Document history for AWS App2Container
The following table describes important changes to the documentation by date. For detailed updates to AWS App2Container, see Release notes for AWS App2Container.
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| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
App2Container version 1.48 | This release revised the supported operating systems for installed App2Container to
Windows Server 2016 and later and fixed an issue where the
| December 17, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.47 | This release removed IIS as a prerequisite for Windows services inventory, added support for .NET 9 applications, and is the last version compatible with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012. This release also includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | November 22, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.46 | Updated the Lambda function used for Amazon ECS deployments. This release also includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | October 10, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.45 | Launch templates are now used when you deploy to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) container instances for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). This release also includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | September 11, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.44 | Enhanced logging for Jenkins input validation during pipeline deployment. | July 26, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.43 | Improved Jenkins plugin detection during pipeline deployment. | July 11, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.42 | This release improved connection string detection for Windows applications. | July 3, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.41 | This release added a new supported operating system for container hosts. | June 14, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.40 | This release changed the default deployment version of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and updated the analyze command to a different default base image on CentOS applications servers. This release also includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | June 10, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.39 | This release improves the detection of connection strings and configuration files for IIS .NET applications and Windows services. | May 21, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.38 | This release includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | May 2, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.37 | This release includes updates for additional AWS Lambda functions for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) deployments. This release also includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | March 8, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.36 | This release includes a bug fix that affects Windows Server 2008. | February 22, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.35 | This release changed the Node.js version used by AWS CloudFormation, updated the AWS Lambda functions to use Python 3.9, improved error messaging, and added detection for the command line used to invoke Windows services. This release also includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | February 14, 2024 |
App2Container version 1.34 | This release added support for .NET 8 applications. | November 16, 2023 |
AWS Systems Manager automation runbook | The | November 2, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.33 | This is a maintenance release that contains miscellaneous bug fixes. | October 20, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.32 | This release adopted a new telemetry endpoint to collect metrics, logs, and command-generated artifacts. The example IAM policies were also revised to support this new telemetry endpoint. This release also includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | August 28, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.31 | This release changed to using ECS-optimized AMIs for Windows build instances for AWS CodePipeline integration. This release also includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | August 1, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.30 | This release includes support to deploy Microsoft Azure DevOps for some operating systems, changed the default instance type used when deploying to Amazon ECS on EC2 instances, changed the instance type for Windows container pipelines created in AWS CodePipeline, and changed the default AWS CodeBuild environment type. This release also includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | June 30, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.29 | This release changed the default deployed version of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to 1.26 and includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | May 26, 2023 |
Documentation addition – compatibility guide | Added a section to the documentation to detail App2Container compatibility for operating systems, software, and tooling. For more information, see App2Container compatibility. | May 22, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.28 | This release causes App2Container to change the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) object key prefix when you use certain commands to upload AWS CloudFormation templates to Amazon S3. The release also changed the instance metadata version of Windows build instances to IMDSv2 when they integrate with AWS CodePipeline and includes miscellaneous bug fixes. | May 4, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.27 | This release was rolled back due to an issue with analyzing applications on Linux. | April 20, 2023 |
Documentation addition – AWS CodePipeline | Added a section to the documentation for how to integrate AWS CodePipeline with AWS App2Container. | April 18, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.26 | This release changed the instance metadata version to IMDSv2 for cluster instances when you create Amazon Elastic Container Service and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters. This release also includes the creation of machine-based application IDs to ensure uniqueness of the application, and miscellaneous bug fixes. | February 23, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.25 | This release causes App2Container to default to .NET Framework version 4.8 for base images, and miscellaneous bug fixes. | January 23, 2023 |
