Agent v2.17.0

May 15, 2026

New Features

• ORCA Load Reporting on Gateway Input: Added gRPC ORCA load reports on the gateway input node. When load_reporting.enabled is set to true, inline ORCA trailers are emitted on Export responses, allowing client-side load balancers to make better routing decisions based on live backend load signals. Optionally, the out-of-band streaming server can be exposed for non-Envoy consumers.

  - name: my_gateway_input
    type: ed_gateway_input
    ...
    load_reporting:
      enabled: true
      # Inline ORCA trailers on Export responses are emitted whenever
      # enabled: true. Set enable_oob_stream: true to additionally expose
      # the xds.service.orca.v3.OpenRcaService streaming server (for
      # non-Envoy consumers like grpc-go weighted_round_robin / grpcurl).
      enable_oob_stream: false
      min_reporting_interval: 30s
      sample_interval: 1s
  

• Configurable gRPC max_connection_age: Added a max_connection_age setting on the gateway input and gateway output nodes that controls the maximum lifetime of a gRPC connection before it is gracefully closed. On the gateway input, a companion max_connection_age_grace setting defines how long to wait for in-flight RPCs to finish after the maximum age is reached. Periodically rotating long-lived connections helps load balancers redistribute traffic more evenly across backends.

  Configure on the gateway input:

  - name: my_gateway_input
    type: ed_gateway_input
    ...
    max_connection_age: 30m
    max_connection_age_grace: 1m
  

  Configure on the gateway output:

  - name: my_gateway_output
    type: ed_gateway_output
    ...
    max_connection_age: 30m
  

Improvements

• Leader Election Library Upgrade: Upgraded the leader election library used by the coordinator to its latest version.
• Gateway Input and Output: Various internal improvements to the gateway input and output nodes.

Bug Fixes

• Archive Uploads to GCS and S3-Compatible Providers: Fixed archive uploads to Google Cloud Storage and other S3-compatible providers.