Release v1.5

Release 1.5

This is the WattTime v3 update. Most notable changes that may require action are for deployment configuration, and these are minor.

Added

WattTime v3 API support. This is an inplace upgrade for v2.

• PR #532 Watt Time v3 Support
• PR #340 Add example for 'podman play kube'
• PR #536 Updated azure-regions.json with new regions
• #519 Remove hackathon sentence from our website banner
• #510 Gap Analysis for WattTime v3
• #262 Feature Contribution: Publish the docker file in a docker registry

Removed

WattTime v2 API support due to v3 in place replacement.

Fixed

• PR #522 Remove Hack mention from the Docs's banner
• #535 Bug: Configuration for locations loads twice
• PR #516 Update published documentation to .NET 8
• PR #515 overview.md: Fixed three broken links Signed-off-by: joecus1
• #506 Check our published documentation to identify any references to .NET7
• #512 Bug: Broken links in overview.md file

Changed

Updates for WattTime v3 API endpoint from v2, details in the ADR for WattTime v3 changes.

API

No changes

API Deployment

Due to the change for WattTime v3, there is change to the configuration for WattTime users.

With some of the changes to the code, some of the configuration will also needs to change.

Config (v2)	Config (v3)	Description
BalancingAuthorityCacheTTL	RegionCacheTTL	This is the cache for regions data in seconds, and has a default value of 1 day. This only needs updating if you set it
n/a	AuthenticationBaseUrl	NEW This is the base URL for the WattTime Authentication API and defaults to https://api.watttime.org/ if not set.

Example below if set (note they do not have to be set)

"wattTime_no-proxy": {
  "Type": "WattTime",
  "Username": "the_username",
  "Password": "super_secret_secret",
  "BaseURL": "https://api.watttime.org/v3/",
  "AutenticationBaseURL": "https://api.watttime.org", // This is new but not mandatory in config
  "RegionCacheTTL": 86400, // This is changed but not mandatory in config
  "Proxy": {
    "UseProxy": false
  }

SDK

No changes

Other

No changes

For more details, checkout https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/carbon-aware-sdk/issues/503