Blog: Kitex Release v0.11.0

Highly recommend upgrading Kitex version to v0.11.3 or higher, because there’s some bugfix on v0.11.0.

Introduction to Key Changes

New Feature

1. Mixed Retry: Supports enabling both “Failure Retry” and “Backup Request” strategies simultaneously, which can reduce tail requests while increasing the success rate of retries, for more detail: Retry
2. Custom Payload Validation: To avoid inconsistencies in data transmission caused by hardware failures or data tampering, Kitex provides validation functionality for payload messages and supports custom extensions. For usage: Payload Validator.

Feature optimization

1. Frugal ARM Optimization: Frugal v0.2.0 now supports a new implement by reflection
2. Kitex Tool Improvement: Kitex Tool provide a new param -rapid to integrates Thriftgo and there’s a slightly improved speed.
3. Generating Multiple Handlers for Multiple Services：Since this version, Kitex tool provide each service with independent handler file and register them into server，for more details: Generating Multiple Handlers for Multiple Services

Others

1. Support Go 1.18~1.23. Minimum support for Golang 1.18，if your golang version is lower than 1.18, you’ll see note: module requires Go 1.18 when you compile.
2. Remove Apache Thrift，and refactor all related interface into github.com/cloudwego/gopkg/thrift.

Full Release Log

Feature:

[#1509] feat(retry): support Mixed Retry which integrating Failure Retry and Backup Request

[#1478] feat: customized payload validator

[#1514] feat(grpc): server returns cancel reason

[#1513] feat(tool): support updating import path for PkgInfo

[#1425] feat(tool): support generating multiple handlers for multiple services

[#1491] feat(grpc): add GetTrailerMetadataFromCtx

[#1492] feat: add GetCallee to kitexutil to get the service name of callee

[#1479] feat(tool): embed thriftgo into kitex tool

Optimize:

[#1485] optimize: add cachekey to discovery event for debug

Fix:

[#1525] fix: move json-iterator back to support marshal map[any]any

[#1471] fix(streaming): resolve ctx diverge in server-side streaming

[#1515] fix(gRPC): pass error when client transport is closed

[#1501] fix(generic): judge business error directly

[#1503] fix: return an unknown service/method exception to client correctly under multi_service server scenario

[#1487] fix(generic): fix a generic serviceInfo compatible issue

[#1489] fix(codec): wrap trans error for apache thrift read error

[#1486] fix(trans/netpoll): log when panic in onConnRead

[#1476] fix: fix GetServerConn interface assert for streamWithMiddleware

[#1481] fix(gonet): adjust gonet server read timeout to avoid read error

[#1466] fix: allow HEADERS frame with empty header block fragment

Refactor:

[#1512] refactor: thrift and generic codec uses bufiox interface for encoding and decoding

[#1490] refactor: optimized apache codec without reflection

[#1483] refactor: use github.com/cloudwego/gopkg/protocol/thrift/apache

[#1474] refactor: rm apache thrift in internal/mocks

[#1470] refactor: rm apache thrift in pkg/generic & netpollmux

[#1450] refactor(generic): remove apache thrift.TProtocol from generic

[#1441] refactor: deprecate bthrift, use cloudwego/gopkg

[#1455] refactor(test): perf optimize and log loc correct

Tests:

[#1469] test: replace judgement of mem stats of client finalizer by closed count check

Perf:

[#1527] perf(grpc): bdp ping rate limit

[#1511] perf(thrift): encodeBasicThrift write logic didn’t use kitex BinaryProtocol

[#1504] perf(grpc): zero allocation in hot path

[#1497] perf: add option to enable spancache for fastpb

[#1495] perf(thrift): use kitex BinaryProtocol replace apache BinaryProtocol for apache thrift codec

Chore:

[#1532] chore: update dependency

[#1522] chore(generic): make generic streaming APIs internal

[#1465] chore(generic): add an external method to create service info for generic streaming client

[#1468] build: adapt to go1.23rc2

[#1482] chore(generic): add generic base using gopkg base

[#1463] chore: fix grpc keepalive test by start server responsiblly

[#1462] chore(test): fix xorshift64 in consist_test.go

[#1454] chore(ci): speed up multiple ci processes 8min -> 1min