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Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

Unreleased - as of Sprint 50 end 2016-12-05

  • Automate

    • Retirement: Generic service retirement option (#12619)
    • Service Dialog: Add dynamic dropdown list support for orchestration service dialog (#12693)
    • Service Model
      • Expose custom_attribute methods to ext_management_system service model. (#12602)
      • Move snapshot code to Vm in service model. (#12726)
      • RBAC support for Automate Service Models (#12369)
      • Add ae_service for google auth_key_pair (#12973)
      • Expose miq_groups (#12294)
    • Notifications: Send Notification when retirement starts for Services and VMs (#12796)
  • Platform

    • Reporting: Round of metric values to precision 2 in chargeback reports (#12629)
    • Allow network manager features for tenant administrator (#12383)
    • Use settings.yaml for purging records (#12552)
  • Providers

    • Middleware: Add link to Server Group in the summary page of a server (#12815)
    • Add root password validation regex for Azure dialog (#12967)
  • REST API

    • Add option to hide resources (#12694)
    • Allow adding custom attributes with sections (#12913)
  • User Interface (Classic)

    • Add Replication excluded tables to the Settings Replication tab (#12604)
    • Orchestration: Support hash values in dropdown orchestration dialog fields (#12570)
    • Containers
      • Provider policies (#11002)
      • Custom attributes table on Container Node (#12832)
    • OpenStack: Add human readable names of private and public openstack cloud networks (#12855)
    • Add settings key to disable console proxy (#12675)
    • Separate Storage Managers By Type (#12399)
    • Launch an URL returned by an automate button (#10118)
  • Performance

    • DTO refresh optimization for saves (#12679)
    • Purge remaining records using single query (#12560)
    • Use Settings API over VMDB::Config.new for speed improvements for VmOrTemplate::RightSizing (#12751)
    • Don't queue ntp reload on newly created zones (#12974)
  • Platform

    • LDAP: Allow apostrophes in email address (#12729)
    • Increase the web socket worker's pool size (#12800)
    • Drop currency column when editing chargeback rates (#12834)
  • REST API: Updating API versioning to 2.4.0-pre (#12890)

  • Service UI

  • SmartState analysis

    • Containers deletion: Separate the pod deletion and skip it if no pod was created before (#12750)
  • User Interface

    • Reports: Better names for policy event sample reports (#12934)

Notable fixes include:

  • Automate

    • Automate Provisioned Notifications - Use Automate notifications instead of event notifications (#12424)
    • Provisioning
      • Fix auto-placement for hosts without a datastore that can hold the new VM (#12931)
      • Support provider name & template name to uniquely identify a template (#11669)
    • Git Domains: Delete the repo directory for Git based domains (#12539)
  • Platform

    • Authentication
      • Support a separate auth URL for external authentication (#12697)
      • Remove the FQDN from group names for ext authentication (#12752)
    • Fix Audit Log to record settings/values when creating new user (#12786)
    • Fix issue where local settings files were ignoredFix issue where local settings files were ignored (#12821)
  • Providers

    • RHVM
      • Require a description when creating Snapshot (#12637)
      • Update cluster when modified (#12927)
    • Openstack: Remove port_security_enabled from attributes passed to network create (#12736)
    • Fetch disk info when a vm removed (#12788)
  • User Interface

    • Prevent service dialog refreshing every time a dropdown item is selected (#12718)
    • Fix angular controller for Network Router Network Router (#12707) and Cloud Subnet (#12706)
    • Ansible: Add configuration_scripts to the list of trees with advanced search (#12704)
    • RBAC: Add Storage Product Features for Adding Roles (#12701)
    • Remove confirmation when opening the HTML5 vnc/spice console. (#12673)
    • Set categories correctly for policy timelines (#12664)
    • Display name of a chosen filter in Infrastructure Providers (#12307)
    • Only enable git import submit button when a branch or tag is selected (#12753)
    • Send notifications only when user is authorized to see the referenced object (#12771)
    • Add tags to objects in list view in Cloud Tenant (#12833)
    • Set start date explicitly only when changing schedule interval (#12816)
    • Display parent tenant only when it is allowed by RBAC (#12848)
    • Fix position of chart menu in C&U when clicking close to right edge (#12922) Fix missing Smart State Analysis button on Cloud Instances list view (#12559)

Unreleased - as of Sprint 49 end 2016-11-14

  • Automate
    • Git Support: Support automate model git repositories without domain directory
    • Notification: Add global and tenant notification audiences
    • Service Model
      • Expose ems_events to Vm service model
      • Expose a group's filters.
      • Expose authentication_key in EMS service model
    • Provisioning
      • Set zone when deliver a service template provision task
      • Create a request per region for VM reconfigure
    • Services
      • Expose service power state
  • Platform
    • High Availability: Raise event when failover successful
    • Chargeback: Add daily to chargeback rate for 'per time' types
    • Replication: Add logging when the replication set is altered
    • Logging: Add configurable number of saved logfile rotations
  • Providers
    • Containers UI: Label based Auto-Tagging UI
    • Middleware (Hawkular)
      • Add support to overwrite an existing deployment
    • Networks
      • Nuage: UI for Network elements
      • Add Network Topology button for the Load Balancer class
    • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
      • Enable VM reconfigure disks for supported rhevm version
      • Migrate support
    • VMware vCloud: Event monitoring
  • REST API
    • Add IDs to Dialog Content
    • Actions support
    • Conditions support
    • Support for /api/requests approve and deny actions
    • Service Dialogs Copy API
    • MiqPolicies support
    • Service Request Delete
  • SmartState: Support analysis of VMs residing on NFS41 datastores
  • Performance
    • For resource_pools only bring back usable Resource Pools
    • Prune VM Tree folders first, so nodes can be properly prune and tree nodes can then be collapsed
    • Remove full refresh from provisioning flow
  • Platform
  • Chargeback: Simplify Chargeback rates editor to only show relevant parameters
  • Providers
  • RHEVM: Make C&U Metrics Database a mandatory field for Validation

Notable fixes include:

  • Automate
    • Services: Set default value of param visible to true for all field types
    • Git Domains for Automate: Ensure a response when git repository does not contain domains
  • Platform
    • Increase worker memory thresholds to avoid frequent restarts.
    • Perform RBAC user filter check on requested ids before allowing request
  • Providers
    • Fix targeted refresh of a VM without its host clearing all folder relationships
    • OpenStack Cloud
      • Add logs for network and subnet CRUD
      • UI: Add missing toolbar options for cloud tenants and host aggregates
      • UI: Add missing add/remove hosts actions to host aggregate UI
    • RHVM: Pass storage domains collection in disks RHV api request
  • User Interface
    • Internationalization: i18n support in pdf reports
    • Fix custom logo issue in header
    • Routing Error for reload on infrastructure networking
    • Add Advanced Search to Containers explorer
    • Fall-"back" to VMRC desktop client if no NPAPI plugin is available
    • Displays a more informative message on datasource deletion.
    • Display Advanced Search in Configuration management
    • Allow the retirement date to be cleared
    • Default Filters can be saved or reset

