaction left the cluster.

GG-32476

Platforms & Thin Clients

.NET: Fixed an issue that caused incorrect registration of binary type name for generic query types.

GG-32464

Platforms & Thin Clients

Java thin client: Fixed executing ComputeTask with unregistered type freezing.

GG-32463

Platforms & Thin Clients

Java thin client: Added the following new methods to the client cache API: containsKeys, clearKey, clearKeys and getAndPutIfAbsent.

GG-32451

Cluster Storage Engine

Adjusted transaction log output when node is stopping.

GG-32440

Platforms & Thin Clients

.NET: Examples reworked to .NET Core, now they can be run from CLI or any IDE of any OS.

GG-32433

Cluster Storage Engine

Improved collecting of rebalancing statistics.

GG-32394

Cluster SQL Engine

Fixed an issue that caused incorrect spans inheritance in the SQL tracing.

GG-32393

Platforms & Thin Clients

.NET: Added implicit Java type registration in ExecuteJavaTask.

GG-32381

Cluster Storage Engine

Fixed an issue that could lead to OutOfMemoryError when rebalance was in progress.

GG-32327

Cluster Storage Engine

Fixed an issue that prevented switching to full rebalance when historical rebalance was not able to find reserved WAL segments.

GG-32323

Cluster Storage Engine

Fixed an issue that caused a deadlock when user cache was created in parallel with TTL worker was in progress.

GG-32233

Cluster Storage Engine

Significantly reduced the time of exclusive lock that was needed for a checkpoint.

GG-32194

GridGain Integrations

Removed OSGi modules from GridGain distribution.

GG-32084

Cluster Storage Engine

Fixed an issue that led to cluster instability when WAL archive was disabled.

GG-31637

Control Center Agent

Fixed a bug that caused NullPointerException on configuration change when Control Center Agent was not supported.

GG-31235

Cluster Data Replication

Added replication for removal operations to Incremental Data Replication.

GG-31142

Cluster Communication

Added support of IGNITE_ENABLE_FORCIBLE_NODE_KILL flag when inverse connection protocol is used.

GG-30867

Control Center Agent

Added JUL bridge for log4j2 and slf4j.

GG-30273

GridGain Integrations

Improved SpringData support: multiple ignite instances on same JVM, projections, Page and Stream, advanced parameter binding and SpEL.

GG-29695

Cluster Communication

Fixed an issue when connection closed by the one node could lead to infinite connection attempts on the other node.

GG-28839

Control Center Agent

Fixed an issue when changing a cluster’s tag did not reflect by Control Center.

GG-19071

Cluster SQL Engine

Fixed an issue that blocked applying sorted-aggregate optimisation for grouping with proper index.

GG-32759

Cluster Affinity and Baseline Topology

Fixed an issue that led to the fact that auto adjustment of baseline was not triggered under certain conditions.

Ultimate Edition Changes

GG-30094

Cluster Data Snapshots and Recovery

Fixed bug when incremental snapshot could be scheduled before full snapshot.

Installation and Upgrade Information

See the Rolling Upgrades page for information about how to perform automated upgrades and for details about version compatibility.

Below is a list of versions that are compatible with the current version. You can rolling-upgrade from any of those. Compatibility with other versions is not guaranteed. If you are on a version that is not listed, contact GridGain for information on upgrade options.

8.5.3, 8.5.5, 8.5.6, 8.5.7, 8.5.8, 8.5.8-p6, 8.5.9, 8.5.10, 8.5.11, 8.5.12, 8.5.13, 8.5.14, 8.5.15, 8.5.16, 8.5.17, 8.5.18, 8.5.19, 8.5.20, 8.5.22, 8.5.23, 8.5.24, 8.7.2, 8.7.2-p12, 8.7.2-p13, 8.7.3, 8.7.4, 8.7.5, 8.7.6, 8.7.7, 8.7.8, 8.7.9, 8.7.10, 8.7.11, 8.7.12, 8.7.13, 8.7.14, 8.7.15, 8.7.16, 8.7.17, 8.7.18, 8.7.19, 8.7.19-p1, 8.7.20, 8.7.21, 8.7.22, 8.7.23, 8.7.24, 8.7.25, 8.7.26, 8.7.27, 8.7.28, 8.7.29, 8.7.30, 8.7.31, 8.7.32, 8.7.33, 8.8.1, 8.8.2

Known Limitations

Jetty Configuration Incompatibility in GridGain 8.7.21 and Later

If you are upgrading from version 8.7.20 or earlier, consider an incompatibility issue related to Jetty configuration introduced in GridGain 8.7.21.

