## 1.3.0 2017-10-06

* **Breaking Change**: All HTTP engines are now Netty 4; `engine:` configuration key is no longer valid.
* Upgraded to Finagle 7.1
* Kubernetes
  * Added a workaround for an issue where Kubernetes namers fail to update because watches are not correctly restarted due to a regression in some versions of Kubernetes (#1636).
  * Fixed `io.l5d.k8s.configMap` interpreter failing to update after receiving an invalid dtab (#1639).
  * Performance improvements for Kubernetes namers.
* Prometheus
  * Added an optional `prefix:` configuration key to add a prefix to all metrics reported by Linkerd (#1655).
* DNS SRV Record namer
  * Ensured that DNS names in SRV queries are absolute (#1637).
  * Added an optional `domain` config key for relative DNS lookups (#1637).
  * Removed redundant `dnssrv` metrics scope from SRV record namer metrics (#1637).
* Consul
  * Consul namers no longer watch the entire list of services, improving performance significantly when there are large numbers of services (#1646).
* Curator
  * Added support for `ServiceInstance` objects with custom payloads (#1272).