Unreleased - as of Sprint 48 end 2016-10-24

  • Automate
    • Reset domain priorities at startup and restore
    • Set default entry points for non-generic catalog items
    • Model: Schema change for Cloud Orchestration Retirement class
    • Automation method that will choose VDC networks available in the given cloud provider
    • Provisioning
      • Show shared networks in the OpenStack provisioning dialog
      • Reconnect orchestration stack with its template at post-provisioning
    • Domain Import
      • Rake task to import an Automate Model stored in a Git Repository
      • Allow for setting up self signed certificate in Import Screen
      • REST API Git refresh and import
      • Route the REST API import call to the correct server with the Git Owner Server role
    • Added Automate $evm.create_notification method
    • Retirement
      • Allow VM's with unknown power state to retire.
      • Allow archived/orphaned VM's to retire
      • Added checks and logging for amazon retirement
    • Service Model
      • Added cinder backup/restore actions
      • RBAC for service models
    • Scheduling Automate Tasks via the rails console
  • Platform
    • Configure kerberos to do dns_lookups for external authentication
    • Add additional cloud objects to RBAC filter
    • Chargeback
      • Add Vm Guid to report fields for ChargebackVm reports
      • Enable custom attributes for chargeback reports
      • Add monthly/hourly/weekly in rates for 'per time' types
      • Calculation changes taking into account averages and maximums per selected interval in report(monthly, weekly, daily)
    • Logging: Add the ability to use a different disk for storing log files
    • Tenancy: Introduce service for sharing resources across tenants
  • Providers
    • Allow Vm to show floating and fixed ip addresses
    • Containers
      • Persist Container Templates
      • UI: Add Container Templates
    • Google Compute Engine: Support for parsing Google health checks during refresh
    • OpenStack
      • Cloud
        • UI: Cloud volume backup
        • CRUD for OpenStack Cloud tenants
        • Enable Image Snapshots
        • CRUD for OpenStack Host Aggregates
      • Infra
        • Enable node start and stop
        • Node destroy deletes node from Ironic
        • Add Ironic Controls
        • Set boot image for registered hosts
    • Storage: Cinder backup
  • REST API
    • Service power operations
    • Add custom attributes to provider
    • Service Dialog Create
    • Support for /api/requests creation and edits
  • SmartState: Add /etc/redhat-access-insights/machine-id to the sample VM analysis profile
  • User Interface
    • Dashboard view for Infrastructure views
    • Conversion of Middleware Provider form to Angular
    • Add human name for Google & Azure load balancers
    • Ability to get to details of Ansible jobs
    • Add UI for generating authorization keys for remote regions
    • Disable tenant edit from cloud tenant mapping
    • Topology for Cloud Manager
    • Topology for Infra provider
  • Performance
    • Speed up RBAC when no vm in tree in Virtual Machine Explorer
    • Speed-up lookup for min/max storage_used metric
    • Add option to hide VMs in trees
  • Platform: Set appliance "system" memory/swap information
  • Providers
    • Google Cloud Platform: Use standard health states
    • Microsoft SCVMM: Set default security protocol to ssl
    • Network: Use RESTful routes

Notable fixes include:

  • Automate
    • Broken ordering ae_domains for a root tenant.
    • Model: Added missing ServiceTemplateProvisionRequest_denied and ServiceTemplateProvisionRequest_pending instances so that Denied Service requests will properly generate emails.
    • Validate user roles against domain edit before allowing copy/edit on any objects under it
    • Provisioning: Stop appending the _ character as part of the enforced VM naming.
    • Fixed case where user can't add alerts.
    • Fixed issue where alerts don't send SNMP v1 traps
  • Platform
    • Chargeback: Fix Group by tag in chargeback report
    • Replication
      • Add repmgr tables to replication excludes
      • Don't consider tables that are always excluded during the schema check
      • Fixed bug in settings/access control where tenants from remote regions are displayed in the tenant list view and in the tenant selection when adding/editing a group
  • Providers
    • Containers: Ability to add a container provider with a port other than 8443
    • Azure: Show 'Memory (MB)' chart for azure instance
    • Hawkular UI: Domain mode server has different operations than normal standalone server
  • User Interface
    • Enable Provision VMs button via relationships
    • Missing reset button for Job Template Service Dialog
    • Display the number of access control elements based on user permission
    • Rebuild timeline options when Apply button is pressed

Unreleased - as of Sprint 47 end 2016-10-03

  • Automate
    • Provisioning
      • Filter networks and floating_ips for OpenStack provisioning
      • Added Google pre and post provisioning methods
      • Enabled support for vApp provisioning service
      • Backend support to enable VMware provisioning through selection of a DRS-enabled cluster instead of a host
      • Set VM storage profile in provisioning
    • Services
      • Log properly dynamic dialog field script error
      • Back-end support for Power Operations on Services
        • Service Items: Pass start/stop commands to associated resources.
        • Service Bundles: Honor bundle resource configuration for start/stop actions
    • Added top_level_namespace to miq_ae_namespace model to support filtering for pluggable providers
    • Created service_connections table to support connecting services together along with metadata
    • Generic Objects
      • Process Generic Object method call via automate
      • Methods content stored in Automate
      • Generic Object Definition model contains the method name only (Parameters defined in automate)
      • Methods can return data to caller
      • Methods can be overridden by domain ordering
  • Platform
    • Centralized Administration
      • VM power operations
      • VM retirement
      • Leverages new ManageIQ API Client gem
    • Chargeback
      • Generate monthly report for a Service Instance method on Service class
      • Daily schedule generates report for each Service
      • Enables SUI display of Service costs over last 30 days
      • Containers
        • Added image tag names for Containers in vim performance state.
        • Added a 'fixed_compute_metric' column to chargeback
        • Added rate assigning by tags to container images
        • Chargeback vm group by tag
    • Notifications
      • Dynamic substitution in notification messages
      • Generate for Lifecycle events
    • Tenancy
      • Mapping Cloud Tenants to ManageIQ Tenants
        • Prevent deleting mapped tenants from cloud provider
        • Added checkbox "Tenant Mapping Enabled" to Openstack Manager
      • Ad hoc sharing of resources across tenants
        • Backend modeling completed
        • Implementation in progress
  • Providers
    • Core
      • Override default http proxy
      • Default reasons for supported features
      • Known features are discoverable
      • Every known feature is unsupported by default
      • supports :reboot_guest
    • Generate a csv of features supported across all models
    • Containers
      • Allow policies to prevent Container image scans
      • Chargeback rates based on container image tags
      • Keep pod-container relationship after disconnection
    • Google Compute Engine: Load Balancer refresh
    • Middleware (Hawkular)
      • Change labels in middleware topology
      • Added "Server State" into Middleware Server Details
      • Enabled search for Middleware entities
      • Users can add Middleware Datasources and JDBC Drivers
      • Metrics for JMS Topics and Queues
    • Microsoft Cloud (Azure)
      • Load Balancer inventory collection for Azure
      • Pagination support in armrest gem
    • Microsoft Infrastructure (SCVMM)
      • Set CPU sockets and cores per socket
    • Network
      • Nuage policy groups added
      • Load balancer service type actions for reconfigure, retirement, provisioning
      • UI for creating subnets
    • OpenStack
      • Add hardware state for Hosts
      • Map Flavors to Cloud Tenants during Openstack Cloud refresh
      • Cinder backup/restore actions added to model
      • UI to register Ironic nodes through Mistral
    • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
      • Report manufacturer and product info for RHEVM hosts
    • Storage
      • New Swift Storage Manager
      • New Cinder Storage Manager
      • Initial User Interface support for Storage Managers
    • VMware Cloud
      • Cloud orchestration stack operation: Create and delete stack
      • Collect virtual datacenters as availability zones
      • Event Catcher
    • VMware Infrastructure: Datastores are filtered by Storage Profiles in provisioning
  • REST API
    • Version bumped to 2.3.0 in preparation for Euwe release
    • New /api/automate primary collection
    • Enhanced to return additional product information for the About modal
    • Bulk queries now support referencing resources by attributes
    • Added ability to delete one’s own notifications
    • Publish Blueprint API
    • Update Blueprint API to store bundle info in ui_properties
    • CRUD for Service create and orchestration template
    • Api for refreshing automate domain from git
    • Allow compressed IDs in resource references
  • Service UI
    • Create picture
    • Generic requests OPTION method
    • Delete dialogs API
    • Updated the “update” API for blueprints to be more efficient
    • Cockpit integration
    • Added About modal
  • SmartState
    • Containers: Settings for proxy environment variables
  • User Interface
    • Add GUID validation for certain Azure fields in Cloud Provider screen
    • OpenStack: Register new Ironic nodes through Mistral
    • Timelines resdesigned
    • vSphere Distributed Switches tagging
    • Patternfly Labels for OpenSCAP Results
    • Operations UI Notifications
  • Automate:
    • Changed Automate import to enable system domains
    • Google schema changes in Cloud Provision Method class
  • Performance: Do not reload miq server in tree builder
  • Providers: vSphere Host storage device inventory collection improvements
  • REST API: Update API CLI to support the HTTP OPTIONS method.
  • User Interface
    • Updated PatternFly to v3.11.0
    • Summary Screen styling updates