Your setup may be affected if:

  • You use the ignite-rest-http module (e.g. to connect to GridGain Web Console)

  • You have a custom Jetty configuration that enables SSL for REST

  • Your Jetty configuration uses the org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory class

  • The keystore specified in the Jetty configuration contains both the CA certificate and the private certificate

In this case, after starting a new version, an exception is thrown with an error message similar to the following:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: KeyStores with multiple certificates are not supported on the base class
org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory. (Use org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory$Server
or org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory$Client instead)

To workaround this issue, alter the Jetty configuration to use org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory$Server or org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory$Client. See the configuration example at the Client Certificate Authentication page.

Default rebalanceThreadPoolSize in GridGain 8.7.26 and Later

In GridGain 8.7.26, the default value of the property IgniteConfiguration.rebalanceThreadPoolSize changed from 1 to min(4, number of CPU / 4). It may cause a compatibility issue under the following conditions:

  • When a Rolling Upgrade is performed

  • The upgrade is performed from 8.5.7 version (or earlier) to 8.5.x or from 8.7.3 (or earlier) to 8.7.x

  • The server nodes have at least 8 CPU cores

  • The nodes configuration does not have the property IgniteConfiguration.rebalanceThreadPoolSize, so the default value is used

In this case, an exception is thrown with an error message similar to the following:

сlass org.apache.ignite.IgniteException: Rebalance configuration mismatch (fix configuration or set -DIGNITE_SKIP_CONFIGURATION_CONSISTENCY_CHECK=true system property).
Different values of such parameter may lead to rebalance process instability and hanging.  [rmtNodeId=5fc58fb7-209d-489a-8034-0127a81abed6, locRebalanceThreadPoolSize = 4, rmtRebalanceThreadPoolSize = 1]

To workaround this issue, change the configuration of the server nodes to rebalanceThreadPoolSize=1 so that it matches the previous default configuration. For example:

<bean class="org.apache.ignite.configuration.IgniteConfiguration">
    <property name="rebalanceThreadPoolSize" value="1"/>

    <!-- The rest of the configuration goes here -->
</bean>

Jetty Does Not Accept Incorrect Configuration in GridGain 8.7.31 and Later

In GridGain 8.7.31 Jetty was upgraded to 9.4.33. Starting that version, Jetty has more strict validation of the provided configuration files. Before that version, an incorrectly spelled property in the configuration file had no effect. Starting this version, errors in the configuration will lead to an error on start.

Your setup may be affected if:

  • You use the ignite-rest-http module (e.g. to connect to GridGain Web Console)

  • You have a custom Jetty configuration for REST

  • The custom configuration has errors in it

You will need to fix the custom Jetty configuration before upgrading.

ignite.sh No Longer Enables Remote JMX by Default in GridGain 8.7.31 and Later

Starting from 8.7.31 version, GridGain no longer attempts to automatically enable the remote JMX. Default settings are known to cause issues if customized (for example, secure the connection). Also, in most cases, remote JMX is not required since many tools use local JMX connections (not using TCP).

Your setup may be affected if:

  • You start GridGain nodes via ignite.sh script

  • You connect to GridGain nodes' JMX interface remotely over TCP using the default configuration

To continue using remote JMX, you need to manually specify the required JMX settings. Please see the example below. Note that you don’t need remote JMX if you use a local connection, such as connecting JConsole to a GridGain process on the same host.

export JVM_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=33333 \
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false"

bin/ignite.sh

Rolling Upgrade from GridGain 8.7.9 and Earlier Fails if Data Center Replication is Enabled

Rolling upgrades from GridGain 8.7.9 and earlier to current GridGain version fails if data center replication is enabled and under load.

To work around this issue, you can first upgrade to GridGain 8.7.21, or a later 8.7.x version, and then to current version.

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Last updated on Dec 04, 2024