InfluxDB 3 Enterprise release notes

v3.1.0

Core: revision 482dd8aac580c04f37e8713a8fffae89ae8bc264

Enterprise: revision 2cb23cf32b67f9f0d0803e31b356813a1a151b00

Core

Token and Security Updates

• Named admin tokens can now be created, with configurable expirations
• health, ping, and metrics endpoints can now be opted out of authorization
• Basic $TOKEN is now supported for all APIs
• Additional info available when creating a new token
• Additional info available when starting InfuxDB using --without-auth

Additional Updates

• New catalog metrics available for count operations
• New object store metrics available for transfer latencies and transfer sizes
• New query duration metrics available for Last Value caches
• /ping API now contains versioning headers
• Other performance improvements

Fixes

• New tags are now backfilled with NULL instead of empty strings
• Bitcode deserialization error fixed
• Series key metadata not persisting to Parquet is now fixed
• Other general fixes and corrections

Enterprise

Token and Security Updates

• Resource tokens now use resource names in show tokens
• Tokens can now be granted CREATE permission for creating databases

Additional Updates

• Last value caches populate on creation and reload on restart
• Distinct value caches populate on creation and reload on restart
• Other performance improvements
• Replaces remaining “INFLUXDB_IOX” Dockerfile environment variables with the following:
  • ENV INFLUXDB3_OBJECT_STORE=file
  • ENV INFLUXDB3_DB_DIR=/var/lib/influxdb3

Fixes

• Improvements and fixes for license validations
• False positive fixed for catalog error on shutdown
• UX improvements for error and onboarding messages
• Other general fixes and corrections

v3.0.3

Core: revision 384c457ef5f0d5ca4981b22855e411d8cac2688e

Enterprise: revision 34f4d28295132b9efafebf654e9f6decd1a13caf

Core

Fixes

• Prevent operator token, _admin, from being deleted.

Enterprise

Fixes

• Fix object store info digest that is output during onboarding.
• Fix issues with false positive catalog error on shutdown.
• Fix licensing validation issues.
• Other fixes and performance improvements.

v3.0.2

Core: revision d80d6cd60049c7b266794a48c97b1b6438ac5da9

Enterprise: revision e9d7e03c2290d0c3e44d26e3eeb60aaf12099f29

Core

Security updates

• Generate testing TLS certificates on the fly.
• Set the TLS CA via the INFLUXDB3_TLS_CA environment variable.
• Enforce a minimum TLS version for enhanced security.
• Allow CORS requests from browsers.

General updates

• Support the --format json option in the token creation output.
• Remove the Last Values Cache size limitation to improve performance and flexibility.
• Incorporate additional performance improvements.

Fixes

• Fix a counting bug in the distinct cache.
• Fix how the distinct cache handles rows with null values.
• Fix handling of group by tag columns that use escape quotes.
• Sort the IOx table schema consistently in the SHOW TABLES command.

Enterprise

Updates

• Introduce a command and system table to list cluster nodes.
• Support multiple custom permission argument matches.
• Improve overall performance.

Fixes

• Initialize the object store only once.
• Prevent the Home license server from crashing on restart.
• Enforce the --num-cores thread allocation limit.

v3.0.1

Core: revision d7c071e0c4959beebc7a1a433daf8916abd51214

Enterprise: revision 96e4aad870b44709e149160d523b4319ea91b54c

Core

Updates

• TLS CA can now be set with an environment variable: INFLUXDB3_TLS_CA
• Other general performance improvements

Fixes

• The --tags argument is now optional for creating a table, and additionally now requires at least one tag if specified

Enterprise

Updates

• Catalog limits for databases, tables, and columns are now configurable using influxdb3 serve options:
  • --num-database-limit
  • --num-table-limit
  • --num-total-columns-per-table-limit
• Improvements to licensing prompts for clarity
• Other general performance improvements

Fixes

• Home license thread count log errors

v3.0.0

Core

General Updates

• Performance and reliability improvements.

Enterprise

Token Support

• Authorization is now turned on by default.
• Token support for database level permissions are now available.
• Token support for system level queries are now available.

General Updates

• You can now use Commercial, Trial, and At-Home licenses.

v3.0.0-0.beta.3

Core: revision f881c5844bec93a85242f26357a1ef3ebf419dd3

Enterprise: revision 6bef9e700a59c0973b0cefdc6baf11583933e262

Core

General Improvements

• InfluxDB 3 now supports graceful shutdowns when sending the interrupt signal to the service.

Bug fixes

• Empty batches in JSON format results are now handled properly
• The Processing Engine now properly extracts data from DictionaryArrays

Enterprise

Multi-node improvements

• Query nodes now automatically detect new ingest nodes

Bug fixes

• Several fixes for compaction planning and processing
• The Processing Engine now properly extracts data from DictionaryArrays

v3.0.0-0.beta.2

Core: revision 033e1176d8c322b763b4aefb24686121b1b24f7c

Enterprise: revision e530fcd498c593cffec2b56d4f5194afc717d898

This update brings several backend performance improvements to both Core and Enterprise in preparation for additional new features over the next several weeks!

v3.0.0-0.beta.1

Core

Features

Query and storage enhancements

• New ability to stream response data for CSV and JSON queries, similar to how JSONL streaming works
• Parquet files are now cached on the query path, improving performance
• Query buffer is incrementally cleared when snapshotting, lowering memory spikes

Processing engine improvements

• New Trigger Types:
  • Scheduled: Run Python plugins on custom, time-defined basis
  • Request: Call Python plugins via HTTP requests
• New in-memory cache for storing data temporarily; cached data can be stored for a single trigger or across all triggers
• Integration with virtual environments and install packages:
  • Specify Python virtual environment via CLI or VIRTUAL_ENV variable
  • Install packages or a requirements.txt
• Python plugins are now implemented through triggers only. Simply create a trigger that references your Python plugin code file directly
• Snapshots are now persisted in parallel, improving performance by running jobs simultaneously, rather than sequentially
• Write to logs from within the Processing Engine

Database and CLI improvements

• You can now specify the precision on your timestamps for writes using the --precision flag. Includes nano/micro/milli/seconds (ns/us/ms/s)
• Added a new show system subcommand to display system tables with different options via SQL (default limit: 100)
• Clearer table creation error messages

Bug fixes

• If a database was created and the service was killed before any data was written, the database would not be retained
• A last cache with specific “value” columns could not be queried
• Running CTRL-C no longer stopped an InfluxDB process, due to a Python trigger
• A previous build had broken JSON queries for RecordBatches
• There was an issue with the distinct cache that caused panics

Parameter changes

For Core and Enterprise, there are parameter changes for simplicity:

Enterprise features

Cluster management

• Nodes are now associated with clusters, simplifying compaction, read replication, and processing
• Node specs are now available for simpler management of cache creations

Mode types

• Set ingest, query, compact, and process individually per node

Enterprise parameter changes

For Enterprise, additional parameters for the serve command have been consolidated for simplicity:

In addition to the above changes, --cluster-id is now a required parameter for all new instances.