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Last updated: 2023-05-08 15:44:59
    
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    This document describes the updates to Tencent Container Registry (TCR) Enterprise Edition. For more information about the updates to Tencent Kubernetes Engine (TKE), see Release Notes.

    March 2023

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    Service accounts
    The access credential feature is upgraded to support both user accounts and service accounts. Users can create and manage service accounts with a custom username, password, permission, and expiration time. The management of instance permissions are simplified, which makes the feature suitable for systems that supports continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
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    COS multi-AZ
    This feature is optional. When you create a TCR Enterprise Edition instance, we recommend that you enable the COS multi-AZ feature to achieve multi-AZ disaster recovery for higher data reliability and service availability. This feature incurs higher storage costs.

    December 2022

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    Reuse of TCR Individual domain names
    Shared TCR Individual Edition domain names can be reused in exclusive TCR Enterprise Edition instances. This allows you to push images to or pull images from an exclusive TCR Enterprise Edition instance by using the URL of a TCR Individual Edition image repository. This way, the costs of upgrading to TCR Enterprise Edition instances are reduced.

    September 2022

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    Image signing
    The container image signing feature is launched to ensure image consistency across the entire linkage.
    Increased number of accessed VPCs
    The quota for connected VPCs is increased for all versions. Up to 20 VPCs can be connected.
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    Feature of checking whether a domain name has an ICP filing
    The feature of checking whether a domain name has an ICP filing is added for custom domain names to meet compliance requirements.
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    June 2022

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    Quick start
    Users can quickly initialize TCR Enterprise instances that are newly created in five minutes to push your first container image.
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    Improved image retention capability
    Advanced configuration is added to the image retention feature of TCR Enterprise Edition. The feature allows you to configure image filtering rules, which support regular expressions.

    December 2021

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    Upgrade of image acceleration to download data in an image on demand
    The capability of image acceleration is upgraded. It can be enabled with one click. The container can be started in seconds when deploying the application, without the need to pull all image data.
    Automatic image deployment in all regions in TCR Individual service
    The TCR Individual service supports the automatic image deployment feature based on CODING DevOps in all available regions, which can automatically trigger image building for code push and automatically push images to the Individual Edition image repository to update container applications in the specified cluster.
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    November 2021

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    Image building in all regions in TCR Individual service
    The TCR Individual service supports image building based on CODING DevOps in all available regions. You can select the specified image repository in the unified product console to implement image building.
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    New entry of TCR Individual in the console
    Starting from November 1, 2021 (UTC +8), entry of TCR Individual (the original path: TKE > Image Repository) in the console will be changed to be located in the TCR console and this will be in beta testing. For the relationship of the existing features in the two consoles, see related documents.

    October 2021

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    Check of instance replication logs
    The instance replication feature now supports checking replication logs, and supports querying via API.
    Unified management of image repositories of TCR Individual
    The TCR console now supports unified management of image repositories of TCR Individual. Users can view TCR Individual instances, and manage namespaces and image repositories.
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    July 2021

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    Cross-master account instance synchronization
    The instance synchronization feature supports cross-master account synchronization of instance data.
    Image tag immutability
    The tag immutability feature can be enabled for images hosted in TCR, which ensures that images of the same tag will only be successfully pushed once.

    June 2021

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    Enhanced TCR console features
    The original instance list page has been upgraded to an instance management page, where you can view the instance overview, the latest TCR features, and product updates.
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    Batch adding/editing for the public network access allowlist
    The TCR console supports entering multiple IP addresses or IP ranges in the allowlist at a time or importing the configurations of an existing security group.
    Multiple supported regions added for auto-parsing management
    Nanjing, Hong Kong (China), Singapore, Frankfurt, Chengdu, and Chongqing are added as the supported regions.
    Removal of unused image data
    Users can set custom rules to remove unused image data of TCR Enterprise Edition instances in batches to release storage capacity. Dry runs are supported.

    April 2021

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    Querying audit logs
    TCR Enterprise has been integrated with Tencent CloudAudit. Users can check the logs of read and write operations of instances, namespaces, and image repositories in "Event History".
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    March 2021

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    Custom domain names
    TCR supports custom domain names. User can add custom domain names and SSL certificates to a TCR Enterprise Edition instance, and access the instance through the HTTPS protocol.

    January 2021

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    Multi-region replication of a single instance
    Users can create replicas of an Enterprise Premium instance in multiple regions with the same access domain name and credential as the original TCR Enterprise Edition instance and synchronize underlying image data of the original instance to replicas in real time. After image data is uploaded, it can be downloaded through the local private network in multiple regions.
    Compatibility with cloud-native artifacts and multi-architecture images
    TCR Enterprise instances are compatible with cloud-native artifacts (OCI). Image Registry can host Helm charts, CNAB, and other cloud-native artifacts. TCR Enterprise Edition instances can host multi-architecture container images, such as AMD64 and ARM, to be applicable to IoT and edge computing scenarios.
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    Added support for on-demand container image loading
    A TCR Enterprise Premium instance can enable the on-demand container image loading feature. When cluster nodes pull image data from the TCR Enterprise Premium instance, they can mount pulled data as needed, improving the container startup speed.
    Optimized private network access feature
    When a private network access linkage is created for an instance deployed in China, the VPCDNS can be used to configure private network resolution for the instance access domain name, without the need to use an external DNS or configure the host.
    TCR Enterprise available in the Taipei (China) region
    TCR Enterprise is now available in the Taipei (China) region. For more information on billing, see Billing Overview.

    December 2020

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    Commercial billing for TCR Enterprise
    TCR Enterprise Edition instances have ended beta testing and will be billed. SLA guarantees are provided, and users can purchase instances in pay-as-you-go mode.
    TCR Enterprise available in Virginia and Frankfurt regions
    TCR Enterprise is now available in the Virginia and Frankfurt regions. For more information on billing, see Billing Overview.

    October 2020

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    Added support for multiple code sources in the image building feature
    The private GitLab and TGit code sources are now supported, and the code source authorization process has been optimized.
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    Image filtering in the delivery pipeline deployment feature
    Local push images can be used to trigger the deployment process, and filtering rules can be configured to deploy only the most recently pushed images that meet the rules.

    September 2020

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    Image tag retention feature
    Automatic clearing rules can be configured for image tags in a namespace to periodically clear historical image tags.

    August 2020

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    TCR add-on available in TKE clusters
    You can quickly install the TCR Enterprise add-on in a TKE cluster to enable secret-free pulling of container images and Helm charts through the private network. This significantly improves the application deployment experience.
    Tencent Cloud tags
    Users can bind TCR Enterprise Edition instances with Tencent Cloud tags, with which they can perform instance resource filtering and permission management.

    July 2020

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    Delivery pipeline feature
    After a delivery pipeline is configured, code updates can automatically trigger image building, image push, and application updates. When used with TKE, this feature can quickly implement container DevOps.
    Updated Helm chart feature
    Users can upload and download chart packages through the console. TKE can use TCR private Helm repositories for application deployment.

    June 2020

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    Full beta test for TCR Enterprise
    TCR Enterprise officially starts a full beta test. Users can create secure and exclusive TCR Enterprise Edition instances and use image security scanning, cross-region instance synchronization, and Helm chart hosting.
    
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