Unified Changelog file for Synnefo versions >= 0.13¶

Since v0.13 most of the Synnefo components have been merged into a single repository and have aligned versions.

v0.15.2¶

Released: Tue May 27 13:50:31 EEST 2014

Cyclades¶

Fix minor problem in network stats plugin of collectd
Fix small issue in the ‘stats-cyclades’ command arising when Ganeti cannot communicate with a node.
Check max size of server metadata
Add support for Ganeti 2.10

Cyclades UI¶

Fix oraclelinux icon name

v0.15.1¶

Released: Thu May 15 13:31:37 EEST 2014

Synnefo-wide¶

Documentation: New CentOS installation guide.
Handle Unicode issue in proxy requests.

Astakos¶

Change statistics API to expose statistics for all users and for users per authentication provider (users that are exclusively using a provider).
Fix minor problem in weblogin, which could lead to unexpected exception
Fix Authenticate Identity API call with trailing slash, which used to fail with 405 (Method not allowed)

Cyclades¶

Fix bug in snf-dispatcher that could result in unsynced NICs between Cyclades and Ganeti.
Support queries by IPv6 address in helpdesk app.
Extend statistics API with detailed information about Ganeti clusters, virtual servers and networks, public IPv4 pools and images.
Allow creation of ports with existing floating IPs from networks that are marked as drained.

Cyclades UI¶

Include icons for Oracle Linux OS (oraclelinux)
Include a null gateway IP when creating subnets for private networks to override the default gateway IP of Neutron API.

Pithos¶

Support selectable storage backend
- new settings:
- PITHOS_BACKEND_STORAGE: Possible values are ‘nfs’ and ‘rados’.
- PITHOS_RADOS_CEPH_CONF: The Ceph configuration file.
Remove unused variable PITHOS_RADOS_STORAGE
Add ‘pithos-sync-rados.sh’ shell script in Pithos tools, a Pithos object synchronization tool from NFS to Rados.
Fix missing Content-Disposition header in object response, which caused publicly shared objects to be saved with a meaningless name (without extension)

v0.15¶

Released: Mon Mar 10 14:01:32 EET 2014

Synnefo-wide¶

Integrate Pithos tests in continuous integration.
Change astakosclient to accept AUTH_URL instead of BASE_URL ASTAKOS_BASE_URL settings has been removed from Pithos and Cyclades and has been replaced with ASTAKOS_AUTH_URL. Both Pithos and Cyclades proxy the Astakos services under ASTAKOS_PROXY_PREFIX path. ASTAKOS_PROXY_PREFIX by default has a value of ‘_astakos’. More specifically, Astakos’ identity service is proxied under ‘_astakos/identity’, Astakos’ account service is under ‘_astakos/account’ and Astakos’ ui service is under ‘_astakos/ui’.
Add ‘mail_admins’ handler to ‘django.request’ logger in order to send email notifications to users listed in ‘ADMINS’ setting about unhandled exceptions in the code.
Extend astakosclient to request and validate OAuth 2.0 access tokens
Change response status code from 400 (Bad Request) to 405 (Not allowed method) in case of an unexpected request method.

Astakos¶

Changes in project schema:
- A Project entry is created when submitting an application for a new project, rather than on approval. Its state is dependent on the state of its `reference’ application (current definition). Lock Project rather than Chain (the latter is semantically obsolete).
- Project states “Active - Pending” and “Suspended - Pending” have been removed. In management command `project-list’, the existence of a pending modification is indicated by a non-blank `Pending AppID’.
- Improve recording of project, application, and membership actions.
Implement API calls for projects.
Store the base URL of a component. Deployer should provide it when adding a new component. Service endpoints originating from a component are expected to match its base URL; otherwise, a warning is issued. Re-registration with `snf-component-register’ affects both the base and the ui URL.
Changes in resource and quota handling:
- New resources are registered with unlimited default base quota, represented by 2**63-1.
- Each newly accepted user copies the default value for all resources as their own base quota. A base quota is considered ‘custom’ if its value differs from the default.
- Changing resource’s default quota affects the base quota only of future users.
- Resource definition got flags ‘api_visible’ and ‘ui_visible’, replacing flag ‘allow_in_projects’. They control whether a user can access these resources. The system internally always accounts for all resources, and a user can get off quota even for a resource that is not visible.
Remove API call GET /account/v1.0/authenticate in favor of POST /identity/v2.0/tokens.
Export basic statistics about Astakos service at the ‘/admin/stats/detail’ API endpoint. Access to this endpoint is only allowed to users that belong to the Astakos groups that are defined in the ‘ASTAKOS_ADMIN_STATS_PERMITTED_GROUPS’ setting. Statistics are also available through the ‘snf-manage stats-astakos’ management command.
Implement OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Grant Add API calls for authorization code and access token generation
Add API call for validating OAuth 2.0 access tokens
Shibboleth module Extract unique identifier from the REMOTE_USER header.
Automatically fill third-party signup form fields when available by the the third-party provider.
Management commands:
- Introduced new commands:
  - component-show
  - quota-list (replacing quota, supports various filters)
  - quota-verify (replacing quota)
  - oauth2-client-add (register OAuth 2.0 client)
  - oauth2-client-list (list registered oauth 2.0 clients)
  - oauth2-client-remove (remove OAuth 2.0 client)
- Changed commands:
  - component-add got options –base-url and –ui-url
  - resource-modify –limit became –default-quota
  - user-modify can operate on multiple users with –all and –exclude
  - user-modify –set-base-quota became –base-quota
- Removed commands:
  - quota
  - resource-import (subsumed by service-import)
  - resource-export-astakos (subsumed by service-export-astakos)
Fix request authorization code failures due to Unicode issue: https://code.grnet.gr/issues/4971
Omit validation issues for non-required metadata values received from the third-party authentication provider.

