Knative 0.8 release notes from kubernetes release-notes tool

Command.

release-notes -start-sha=cb5c1810f2690efa0c434bc81aab3a1d45df497f \
  -end-sha=3f73b117b61ee5d8fe5dcedd6cca2c96014329a9 \
  -github-org=knative -github-repo=serving  -requiredAuthor='' \
  -output /tmp/serving-relnotes

relnotes.md

Other Notable Changes

• This starts autoscaler in panic mode and does not scale down deployment after autoscaler restart. (#4795, @vagababov)
• HPA added to scale activator based on CPU. (#4772, @yanweiguo)
• HTTP and TCP readinessProbes are performed by the queue-proxy against the user-container (#4731, @joshrider)
• Add links to Conformance tests from Runtime Contract (#4428, @dgerd)
• Use per-split header appending in Istio. This also means we officially break support for Istio 1.0.x for newer version of Knative. (#4823, @tcnghia)
• Fixed a bug where revisions that are scaled to zero might behave weirdly if they have very long names (approximately 59 characters). (#4796, @markusthoemmes)
• Aggregated clusterrole for namespace admin to manipulate serving.knative.dev resources is introduced. (#4358, @nak3)
• Add app request metrics to measure performance of user containers. (#4530, @hohaichi)
• Fix issue in detecting cluster suffix logic to allow for trailing . in the search line. (#4514, @tcnghia)
• Report Activator request concurrency to metrics backend. (#4931, @yanweiguo)
• The HPA autoscaler now runs in its own container. (#4990, @markusthoemmes)
• In the output for the kubectl get revision output, the SERVICE NAME column has been replace with CONFIGURATION NAME. (#4231, @duglin)
• Adds new annotation to control TU on the revision (#4656, @vagababov)
• Container ports can now be specified without a port number. (#4515, @tanzeeb)
• Adjusted the stats scraping implementation to be more robust and actually reach the wanted confidence on every scrape. (#4524, @markusthoemmes)