2.9.0

Known issues

• Both Portainer and the Agent need to be upgraded at the same time: https://github.com/portainer/agent/issues/187

• Restarting Portainer will invalidate all downloaded Kubeconfig files: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5574

• Access can not be assigned to registries when defining multiple registries with the same URL

Breaking change

• Default HTTPS support has been added: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5462 As a consequence the --ssl flag has been deprecated. If you are using the --sslcert and --sslkey flags, then after the upgrade port 9000 will serve http and port 9443 will serve https with the provided certificate. To retain the old behaviour consider using the port mapping -p 9000:9443 instead.

• The /stacks API has renamed ComposeFilePathInRepository to ComposeFile, and the non-mandatory fields AdditionalFiles and AutoUpdate were added: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5461

Overview of changes

New Portainer CE 2.9.0 release

Kubernetes:

• Introduced the ability to open a shell in Portainer to use kubectl: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5574
• Introduced the ability to download a kubeconfig file and use Portainer as a proxy: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5574
• Introduced the ability to install Helm charts: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5479
• Introduced the ability to use any public Helm repository: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5480
• Added the ability to display Helm chart deployments in the applications list: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5478
• Added the ability to update and redeploy an application created from a git repository: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5486
• Added support for deploying images stored on private registries for Docker and Kubernetes: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4393
• Introduced the ability to restrict access to the default namespace: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5496
• Introduced the ability to mark and unmark namespaces as system: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4389
• Added functionality to define a manifest as custom template: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5489
• Added the ability to deploy a manifest from a URL: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5556
• Added memory and cpu usage indicators to the namespace and cluster details: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5460
• Added status information to list of namespaces: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5555
• Improved the validation of resource allocation available on any of the nodes when adding an application: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5530
• Improved UI so that accessing the advanced deployment functionality is similar to accessing the form: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5558
• Fixed issue where the metrics server API was being queried when disabled: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5523
• Fixed issue where the node events would not be showing: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5474
• Improved UI for the metrics API toggle in the cluster setup: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5508
• Removed validation of any ingresses that are already in use in other namespaces: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5526
• Introduced the ability to use Edge Stacks on Kubernetes via edge agents: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5472

Docker:

• Introduced the ability to automatically sync a stack from a git repository: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5461
• Introduced the ability to use stacks on docker standalone on ARM64: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4776
• Introduced the ability to use Edge Stacks on ARM64: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4776
• Added support for deploying images stored on private registries for Docker and Kubernetes: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4393
• Added the ability to edit a stopped stack: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4944
• Added the ability to edit environment variables for stacks on docker standalone: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/3441
• Fixed issue where all images regardless of their tag would be pulled: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4870
• Fixed issue where volumes would lose their access control settings: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4851
• Fixed issue where standard users were unable to browse volumes created by stacks: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4929
• Fixed issue where ports would show for ipv4 as well as ipv6: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5038
• Fixed issue where container_name validation would not take stopped containers into account: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5522
• Fixed issue where editing a stack would warn about the container name being in use: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5130
• Fixed issue where navigating away incorrectly showed a changes not saved popup: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5512
• Fixed issue where the stack name would contain spaces or upper case characters: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5153
• Fixed issue where the UI would incorrectly report that an image was successfully pulled: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/3123
• Fixed issue where the Stack editor would not always load its content: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5102
• Improved how code is being shared between Portainer and the agent by using a compose wrapper library: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5525
• Fixed issue where environment variables were incorrectly showing when the value contained an equals sign: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5395
• Fixed issue where the browser console would show errors in the container and image details view: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5511

Portainer:

• Introduced dark theme and high contrast mode: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5493
• Introduced the ability to access Portainer via HTTPS: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5462
• Renamed Endpoints to Environments in the UI: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5492
• Improved the menu UI to indicate the existence of sub items: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5528
• Fixed issue where Git content could not be cloned when Portainer is behind a proxy: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/3286
• Improved UI how to add environments to Portainer when doing a new installation: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5477
• Added a build for Windows Server 20H2: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4971
• Fixed issue where the SSL certificates were not included in the Portainer backup: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5497
• Fixed issue where editing an endpoint results in errors: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5318

Edge:

• Added the ability to deploy Edge stacks on Docker standalone Edge endpoints: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5470
• Introduced the ability to use Edge Stacks on Kubernetes via edge agents: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5472
• Introduced the ability to re-associate an edge endpoint to a new edge agent: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5473
• Fixed issue where the heartbeat indicator was not reliable: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5569
• Improved the rest api access of the edge agent in docker standalone: https://github.com/portainer/agent/issues/187

Registry:

• Added ProGet as a specific registry type when adding a registry: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5491
• Improved UI to provide information for correctly using a ProGet registry: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5510

ACI:

• Fixed issue where ACI would show errors when a resource group had multiple containers: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5335

Development:

• Added the ability to query the endpoints by type through the Portainer API: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4786
• Fixed inconsistencies in the Portainer API documentation: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5527
• Integrated with Logrus for the internal logging mechanism: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5509
• Updated the Golang version to 1.16: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/5463