Release: 1.1.0rc2

[hishamhm]

What's new since Kong 1.1.0rc1:

Improvements

Core

• Transparent proxying - the service attribute on Routes is now optional; a Route without an assigned Service will proxy transparently (feat(core) make service on routes optional (transparent proxying) #4286)

Fixes

Core

• Resolve hostnames in Cassandra contact points (fix(*) cassandra contact points initialization #4378)
• Fix health checks for Targets that need two-level DNS resolution (e.g. SRV → A → IP) (chore(deps) update dns lib to 3.0.2 #4386)
• Fix serialization of map types in the Cassandra backend (fix(api) fix type inference of map values using form-encoded #4368)

Admin API

• Fix Admin API inferencing of map types using form-encoded (fix(api) fix type inference of map values using form-encoded #4368)

PDK

• PDK version identifier was bumped to 1.1.0
• kong.client.get_subsystem was moved to kong.nginx.get_subsystem (feat(pdk) move 'get_subsystem()' to a new 'kong.nginx' module  #4358)

DB-less / Declarative config

• fix the behavior of the /tags endpoint and ?tags= query string from the Admin API when using database=off (hotfix(dbless) make tags compatible with database=off #4380)
• fix initial load of the declarative config file (hotfix(dbless) fix initial load of declarative config #4342)
• reloading the declarative config via /config refreshes the Upstream balancers (hotfix(dbless) fixes and tests for healthchecks using declarative config #4372)

Dependencies

• Bump OpenSSL to 1.1.0b
• Bump lua-resty-dns-client to 3.0.2

[Tieske]

I think it's worth mentioning the fix for the "address is nil" error in the change log as well. We have had many reports over time for this bug