Notable fixes include:

  • Automate
    • Fixed problem with request_pending email method
    • Set User.current_user in Automation Engine to fix issue where provisioning resources were not being assigned to the correct tenant
  • Platform
    • Use correct adjustment in chargeback reports
    • Replication: Fix typo prevention full error message
    • Tenancy: User friendly tenant names
  • Providers
    • Openstack: Catch unauthorized exception in refresh
    • Middleware: Fix operation timeout parameter fetch
    • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Access VM Cluster relationship correctly
  • Provisioning: VMware Infrastructure: sysprep_product_id field is no longer required
  • REST API
    • API: Fix creation of Foreman provider
    • Ensure api config references only valid miq_product_features
  • SmartState: Update logging and job error message when getting the service account for Containers
  • User Interface
    • Add missing Searchbar and Advanced Search button
    • Containers: Download to PDF/CSV/Text - don't download deleted containers
    • Allow bring VM out of retirement from detail page
    • Inconsitent menues in Middleware Views
    • Save Authentication status on a Save
    • User friendly tenant names
    • RBAC:List only those VMs that the user has access to in planning

Unreleased - as of Sprint 46 end 2016-09-12

  • Automate
    • Import Rake task OVERWRITE argument: Setting OVERWRITE=true removes the target domain prior to import
    • New extend_retires_on method: Used by Automate methods to set a retirement date to specified number of days from today, or from a future date.
    • Service model updates
      • MiqAeServiceHardware
      • MiqAeServicePartition
      • MiqAeServiceVolume
  • Platform
    • Centralized Administration
      • Server to server authentication
      • Invoke tasks on remote regions
      • Leverage new API client (WIP)
    • Chargeback
      • Support for generating chargeback for services
      • Will be used in Service UI for showing the cost of a service
    • Database Maintenance
      • Hourly reindex: High Churn Tables
      • Periodic full vacuum
      • Configure in appliance console
    • Notification Backend
      • Model for asynchronous notifications
      • Authentication token generation for web sockets
      • API for notification drawer
    • PostgreSQL High Availability
      • DB Cluster - Primary, Standbys
      • Uses repmgr (replication)
      • Failover
        • Primary to Standby
        • Appliance connects to new primary DB
    • Tenancy: Mapping Cloud Tenants to ManageIQ Tenants
      • Post refresh hook on OpenStack provider
      • Create provider base tenant under a root tenant
      • Cloud Tenant tree generated under provider base tenant
      • Create / Update / Delete
  • Providers
    • Containers
      • Reports: Pods for images per project, Pods per node
      • Deployment wizard
    • Google Compute Engine: Provision Preemptible VMs
    • Hawkular
      • JMS support (entities, topology)
      • Reports for Transactions (in App servers)
      • Support micro-lifecycle for Middleware-deployments
      • Middleware provider now uses restful routes
    • Microsoft Azure
      • Handle new events: Create Security Group, VM Capture
      • Provider-specific logging
    • Networking
      • Allow port ranges for Load Balancers
      • Load Balancer user interface
    • OpenStack
      • Collect inventory for cloud volume backups
      • Show topology for undercloud
      • Associate/Disassociate Floating IPs
    • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
      • Get Host OS version and type
      • Disk Management in VM Reconfigure
    • VMware: Filter Storage by Profile
    • vCloud
      • Collect status of vCloud Orchestration Stacks
      • Add Network Manager
      • Collect networking inventory
  • REST API
    • Token manager supports for web sockets
    • Added querying for cockpit support
    • Added support for Bulk queries
    • Added support for UI notification drawer
    • API entrypoint returns details about the appliance via server_info
    • Blueprint updates now supports removal of the Service Catalog or Service Dialog from a Blueprint
  • Service Broker: Service UI (name change from Self Service UI)
    • Renamed due to expanding number of use cases
    • Adding in Arbitration Rules UI
  • User Interface
    • Added mandatory Subscription field to Microsoft Azure Discovery screen
    • Added Notifications Drawer and Toast Notifications List
    • Added support for vSphere Distributed Switches
    • Added support to show child/parent relations of Orchestration Stacks
    • Added Middleware Messaging entities to topology chart
  • Automate: Description for Datastore Reset action now includes list of target domains
  • Performance
    • Page rendering
      • Compute -> Infrastructure -> Virtual Machines: 9% faster, 32% fewer rows tested on 3k active vms and 3k archived vms
      • Services -> My Services: 60% faster, 98% fewer queries, 32% fewer db rows returned
    • Ownershipmixin
      • Filtering now done in SQL
      • 99.5% faster (93.8s -> 0.5s) testing
        • VMs / All VMs / VMs I Own
        • VMs / All VMs / VMs in My LDAP Group
  • User Interface: Dynatree replaced with bootstrap-treeview

Unreleased - as of Sprint 45 end 2016-08-22

  • Automate
    • Enhanced messaging for provisioning: Displayed elements
      • ManageIQ Server name
      • Name of VM/Service being provisioned
      • Current Automate state machine step
      • Status message
      • Provision Task Message
      • Retry count (when applicable)
    • New method taggable? to programmatically determine if a Service Model class or instance is taggable.
    • Generic Objects: Model updates
      • Associations
      • Tagging
      • Service Methods: add_to_service / remove_from_service
    • Git Automate support
      • Branch/Tag support
      • Contents are locked and can be copied to other domains for editing
      • Editable properties
        • Enabled/Disabled
        • Priority
        • Removal of Domain
      • Dedicated Server Role to store the repository
  • Platform
    • PostgreSQL High Availability
      • Primary/Standby DB config in Appliance Console
      • Database-only appliance config in Appliance Console
      • Failover Monitor
    • Tenancy
      • Groundwork in preparation for supporting multiple entitlements
      • ApplicationHelper#role_allows and User#role_allows? combined and moved to RBAC
      • Post refresh hook to queue mapping of Cloud Tenants
    • Database maintenance scripts added to appliance
  • Providers
    • Containers: Models for container deployments
    • Google Compute Engine
      • Preemptible Instances
      • Retirement support
    • Hawkular
      • Alerts
        • Link miq alerts and hawkular events on the provider
        • Convert ManageIQ alerts/profiles to hawkular group triggers/members of group triggers
        • Sync the provider when ManageIQ alerts and alert profiles are created/updated
    • Added entities: Domains and Server Groups including their visualization in topology
    • Datasource entity now has deletion operation
    • Support more event types for datasource and deployment
    • Cross linking to VMs added to topology
    • Microsoft Azure: Added memory and disk utilization metrics
    • OpenStack
      • Host Aggregates
      • Region Support
    • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Snapshot support
    • VMware vSphere: Storage profiles
  • REST API
    • Support for compressed ids in inbound requests
    • CRUD support for Arbitration Rules
  • Service Broker
    • Service Designer: Blueprint API is 90% done, edit and publish are still in development
    • Arbitration Profiles
      • Collection of pre-defined settings
      • Work in conjunction with the Arbitration Engine
    • Rules Engine: API completed
  • SmartState: Deployed new MiqDiskCache module for use with Microsoft Azure
    • Scan time reduced from >20 minutes to <5 minutes
    • Microsoft Azure backed read requests reduced from >7000 requests to <1000
  • User Interface
    • I18n support for UI plugins
    • Arbitration Profiles management for Service Broker
    • Re-check Authentication button added to Provider list views
    • Provisioning button added to the Templates & Images list and summary screens
    • Subtype option added to Generic Catalog Items
    • About modal added to OPS UI
  • Performance: Page rendering performance
    • Services -> Workloads -> All VMs page load time reduced from 93,770ms to 524ms (99%) with a test of 20,000 VMs
  • Platform
    • Upgrade ruby 2.2.5 to 2.3.1
    • Configure Rails web server - Puma or Thin
      • Puma is still the default
      • Planning on adding additional servers