Cyclades¶

Major changes to Cyclades networks:
- Implement ‘cyclades_network’ service, containing the /networks, /ports, /subnets and /floatingips API endpoints under ‘/network/v2.0’. The old /networks API of ‘cyclades_compute’ (under /compute/v2.0) is removed.
- Implement `snf-manage subnet-{create, list, modify, inspect}’ management commands for handling of subnets.
- Implement `snf-manage port-{create, list, remove, inspect}’ management commands for handling of ports.
- Add two new settings, ‘CYCLADES_FORCED_SERVER_NETWORKS’ and ‘CYCLADES_DEFAULT_SERVER_NETWORKS’ to control the networks that newly created servers will be connected.
Implement Floating IP addresses, which are IPv4 addresses that can be dynamically added and removed to a running server.
- Add new ‘cyclades.floating_ip’ resource.
- Implement ‘snf-manage floating-ip-{create,list,remove,attach,detach}’ management commands to handle floating IPs.
- Add ‘floating_ip_pool’ attribute to networks to mark networks that can be used as floating IP pools.
Implement ‘resize’ server action.
- Implement the ‘resize’ server action, to change the flavor of a server. Only ‘cpu’ and ‘memory’ resizing is supported.
Compute quotas for CPU and memory of running VMs.
- Change ‘cyclades.cpu’ and ‘cyclades.ram’ resources to represent the CPU and RAM for running VMs. Total CPU and RAM usage is represented by new ‘cyclades.total_cpu’ and ‘cyclades.total_ram’ resources.
Refer to Ganeti NICs by their name instead of their index.
- Make cyclades give a unique name to each Ganeti NIC. NICs are refered by their unique name and not by their index inside the VM that are connected to.
Support firewall profile for all NICs of an instance. Change firewall settings to be filled with the unique name of the NIC. The affected settings are the GANETI_FIREWALL_{ENABLED, DISABLED, PROTECTED}_TAG settings.
Add accounting for public IP addresses that is accessible via snf-manage ip-list management command and via the helpdesk app.
Implement IPv6 only networks.
Extend servers info API response with ‘SNF:fqdn’ attribute, and introduce CYCLADES_SERVERS_FQDN to set the template for servers FDQN. Remove ‘UI_VM_HOSTNAME_FORMAT’ setting.
Extend servers info API response with ‘SNF:port_forwarding’ attribute, describing port forwarding rules (DNAT) that are applied to vms. The description of such rules is done via the new CYCLADES_PORT_FORWARDING setting.
Speed up server reconciliation, by performing parallel reconciliation for each backend.
Change –dhcp option of network management commands from a flag to a boolean value, e.g. –dhcp=True
Remove ‘ARCHIPELAGO_BACKENDS’ setting used to distinguish between backends that hosted only archipelago backends. Instead allocation is based on which disk-templates are enabled in each backend.
Implement ‘snf-manage server-remove’ management command.
Move reconciliation of IP pools from ‘reconcile-networks’ to ‘reconcile-pools’. The IP pool reconciliation does not reconcile the IP pools with Ganeti. Instead it checks if the pool is consistent with the IPs that are used by instances.
Do not automatically release externally reserved IPs if they are released from a Ganeti backend. Management of externally reserved IPs must be performed from Cyclades with ‘network-modify’ command.
Export basic statistics about Cyclades Service at the ‘/admin/stats/detail’ API endpoint. Access to this endpoint is only allowed to users that belong to the Astakos groups that are defined in the ‘ADMIN_STATS_PERMITTED_GROUPS’ setting. Statistics are also available through the ‘snf-manage stats-cyclades’ management command.
Support enforcing quota through command ‘enforce-resources-cyclades’.
Remove command ‘resource-export-cyclades’ subsumed by ‘service-export-cyclades’.
Obsolete PUBLIC_USE_POOL setting, since Cyclades manages IP pool for all type of networks.
Encrypt / decrypt the instance id / hostname in the stats URL in snf-cyclades-app and snf-stats-app, using the ‘CYCLADES_STATS_SECRET_KEY’ and ‘STATS_SECRET_KEY’ respectively.
Add support for snf-vncauthproxy-1.5 and the setting ‘CYCLADES_VNCAUTHPROXY_OPTS’, which configures the extra options / arguments needed by the newer version of snf-vncauthproxy. Support for older versions of snf-vncauthproxy has been dropped. See also the upgrade notes for Synnefo and snf-vncauthproxy-1.5.
Remove ‘DEFAULT_ROUTING_TABLE’ setting. If a link for an IP_LESS_ROUTED network is not specified, the link will be uniquely named ‘snf-link-$network_id’.
Extend flavors with ‘allow_create’ attribute. Flavors that have this attribute unset cannot be used by users to create new servers.
Store each image property(metadata) as a separate Pithos metadata and check that the size of each property is valid.
Fix a few occurrences of HTTP 500 errors being triggered due to insufficient validation of incoming requests in the Network API
Speed up some API calls by fixing the relevant DB queries

