Sentry: Release Timeframe?

[BoLaMN]

Hey Guys,

is there a new release dropping anytime soon, noticed theres been 2144 commits since v9.0.0 where usually there was a version increment every ~200 - 300 previously.

Cheers

[Sija]

Hi, any news regarding new release?

[dcramer]

We have no timeline on when a version will be tagged. I recommend simply pinning to git shas and building from source instead.

[nlohmann]

I would also be interested in when a 9.x release is coming, because we are neither allowed to deploy .0.0 releases nor can we pin git shas. So basically as soon as you would release a 9.1.0, we could finally use the 9.x features :-)

[agis]

@dcramer Are there any rough estimates on when new release might come out? We, like @nlohmann, prefer to use a (somewhat) stable release instead of pinning to a commit that might contain soon-to-be-fixed, knnown issues.

Happy new year!

[dcramer]

It's possible we'll do a 9.1 release before we switch some hard requirements over, but its something we have to talk about internally yet before doing the 10.0 release.

We're also talking about changing off a semver release cycle and just doing monthly tags.

The major thing is we're going to be making two hugely breaking infrastructural changes:

1. You'll be required to run our new "Snuba" search and indexing services (this will be detailed later)
2. We'll no longer support any database other than Postgres -- we say that in the docs today, but have tried to maintain a degree of compatibility

[agis]

The major thing is we're going to be making two hugely breaking infrastructural changes

@dcramer is there going some sort of upgrade guide for those running Sentry on-premises?

[dcramer]

There certainly will be, but it's going to contain the same caveats as we've always had: "you need to know how to run this software or you're SOL". Unfortunately those caveats will get a lot more bold with the new services.

This also currently exists, and we've documented major requirements in the past: https://docs.sentry.io/server/upgrading/

[nschlemm]

(unfortunately) https://forum.sentry.io/t/is-sentry-v10-coming-soon/5093/2 states

“Sentry 10” is coming soon, whether we call it that or not, but open source users probably won’t be as excited as it’ll require running our new Snuba service (which is an API layer on top of Clickhouse). We’ll talk more about this in the future, but the tl;dr is its going to unfortunately be a lot harder to run yourselves because of the nature of the datastore changes.

and while https://hub.docker.com/r/getsentry/snuba links to https://github.com/getsentry/snuba it is not accessible (yet)

@dcramer can you share details what timeframe we all can expect here? And big THX for this awesome Open Source product!!!

[Sija]

@dcramer Couldn't analytics support be optional? It certainly makes sense to have it for hosted version but seldom for on-premise one.

[dcramer]

I don’t know what you mean by analytics support. Either way that’s unrelated to future releases of Sentry. Snuba is a new database which replaces our large chunk of data currently stored in Postgres. We won’t be supporting multiple ways to run Sentry core services within that release anymore as frankly it just creates headaches and problems for users.

[Sija]

@dcramer oh, my bad. I thought you use snuba/clickhouse for analytics.

[dcramer]

Closing this out and going to keep it to the forums.

I've also taken a bit of time this morning to try to write up a more cohesive explanation of what's going on:

https://forum.sentry.io/t/when-will-a-new-version-be-tagged-for-sentry-open-source/5622