Notable fixes include:

  • Microsoft Azure: Fix proxy for template lookups
  • VMware vSphere: Block duplicate events
  • REST API
    • Hide internal Tenant Groups from /api/groups
    • Raise 403 Forbidden for deleting read-only groups
    • API Request logging

Unreleased - as of Sprint 44 end 2016-08-1

  • Automate
    • Simulation: RBAC filtering applied to Object Attributes
    • Service Provisioning: Exposed number_of_vms when building the provision request for a service
    • Service Dialogs: Support for “visible” flag for dynamic fields
    • Expose Compliance and ComplianceDetail models
    • New associations on VmOrTemplate and Host models:
      • expose :compliances
      • expose :last_compliance
    • New Service Models
      • Compliance: expose :compliance_details
      • ComplianceDetail: expose :compliance, expose :miq_policy
    • Generic Object: Service models created for GenericObject and GenericObjectDefinition
  • Platform
    • PostgreSQL High Availability
      • Added repmgr to support automatic failover
      • Maintain list of active standby database servers
      • Added pg-dsn_parser for converting DSN to a hash
    • Tenancy: Added parent_id to CloudTenant as prerequisite for mapping OpenStack tenants to ManageIQ tenants
    • Watermark reports updated to be based on max of daily max value instead of max of average value
    • Nice values added to worker processes
  • Providers
  • Google Compute Engine: Metrics
  • Hawkular
    • Operations: Add Deployment, Start/stop deployment
    • Performance reports for datasources
    • Collect more metrics for datasource
  • Kubernetes: Cross-linking with OpenStack instances
  • Microsoft Azure: Support floating IPs during provisioning
  • Nuage: Inventory of Managed Cloud Subnets
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: v4 API
  • VMware vSphere: Storage Profiles modeling and inventory
  • VMware vCloud: Initial PRs for modeling and inventory
  • REST API
    • Support for arbitrary resource paths
    • Work started on ManageIQ API Client
    • Support for Arbitration Profiles
    • Support for Cloud Networks queries
    • Support for Arbitration Settings
    • Updated /api/users to support edits of user settings
  • User Interface
    • Both UIs updated to latest PatternFly and Angular PatternFly
    • Self Service UI language selections separated from Operations UI
    • Internationalization
      • Virtual Columns
      • Toolbars
      • Removed string interpolation (for better localization)
      • Changed to use gettext’s pluralization
    • Ansible Tower Jobs moved to the Configuration tab (from Clouds/Stacks)
    • Interactivity added to C3 charts on C&U screens
  • Automate
    • Simulation: Updated defaults
      • Entry-point: /System/Process/Request (Previous value of “Automation”)
      • Execute Method: Enabled
    • Infrastructure Provision: Updated memory values for VM provisioning dialogs to 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 32 GB
  • Performance: Reduced the time and memory required to schedule Capacity and Utilization data collection.
  • Platform: Expression refactoring and cleanup with relative dates and times
  • Providers: Hawkular
    • Upgrade of Hawkular gem to 2.3.0
    • Skip unreachable middleware providers when reporting
    • Add re-checking authentication status functionality/button
  • User Interface
    • Converted to TreeBuilder - Snapshot, Policy, Policy RSOP, C&U Build Datastores and Clusters/Hosts, Automate Results
    • CodeMirror version updated (used for text/yaml editors)
  • Platform
    • Removed rubyrep
    • Removed hourly checking of log growth and rotation if > 1gb
  • User Interface: Explorer Presenter RJS removal

Unreleased - as of Sprint 43 end 2016-07-11

  • Automate
    • Service resolution based on Provision Order
    • Added /System/Process/MiqEvent instance
    • Added Provider refresh call to Amazon retire state machine in Pre-Retirement state
    • Service Dialogs: Added ‘Visible’ flag to all dialog fields
    • Class Schema allows for EMS, Host, Policy, Provision, Request, Server, Storage, and VM(or Template) datatypes
      • Value is id of the objects
      • If object is not found, the attribute is not defined.
    • Null Coalescing Operator
      • Multiple String values separated by “||”
      • Evaluated on new attribute data type “Null Coalescing”
      • Order dependent, left to right evaluation
      • First non-blank value is used
      • Skip and warn about missing objects
  • Platform: Custom attributes support in reporting and expressions
    • Selectable as a column
    • Usable in report filters and charts
  • Providers
    • Amazon: Public Images Filter
    • Networking
      • Separate Google Network Manager
      • NFV: VNFD Templates and VNF Stacks
    • Hawkular
      • Deployment entity operations: Undeploy, redeploy
      • Server operations: Reload, suspend, resume
      • Live metrics for datasources and transactions
      • Performance reports for middleware servers
      • Support for alert profiles and alert automated expressions for middleware server
      • Crosslink middleware servers with RHEV VMs
      • Collect and display deployment status
      • Datasources topology view
  • REST API
    • Support for report schedules
    • Support for approving or denying service requests
    • Support for OpenShift Container Deployments
    • Support for Virtual Templates
  • Service Broker
    • Started work on Service Broker to allow ManageIQ to select VM for you based on criteria (cloud, cost, or performance)
    • Added API backend for Resourceless Servers
    • Added datastore for the default settings for resourceless servers
  • SmartState: Generalized disk LRU caching module
    • Caching module can be used by any disk module, eliminating duplication.
    • Can be inserted “higher” in the IO path.
    • Configurable caching parameters (memory vs performance)
    • Will be employed to address Azure performance and throttling issues.
    • Other disk modules converted over time.
  • User Interface
    • Settings moved to top right navigation header
    • C3 Charts fully implemented - chart interaction coming soon!
    • Tagging for Ansible Tower job templates
    • Live Search added to bootstrap selects
    • Self Service UI Order History with detail
  • Automate: Generic Object: Model refactoring/cleanup, use PostgreSQL jsonb column
  • Performance
    • Capacity and Utlization improvements included reduced number of SQL queries and number of objects
    • Improved tag processing for Alert Profiles
    • UI Performance: specific pages targeted resulted in up to 98% reduction in rendering for those pages
  • Platform: PostgreSQL upgraded to 9.5 needed for HA feature
  • Providers:
    • Pluggability: Began extraction of Amazon Provider into separate repository
    • Hawkular
      • Upgraded to hawkular gem version 2.2.1
      • Refactor infrastructure for easier configuration
    • Ansible: Automate method updated to pass JobTemplate “Extra Variables” defined in the Provision Task
  • User Interface
    • Default Filters tree converted to TreeBuilder - more on the way
    • Cloud Key Pair form converted to AngularJS (Dana - UX team)
    • Toolbars:Cleaned up partials, YAML -> classes
    • Provider Forms: Credentials Validation improvements

Unreleased - as of Sprint 42 end 2016-06-20

  • Providers
    • Ansible Tower
      • Collect Job parameters during Provider Refresh
      • Log Ansible Tower Job output when deployment fails
    • Containers: Limit number of concurrent SmartState Analyses
    • OpenStack
      • Cleanup of Nova services after scale down
      • Prevent retired instances from starting
    • Hawkular
      • Added missing fields in UI to improve user experience
      • Middleware as top level menu item
      • Default view for Middleware is datasource
  • Platform: Appliance Console
    • Limited menu when running inside a container
    • Removed menu items that are not applicable when running inside a container
  • Automate
    • Engine: Allow arguments in method calls during substitution
    • Policy: Built-in policy to prevent retired VM from starting on a resume power operation
    • Service Model: Expose provision_priority value
    • Retirement: Restored retirement logic to verify that VM was provisioned or contains Lifecycle tag before processing
    • Added lifecycle tag as a default tag
  • Providers: Pluggability
    • Ask, Don't Assume
      • Remove provider specific constants
      • Ask whether provider supports VM architecture instead of assuming support by provider type
  • Platform
    • Performance: Lazy load message catalogs for faster startup and reduced memory
    • Replication: Added "deprecated" in replication worker screen (Rubyrep replication will be removed in Euwe release)
    • Testing: Support for running tests in parallel
  • REST API
    • Documentation version is 2.2 for Darga
    • Updated /api entrypoint so collection list is sorted

