5.0 Release Notes

These release notes list any new features, enhancements, and fixes that were made between version 4.x and 5.0 of Hazelcast Management Center.

New Features

User Interface Redesign: Management Center has a completely redesigned interface for a better and more consistent user experience.
In addition to the simplified and improved overall usage functionalities, the user experience around WAN Replication/Sync and Client Filtering pages have been redesigned.
DML Support for SQL Browser: It is now possible to use SQL DML statements such as CREATE MAPPING, INSERT INTO and SINK INTO in the SQL Browser.
Secure Clustered REST API Endpoints: Clustered REST API now requires authentication. [MC-825]
Command line tool mc-conf manages the tokens for the Clustered REST API Endpoints. [MC-822]
Clustered REST API Endpoint for Client Filtering: You can use the new API endpoints for client filtering to automate the process of filtering clients of a cluster. [MC-630]
Secure Prometheus Exporter: You can configure the Prometheus exporter to require authentication now. [MC-772]

Introduced automatic run of a Config Healthcheck when cluster topology or effective configuration of member changes [MC-674]
Improved the integration with Hazelcast Cloud; Management Center user interface now hides elements that are not usable on Hazelcat Cloud. [MC-613]
Optimized metrics storage for writes. [MC-803]
Management Center now shows periodic diagnostics information about the metrics storage. [MC-257]
Added inconsistent Jet config detection to Config Healthcheck. [MC-999]
Added support for using Active Directory over TLS. [MC-960]
Distributed map entries that are generic records serialized via compact serialization can now be viewed via Map Browser. [MC-959]
Added environment variables to specify a target cluster when starting Management Center via Docker. [MC-913]
Added a command line option to specify the hostname representing the interface to which the embedded Jetty instance will bind. [MC-897]
Added an option to output as JSON to the mc-conf command for creating tokens. [MC-898]
Hazelcast license feature names have been updated to reflect the current features that Hazelcast offers in its enterprise edition.
All Hazelcast license features are now shown on the Cluster License page. [MC-853]
Improved the wording for the warning message about recommended number of available processors. [MC-929]

No connection failure message is shown when connecting to a new cluster successfully. [MC-793]
Rolling Upgrade screen now shows the next version of Hazelcast as 5.0. [MC-893]
Inaccurate warning message about cluster having members not included in the config are no longer shown in the Edit Cluster Config dialog. [MC-912]
Cluster Type is replaced with a "Supports Streaming" flag. [MC-908]
Connecting to a cluster that has advanced network configured now works correctly. [MC-860]
Memory is no longer shown as 0 when a map is configured with OBJECT in-memory format. [MC-341]
Invalid maximum size policies are removed from the map configuration screen and missing ones are added. [MC-545]
Cache names having special characters are handled correctly now. [MC-217]

Management Center 5.0 does not support Jet 4.5. It only supports IMDG 4.2, Hazelcast Platform 5.0 and later.
Management Center 5.0 supports SQL Browsing on Hazelcast Platform 5.0 and later.
You should avoid updating the client filtering configuration during the rolling upgrade if multiple Management Center instances are connected to the same cluster to keep the configuration consistent.
Prometheus exporter is now a licensed feature.