App2Container version 1.24 | This release includes support for the .NET 7 application, and miscellaneous bug fixes. | December 11, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.23 | This release includes support for clusters created by EKS Blueprints, and miscellaneous bug fixes. | November 15, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.22 | This is a maintenance release that contains miscellaneous bug fixes. | October 10, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.21 | This release includes miscellaneous bug fixes and changes the new Amazon EKS deployment version default to Amazon EKS version 1.22. | September 16, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.20 | This is a maintenance release that contains miscellaneous bug fixes. | September 9, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.19 | This is a maintenance release that contains miscellaneous bug fixes. | August 30, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.18 | This release includes miscellaneous bug fixes and enhanced Azure DevOps so that Amazon EKS deployments can work without a kubectl-specific IAM user. | August 2, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.17 | This release includes miscellaneous bug fixes and adds support for Microsoft Azure DevOps as a deployment pipeline. | June 20, 2022 |
Documentation update – Manage secrets | Updated information about storing secrets using Secrets Manager to reflect changes to the console. | May 31, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.16 | This is a maintenance release that contains miscellaneous bug fixes. | May 9, 2022 |
Documentation improvement – getting started | Reorganized setup and getting started sections to reduce confusion for people who are just getting started with App2Container. Steps and prerequisites are now clearly labeled in the navigation panel. | April 14, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.15 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous bug fixes: optimized AWS App2Container installer size, deprecated MD5 checksum validation for the App2Container installer, made AWS profile setup optional during init. | April 14, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.14 | This is a maintenance release that contains miscellaneous bug fixes. | March 31, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.13 | This is a maintenance release that contains miscellaneous bug fixes. | March 2, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.12 | Fixed an issue that caused remote execution commands to fail on Windows. | February 16, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.11 | This is a maintenance release that contains miscellaneous bug fixes. | February 9, 2022 |
App2Container version 1.10 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous bug fixes: removed dependencies on Amazon ECR and Docker plugins for Jenkins pipelines. | January 14, 2022 |
Docs-only: IAM policy adjustments | Updated example policy to include FireLens permissions. Updated permissions list order to alphabetical for more intuitive search. | January 3, 2022 |
Docs-only: Jenkins troubleshooting | Added troubleshooting scenario for Jenkins. | December 20, 2021 |
App2Container version 1.9 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous bug fixes: workflow support for for ASP.NET Core applications running on Linux, including single file applications. | December 8, 2021 |
App2Container version 1.8 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous
bug fixes: support for Jenkins pipeline deployment, support for incremental
deployments of service and infrastructure changes for automatic deployments to
Amazon ECR, Amazon EKS, and App Runner, plus automatic pre-validation for the
containerize command, with the | November 26, 2021 |
App2Container version 1.7 | Upgraded AWS Lambda Node.js runtime to 14.x in CloudFormation templates to fix Amazon ECS deployment issue. | November 4, 2021 |
App2Container version 1.6 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous bug fixes: Windows application deployment to AWS Fargate, optimization of Docker image sizes on Linux, improved filtering for standard Java processes reported by the inventory command, and updated Amazon EKS default version to 1.19. | October 28, 2021 |
App2Container version 1.5 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous bug fixes: support for containerizing complex Windows applications, and tagging support for Amazon EKS and pipelines. | July 26, 2021 |
App2Container version 1.4 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous bug fixes: support for deployments to AWS App Runner, and support for reuse of existing Active Directory security groups with gMSA. | May 20, 2021 |
App2Container version 1.3 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous bug fixes: support for Amazon EC2 instance profiles, and enhancements for Windows application containers (support for Amazon EC2 Nitro instance types in App2Container deployments, support for Windows Server Core Version 2004 base images, container base image defaults to match the OS version for the server that runs containerization, and Amazon ECS deployment artifacts to match the container base image). | March 29, 2021 |
Docs-only: applicationMode settings | Describe container configuration applicationMode settings in more detail. | March 19, 2021 |
Docs-only: IAM policy sections | Add content to describe optional sections of the IAM policy templates. | February 18, 2021 |
Docs-only: IAM update | Update IAM policy examples for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS to reflect recent changes and adjust S3 section to remove problematic permission. | January 12, 2021 |
App2Container version 1.2 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous bug fixes: capability to run commands remotely, custom tag support for deployment resources, support for HTTPS endpoints and ACM-based certificate management for Amazon ECS deployments, and exclusion of AWS credentials when containerizing Linux applications. Note: remote command capability requires an IAM policy update. | December 21, 2020 |
App2Container version 1.1 | This release includes the following changes, along with miscellaneous bug fixes: Added support for Amazon EKS gMSA, introduced named profile overrides for commands that interact with AWS, enabled automatic log uploads for command failures, and added a command to upload a support bundle for help with troubleshooting from App2Container support. Note: uploads for log and support file bundles require an IAM policy update. | November 24, 2020 |
App2Container version 1.0.2 | Added FireLens logging support, plus patches for AWS App2Container version 1.0.2. | September 15, 2020 |
App2Container version 1.0.1 | Added Release notes page with version 1.0.1 changes for AWS App2Container. | August 5, 2020 |
Docs-only: configuration and IAM updates | A chapter was added to describe configurable fields in files generated by App2Container commands, and the security section was updated with an IAM best practices summary and guidance for setting up IAM general use resources for App2Container. | August 1, 2020 |
Initial release | This release introduces AWS App2Container. | June 30, 2020 |