Notable fixes include:

  • Providers
    • Hawkular: Fixes for LiveMetrics
    • VMware: Fix for adding multiple disks

Unreleased - as of Sprint 41 end 2016-05-30

  • REST API: API CLI moved to tools/rest_api.rb
  • Providers: Hawkular
    • Test additions for topology
    • Optimization and enhancement of event fetching
  • REST API: gems/cfme_client removed

Unreleased - as of Sprint 40 end 2016-05-09

  • REST API
    • Post Darga versioning updated to v2.3.0-pre
    • Added GET role identifiers
  • Platform
    • Tenancy: Splitting MiqGroup, Part 2
      • Filters moved to to Entitlement model
      • Enabler for sharing entitlements
    • MiqExpression Refactoring

Darga

Added

Automate

  • Ansible Tower added as Configuration Management Provider

    • Modeling for AnsibleTowerJob
    • Support for launching JobTemplates with a limit. (Target specific system)
    • Modeling for Provider, Configuration Manager, and Configured Systems
    • Provider connection logic
    • Support refresh of Configured Systems
    • wait_for_ip method added to state-machine
    • ansible_tower_client gem
      • Credential validation
      • Supported resources: Hosts, JobTemplates, Adhoc commands
    • Support for generating Service Dialogs from Ansible Tower JobTemplate
    • Support for setting Ansible Tower JobTemplate variables through dialog options and automate methods
  • Switchboard events for OpenStack

    • New Events: compute.instance.reboot.end, compute.instance.reset.end, compute.instance.snapshot.start
    • Policy Event updates: compute.instance.snapshot.end, compute.instance.suspend
  • Service Model

    • Added “networks” relationship to Hardware model
    • Support where method, find_by, and find_by!
    • Azure VM retirement modeling added
    • Storage: Added storage_clusters association
    • Openstack::NetworkManager::Network
      • cloud_subnets
      • network_routers
      • public_networks
    • Openstack Event compute.instance.power_on.end: added Policy event for vm_start
  • Services

    • Added instances/methods to generate emails for consolidated quota (Denied, Pending, Warning)
    • Enhanced Dialogs validation at build time to check tabs, and boxes in addition to fields.
  • Modeling changes

    • quota_source_type moved into instance
    • Added Auto-Approval/Email to VM Reconfigure
    • Default Retirement state-machine behavior changed to retain record (historical data)
    • Enhance state-machine fields to support methods
  • New model for Generic Object

  • New service model Account

  • SSUI: Support dialogs with dynamic fields

  • Simulate UI support for state machine retries

  • New script to rebuild provision requests

    • Reconstructs the parameters of an existing provision request so that request can be resubmitted through a REST API or Automate call.

Platform (Appliance)

  • Chargeback
    • Able to assign rates to tenants
    • Can generate reports by tenant
    • Currencies added to rates
    • Rate tiers
  • Authentication
    • Appliance Console External Auth updated to also work with 6.x IPA Servers
    • SAML Authentication (verified with KeyCloak 1.8)
    • External Authentication with IPA: Added support for top level domains needed in test environments
  • Configuration Revamp
    • Relies heavily on the config gem
    • New classes Settings and Vmdb::Settings
    • VMDB::Config is deprecated
    • config/*.tmpl.yml -> config/settings.yml
    • Locally override with config/settings.local.yml or config/settings/development.local.yml
  • Replication (pglogical)
    • Replacement of rubyrep with pglogical
    • New MiqPglogical class: provides generic functionality for remote and global regions
    • New PglogicalSubscription model: Provides global region functionality as an ActiveRecord model
    • Global and Remote regions instead of Master and subordinate
    • Replication enabled on remote regions
    • Remote regions subscribed to on Global Region
    • Replication Database Schema
      • Column order is important for pglogical
      • Regional and Global DBs MUST have identical schemas
      • Migrations must have timestamp later than the last migration of previous version for correct column order
      • Specs added to validate schema
      • See New Schema Specs for New Replication
    • Schema consistency checking - during configuration and before subscription is enabled
    • Tool to fix column order mismatches
  • Appliance Console
    • Ability to reset database
    • Ability to create region in external database
    • Added alias 'ap' as shortcut for appliance_console
    • Updates for external authentication settings
  • Shopping cart model for ordering services
  • Consumption_administrator role with chargeback/reporting duties
  • Expresions: refactor SQL for all operators now build with Arel

Providers

  • New provider types
    • Middleware
    • Networking
  • Amazon as a pluggable provider: almost completed
  • Containers
    • Reports
    • Linking registries with services
    • Bug fixes and UI updates
    • Network Trends, Heat Maps, Donuts
    • Chargeback
    • SmartState extended with OpenSCAP support
    • Policies
    • Cloud Cross Linking
    • Pod Network Metrics
    • Persistent Volume Claims
    • Seed for policies, policy sets, policy contents and conditions
    • Auto-tagging from kubernetes labels (backend only)
    • MiqAction to annotate container images as non-secure at
    • Multiple endpoint support OpenShift
  • Google Compute Engine
    • Inventory
    • Power Operations
    • Provisioning
    • Events
    • Better OS identification for VMs
    • Allow custom flavors
  • Hawkular
    • First Middleware provider
    • Inventory and topology
    • Event Catcher and power operations to reload and stop Middleware servers
    • Capacity and Utilization collected live on demand without need for Cap and U workers
    • Links to provider and entity in event popups on Timelines
      • Ability to configure default views
      • New Datasource entity (UI and Backend only)
  • Microsoft Azure
    • Http proxy support
    • Provisioning
    • Subscriptions and Events
    • Rely on resource location, metrics
  • Microsoft SCVMM
    • Inventory Performance improvements
    • Ability to delete VMs
  • VMware
    • Read-only datastores
    • Clustered datastores
    • Add/remove disk methods for reconfigure
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Targeted refresh process
  • Red Hat OpenStack
    • Instance Evacuation
    • Better neutron modeling
    • Ceilometer events
    • cleanup SSL support
    • VM operations
    • Memory metrics
    • Image details
    • API over SSL
    • Integration feaures
      • Backend support for Live VM Migration
      • Backend support for VM resize
      • Support for Cinder and Glance v2
    • Enable / Disable cloud services
    • Make Keystone V3 Domain ID Configurable
    • File upload for SSH keypair
    • Add volumes during provisioning
    • Evacuating instances
  • Continued work on Multi-endpoint modeling
  • Generic Targeted refresh process

Provisioning

  • New providers able to be provisioned
    • Google Compute Engine
    • Microsoft Azure
  • Services Back End
    • Service Order (Cart) created for each Service Request based on current user and tenant.
  • VMware
    • Clustered Datastores in Provisioning
    • Distributed Switches referenced from database during provisioning workflow
  • Google Compute Engine: Added Google Auto-Placement methods

REST API

  • Enhanced filtering to use MiqExpression
  • Enhanced API to include Role identifiers for collections and augmented the authorization hash in the entrypoint to include that correlation
  • Added support for Service Reconfigure action
  • Added new service orders collection and CRUD operations
  • Actions for instances: stop, start, pause, suspend, shelve, reset, reboot guest
  • Actions provided to approve or deny provision requests
  • Ability to delete one’s own authenticated token
  • Added primary collection for Instances.
  • Added terminate action for instances.
  • Ability to filter string equality/inequality on virtual attributes.
  • For SSUI, ability to retrieve user’s default language and support for Dynamic Dialogs.
  • Support for Case insensitive sorting
  • Adding new VM actions
  • Authentication: Option to not extend a token’s TTL
  • CRUD for Tenant quotas
  • Support for /api/settings
  • Added support for Shopping Carts
  • Automation Requests approve and deny actions

