Announcing Linkerd2 v18.9.1

[Andrew Seigner]

Hello Linkerd2 users!

We've just released Linkerd2 v18.9.1! This release includes a ton of enhancements to the web dashboard. 💻

• Web UI
  • New Default landing page provides namespace overview with expandable sections
  • New Breadcrumb navigation at the top of the dashboard
  • Improved Tap and Top pages
    • Table rendering performance improvements via throttling
    • Tables now link to resource detail pages
    • Tap an entire namespace when no resource is specified
    • Tap websocket errors provide more descriptive text
    • Consolidated source and destination columns
  • Misc ui updates
    • Metrics tables now include a small success rate chart
    • Improved latency formatting for seconds latencies
    • Renamed upstream/downstream to inbound/outbound
    • Sidebar scrolls independently from main panel, scrollbars hidden when not needed
    • Removed social links from sidebar
• CLI
  • New linkerd check now validates Linkerd proxy versions and readiness
  • New linkerd inject now provides an injection status report, and warns when resources are not injectable
  • New linkerd top now has a --hide-sources flag, to hide the source column and collapse top results accordingly
• Control Plane
  • Updated Prometheus to v2.4.0, Grafana to 5.2.4

We're excited to hear your feedback! Please try out the new release and send questions/comments to us on this mailing list, and bugs via GitHub!

--Siggy