Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

v1.6.0 - 2022-10-21

Added

• Allow user to disable monitor port (Issue #936)
• Support HTTP2 fingerprint (Issue #1071)
• Documents optimization

Changed

• Optimize idle connection handling (Pull #1044)
• Performance optimize in smooth least connection balancing algorithm(Pull #1062)
• Miscellaneous golang dependency updates
• Miscellaneous improvements in makefile and other CI tools

Fixed

• mod_trust_clientip: fix incorrect private IP address range (Issue #856)
• arm build error in golang 1.18

v1.5.0 - 2022-01-11

Added

• Add mod_tcp_keepalive to support custom TCP KeepAlive configuration
• Documents optimization

Changed

• Change JSON parser: use json-iterator to replace encoding/json
• Optimize error handling in io.Write

Fixed

• Fix issue in go.mod which may cause build error (Issue #933)

Security

• Fix http security issue (Issue #940)
• Fix http security issue (Issue #941)

v1.4.0 - 2021-12-10

Added

• Documents optimization

Changed

• Upgrade golang version from 1.13 to 1.17
• mod_markdown: upgrade bluemonday version to 1.0.16
• Optimize mutex
• Improve Makefile and pre-commit

v1.3.0 - 2021-09-16

Added

• Support basic route rules that are similar to k8s ingress rules
• Documents optimization

Changed

• Ignore GREASE values for JA3 fingerprint

v1.2.0 - 2021-06-21

Added

• Set GOMAXPROCS according to real CPU quota if running on container
• Support condition primitive bfe_time_range/bfe_periodic_time_range
• Support URI hash strategy
• mod_block: support global request rules and ALLOW action
• mod_header: support variables about client certificate
• mod_access: support log to single file and stdout

Changed

• Change primitive params of req_context_value_in

v1.1.0 - 2021-04-08

Added

• Support JA3 fingerprint for SSL/TLS client
• Support Slow‑Start to allow a backend instance gradually recover its weight
• Add maxConnPerHost to limit the number of connections to a backend
• mod_header: add header renaming actions
• Merge some updates from golang/net/textproto
• Merge some updates from golang/net/http
• Merge some updates from golang/net/http2
• Documents optimization

Changed

• Change outlierDetectionLevel to OutlierDetectionHttpCode

Fixed

• Fix panic when write internal response timeout
• Fix unit test in bfe_spdy/frame_test.go under go 1.16

Security

• Fix config loading for multi-value option

v1.0.0 - 2021-01-15

Added

• Add condition primitive: req_path_contain/req_path_element_prefix_in/req_context_value_in
• Add outlier detection options
• Add mod_waf with rule to detect exploitation of “Shellshock” GNU Bash RCE vulnerability.

Fixed

• Fix build issue under go1.15 environment
• Fix processing X-Forwarded-For header value
• Fix write timeout of internal response generated by bfe

v0.12.0 - 2020-09-03

Added

• Support gRPC over HTTP/2
• Support communication with FastCGI server
• Reduce objects number by release some objects that are not used as soon as possible
• Replace ffjson with json-iterator
• net/textproto: turn an ancient DoS BUG annotation into a comment
• Optimize processing of new connections under PROXY mode
• Support integration testing in CI

v0.11.0 - 2020-07-24

Added

• Add mod_cors to enable cross-origin resource sharing
• Add mod_secure_link to check authenticity and limit lifetime of links
• Support PROXY protocol for TCP connections to backend
• Support checking revocation status of the client certificate
• mod_auth_request: send request with X-Forwarded-Method/X-Forwarded-Uri headers
• mod_userid: support global rules
• mod_key_log: support conditional logging
• Add arm64 support for goreleaser

Changed

• Create listeners in the final initialization step
• Change package name to ‘github.com/bfenetworks/bfe’

Removed

• Drops words like blacklist from programming to make vocabulary more inclusive
• Remove legacy signature of response

Fixed

• Fix getTransport() and modify transports map with write lock

Security

• Fix textproto: not normalize headers with spaces before the colon (CVE-2019-16276)

v0.10.0 - 2020-05-25

Added

• mod_auth_request: authorize clients based on thirdparty authorization service
• mod_trace: support tracing based on Elastic APM
• mod_compress: support brotli algorithm
• mod_rewrite: add HostSuffixReplace action
• Add condition primitive: req_host_tag_in/req_host_suffix_in
• Add static content of website based on mkdocs
• Documents optimization

