go-kit v0.4.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2017-03-08 // about 7 years ago-
🛠 Another substantial Go kit release, with a handful of bugfixes and some major enhancements.
We now use stdlib package context wherever possible — basically, everywhere except package transport/grpc, as gRPC still imports golang.org/x/net/context and we don't have a choice but to comply. Still, there are ways to bridge the gap: see examples/addsvc for details. This means Go kit now requires Go 1.7 or above.
✂ The other major changes in this release involve package log. We've removed NewContext and the Context type , preferring With and WithPrefix helper functions. Also, we've promoted the experiemental level package to package level, and deprecated the old levels package to deprecated_levels. I'm really happy with this: it's a slightly esoteric, but really clean and literate way to compose levels with Go kit's package log. Give it a shot!
🚀 For the full changelog, see below. My enormous gratitude goes to Chris Hines @ChrisHines for his expert work on package log, and to Bas van Beek @basvanbeek for his expert work on packages tracing and transport/grpc. And huge thanks to the 22 individual contributors who've contributed to this release! 🏌️♀️
🐛 Bug fixes
- 🌲 log/term/colorlogger: Reset bold attribute (#399) - thanks, @serge-v
- metrics/influx: Fix global tags (#404) — thanks, @kihamo
- metrics/generic: make goroutine-safe (#424) — thanks, @gaplyk
- metrics/generic: actually track metric name thru With invocations (#455) — thanks, @yurishkuro
✨ Enhancements
- 👉 Use stdlib context where possible (#421, #480)
- 🚚 log: remove Context type, prefer With/WithPrefix helpers (#481)
- 0️⃣ log: DefaultTimestamp becomes nano-precision (#430) — thanks, @willfaught
- 0️⃣ log: DefaultCaller key becomes "caller" (#439) — thanks, @willfaught
- 📦 log/level: brand new leveled logging package (#401, #454, #470, #476) — thanks, @groob
- metrics: Gauge gets an Add method (#393) — thanks, @hardcoar, @dlmiddlecote
- ✅ metrics/circonus: rm :( it was racy, difficult to test, and broke often (#442)
- sd/etcd: add TTL (#413) — thanks, @buptmiao
- transport: ServerBefore/ServerAfter can be repeated (#467, #479) — thanks, @djgilcrease
- transport/grpc: improve error handling (#389) — thanks, @kushtrimjunuzi
- 👍 transport/grpc: support Server Response Headers and Trailers (#479)
- transport/http: add ServerFinalizer (#394, #405, #408, #461) — thanks, @konradreiche, @xla, @drscre
- ✨ transport/http: enhance ErrorEncoder: support StatusCoder, Headerer, json.Marshaler interfaces (#414)
- transport/http: don't encode JSON response with StatusNoContent (#436) — thanks, @groob
- transport/http: add EncodeJSONRequest helper (#440) — thanks, @willfaught
- transport/http: add EncodeXMLRequest (#456) — thanks, and condolences, to @gaplyk
📚 Documentation, examples, and testing
- examples/addsvc: correct typo (#396) — thanks, @patterns
- examples/shipping: fix reciever name (#473) — thanks, @kisPocok
- 📚 log: improve documentation (#429)
- 📚 metrics: fix documentation (#406, #417) — thanks, @Artmann
- 📄 metrics/graphite: fix typo in docs (#450) — thanks, @jkakar
- tracing/zipkin: document new, easier Zipkin HTTP tracing collector (#466)
- 📄 tracing/zipkin: fix typo in Zipkin docs (#469) — thanks, @frozzare
- ✅ Testing: fixes for Go report card (#395)
- ✅ Testing: run integration tests on Circle (#372, #416) — thanks, @rodrigosaito
- 🐳 Testing: use docker-compose 1.10 in integration environment (#448)
- ✅ Testing: improve coverprofile wildcard in gitignore (#458) — thanks, @travissalascox
- ✅ Testing: Drone.io is no more :( (#468) — thanks, @17twenty
- ⬆️ Testing: Upgrade CI to use go1.7.5 and go1.8 (#471)