Yandex Application Load Balancer release notes

Q4 2024Q4 2024

• Added the Global RateLimit module to limit HTTP and gRPC requests per virtual host. The limit can be applied to the entire virtual host or individual routes.

  This feature is currently in preview. To enable it, contact support.

• Added support for custom HTTP status codes (100-599) as valid responses for backend health checks.

• Added an option to maintain connections even when health checks fail. This option is only available for Stream health checks.

• Added configurable idle timeout settings for Stream and SNI listeners.

• Added a description for the x_forwarded_for field in load balancer logs.

All new features are now available through CLI, API, and Terraform interfaces.

Q2 2024Q2 2024

• Added validation for internal IPv4 addresses during load balancer creation and updates.
• Fixed the validation issue causing mixing weighted and non-weighted backends in target groups during their creation and updates.

Q1 2024Q1 2024

• Improved data plane stability for more reliable service data processing and transmission.
• Implemented integration with Yandex Smart Web Security:
  • Associating virtual hosts with security profiles using the management console, CLI, Terraform, or API.
  • Smart Web Security event log forwarding to theYandex Cloud Logging log group.
  • Smart Web Security metric forwarding to Yandex Monitoring.
• Changed behavior for Stream backend groups: The load balancer now terminates connections to backends that fail health checks.
• Optimized work with the service resource operation list.
• Added support for searching load balancers by internal IP address in the management console.
• Added granular availability zone selection for load balancer nodes in the management console.
• Resolved validation errors when changing load balancer listener types between TLS and Stream in the Terraform provider.