.. _1-1-7:

1.1.7
===========================
*03/16/2020*

Graphite 1.1.7 is now available for usage. Please note that this is a bugfix release for the stable Graphite 1.1.x branch and it's recommended for production usage. It also contains some improvements backported from the master branch.

Highlights
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* New experimental Bucketmax write strategy (see #879 for details)
* Fixes for function parameters validation
* More fixes for better error handling
* Python 3.9 and Django 3.x support
* Python 3 fixes Carbon, Carbonate and Graphite-web
* Many flake8 fixes for Graphite-web

Thanks a lot for all Graphite contributors and users!

Source bundles are available from GitHub:

* https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/archive/1.1.7.tar.gz
* https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/archive/1.1.7.tar.gz
* https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/archive/1.1.7.tar.gz
* https://github.com/graphite-project/carbonate/archive/1.1.7.tar.gz

Graphite can also be installed from `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/>`_ via
`pip <http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html>`_. PyPI bundles are here:

* http://pypi.python.org/pypi/graphite-web/
* http://pypi.python.org/pypi/carbon/
* http://pypi.python.org/pypi/whisper/
* http://pypi.python.org/pypi/carbonate/

You can also use docker image from https://hub.docker.com/r/graphiteapp/graphite-statsd/

Upgrading
---------
Please upgrade carbon and graphite-web - they contain valuable bugfixes and improvements. Whisper package has no changes from previous release.

New features
------------

Graphite-Web
^^^^^^^^^^^^
 * Merge prefetched data. (#2507.  @liyichao)
 * introduce paramtype for agg or series func (#2523, @replay)
 * Mark series functions to use as aggregators  (#2528, @replay)
 * Python 3.9 support: remove deprecated U option to open (#2529, @piotr1212)
 * remove leading ~ from name when indexing metric names (#2458, @replay)
 * add graphite-dl4j and carbon-proxy (#2521, @jdbranham)
 * test docs on Python3 (#2535, @piotr1212)
 * Django 3.0 compatibility (#2534, @piotr1212)
 * Parameter type int or inf (#2538, @replay)
 * Interpret inf (#2539, @replay)
 * better error messages (#2543, @replay)
 * Adding Hisser and Go-graphite buckytools in tools documentation (#2549, @deniszh)
 * make consolidation func `avg` alias for average (#2556, @replay)
 * move all validation into Param.validateValue (#2557, @replay)
 * handle exceptions if params cannot be type converted (#2547, @replay)
 * better error messages with type indications (#2543, @replay)
 * log grafana dashboard/panel id headers (#2564, @replay)
 * Allow floats in scaleToSeconds() (#2565, @replay)

Carbon
^^^^^^
 * Bucketmax write strategy (#879, @piotr1212)
 * s390x support for travis (#869, @sangitanalkar)
 * sanitize names when using them as tag value (#858, @replay)
 * simplify travis-ci config (#875, @ploxiln)

Whisper
^^^^^^^
None

Carbonate
^^^^^^^^^
 * Add python3 testing (#110, @hdost)
 * add codecov (#112, @piotr1212)

Bug Fixes
---------

Graphite-Web
^^^^^^^^^^^^
 * Fix AttributeError if parameter validation fails (#2510, @PhilippWendler)
 * Taming lint (#2512, @deniszh)
 * relax enforcement of options sets in validation (#2513, @replay)
 * Fix tests (#2525, @replay)
 * Trying to fix tests (#2530, @deniszh)
 * simplify travis-ci config (#2532, @ploxiln)
 * fix function parameter types (#2536, @replay)
 * fixes #2541 (#2542, @replay)
 * prune flake8 ignore list (#2552, @ploxlin)
 * flake8: re-enable F841 (local variable assigned but not used) (#2559, @ploxiln)
 * flake8: re-enable E122,E124 (indent of continuation and closing bracket) (#2558, @ploxiln)
 * Fix validator when default value is used (#2555, @replay)
 * flake8: include contrib/ subdir, re-enable rule E713 (#2554, @ploxiln)

Carbon
^^^^^^
 * Fix #871: Adjust aggregator-rules input_pattern match greediness to support numeric matching after captured field (#872 @hessu)
 * Another test fix try (#874, @deniszh)
 * Fixing tests for S390 (#880, @sangitanalkar)
 * Trying to fix tests (#881, @deniszh)
 * Fix the manhole for Twisted > 16 and Python 3 (#882, @piotr1212)
 * Fix missing encoding for line protocol (#885, @pkruk)

Whisper
^^^^^^^
None

Carbonate
^^^^^^^^^
 * fixes python3 TypeError (#113, @l4r-s)
 * Change write mode to non-binary. (#111, @hdost)
