GoogleForGames/agones: Release v1.39.0

Name: agones

Release: v1.39.0

Released: 2024-03-12

Release Assets:

This is the 1.39.0 release of Agones.

In this release, we’ve made some important changes and introduced exciting new features, including an example for integrating GenAI, improved GameServer allocation results for Counters and Lists, and a new example custom GameServer controller.

Breaking Changes:

C++ gRPC Setup: This is a breaking change with our dependency management for C++ and gRPC. Our CMake file no longer automatically imports and compiles gRPC, as it was getting increasingly fragile. Now, to install the C++ SDK, you will need to install gRPC manually before installing the C++ SDK.
GKE Terraform - Agones-Metrics nodepools: With our latest tweak in GKE Terraform configuration, the agones-metrics nodepool is disabled by default, as not everyone will want it. If you do need it for Prometheus and Grafana? Just turn it on and you’re set.

Key highlights of this release include:

GenAI and Agones: We've added a new example GenAI game server that shows how to integrate Generative AI backends into your Agones game server.
Counters and Lists Allocation Results: GameServer Allocation results now also return the current state of Counter and List values on the allocated GameServer, making workflows based on these values much easier.
Concise SDK Logging: Our latest SDK update ensures that if you set an Error or Warning log level on the SDK sidecar -- we now respect that for the entire lifecycle of the SDK sidecar process.
New Example Custom GameServer Controller: See how to implement your own custom controller with Agones resources with only a small amount of code.

What's Changed

Breaking changes

Breaking: Remove Cmake gRPC install when not found by @markmandel in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3621
by default disable agones-metrics nodepools by @ashutosji in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3672

Implemented enhancements

More description on fleetautoscaler.md by @markmandel in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3632
Modify NewSDK(): Hardcode localhost by @Kalaiselvi84 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3676
Allow passing values to Helm release of the Agones Terraform module by @Pierca7 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3665
Create Controller Example by @Kalaiselvi84 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3680
feat: allocation response with counters and lists data by @katsew in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3681
simple-genai-server 0.2: Make autonomous mode effective by @zmerlynn in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3693

Fixed bugs

fix(SdkList): fix list delete values panic by @GStones in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3615
Define SDKServer LogLevel early by @Kalaiselvi84 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3631
Fix the handling of removing disconnected streams to avoid a panic when multiple streams disconnect from the sdkserver by @roberthbailey in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3668
resolve flaky e2e test by @ashutosji in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3616
fix: cannot load extensions image on minikube node by @katsew in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3682
added mutex at right places by @ashutosji in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3678
correct path of gameserver for windows node by @ashutosji in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3687

Other

Prep for release v1.39.0 by @Kalaiselvi84 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3620
Flake: List Add/Delete Unit Tests by @markmandel in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3627
Script to bump example images by @Kalaiselvi84 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3626
Linting: need git ... --add safe.directory by @markmandel in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3638
Migrate to https://github.com/gomodules/jsonpatch by @markmandel in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3639
Docs: Default Counter Capacity as 1000 by @Kalaiselvi84 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3637
Build: Replace godoc with pkgsite by @markmandel in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3643
fix: typo by @qhyun2 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3658
Switch to debian:bookworm by @Kalaiselvi84 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3657
Document Distributed pod scheduling. by @markmandel in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3662
Downscale performance test cluster by @markmandel in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3666
Info log level on Performance tests by @markmandel in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3667
Adds simple game server for gen AI by @igooch in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3628
fix: minor typos for simple-genai-server endpoints and readme by @indexjoseph in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3673
Local SDK: Counters and Lists by @Kalaiselvi84 in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3660
Adds Chat Message History and Connects to the NPC Chat API by @igooch in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3679
Adding build targets for the simple-genai-server example. by @roberthbailey in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3689

New Contributors

@GStones made their first contribution in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3615
@indexjoseph made their first contribution in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3673
@Pierca7 made their first contribution in https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/pull/3665

Full Changelog: https://github.com/googleforgames/agones/compare/v1.38.0...v1.39.0

Images available with this release:

Helm chart available with this release:

helm install agones agones/agones --version 1.39.0

Make sure to add our stable helm repository using helm repo add agones https://agones.dev/chart/stable