v0.2.7 - Managed Updates and Enhanced Customization

This will be the final v0.2.* Solr Operator release, and the final bloomberg/solr-operator release.
All future releases can be found at apache/solr-operator.

Upgrade Notes & Compatibility Warnings

• Kubernetes 1.16+ is required for for this release of the Solr Operator..
  
Please continue using v0.2.6 until you are able to upgrade your Kubernetes cluster.
• Please refer to the main page for a complete list of upgrade warnings.

New Features

• Adding PriorityClassName in podOptions (#152)
• Adding option to provide ZK ACLs (#144)
• Adding dataStorage options for SolrCloud (#156)
  • PVC reclaim policy
  • Ephemeral Volume spec for non-persistent storage
• Ability to provide custom solr.xml for SolrCloud (#158)
• Ability to specify sidecar container and additional initContainers (#159)
• Introducing a manned SolrCloud update strategy (#133)

Improvements

• Gracefully shutdown Solr nodes using the Solr stop port (#131)
• Adding scope: Namespaced to all CRDs (#137)
• Move chroot creation logic to pod postStart and out of operator (#140)
• Change default SolrCloud podManagementPolicy to Parallel from OrderedReady

Bug Fixes

• ZKConnectionString now uses all ZK hosts with Provided ZK (#138)
• Fix service port name and status URL bugs (#145)
• Fix never-ending reconcile loop for ZKs
• Fix never-ending reconcile loop for ingresses in Kube 1.18+
• Backups
  • SolrBackup now works with Solr 8.6+
  • Fixed an issue with volume permissions in the read-write-many volume

Miscellaneous

• Upgrade dependencies of the Solr Operator (#147)
• Remove Etcd support from the Solr Operator (#132)
• Remove default imagePullPolicy for pods (#155)
• Upgraded CRD versions to v1, from v1beta1