github.com/alibaba/kt-connect

Release time: 2022-02-20

• Support auto merge multiple kubeconfig files
• Support change local dns cache timeout
• Fix an issue of connect command localDNS mode failed to resolve cluster domain
• Fix an issue of exchange command continually printing error even connect already recovered
• Fix an issue cause stuntman service of mesh command selecting router pod in auto mode
• Fix an issue of clean command failed to delete resources left by exchange command
• Shorten resource heartbeat interval and lock timeout to speed up expired resource recycling
• Add ports field to shadow pods and router pods

Release time: 2022-02-13

• connect command supports tun2socks mode
• connect command supports simultaneous resolution of cluster service domain names and local intranet/extranet domain names
• connect command supports access to Headless Service on all systems
• exchange command defaults to selector mode
• mesh command defaults to auto mode
• exchange and mesh uniformly use Service as the target
• Deprecated dashboard command
• Deprecated kubectl plugin
• Added target port check for exchange/mesh commands
• Fixed command line parameter validity check

Release time: 2021-12-30

• Optimize --expose parameter of provide command to support multiple ports and port mapping
• Optimized the cleaning mark method of clean command to solve the problem of incomplete resource cleaning
• Optimized calculation logic of the pod IP range of the connect command to avoid routing effects on irrelevant IP segments
• Add --nodeSelector parameter to support specifying shadow pod to specified node (issue-185)
• Fixed an issue of after auto mesh, service redeployment may cause mesh failure
• Fixed an issue of error throw out when the clean command cleans resources whose status is already Terminating
• Fixed an issue of the connect command reported an error when the local KubeConfig did not have the global pod permission
• Fixed an issue of the connect command would have residual resources in some cases of abnormal exit

Release time: 2021-12-23

• Support auto mode of mesh command to specify access target using service name
• Added switch mode for exchange command, no longer need to wait for pod resume when exiting
• Remove the default password of shadow pod and use temporary private key to improve security
• Fixed an issue of Namespace must be specified when running ktctl when the local kube config file is not configured with namespace
• Fixed an issue of Shadow Pod was not cleaned up probabilistically when using Ctrl+C to interrupt exchange to exit the wait
• Fixed an issue of the program could not exit automatically when the startup of sshuttle failed

Release time: 2021-12-09

• mesh command supports auto mode without istio dependency
• During the process of exchange command exit, support using Ctrl+C to interrupt waiting
• --dump2hosts parameter of connect command supports non-socks mode
• Normalize error log output to display error messages as detailed as possible