[auto] feat: release candidate for v16.0.0

[oderayi]

Helm Release Notes

Date	Revision	Description
2024-01-29	0	Initial draft

• For BREAKING ISSUES, please review the section #6 "Breaking Changes" below.
• For KNOWN ISSUES, please review the section #7 "Known Issues" below.

0. Summary

Enhancements and breaking changes to the v15.2.0 Release, which includes:

Release summary points go here...

1. New Features

• mojaloop/#3426 add participant req caching, enable cache metrics, log fixes (mojaloop/#465), closes mojaloop/#3426
• mojaloop/#3427 add oracle endpoint db caching and oracle request caching (mojaloop/#467), closes mojaloop/#3427
• mojaloop/#3441 nodejs upgrade (mojaloop/#252), closes mojaloop/#3441
• mojaloop/#3636 batching implementation for position prepare messages (mojaloop/#968), closes mojaloop/#3636
• mojaloop/#3524 add position fulfil to binprocessor (mojaloop/#990), closes mojaloop/#3524
• mojaloop/#3524 add reserve action to fulfil logic (mojaloop/#992), closes mojaloop/#3524
• mojaloop/#3445 nodejs upgrade (mojaloop/#252), closes mojaloop/#3445

2. Bug Fixes

• mojaloop/#3682 fix cache implementation (mojaloop/#468), closes mojaloop/#3682

3. Application Versions

1. central-event-processor: v12.0.0 -> v12.1.0 (Compare)
2. ml-testing-toolkit-ui: v15.4.0 -> v15.4.2 (Compare)
3. als-oracle-pathfinder: v12.0.0 -> v12.1.0 (Compare)
4. ml-testing-toolkit-client-lib: v1.2.0 -> v1.2.1 (Compare)
5. account-lookup-service: v15.0.0 -> v15.2.1 (Compare)
6. simulator: v12.0.0 -> v12.1.0 (Compare)
7. central-ledger: v17.3.2 -> v17.6.0 (Compare)
8. event-stream-processor: v12.0.0-snapshot.7 -> v12.0.0-snapshot.9 (Compare)
9. bulk-api-adapter: v17.0.0
10. event-sidecar: v14.0.0
11. auth-service: v15.0.0
12. ml-testing-toolkit: v17.0.0
13. transaction-requests-service: v14.1.2
14. ml-api-adapter: v14.0.5
15. sdk-scheme-adapter: v23.1.1
16. mojaloop-simulator: v15.0.0
17. thirdparty-api-svc: v14.0.0
18. als-consent-oracle: v0.2.2
19. quoting-service: v15.5.0
20. thirdparty-sdk: v15.1.1
21. central-settlement: v16.0.0
22. email-notifier: v14.0.0

4. API Versions

This release supports the following versions of the Mojaloop family of APIs:

API	Supported Versions	Notes
FSPIOP	v1.1, v1.0
Settlements	v2.0
Admin	v1.0
Oracle	v1.0
Thirdparty	v1.0

5. Testing notes

1. This release has been validated against the following Dependency Test Matrix:

   Dependency	Version	Notes
   Kubernetes	v1.28	AWS EKS, AWS EKS Supported Version Notes
   containerd	v1.6.19
   Nginx Ingress Controller	helm-ingress-nginx-4.7.0 / ingress-controller-v1.8.0
   Amazon Linux	v2
   MySQL	bitnami/mysql:8.0.32-debian-11-r0
   Kafka	bitnami/kafka:3.3.1-debian-11-r1
   Redis	bitnami/redis:7.0.5-debian-11-r7
   MongoDB	bitnami/mongodb:6.0.2-debian-11-r11
   Testing Toolkit Test Cases	v16.0.0
   example-mojaloop-backend	v15.0.0	README

2. It is recommended that all Mojaloop deployments are verified using the Mojaloop Testing Toolkit. More information can be found in the Mojaloop Deployment Guide.

