v1.13 Release Planning

[JoshVanL]

Release team

Release lead: @JoshVanL
Release lead shadow(s): @mikeee
Perf test lead: @yaron2
Longhaul test: TODO
Build manager: TODO

Read about the Dapr release lifecycle

Milestone dates

Feature definition starts: 2023-10-24
Feature definition ends: 2023-11-07
Feature freeze: 2023-12-19
Code freeze (Endgame starts ~2 weeks stabilization): 2024-01-16
RC Release day: ~2024-01-30
Announcement day: 2024-02-15 < - Docs, Samples and Runtime, CLI, Release notes

Feature proposals that impact multiple repos, that maintainers can use to triage

Priorities for this release

• [P0] New name resolver [Proposal] Provide alternative service resolution mechanism besides mdns #3256
• [P0] Presence of AppChannelAllowInsecureTLS feature flag Presence of AppChannelAllowInsecureTLS feature flag #7149
• [P0] Go 1.21 Upgrade Go to 1.21 #7228
• [P0] Hot reloading (Components) Hot reloading of components #1172
  • [P1] Hot reloading (Resiliency) Hot-reloading of resiliency policies #5435
  • [P1] Hot reloading (Subscriptions) Hot-reloading of Subscriptions #7139
• [P0] Identity improvements [PROPOSAL] Identity Management Overhaul #5756
• [P0] Metrics cardinality Reduce cardinality in Dapr metrics and add more information to API logs #6919 needs docs
• [P0] Distributed scheduler planning+beginning implementation Distributed scheduler building block and service proposal proposals#44
• [P0] Workflow as stable {Phase 1} Workflow to Stable - Phase1 #7156
• [P0 needs owner] Bulk pubsub as stable Bulk PubSub as Stable #7157
• [P1 start work] Component Resiliency (TODO) @berndverst
• [P1] Auto-configure middleware pipelines Proposal: Auto-configure middleware pipelines via priority and pipeline type properties #6660
• [P1] Reduce the flakyness in E2E tests Reduce the flakyness in E2E tests and increase test coverage #7128
• [P1] Error code standardization Dapr-specific error codes in APIs #6068
• [P1] Trust distribution CIR-trust-distribution Dapr Trust Distribution proposal. proposals#42 & CA rotation [Proposal] Automatic root certificate rotation #5958
• [P1 needs owner] Local developer experience Mutli-app-run should monitor processes and close on exit cli#1354
• Not service invocation for non Dapr endpoints (TODO) @yaron2 ~
• [P1] Actor state TTL [Proposal]: Actor State TTL #5899
• [P1] Implement DAPR_API_TOKEN across SDKs
  • Accept the api token through the DAPR_API_TOKEN environment variable rust-sdk#111
  • Add example for accepting the api token through the DAPR_API_TOKEN environment variable cpp-sdk#59
  • Accept the api token through the DAPR_API_TOKEN environment variable js-sdk#547
• [P1] Actor Log and metrics improvements (Delete Actor support, Diagnostics Logs in actor State store logs)
  • Delete Actor Support #6992
  • Diagnostics Logs in actor State store logs #6993
• [P1 needs owner & proposal] Dapr SDKs constructing a Service Invocation client with resiliency, TLS etc. (TODO) @mikeee
• [P1 EPIC] Contributor docs improvements docs: improve developer docs to lower learning curve #5885

Not prioritized

• Migrating redis to SQLite as default state store

Moved to v1.14

• [P1 needs owner] Scoping Dapr to run in a single namespace natively Dapr control plane components do not adapt to run in a single namespace #6611
• [P1 needs owner] GRPC middleware Proposal: Configurable gRPC Middleware Pipelines #4153
• [P2 needs owner] Change logger to slog, implemented by zap or similar. Move away from logrus and improve structured logging. #6129 (needs issue in dapr/kit).

Repo milestones

Dapr - https://github.com/dapr/dapr/milestone/20
CLI - https://github.com/dapr/cli/milestone/14
Docs - https://github.com/dapr/docs/milestone/16
Components-contrib - https://github.com/dapr/components-contrib/milestone/14
Java-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/java-sdk/milestone/11
Python-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/python-sdk/milestone/13
Dotnet-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/dotnet-sdk/milestone/18
Js-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/js-sdk/milestone/14
Go-SDK - https://github.com/dapr/go-sdk/milestone/10
Dashboard: not releasing this time
Quickstarts (aka Tutorials) - https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/milestone/9

[robi-y]

What is the plan for #4541 please?

[JoshVanL]

Endgame issue: #7410

[yaron2]

What is the plan for #4541 please?

Commented on the issue

[Admiralkheir]

According to the log provided by dapr runtime in 1.12.4, NATS streaming will be removed with version 1.13, but we could not fully switch to JetStream due to parallel processing and dependency on this component throughout our applications. What is the plan for 3115? ty

[yaron2]

According to the log provided by dapr runtime in 1.12.4, NATS streaming will be removed with version 1.13, but we could not fully switch to JetStream due to parallel processing and dependency on this component throughout our applications. What is the plan for 3115? ty

Responded on dapr/components-contrib#3115

[JoshVanL]

Dapr v1.13 has been released https://github.com/dapr/dapr/releases/v1.13.0