The industry takes the lead in supporting the MCP-OVER-XDS protocol, and Nacos 2.0.1 + 1.4.2 Release is officially released

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Nacos is Alibaba's open source service discovery and configuration management project. Two versions are released at the same time this time:
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1. Released version 2.0.1, mainly dedicated to supporting the MCP-OVER-XDS protocol and solving the synchronization problem of Nacos and Istio data services.
2. Release 1.4.2, which greatly enhances the stability of JRaft cluster leader election in the K8s environment.

Nacos 2.0.1

2.0.1 The main changes are:
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1. In nacos-istio plug-ins and modules, the MCP-OVER-XDS protocol is supported to solve the problem of synchronization between Nacos and Istio data services.
2. Enhanced the stability of the leader election of the JRaft protocol in the K8s environment.
3. Fixed the problem of frequently throwing Server is Down errors.

The specific changes are:
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[#3484] Support ldap login.
[#4856] Support mcp over xds.
[#5137] Support service list add view subscriber.
[#5367] Support client encryption plugin for nacos 2.0.
[#5307] Push support config some parameters
[#5334] Fix Server is Down problem in k8s environment.
[#5361] Check isUseGrpcFeatures() when register instance using GRPC protocol.
[#5486] Refactor Distro Config as singleton and replace GlobalConfig.
[#5169] Fix instance beat run only by responsible server.
[#5175] Fix publishConfig lost type.
[#5178] Fix NPE when init server list failed.
[#5182] Fix throw NoSuchFieldException in ConfigController when service connect to nacos.
[#5204] Fix query error when pageNo is larger than service number.
[#5268] Fix subscriber app unknown
[#5327] Fix ThreadPool usage problem and add some monitor for distro.
[#5384] Fix the problem of unable to shutdown NacosConfigService.
[#5404] Fix frequently udp push for client 1.X.
[#5419] Fix Nacos 2.0 client auth may invalid for non public namespace.
[#5442] change state to UP when received status form old version server.
[#5096] Add unit tests in nacos 2.0.
[#5171][#5421][#5436][#5450][#5464] Fix IT for nacos 2.0.

Nacos 1.4.2

1. This version optimizes the JRAft module and works with the latest nacos-k8s project to greatly enhance the stability of cluster leader selection.
2. In addition, this version fixes prompts about the "Server is Down" problem and many bugs in version 1.4.1.

The specific changes are:
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[#4452] Add config compare features.
[#4602] Add new way for export config.
[#4996] Make log level changeable for nacos-core module.
[#5367] Add pre-plugin in client for encrypting config.
[#3922] Method createServiceIfAbsent in ServiceManager require sync.
[#4274] skip master-select task when db.num is 1.
[#4753] Use SafeConstructor to parse yaml configuration.
[#4762] Naming health check thread num support user define it by self.
[#4770] Beta publish: change the way of select betaIps, from input to select.
[#4778] Make SecurityProxy.accessToken threadsafe in single writer multi reader.
[#4903] Add securuty hint for login page.
[#4917] Raft ops interface add auth.
[#4980] Log4J2NacosLogging.loadConfiguration() return directly When location is blank.
[#5010] Fix the usage of TemplateUtils.
[#5190] Add some hint log when login failed.
[#5234] Solve the problem that page can be edited while publishing-config request is processing.
[#5331] Fix the mouse hovers over the margin in a pointer state and cannot be clicked.
[#5350] Add hint and detail reason for consistence status Down.
[#5439] Support specified naming UDP push port for client.
[#5434] Optimize the ConfigType.isValidType method.
[#3779] Check groupName can't be empty.
[#4661] ConfigServletInner#doGetConfig code optimization.
[#3610] Fix the press F1 to full screen issue in new config page.
[#3876] Fix push empty service name.
[#4306] Fix search service by group error problem.
[#4573,#4629] Jraft leader status check error.
[#4672] Fix cloning configuration lost description.
[#4699] Fix metadata batch operation may delete instance problem.
[#4756] Fix config list sort and search problem.
[#4787] Losting member if parsing host throw UnknownHostException.
[#4806] Fix addListener method comment.
[#4829] Remove instance when distro and raft remove instances data.
[#4852] Fix main.js is too large problem.
[#4854] Modify Header to support Keys Ignore Case.
[#4898] Fix instance list page bug.
[#4925] Fix member list change will cover member status and metadata problem.
[#5078] Fix the problem of inconsistent results for querying subscriber list data multiple times.
[#5026] Fix MetricsHttpAgent metrics twice.
[#5018] Check group and dataId in groupKey.
[#5114] ConcurrentHashSet.java is not compatible with jdk1.6 or 1.7.
[#5253] Fix missing auth identity header error.
[#5291] Fix Beat task will stop when throw unexpected exception.
[#5301] Respond all kinds of collections for istio's request.
[#5351] Fix Consistence status can't switch to UP after Jraft election.
[#5390] Fix ip verify error.
[#5427] Fix NPE if Jraft leader is null in CurcuitFilter.
[#5437] Fix config beta feature will lost dump event problem.
[#5451] Fix the tag can't be removed problem.
[#4822][#4823][#4824][#4825][#4979][#5506] Fix dependency security problem.
[#5277] Subscriber list servername add required.
[#5380][#5418] Add and enhance unit test.

community

With the release of Nacos 2.0.1 and 1.4.2, the Nacos community has added a Committer: haoyann. This student has done a lot in the promotion of multi-data source support, authentication and security, optimization and improvement of configuration modules, etc. Contribute and actively participate in community discussions.
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The Nacos community welcomes more partners who are willing to participate in the joint construction, including but not limited to:
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• Source code
• Documentation
• Community discussion
• Multi-language implementation
• Combination of surrounding ecological products

Active participation will get exquisite small gifts from the Nacos community~

About Nacos

Nacos is committed to helping you discover, configure, and manage microservices. Nacos provides a set of simple and easy-to-use feature sets to help you quickly realize dynamic service discovery, service configuration, service metadata and traffic management.
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Nacos helps you build, deliver and manage microservice platforms more agile and easier. Nacos is a service infrastructure for building modern application architectures (such as microservice paradigm, cloud native paradigm) centered on "services".

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