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What's New in NATS
The NATS.io team is always working to bring you features to improve your NATS experience. Below you will find feature summaries for new implementations to NATS. Check back often for release highlights and updates.
Server release v2.1.2
Queue Permissions
Queue Permissions allow you to express authorization for queue groups. As queue groups are integral to implementing horizontally scalable microservices, control of who is allowed to join a specific queue group is important to the overall security model. Original PR - https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/pull/1143
More information on Queue Permissions can be found in the Developing with NATS section.
Server release v2.1.0
Service Latency Tracking
As services and service mesh functionality has become prominent, we have been looking at ways to make running scalable services on NATS.io a great experience. One area we have been looking at is observability. With publish/subscribe systems, everything is inherently observable, however we realized it was not as simple as it could be. We wanted the ability to transparently add service latency tracking to any given service with no changes to the application. We also realized that global systems, such as those NATS.io can support, needed something more than a single metric. The solution was to allow any sampling rate to be attached to an exported service, with a delivery subject for all collected metrics. We collect metrics that show the requestor’s view of latency, the responder’s view of latency and the NATS subsystem itself, even when requestor and responder are in different parts of the world and connected to different servers in a NATS supercluster.
- Release notes 2.1.0
- Full list of Changes 2.0.4...2.1.0
Server release v2.0.4
Response Only Permissions
For services, the authorization for responding to requests usually included wildcards for _INBOX.> and possibly $GR.> with a supercluster for sending responses. What we really wanted was the ability to allow a service responder to only respond to the reply subject it was sent.
Response Types
Exported Services were originally tied to a single response. We added the type for the service response and now support singletons (default), streams and chunked. Stream responses represent multiple response messages, chunked represents a single response that may have to be broken up into multiple messages.
- Release notes 2.0.4
- Full list of Changes 2.0.2...2.0.4