Announcing Linkerd 2.20: Rate-limit-aware load balancing, reduced memory usage, better inbound metrics, and more (opens in new tab)

Linkerd 2.20 is now available! This release improves circuit breaking and load balancing to be aware of rate limit responses, significantly improves memory consumption of the control plane (especially on busy clusters), and improves Linkerd’s metrics suite for inbound traffic. This release also promotes native sidecars to the default deployment type for Linkerd’s data plane microproxies. Linkerd has now seen almost a decade of continuous improvement and evolution. Our goal is to build a servi...