SmartState

  • Microsoft SCVMM: new
    • Virtual hard disks residing on Hyper-V servers
    • VHD, and newer VHDX disk formats
    • Snapshotted disks
    • Same filesystems as other providers
    • Support for network-mounted HyperV virtual disks and performance improvements (HyperDisk caching)
  • Microsoft Azure: new
    • Azure-armrest: added offset/length blob read support.
    • Added AzureBlobDisk module for MiqDisk.
    • Implemented MiqAzureVm subclass of MiqVm.
  • Testing: Added TestEnvHelper class for gems/pending.
  • LVM thin volume support

Tenancy

  • Splitting MiqGroup
  • New model created for entitlements
  • Sharing entitlements across tenants will provide more flexibility for defining groups in LDAP
  • Added scoping strategy for provision request
  • Added ability to report on tenants and tenant quotas

User Interface

  • VM: Devices and Network Adapters
  • Cloud: Key Pairs, Object Stores, Objects, Object Summary
  • Bootstrap switches
  • C3 Charts (jqPlot replacement)
  • SSUI
    • RBAC Control of Menus and Features
    • Reconfiguring a Service
    • Set Ownership of a Service
    • I18n support added to the Self Service UI
    • Self Service UI group switcher
    • Support for Custom Buttons that use Dialogs
    • Navigation bar restyled to match Operations UI
    • HTML5 Console support for Service VMs (using new console-proxy implementation)
    • Shopping Cart
  • Add Ansible Tower providers
  • Containers
    • Persistent volumes, topology context menus
    • Dashboard network trends
    • Container environment variables table
    • Search functionality for Container topology
    • Dashboard no data cards
    • Refresh option in Configuration dropdown
    • Container Builds tab, Chargeback
  • I18n
    • Marked translated strings directly in UI
    • Gettext support
    • I18n for toolbars
  • Topology Status Colors
  • Vertical navigation menus
  • VM Reconfigure - add/remove disks
  • Orderable Orchestration Templates - create and copy
  • Explorer for Datastore Clusters for VMware vSphere 5+
  • Template/Image compliance policy checking (previously only allowed for VMs/Instances)
  • New UI for replication configuration
  • OpenStack - Cloud Volumes Add/Delete/Update/Attach/Detach
  • Ansible Inventories/Configured Systems
  • Support for Ansible Tower Jobs
  • Support to add Service Dialog for a Job Template & display Surveys on summary screen
  • Support added for Evacuate Openstack VMs

Removed

  • Providers: Removed Amazon SDK v1

Notable Fixes and Changes

  • Tag management cleanup
    • Tags are removed from managed filters for all groups after deletion
    • Update of managed filters after tag rename (in progress)
  • SmartState Analysis
    • LVM thin volume - fatal error: No longer fatal, but not supported. Thin volume support planned.
    • LVM logical volume names containing “-”: LV name to device file mapping now properly accounts for “-”
    • EXT4 - 64bit group descriptor: Variable group descriptor size correctly determined.
    • Collect services that are symlinked
  • Automate
    • Retirement state-machine updates for SCVMM
    • Enhanced .missing method support
      • Save original method name in _missing_instance property
      • Accessible during instance resolution and within methods
  • Self Service UI extracted into its own repository setting up pattern for other independent UIs
    • Initializers can now load ApplicationController w/o querying DB
    • 10-20% performance improvement in vm explorer
  • User Interface
    • Converted toolbar images to font icons
    • Enabled font icon support in list views
    • Implemented Bootstrap switch to replace checkboxes
    • SVG replacement of PNGs
    • SlickGrid replaced with Patternfly TreeGrid
    • Patternfly style updates to the Dashboard and other areas
    • Updates to support multiple provider endpoints
    • Moved Services to top level Menus
  • Logo image on top left links to user's start page
  • VM Provisoning: Disabled Auto-Placement logic for create_provision_request and Rest API calls
  • Performance
    • Support for sorting Virtual Columns in the database
    • Service Tree improvement
    • RBAC: Ongoing effort to reduce the number SQL queries and quantity of data being transferred
    • Metrics Rollups bug fix
    • Performance capture failure on cloud platforms caused by orphan VMs
    • Reduction in base size of workers
    • Reduction in memory used by EmsRefresh
  • Platform
    • Updated to Rails 5 (using Rails master branch until stable branch is cut)
    • Appliance OS updated to CentOS 7.2 build 1511
    • oVirt-metrics gem fixed for Rails 5
    • Log Collection behavior updated
      • Zone depot used if requested on zone and defined. Else, collection disabled
      • Appliance depot used if requested on appliance and defined. Else, collection disabled
    • DB seeding no longer silently catches exceptions
    • Workers forked from main server process instead of spawned
    • Updated to newer ansible_tower_client gem
      • Accessors for Host#groups and #inventory_id
      • Allow passing extra_vars to Job Template launch
      • Added JSON validation for extra_vars
  • Providers
    • Memory issues during inventory collection
    • Validating endpoints should not save data

Capablanca Release

Added Features

Providers

  • Kubernetes
    • RHEV Integration
    • Events
    • Topology Widget
    • VMware integration
    • Inventory: Replicators, Routes, Projects
    • SmartState Analysis
  • Containers
    • Resource Quotas
    • Component Status
    • Introduction of Atomic
  • Namespacing
  • Preparation for pluggable providers
  • OpenStack, Containers
  • Amazon: Added M4 and t2.large instance types
  • OpenStack
    • Improved naming for AMQP binding queues
    • Shelve VMs
    • Neutron Networking
  • Foreman: Exposed additional properties to reporting
  • Azure
    • Initial work for Inventory Collection, OAuth2, azure-armrest gem
    • Azure Provider models
    • Power Operations
  • RHEVM: Reconfigure of Memory and CPU
  • Orchestration: Reconfiguration
  • Reporting on Providers
    • Ability to report on Performance
    • Host Socket and Total VMs metrics
    • Watermark reports available out-of-the-box
  • Google Compute Engine
    • New Provider
    • Ability to validate authentication

Provisioning

  • Filter Service Catalog Items during deployment
  • OpenStack Shared Networks
    • Identified during inventory refresh
    • Available in the Cloud Network drop-down in Provisioning across all OpenStack Tenants
  • Enabled SCVMM Auto placement
  • Provision Dialogs: field validation for non-required fields
  • Service Dialogs: Auto-refresh for dynamic dialog fields
  • Foreman: Filtering of available Configuration Profiles based on selected Configured Systems in provisioning dialog

User Interface

  • Charting by field values
  • Cloud Provider editor
    • Converted to Angular
    • Uses RESTful routes
  • Orchestration: Stacks Retirement added
  • Retirement screens converted to Angular
  • DHTMLX menus replaced with Bootstrap/Patternfly menus
  • Host editor converted to Angular
  • Added donut charts
  • Tenancy Roles for RBAC
  • Self Service UI is enabled and included in build
  • Updated file upload screens

Event Switchboard

  • Initiate event processing through Automate
  • Users can add automate handlers to customize event processing
  • Centralized event mappings
  • Moves provider event mappings from appliance file (config/event_handling.tmpl.yml) into the automate model
  • Organization of Events through automate namespaces
  • Event handling changes without appliance restarts
  • Notes:
    • New events must be added to automate model
    • Built-in event handlers added for performance
    • Requires update of the ManageIQ automate domain

Tenancy

  • Model
    • new Tenant model associations
    • Automate domains
    • Service Catalogs
    • Catalog Items
    • Assign default groups to tenants
    • Assign groups to all VMs and Services
    • Assign existing records to root tenant Provider, Automate Domain, Group, TenantQuota, Vm
    • Expose VM/Templates association on Tenant model
  • New Automate Service Models
    • Tenant
    • TenantQuota
  • UI
    • RBAC and Roles - Access Roles features exposed
    • New roles created for RBAC
    • Quota Management
  • Associate Tenant to Requests and Services
  • Update of VM tenant when owning group changes
  • Tagging support
  • Automate Tenant Quotas
    • Customizable Automate State Machine for validating quotas for Service, Infrastructure, and Cloud
    • Default Setting based on Tenant Quota Model
    • Can be enforced per tenant and subtenants in the UI
    • Selection of multiple constraints (cpu, memory, storage)
    • Limits are enforced during provisioning