Changed

• Refactor and simplify mod_auth_jwt

Removed

• Remove legacy type of Layer4LoadBalancer

v0.9.0 - 2020-04-16

Added

• Support loading dynamic modules that may be written and complied by thirdparty vendors
• Add mod_auth_jwt for JWT authentication
• mod_trace: support distributed tracing based on jaeger
• mod_doh: support timeout for DNS requests
• mod_doh: support edns-client-subnet (ECS)
• mod_doh: optimize max-age for DoH response
• Optimize textproto reader cache
• Documents optimization

Changed

• Change base directory of ServerCertFile/ServerKeyFile to ConfRoot

Fixed

• Fix failed unit tests about parsing request line under go1.14 environment

v0.8.0 - 2020-03-27

Added

• Add mod_trace for distributed tracing based on zipkin
• Add mod_doh for processing DNS over HTTPS(DoH) requests
• Support TLS protocol with SM related ciphersuites
• mod_header: add cookie related actions
• Documents optimization

Changed

• Disable sanitization of cookie value

v0.7.0 - 2020-02-26

Added

• mod_access support NCSA Common Log Format(CLF) and W3C Extended Log Format(ELF)
• mod_static suuport HTTP HEAD method
• Add mod_userid for client identification
• Add mod_tag for tagging and tracking groups of requests
• http cookie: support Expires attribute in GMT format
• http cookie: support SameSite attribute
• Add static check in Makefile
• Compiling on Windows OS is supported
• Documents optimization

Fixed

• Fix a bug that causes invalid ips are parsed and treated as domain names

v0.6.0 - 2020-01-21

Added

• Add mod_prison to limit the amount of requests a user can make in a given period of time.
• Add condition primitive: ses_tls_sni_in/ses_tls_client_auth/ses_tls_client_ca_in
• Add tls mutual authentication
• mod_header support client cert related variables
• mod_header support geo related variables
• mod_static support customized mime rules
• mod_static allow sending precompressed files instead of regular files
• Expose information about module handlers in web monitor
• Optimize number of accept goroutines
• Optimize lock of bfe_balance.BalTable
• Optimize io.Copy while forwarding responses
• Compiling on Mac OS is supported
• Documents optimization

Changed

• Change default Layer4LoadBalancer to NONE
• Upgrade from go1.12 to go1.13

v0.5.0 - 2019-12-12

Added

• Add mod_geo to determine user geolocation by MaxMind database
• Add mod_auth_basic to restrict access from unknown users
• Add mod_compress to compress response by customize rules
• Add mod_errors to replace unexpected resposne
• mod_static detect content type based on file extension or content
• Expose pprof items in web monitor
• Add default resFlushInterval for SSE(Server-Sent Events) response
• Support X-Forwarded-Host Header
• Support docker image in Makefile
• Documents optimization

Changed

• Change default monitor port to 8421
• Rename HANDLE_READ_BACKEND to HANDLE_READ_RESPONSE

Removed

• Remove some legacy fields from mod_access

v0.4.0 - 2019-11-19

Added

• Expose metrics in prometheus text-based format
• Add default value for core configs to reduce configuration cost
• Add mod_static to serve static content by customize rules
• Documents optimization

Changed

• mod_logid: random logid in hex encoding format

Removed

• Remove signal SIGSTKFLT

v0.3.0 - 2019-10-17

Added

• Add condition primitive: req_cip_hash_in/req_header_value_hash_in/req_cookie_value_hash_in/req_query_value_hash_in
• Add mod_header variable: bfe_log_id
• Add mod_http_code to maintain basic status about response forwarded

Security

• Fix http2: limit number of control frames in server send queue (CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514)

v0.2.0 - 2019-09-26

Added

• Add proxy protocol to be compatible with F5 BigIP/Citrix ADC etc
• Add mod_access to write request/session log in customized format
• Add mod_key_log to wirte tls key log so that external programs(eg. wireshark) can decrypt TLS connections for trouble shooting
• Add security grade ‘A+’ in tls
• Add condition primitive: req_query_value_contain/req_header_value_contain/req_cookie_value_contain
• Documents optimization

Changed

• reverseproxy: flush response header immediately if flushInterval<0

v0.1.0 - 2019-08-01

Added

• Multiple protocols supported, including HTTP, HTTPS, SPDY, HTTP2, WebSocket, TLS, etc
• Content based routing, support user-defined routing rule in advanced domain-specific language
• Support multiple load balancing policies
• Flexible plugin framework to extend functionality. Based on the framework, developer can add new features rapidly
• Detailed built-in metrics available for service status monitor