Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS 1.8.1
By
Tim Hall /
Product
Jul 14, 2020
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A new maintenance release for InfluxDB OSS is available now.
- InfluxDB 1.8.1 release notes
This maintenance release of InfluxDB OSS includes the following fixes and improvements:
- Optional feature:
- Allow configuration for users to add custom HTTP response headers to InfluxDB. This allows users to supply headers to comply with internal security policies. This is achieved by first adding the
http-headersconfiguration option.http-headersaccepts a list of key value pairs containing headers and their values.
- Allow configuration for users to add custom HTTP response headers to InfluxDB. This allows users to supply headers to comply with internal security policies. This is achieved by first adding the
- Performance improvements:
- InfluxQL query planner now plans each field in parallel to improve planning time. Previously a query with multiple fields (e.g. SELECT SUM(x), COUNT(x)...) would plan each field one after another.
- Improved performance of DELETE/DROP by batching tombstone writes.
- Fixes and other improvements:
- Flux: Addressed regression issue where calling
buckets()would cause a panic. - TSI: Addressed a couple of edge cases which resulted in segfaults.
- TSI: Addressed deadlock when DROP and DELETE were issued through separate sessions.
- Storage: Improved error handling when creating snapshots.
- Flux: Addressed regression issue where calling
The binaries for the latest open source release can be found on our downloads page.
If you find issues or have questions, please join our InfluxDB Community Slack, post them in our InfluxDB Github Repo or our Community Site and we will take a look.
