v0.9.0: Crete Edition

Hi there, Athenians! Lately our releases have had bugfixes and medium sized features. Not today! This release has a big new feature. We've heard you want more storage backends, so we added an HTTP-based way you can build your own storage backends, without forking or recompiling Athens

We're calling it External Storage 😄 🚀 🎉

If you're interested in building your own external storage drivers, see the docs for details.

Other Changes 🔬

A lot of work went into external storage, but we still had a chance to fix bugs and add other features.

• If you're hacking on a built-in storage driver, you no longer have to implement storage.Checker - the storage system figures it out for you (0bb95c7)
• You can now set the Kubernetes deployment strategy right from the Helm chart values.yaml file (cb286fb)
• If you build your own Athens Docker images, you can specify the version of the base Alpine image (a846766)
• Athens is now built with Go version 1.14 by default (af0e699)

For the full list of changes, see here

Thanks To The Community 💚

As always, we couldn't have done this release without all the bug reports, feature requests, PRs, questions, and discussion from everyone in the community. This project exists because of you all

Thanks especially to @BradErz, @xytan0056, and @bclermont for their contributions in this release. Thanks folks!

Finally, if you'd like to contribute and see your GitHub name here next release, please talk to us in the #athens channel on Gophers Slack. We would love to have you join us, and absolutely everybody is welcome.