Added global database load balancing with low latency.
Intelligently routes edge application queries for the Amazon Aurora Global Database by choosing the optimal reader instance and caching at the edge.
Improves response times and availability while automating Amazon RDS management for lower TCO (total cost of ownership).
Added integration with and support for Amazon RDS Global databases for auto failover.
Added support for latency based reader selection in multi-az and region configurations.
Added metrics to track jvm heap allocation rate and hiccups.
Updated RHEL install logic for newer Redhat versions.
Added synchronization of TLS certificates so all proxies will use the same certificate and updated TLS certificate management documentation.
Added a knob to enable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for older drivers that don’t support TLS 1.2+.
Added significant improvements to the Cloudformation template to make it more flexible and cover more customer environment configurations.
Improved DNS redirection mode by adding the ability to redirect to AWS (Amazon Web Services) public IP, not just private.
Added the ability to download drivers from Maven central to avoid packaging the MySQL driver for legal reasons.
Improved documentation for heimdall sync user functionality.
Disabled vdbs will now be put at the bottom of the status tab.
Improved Postgres copy support.
Removed the “track” option from the admin software tab, now alerts will only be for release versions.
Alerts added if the cache client isn’t ready.
Added support to cache MySQL stored procedure calls (they require a table attribute before cache will work).
Added additional tooltip info for servers on the info tab.
Added 1GB of swap space by default to AWS (Amazon Web Services) images to help avoid out of memory situations.
Improved nocache reasons, including the ability to report multiple reasons at once.
Improved compatibility with all database protocol types.
Added the ability to detect when binary values are used for primary key inserts and handle it properly when using client-side prepares at the driver level for MySQL.
Adjusted images so that initial console logging can be observed with “journalctl -u heimdall.service”.
Added huge improvements in test infrastructure to improve regression coverage.