Project: Dapr (App Definition and Development / Application Definition & Image Build)
File: v0.5.0.md

We're happy to announce the release of Dapr 0.5.0! This release introduces a new Secrets API to get application secrets, comprehensive metrics for the Dapr runtime as well as Dapr's system components, the ability to scope components to a namespace and/or a list of authorized apps, improved logging with JSON output, tracing support for Pub/Sub, new components, retries for bindings and general bug fixes and stability improvements. We would like to extend our thanks to all new and existing contributors who helped make this release happen. If you're new to Dapr, visit the page and familiarize yourself with Dapr. Docs have been updated with all the new features and changes of this release. To get started with new capabilities introduced in this release, go to the section. __Note: This release contains a few minor breakings. See .__ See section on upgrading Dapr to version

Added API for getting application secrets from any Dapr supported Secret Store (Thanks @cmendible) Added Prometheus metrics API endpoints (Thanks @jjcollinge) Added Ability to scope components to a namespace, as well as to a list of authorized apps Improved Host IP choosing process in self-hosted mode Fixed Case where user app returned an error and the runtime would return success to an input binding, causing the message to be removed without being processed Fixed Crash in service invocation over gRPC with no data in payload Added Tracing for Pub/Sub messages Added Metrics groups including process and runtime level metrics Improved Logging messages and error details for components Added JSON formatted logs Fixed Possible crash where service invocations were allowed before certificate was issued (Thanks @lynn-orrell) Improved Docker build to allow multi-arch images Fixed Custom Content-Type being overridden in service invocation Renamed `HOSTIP` environment variable to `DAPRHOST_IP` to manually set the Host IP for the runtime Changed HTTP Get State API to return `204` instead of `200` when a key does not exist Added AWS Secret Manager Secret Store (Thanks @sayboras) Added GCP Secret Manager Secret Store (Thanks @dev-drprasad) Added Ability to set the `toNumber` on a per-call basis for the Twilio binding (Thanks @ksivamuthu) Updated Secret Store Index (Thanks @RicardoNiepel) Updated Azure Event Hubs binding to use Event Processor Host (Thanks @abhirockzz) Fixed SQL Server returning error for key not found Changed `dapr list` and `dapr run` to rely on metadata API, fixing sync issues and zombie processes Added `-k` shorthands for all Kubernetes specific commands (Thanks @CarlosLanderas) Fixed Error message showing on with `dapr uninstall --kubernetes` even if successful Fixed One line installer downloading wrong version Changed All `dapr-id` occurrences to `app-id` Fixed K8s client init when multiple contexts exist in KUBECONFIG (Thanks @CarlosLanderas) Updated CLI to provide warning when overriding local component YAMLs Added Ability to run CLI with the Dapr runtime without an app Added Metrics endpoint for Sidecar-Injector Added Metrics endpoint for Kubernetes Operator Added Metrics endpoint for Sentry CA Added Metrics endpoint for Actors Placement Service Added Secrets API support Improved Client APIs for gRPC Refactored Separate Clients into a single API Client Added Concurrency model for state operations (Thanks @rynowak) Added Consistency model options for state operations (Thanks @rynowak) Added editorconfig and removed Stylecop.Analyzers dependency Updated Actor serialization to JSON by default Updated Usage of Newtonsoft.Json package to System.Text.Json Fixed Hot monos in gRPC client Added Secrets API support Fixed Swallowing actor exceptions Added Strongly typed actors Fixed Node.JS subscriber in Pub/Sub sample Fixed Output message for Python in Bindings sample Added Observability (metrics/logs) concepts Added Grafana dashboard template Changed `Dapr ID` to `App ID` for consistency Fixed Pub/Sub API reference (Thanks @lynn-orrel) Updated Azure Event Hubs binding spec Refactored Concepts and API references structure Added Monitoring tools(metric and logs) setup How-To tutorial Added Secrets API How-To tutorial Updated Diagrams Added AWS Secret Manager How-To tutorial Added GCP Secret Manager How-To tutorial Added Azure Storage Queues binding spec Added Azure KeyVault documentation Added Component authorization How-To tutorial Added Documentation for metrics monitoring tools Added Documentation for logs monitoring tools Added Cheat-sheet for common diagnostics queries If you're upgrading from an older version of Dapr to 0.5.0, follow the steps here to ensure a smooth upgrade. You know, the one where you don't get red errors on the terminal.. we all hate that, right? Uninstall Dapr using the CLI you currently have: ``` dapr uninstall --all ``` Next, get the latest CLI following instructions, or alternatively download the latest and greatest release from and put the `dapr` binary in your PATH. Once you have downloaded