[ANN] NSQ v1.2.1

[Matt Reiferson]

1.2.1

Upgrading

• #1227 - bump dependencies, officially drop dep support, drop Go 1.9 support

Features:

• #1347 - nsqadmin: switch to go:embed for static assets
• #1355 / #1364 - arm64 builds (thanks @danbf)
• #1346 - nsqd: ability to skip ephemeral topics/channels in statsd output
• #1336 / #1341 / #1343 - nsqd: ability to configure auth endpoint path (thanks @tufanbarisyildirim)
• #1307 - remove Context to use stdlib context
• #1295 / #1296 - switch to GitHub Actions CI
• #1292 - nsqd: minimize allocations on message send (thanks @imxyb)
• #1289 - optimize uniq (thanks @donutloop)
• #1230 / #1232 - nsqd: ability to omit memory stats from /stats (thanks @creker)
• #1226 - nsqd: only update internal RDY count for client when it changes (thanks @andyxning)
• #1221 / #1363 - test against more recent versions of Go
• #1209 - nsqd: bump go-diskqueue (interface change) (thanks @bitpeng)
• #1206 - prefer idiomatic sort.Ints over sort.Sort (thanks @lelenanam)
• #1197 / #1362 - Dockerfile: update Alpine base image, use /data by default
• #1178 - nsqd: configurable queue scan worker pool (thanks @andyxning)
• #1159 - nsqd: don't buffer messages when --mem-queue-size=0 (thanks @bitpeng)
• #1073 / #1297 - nsqd: support separate broadcast ports for TCP and HTTP (thanks @shyam-king)

Bugs:

• #1347 - nsqadmin: fix graphite key for ephemeral topics/channels
• #765 / #1195 / #1203 / #1205 - fix build on illumos (thanks @i-sevostyanov)
• #1333 - fix race detector tests on non-bash shells
• #1330 - fix log_level support in configuration file (thanks @edoger)
• #1319 / #1331 / #1361 - nsqd: handle SIGTERM
• #1287 - nsqadmin: fix --proxy-graphite support (thanks @fanlix)
• #1270 / #1271 - nsqlookupd: fix incorrect error message for HTTP listener (thanks @TangDH03)
• #1264 - fix benchmark script
• #1251 / #1314 / #1327 - nsqd: fix live lock for high churn ephemeral topic/channel reconnections (thanks @slayercat)
• #1237 - Dockerfile: add nsswitch.conf to ensure go resolver uses /etc/hosts first
• #1217 / #1220 - nsqd: improve error message when --data-path does not exist (thanks @mdh67899)
• #1198 / #1190 / #1262 - synchronize close of all connections on Exit (thanks @benjsto)
• #1188 / #1189 - nsqadmin: fix channel delete, fix source-maps in Firefox (thanks @avtrifanov)
• #1186 - nsqadmin: fix nodes list with ipv6 addresses (thanks @andyxning)