3. The testing-toolkit-test-cases (See above Dependency Test Matrix for exact version required for this release) Golden Path collections expects:

   • the Quoting service operating mode to be set quoting-service.config.simple_routing_mode_enabled=true (in helm mojaloop/values.yaml under quoting-service config). If this is incorrectly configured, it will result in several failures in the quoting-service tests (7 expected failures). If this is disabled, ensure that you update the corresponding test-case environment variable parameter SIMPLE_ROUTING_MODE_ENABLED ( in helm mojaloop/values.yaml ml-testing-toolkit -> extraEnvironments.hub-k8s-default-environment.json.inputValues) to match.
   • the on-us transfers (in mojaloop/values.yaml "enable_on_us_transfers: false" under centralledger-handler-transfer-prepare -> config and cl-handler-bulk-transfer-prepare -> config) configuration to be disabled. The test-case environment variable parameter (ON_US_TRANSFERS_ENABLED (in helm mojaloop/values.yaml ml-testing-toolkit -> extraEnvironments.hub-k8s-default-environment.json.inputValues), the same name used on postman collections) must similarly match this value.

4. Simulators

   • We recommend using Testing Toolkit instead of Postman which is better suited for the async nature of the Mojaloop API specification (see above)
   • Mojaloop-Simulator is enabled by default (six instances used for single transfers usually and three more specific to bulk).
   • Ensure that correct Postman Scripts are used if you wish to test against the Mojaloop-Simulators:
     • Setup Mojaloop Hub: MojaloopHub_Setup
     • Setup Mojaloop Simulators for testing : MojaloopSims_Onboarding
     • Golden path tests: Golden_Path_Mojaloop
   • Legacy Simulators are still required and deployed by default; disabling this will cause issues since there is Account Lookup directory mocking functionality in this service.

5. Thirdparty Testing Toolkit Test Collections are not repeatable. Please refer to the following issue for more information #2717 - Thirdparty TTK Test-Collection is not repeatable. It is possible to manually cleanup persistent data to re-run the test if required.

6. Bulk API Helm Tests

   Refer to the Testing Deployments section in the main README for detailed information on how to enable bulk-api-adapter tests.

7. Thirdparty API Helm Tests

   Refer to thirdparty/README.md#validating-and-testing-the-3p-api on how to enabled and execute Thirdparty verification tests.

8. Testing the new Bulk functionality (sdk-scheme-adapter)

   For details regarding deployment and validation of simulators needed for bulk (for adoption provided in sdk-scheme-adapter) refer to deploying Mojaloop TTK simulators.

6. Breaking Changes

central-ledger

• config/default.json: (https://github.com/mojaloop/central-ledger/blob/42238ff293bb27f1947831de1ef574ebd5bdb6fc/config%2Fdefault.json)

account-lookup-service

• config/default.json: (https://github.com/mojaloop/account-lookup-service/blob/283ef2140c166029255a4ddc9548eb3ffb4eaf17/config%2Fdefault.json)
• docker/account-lookup-service/default.json: (https://github.com/mojaloop/account-lookup-service/blob/283ef2140c166029255a4ddc9548eb3ffb4eaf17/docker%2Faccount-lookup-service%2Fdefault.json)

7. Known Issues

1. #2119 - Idempotency for duplicate quote request
2. #2322 - Helm install failing with with "medium to large" release names
3. #2317 - Mojaloop Helm deployments are not compatible when deployed to ARM-arch based hosts
4. #2435 - Quoting-Service is incorrectly handling failed responses to FSPs when forwarding requests
5. Test issues causing instability/intermitant failures on Test Case Results
   1. #2717 - Thirdparty TTK Test-Collection is not repeatable
   2. #2925 - Helm Test Intermittent failure with 'Generic ID not found

8. Contributors

• Organizations: BMGF, InFiTX
• Individuals: @aaronreynoza, @kleyow, @vijayg10

Note: companies are in alphabetical order, individuals are in no particular order.

Full Changelog: mojaloop/helm@v15.2.0...v16.0.0