Control

  • New Events available for use with Policy
    • Host Start Request
    • Host Stop Request
    • Host Shutdown Request
    • Host Reset Request
    • Host Reboot Request
    • Host Standby Request
    • Host Maintenance Enter Request
    • Host Maintenance Exit Request
    • Host Vmotion Enable Request
    • Host Vmotion Disable Request

REST API

  • Querying Service Template images
  • Querying Resource Actions as a formal sub-collection of service_templates
  • Querying Service Dialogs
  • Querying Provision Dialogs
  • Ability to import reports
  • Roles CRUD
  • Product features collection
  • Chargeback Rates CRUD
  • Reports run action
  • Report results collection
  • Access to image_hrefs for Services and Service Templates
  • Support for custom action buttons and dialogs
  • Categories and tags CRUD
  • Support password updates
  • Enhancements for Self-Service UI
  • Enhancements for Tenancy

Automate

  • Automate Server Role enabled by default
  • Configurable Automate Worker added
  • State Machine
    • Multiple state machine support
    • Allow for a state to be skipped (on_entry)
    • Allow for continuation of a state machine in case of errors (on_error)
    • Allow methods to set the next state to execute
    • Added support for state machine restart
  • Identify Visible/Editable/Enabled Automate domains for tenants
  • Set automate domain priority (scoped per tenant)
  • Service model updates
  • Import/export updates to honor tenant domains

SmartState

  • Support for VMware VDDK version 6
  • Storage: Added FCP, iSCSI, GlusterFS

Security

  • Authentication
    • External Auth to AD web ui login & SSO - Manual configuration
    • External Auth to LDAP - Manual configuration
  • Supporting Additional External Authentications
    • Appliance tested with 2-Factor Authentication with FreeIPA >= 4.1.0

Appliance

  • PostgreSQL 9.4.1
  • CentOS 7.1
  • Apache 2.4
  • jQuery 1.9.1
  • STIG compliant file systems
  • Changed file system from ext4 to xfs
  • Added support for systemctl
  • Support for running on Puma, but default is Thin
  • Reworked report serialization for Rails 4.2
  • Replication: Added Diagnostics
  • Appliance Console
  • Standard login: type root (not admin)
  • Standard bash: type appliance_console
  • GitHub Repository
  • vmdb rerooted to look like a Rails app
  • lib moved into gems/pending
  • Build and system directories extracted to new repositories
  • Extracted C code to external gems
  • MiqLargeFileLinux => large_file_linux gem
  • MiqBlockDevOps => linux_block_device and memory_buffer gems
  • MiqMemory => memory_buffer gem
  • SlpLib => slp gem
  • Gem updates
    • Upgraded rufus scheduler to version 3
    • Upgraded to latest net-sftp
    • Upgraded to latest net-ssh
    • Upgraded to latest ruby-progressbar
    • Upgraded to latest snmp
    • LinuxAdmin updated to 0.11.1

Removed

  • Core: SOAP server side has been removed

Notable Fixes and Changes

  • RHEVM SmartState Analysis issues.
    • Fix for RHEV 3.5 - ovf file no longer on NFS share.
    • Fix for NFS permission problem - uid changed when opening files on share.
    • Fix for environments with both, NFS and LUN based storage.
    • Timeout honored.
  • SmartState Refactoring
    • Refactored the middle layer of the SmartState Analysis stack.
    • Common code no longer based on VmOrTemplate models.
    • Facilitate the implementation of SmartState for things that are not like VMs.
    • Enabler for Container SmartState
  • Appliance: Cloud-init reported issues have been addressed.
  • Automate: VMware snapshot from automate fixed - memory parameter added
  • REST API Source refactoring: app/helpers/api_helper/ → app/controllers/api_controller
  • Replication: Added heartbeating to child worker process for resiliency
  • Providers
  • Moved provider event filters into the database (blacklisted events)
  • SCVMM Inventory Performance Improvement
  • Fixed caching for OpenStack Event Monitors
  • OpenStack
    • Generic Pagination
    • Better Neutron support
    • Deleting unused RabbitMIQ queues
  • Provisioning: Fixed unique names for provisioned VMs when ordered through a service
  • UI
    • Technical Debt Progress
      • Remaining TreePresenter/ExplorerPresenter conversions in progress
      • Switched from Patternfly LESS to SASS
      • Replaced DHTMLXCombo controls
      • Replaced DHTMLXCalendar controls
    • Patternfly styling
    • Schedule Editor updated to use Angular and RESTful routes
    • Increased chart responsiveness
    • Fixes for Japanese I18n support
    • Fixed alignment of Foreman explorer RBAC features with the UI
  • Chargeback: selectable units for Chargeback Rates

Botvinnik Release

Added Features

Providers

  • General
    • Added refresh status and errors, viewable on Provider Summary Page.
    • Added collection of raw power state and exposed to reporting.
    • Orchestration: Support for Retirement
    • Update authentication status when clicking validate for existing Providers.
    • Hosts and Providers now default to use the hostname column for communication instead of IP address.
  • SCVMM
    • Provisioning from template, Kerberos Authentication
    • Virtual DVD drives for templates
  • Kubernetes
    • UI updates including Refresh button
    • Inventory Collection
    • EMS Refresh scheduling
  • Foreman
    • Provider refresh
    • Enabled Reporting / Tagging
    • Exposed Foreman models as Automate service models
    • Zone enablement
    • EMS Refresh scheduling
    • Added tag processing during provisioning.
    • Added inventory collection of direct and inherited host/host-group settings.
    • Organization and location inventory
  • Cloud Providers
  • Cloud Images and Instances: Added root device type to summary screens.
  • Cloud Flavors: Added block storage restriction to summary screens.
  • Enabled Reporting.
  • OpenStack
    • Inventory for Heat Stacks (Cloud and Infrastructure)
    • Connect Cloud provider to Infrastructure provider
    • OpenStack Infrastructure Host Events
    • Autoscale compute nodes via Automate
    • Support for non-admin users to EMS Refresh
    • Tenant relationships added to summary screens
    • OpenStack Infrastructure Event processing
    • Handling of power states: paused, rebooting, waiting to launch
    • UI OpenStack Terminology: Clusters vs Deployment Roles, Hosts vs Nodes
  • Amazon
    • AWS Region EU Frankfurt
    • Inventory collection for AWS CloudFormation
    • Parsing of parameters from orchestration templates
    • Amazon Events via AWS Config service
    • Event-based policies for AWS
    • Added a backend attribute to identify public images.
    • Added C4, D2, and G2 instance types.
    • Virtualization type collected during EMS refresh for better filtering of available types during provisioning.
    • Handling of power states
  • Orchestration
  • Orchestration Stacks include tagging
  • Cloud Stacks: Summary and list views.
  • Orchestration templates
    • Create, edit, delete, tagging, 'draft' support
    • Create Service Dialog from template contents
  • Enabled Reporting / Tagging.
  • Improved rollback error message in UI.
  • Collect Stack Resource name and status reason message.

Provisioning

  • Heat Orchestration provisioning through services
  • Foreman
    • Provisioning of bare metal systems
    • Uses latest Foreman Apipie gem
  • Allow removing keys from :clone_options by setting value to nil
  • OpenStack: Added tenant filtering on security groups, floating IPs, and networks.
  • Amazon: Filter of flavors based on root device type and block storage restrictions.

