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【Soul gateway release milestone version 2.3.0】New support for grpc, tars and sofa protocols!

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It's half a year since the last release. In this half a year, our community friends and I have done too much. Completed nearly 200 PR, published nearly 300 articles of source code analysis, added more than 120 contributors, promoted 7 members of the commiter who won the legitimate JetBrains. We have completed many, many functions With their help. Thank you very much.

soul-admin（dashboard）#

Admin is the control panel of the whole gateway, which is in charge of all traffic and rules matching.

  • The Shiro framework is integrated into admin to complete the permission control in user button level.
  • Templated plug-ins allow users to focus on data configuration without perceiving front-end pages.
  • The internationalization of the whole backend of admin , supports switching between Chinese and English.
  • New support for H2 to store data.
  • Beautiful optimization of admin interface (table, button).
  • New unit tests have been added, with a coverage rate of 70%.

Soul gateway plugin#

New plugins#

  • Add Grpc plugin to fully support grpc protocol.
  • Add Tars plugin to support Tencent tars RPC Protocol.
  • Add sofa plugin supports the sofa RPC Protocol.
  • Add sentinel plugin to integrate the fusing and current limiting function of sentinel framework.
  • Add The resilience4j plugin to integrate the fusing and current limiting function of resilience4j framework.
  • Add the redisect plugin to support user redirection.
  • Add context path plugin to support user-defined context path

plugins optimization#

  • Divide plugin: optimization of node detection mode and flow preheating mode.
  • Ratelimit plugin: add some different current limiting algorithms such as concurrent, leaky bucket and other for users to choose .
  • Sign plugin: fix the bug that URL must be set; add whether to verify flag, which can be used for URI authentication of open platform.
  • Dubbo plugin: add form, URI parameter request, direct connection to registration center , parameter verification and other functions.

Soul Client#

Soul client only provides a client to access the soul gateway with a quick way, which is not necessary. you can configure the rules in Soul admin If you don't use Soul Client.

  • Spring MVC client optimization, support spring, spring boot all versions.
  • Spring cloud client optimization, support spring, spring boot all versions.
  • Dubbo client optimization, support spring, spring boot all versions.
  • Soul grpc client is added to support grpc Java user access.
  • Soul tars client is added to support tars Java user access.
  • Soul sofa client is added to support sofa Java user access.

In the previous version, only HTTP access is supported, but the registry access is added this time.

  • Zookeeper is added as the registration center to access Soul gateway.
  • Nacos is added as the registration center to access Soul gateway.
  • Consul is added as the registration center to access Soul gateway.
  • Etcd is added as the registration center to access Soul gateway.
  • Please refer to https://shenyu.apache.org/en/projects/shenyu/register-center-design/

Soul data synchronization#

  • Fix bugs in Nacos configuration center that do not have namespace set.
  • Optimize websocket synchronization mode.
  • Solve the HTTP long polling synchronous data bug when the soul admin in deployed in cluster

Thanks#

This is a milestone release and a formal change of Soul gateway. Our dashboard, code, documents, issue and PR are all internationalized in English, and the unit test coverage of the whole project has reached 70%.Thank you again for your hard work. Although we have completed a lot of functions (I did not fully list them above), we will have more challenges in the future. I believe that with you, this is not our end, but our starting point.

Join us#

At present, Soul is in the stage of rapid development. If you want to write high-quality code, or want to deeply understand the API gateway, or enjoy the fun of open source, you are welcome to join our community