TiDB Cloud Release Notes in 2021

This page lists the release notes of TiDB Cloud in 2021.

December 28, 2021

New feature:

• Support importing Apache Parquet files from Amazon S3 or GCS into TiDB Cloud

Bug fixes:

• Fix the import error that occurs when importing more than 1000 files to TiDB Cloud
• Fix the issue that TiDB Cloud allows to import data to existing tables that already have data

November 30, 2021

General change:

• Upgrade TiDB Cloud to TiDB v5.3.0 for Developer Tier

New feature:

• Support adding VPC CIDR for your TiDB cloud project

Improvements:

• Improve the monitoring ability for Developer Tier
• Support setting the auto backup time the same as the creation time of a Developer Tier cluster

Bug fixes:

• Fix the TiKV crash issue due to full disk in Developer Tier
• Fix the vulnerability of HTML injection

November 8, 2021

• Launch Developer Tier, which offers you a one-year free trial of TiDB Cloud

  Each Developer Tier cluster is a full-featured TiDB cluster and comes with the following:

  • One TiDB shared node
  • One TiKV shared node (with 500 MiB of OLTP storage)
  • One TiFlash shared node (with 500 MiB of OLAP storage)

  Get started here.

October 21, 2021

• Open user registration to personal email accounts
• Support importing or migrating from Amazon S3 or GCS to TiDB Cloud

October 11, 2021

• Support viewing and exporting billing details of TiDB Cloud, including the cost of each service and each project
• Fix several issues of TiDB Cloud internal features

September 16, 2021

• Upgrade the default TiDB version from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1 for newly deployed clusters. See 5.2.1 release notes for detailed changes in 5.2.1.

September 2, 2021

• Upgrade the default TiDB version from 5.0.2 to 5.2.0 for newly deployed clusters. See 5.2.0 and 5.1.0 release notes for details of TiDB 5.1.0 and 5.2.0 features.
• Fix several issues of TiDB Cloud internal features.

August 19, 2021

• Fix several issues of TiDB Cloud internal features. This release does not bring any user behavior changes.

August 5, 2021

• Support organization role management. Organization owners can configure permissions of organization members as needed.
• Support the isolation of multiple projects within an organization. Organization owners can create and manage projects as needed, and the members and instances between projects support network and authority isolation.
• Optimize the bill to show the billing of each item in the current month and previous month.

July 22, 2021

• Optimize the user experience of adding credit cards
• Strengthen the security management of credit cards
• Fix the issue that the cluster recovered from backup cannot be charged normally

July 6, 2021

• Upgrade the default TiDB version from 4.0.11 to 5.0.2 for newly deployed clusters. The upgrade brings significant performance and functionality improvements. See here for details.

June 25, 2021

• Fix the Select Region not working issue on the TiDB Cloud Pricing page

June 24, 2021

• Fix the parse errors of the parquet files when importing the Aurora snapshot into a TiDB instance
• Fix the Estimated Hours not being updated issue when PoC users create a cluster and change the cluster configuration

June 16, 2021

• China is added to the Country/Region drop-down list when you sign up for an account

June 14, 2021

• Fix the mounting EBS error when importing the Aurora snapshot into a TiDB instance

May 10, 2021

General

• TiDB Cloud is now in Public Preview. You can sign up and select one of the trial options:

  • 48-Hour Free Trial
  • 2-Week PoC Free Trial
  • Preview On-Demand

Management Console

• Email verification and anti-robot reCAPTCHA have been added to the sign up process
• TiDB Cloud Service Agreement and PingCAP Privacy Policy have been updated
• You can apply for a PoC by filling out an application form in the console
• You can import sample data into TiDB Cloud cluster through UI
• Clusters with the same name are not allowed to avoid confusion
• You can give feedback by clicking Give Feedback in the Support menu
• Data backup and restore features are available for PoC and on-demand trial options
• Points calculator and points usage dashboard have been added for Free Trial and PoC. Data storage and transfer costs are waived for all trial options