User Interface

  • Bootstrap/Patternfly
    • Updates to form buttons with Patternfly
    • Login screen converted to Bootstrap / Patternfly
    • Header, navigation, and outer layouts converted to Bootstrap / Patternfly
    • Advanced search converted to Bootstrap / Patternfly
  • AngularJS
    • Repository Editor using AngularJS
    • Schedule editor converted to AngularJS
  • I18N
    • HAML and I18n strings 100% completed in views
    • Multi-character set language support
    • Can now set the locale for both server and user
  • HTML5 Console for RHEVM, VMware, and OpenStack
  • Menu plugins for external sites
  • Charting updates: jqPlot, default charts, chart styling, donut chart support
  • UI Customizations with Less
  • Dashboard tabs updated
  • Replaced many legacy Prototype calls with jQuery equivalents
  • Tagging support and toolbars on list views

REST API

  • Total parity with SOAP API. SOAP API is now deprecated and will be removed in an upcoming release.
  • Foundational
    • Virtual attribute support
    • Id/Href separation- Enhancement to /api/providers to support new provider class
  • Providers CRUD
  • Refresh via /api/providers
  • Tag Collection /api/tags
  • Tag Management (assign and unassign to/from resources)
  • Policy Management: Query policy and policy profiles conditions
  • VM Management
    • Custom Attributes
    • Add LifeCycle Events
    • Start, stop, suspend, delete.
  • Accounts sub-collection /api/vms/#/accounts
  • Software sub-collection /api/vms/#/software
  • Support for external authentication (httpd) against an IPA server.

Automate

  • Enhanced UI import to allow granularity down to the namespace.
  • Cloud Objects exposed to Automate.
  • Allow Automate methods to override or extend parameters passed to provider by updating the clone_options during provisioning.
  • New service model for CloudResourceQuota.
  • Exposed relationships through EmsCloud and CloudTenant models.
  • Exposed cloud relationships in automate service models.
  • Persist state data through automate state machine retries.
  • Moved auto-placement into an Automate state-machine step for Cloud and Infrastructure provisioning.
  • Added common "Finished" step to all Automate state machine classes.
  • Added eligible_* and set_* methods for cloud resources to provision task service model.
  • Ability to specify zone for web service automation request
  • Ability to override request message
  • Updated provisioning/retirement entry point in a catalog item or bundle.
  • Disabled domains now clearly marked in UI.
  • Automate entry point selection reduced to state machine classes.
  • Retirement
    • New workflow
    • Detection of User vs. System initiated retirement

Fleecing

  • Qcow3
  • VSAN (VMware)
  • OpenStack instances
  • Systemd fleecing support
  • XFS filesystem support

I18n

  • All strings in the views have been converted to use gettext (I18n) calls
  • Can add/update I18n files with translations

Service Dialogs

  • Dynamic field support: text boxes, text area boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, date/time control
  • Dynamic list field refactored into standard drop-down field
  • Read only field support
  • Dialog seeding for imports
  • Service provisioning request overrides

IPv6

  • Allow IPv6 literals in VMware communication by upgrading httpclient
  • Allow IPv6 literals in RHEVM/ovirt communication by fixing and upgrading rest-client and ruby 2.0
  • Fixed URI building within ManageIQ to wrap/unwrap IPv6 literals as needed

Security

  • Lock down POODLE attacks.
  • Support SSL for OpenStack
    • Deals with different ways to configure SSL for OpenStack
      • SSL termination at OpenStack services
      • SSL termination at proxy
      • Doesn't always change the service ports
    • Attempts non-SSL first, then fails over to SSL
  • Kerberos ticket based SSO to web UI login.
  • Fix_auth command tool can now update passwords in database.yml
  • Better messaging around overwriting database encryption keys
  • Make memcached listen on loopback address, not all addresses
  • Migrate empty memcache_server_opts to bind on localhost by default

Appliance

  • Rake task to allow a user to replicate all pending backlog before upgrading.
  • Appliance Console: Added ability to copy keys across appliances.
  • Ruby 2.0
    • Appliance now built using Ruby 2.0
    • New commits and pull requests - tested with Ruby 2.0
  • Ability to configure a temp disk for OpenStack fleecing added to the appliance console.
  • Generation of encryption keys added to the appliance console and CLI.
  • Generation of PostgreSQL certificates, leveraging IPA, added to the appliance console CLI.
  • Support for Certmonger/IPA to the appliance certificate authority.
  • Iptables configured via kickstart
  • Replaced authentication_(valid|invalid)? with (has|missing)_credentials?
  • Stop/start apache if user_interface and web_services are inactive/active
  • Rails
    • Moved to Rails 4 finders.
    • Removed patches against the logger classes.
    • Removed assumptions that associations are eagerly loaded.
    • Updated preloader patches against Rails
    • Updated virtual column / reflection code to integrate with Rails
    • Started moving ActiveRecord 2.3 hash based finders to Relation based finders
    • Backports and refactorings on master for Rails 4 support
    • Rails server listen on loopback when running appliance in production mode
    • Bigint id columns
    • Memoist gem replaced deprecated ActiveSupport::Memoizable
  • Upgraded AWS SDK gem
  • Upgraded Fog gem
  • LDAP
    • Allow undefined users to log in when “Get User Groups from LDAP” is disabled
    • Ability to set default group for LDAP Authentication
  • Allow Default Zone description to be changed
  • Lazy require the less-rails gem

Removed

  • SmartProxy:
    • Removed from UI
    • Directory removed
  • IP Address Form Field: Removed from UI (use Hostname)
  • Prototype from UI
  • Support for repository refreshes, since they are not used.
  • Support for Host-only refreshes. Instead, an ESX/ESXi server should be added as a Provider.
  • Rails Fork removal
    • Backport disable_ddl_transaction! from Rails master to our fork
    • Update the main app to use disable_ddl_transaction!
    • Add bigserial support for primary keys to Rails (including table creation and FK column creation)
    • Backport bigserial API to our fork
    • Update application to use new API
  • Old C-Language VixDiskLib binding code
  • Reduced need for Rails fork.
  • Testing: Removed have_same_elements custom matcher in favor of built-in match_array
  • Graphical summary screens
  • VDI support
  • Various monkey patches to prepare for Ruby 2 and Rails 4 upgrades

Notable Fixes and Changes

  • Provisioning
    • Fixed duplicate VM name generation issue during provisioning.
    • Provisioning fix for non-admin OpenStack tenants.
    • Provisioning fix to deal with multiple security groups with the same name.
  • Automate
    • Prevent deletion of locked domains.
    • Corrected ManageIQ/Infrastructure/vm/retirement method retry criteria.
    • Fixed timeout issue with remove_from_disk method on a VM in Automate.
  • Providers
  • server_monitor_poll default setting changed to 5 seconds, resulting in shorter queue times.
  • Fixed issue where deleting an EMS and adding it back would cause refresh failure.
  • EventEx is now disabled by default to help prevent event storms
  • Fixed "High CPU usage" due to continually restarting workers when a provider is unreachable or password is invalid.
  • RHEVM/oVirt:
    • Ignore user login failed events to prevent event flooding.
    • Discovery fixed to eliminate false positives
  • SCVMM: Fixed refresh when Virtual DVD drives are not present.
  • OpenStack - Image pagination issue where all of the images would not be collected. - OpenStack provider will gracefully handle 404 errors. - Fixed issue where a stopped or paused OpenStack instance could not be restarted.
  • Database
    • Fixed seeding of VmdbDatabase timing out with millions of vmdb_metrics rows
    • Database.yml is no longer created after database is configured.
    • Fixed virtual column inheritance creating duplicate entries.
  • Appliance
    • Fixed ftp log collection regression
    • Ruby 2.0
      • Ruby2 trap logging and worker row status
    • Fixed appliance logrotate not actually rotating the logs.
    • Gem upgrades for bugs/enhancements
      • haml
      • net-ldap
      • net-ping
  • Other
  • Workaround for broker hang: Reported as VMware events and capacity and utilization works for a while, then stops.
  • Chargeback
  • Storage C&U collected every 60 minutes.
  • Don't collect cpus/memory available unless you have usage.
  • Clean up of CPU details in UI
  • SMTP domain length updated to match SMTP host length
  • Fleecing: Fixed handling of nil directory entries and empty files
  • Fixed issue where deleting a cluster or host tries to delete all policy_events, thus never completing when there are millions of events.
  • Fixed inheriting tags from resource pool.
  • UI: Fixed RBAC / Feature bugs