This version mainly adds authentication plugin and configuration encryption plugin ability. And shutdown the ability to support upgraded from version 1.X by default.

For Client, this version refactor the classes scan logic and remove the org.reflections dependency to solve the incompatibility issues when org.reflections conflicts.

Finally, this version does some enhancement and fixes some bugs found in 2.0.4.

The detail change log following:

Features

[#5695] Add a plugin SPI for configuration encryption and decryption for Nacos 2.0 [#5696] Add a plugin SPI for authentication for Nacos 2.0. [#7930] Default close support upgrade from 1.X feature. [#7992] Support cluster grpc client to set thread pool size. [#8220] Add reset raft cluster operation.

Enhancement & Refactor

[#7487] Add generics for the CacheBuilder. [#7879] Refactor destroy method of AbstractMemberLookup. [#7924][#8214] Add ldap auth plugin. [#7952] Ignore read request for raft follower's state machine to enhance raft stability. [#7966] Add more information in Auth/Distro/Curcuit-Filter when cause some server error. [#7971] Stop version judge Task and release thread after upgrade completely. [#8072] Enhance memory cost in DistroProtocol initialization. [#8107] Enhance console change password operation. [#8156] Support js and css of console auto-upgrade.

BugFix

[#1717][#7359] Fix XSS vulnerabilities. [#6273] Fix loop request for offline server nodes API. [#6999] Fix Nacos client does not support logback overload log configuration. [#7757] Fix jraft read request deserialize to write request problem. [#7780] Fix config a-b-a problem. [#7941] Fix version comparison error in Config Detail page. [#8087] Fix text out of box in configuration manager. [#8108] Fix throw NPR for health check for v2. [#8050] Fix configuration about Distro changes could not take effect. [#8161] Fix console can't use relative path problem. [#8163] Fix multi-instance share the same local snapshot. [#8196] Fix subscriber api without count when the query number is more than subscriber count.

Dependency

[#7758] Update module nacos-consistency protobuf-maven-plugin version to 0.6.1. [#7886] Enhance package scan logic and remove org.reflections dependency.

Tests

[#4981] Add much unit test. [#8009] Fix NPE of unit test.