Nomad

FEATURES:

• Job Actions: Introduces the action concept to jobspecs, the web UI, CLI and API. Operators can now define actions that Nomad users can execute against running allocations. [GH-18794]
• Multiple Vault and Consul Clusters: Nomad Enterprise can now use multiple Vault or Consul clusters. Each task or service can be registered with a different Consul cluster and each task can obtain secrets from a different Vault cluster. [GH-5311]
• NUMA aware scheduling: Nomad Enterprise now supports optimized scheduling on NUMA hardware [GH-18681]
• Workload Identity IDP: Nomad's workload identities may now be used with third parties that support JWT or OIDC IDPs such as the AWS IAM OIDC Provider. [GH-18691]
• Workload Identity for Consul: Jobs can now use workload identity to authenticate to Consul. [GH-15618]
• Workload Identity for Vault: Jobs can now use workload identity to authenticate to Vault. [GH-15617]

BREAKING CHANGES:

• client/fingerprint: The cpu.numcores.power node attribute has been renamed to cpu.numcores.performance on Apple Silicon nodes [GH-18843]
• client: the unique.cgroup.mountpoint node attribute has been removed [GH-18371]
• client: the unique.cgroup.version node attribute has been renamed to os.cgroups.version [GH-18371]

SECURITY:

• build: Update to go1.21.4 to resolve Windows path validation CVE in Go [GH-19013]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• api: Add JWKS HTTP API endpoint [GH-18035]
• api: Added support for Unix domain sockets [GH-16872]
• build (Enterprise): Support building s390x binaries. [GH-18069]
• cli: Add file prediction for operator raft/snapshot commands [GH-18901]
• cli: Added help text to acl bootstrap about reading the initial token from a file [GH-18961]
• cli: Added identities, networks, and volumes to the output of the operator client-state command [GH-18996]
• cli: Added support for prefix ID matching and wildcard namespaces to service info command [GH-18836]
• client: add support for NetBSD clients [GH-18562]
• client: enable detection of numa topology [GH-18146]
• config: Add go-netaddrs support to server_join.retry_join [GH-18745]
• deps: bumped shirou/gopsutil to v3.23.9 [GH-18562]
• fingerprint: clients now backoff after successfully fingerprinting Consul [GH-18426]
• identity: Add support for multiple workload identities [GH-18123]
• identity: Implement change_mode and change_signal for workload identities [GH-18943]
• identity: Support jwt expiration and rotation [GH-18262]
• identity: default to RS256 for new workload ids [GH-18882]
• sentinel (Enterprise): Add existing job information to Sentinel when available. [GH-18553]
• server: Added transfer-leadership API and CLI [GH-17383]
• ui: color-code node and server status cells [GH-18318]
• ui: for system and sysbatch jobs, now show client name on hover in job panel [GH-19051]
• ui: nicer comment styles in UI example jobs [GH-19037]
• ui: simplify presentation of task event times (10m2.230948s bceomes 10m2s etc.) [GH-18595]
• vars: Added a locking feature for Nomad Variables [GH-18520]

BUG FIXES:

• cli: Fixed a bug where the operator client-state command would crash if it reads an allocation without a task state [GH-18996]
• client: Fixed a bug where client API calls would fail incorrectly with permission denied errors when using ACL tokens with dangling policies [GH-18972]
• ui: fix the job auto-linked variable path name when user lacks variable write permissions [GH-18598]
• vault: Fixed an issue that could cause Nomad to attempt to renew a Vault token that is already expired [GH-18985]