TiDB Operator 1.4.4 Release Notes

Release date: March 13, 2023

TiDB Operator version: 1.4.4

New features

Support using volume-snapshot backup and restore on a TiDB cluster with TiFlash (#4812, @fengou1)
Show an accurate backup size in the volume-snapshot backup by calculating the backup size from snapshot storage usage (#4819, @fengou1)
Support retries for snapshot backups in case of unexpected failures caused by Kubernetes job or pod issues (#4895, @WizardXiao)
Support integrated management of log backup and snapshot backup in the BackupSchedule CR (#4904, @WizardXiao)

Fix the issue that sync fails when using a custom build of TiDB with image version which is not in semantic version format (#4920, @sunxiaoguang)
Fix the issue that TiDB Operator cannot restore the volume-snapshot backup data for scale-in clusters by ensuring sequential PVC names (#4888, @WangLe1321)
Fix the issue that volume-snapshot backup might lead to a panic when there is no block change between two snapshots (#4922, @fengou1)
Fix the potential issue of volume-snapshot failure during the final stage of restore by adding a new check for encryption (#4914, @fengou1)

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