Cyclades UI¶

Retrieve all networks information from the introduced cyclades network service.
New IPs pane from which user can manage floating IPs.
Redesign public keys overlay as an additional pane view.
Split networking configuration into an additional step in machine create wizard.
Display forced networks and choices of the available floating IPs which will be assigned to the created machine.
Support for machine resize action. Explicit handling when machine is started by displaying an utility shutdown button within the resize overlay.
Machine IPs toggling subview in icon/single views.
Replace IPv4/IPv6 with machine’s FQDN in icon/single view. When no FQDN can be resolved display a message. Message can be configured using the introduced UI_NO_FQDN_MESSAGE. Setting UI_VM_HOSTNAME_FORMAT has been removed and no longer used.
Respect SNF:task_state machine attribute in order to improve machine status display.
Append software version as a url parameter in HTML static files in order to force browser cache invalidation between versions.
Configurable Google fonts base url. Fonts base url can be changed usint the SYNNEFO_FONTS_BASE_URL setting.
Regression fix: Display reboot required notification on machine firewall parameters.
Handling of GANETI_USE_HOTPLUG setting. Do not allow live network actions when setting is set to False.
Double escaping fix in machine create wizard images list and machine details subview.
Fix image ordering in machine create wizard.
New setting UI_SSH_SUPPORT_OSFAMILY_EXCLUDE_LIST. A list of image OS families for which ui will disable ssh key injection in machine wizard.
Setting UI_SUPPORT_SSH_OS_LIST removed and no longer used.
Group public networks by name if setting UI_GROUP_PUBLIC_NETWORKS is set to True.
Setting UI_GROUPED_PUBLIC_NETWORK_NAME has been deprecated and no longer used.
Fix UI to filter available flavors in VM wizard

Cyclades Userdata¶

Maximum allowed length of ssh key content. Configurable from the USERDATA_SSH_KEY_MAX_CONTENT_SIZE setting.

Pithos¶

Rewrite tests.
Performance optimizations in object listing.
Introduce backend method decorator for handling transaction management if no transaction is initiated from the frontend.
Fix Internal Server Errors https://code.grnet.gr/issues/4501 & https://code.grnet.gr/issues/4502.
Fix REQUEST ENTITY TOO LARGE request failure during move operations https://code.grnet.gr/issues/4154.
Fix FORBIDDEN request failure while listing implicitly shared objects https://code.grnet.gr/issues/4131.
Fix issue with the computed size of an updated object.
Reply with the Merkle hash in the ETag header if MD5 is deactivated.
Reply with FORBIDDEN (403) to public listing requests performed by non path owners.
Change response status to NOT FOUND (404) while trying to delete an already deleted object.
Change SQLAlchemy version to 0.7
Change view authorization The pithos views do not use the cookie information for user authentication. They request (from Astakos) and use a short-term access token for a specific resource.
Remove PITHOS_ASTAKOS_COOKIE_NAME setting, since it is no longer useful
Add PITHOS_OAUTH2_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS setting to authenticate the views with astakos during the resource access token generation procedure
Add PITHOS_UNSAFE_DOMAIN setting to restrict file serving endpoints to a specific host
Added new ‘file-show’ management command
Remove command ‘resource-export-pithos’ subsumed by ‘service-export-pithos’.
Extend API to optionally enforce a specific content disposition type in view and public requests: https://code.grnet.gr/issues/5019
Fix bulk operation (delete/copy/move) failures in overpopulated containers/folders: https://code.grnet.gr/issues/5119
Fix performance issue due to missing index
Fix backend open hashfile bug: https://code.grnet.gr/issues/5011
Fix GET request for public path with If-None-Match https://code.grnet.gr/issues/5168

v0.14.10¶

Released: Tue Nov 26 11:03:37 EET 2013

Cyclades¶

This is the first release to support Ganeti 2.8. Support for older versions of Ganeti is dropped.
Use Ganeti opportunistic locking to achive parallelized instance creations in the same backend. Add setting ‘GANETI_USE_OPPORTUNISTIC_LOCKING’ to enable the use of this feature.
Fix warning message while getting object permissions to appear only when path is None and the object has permissions
Add name to newly created NICs and the corresponding firewall tags.

v0.14.9¶

Released: Mon Nov 11 12:13:31 EET 2013

Astakos: Fix minor problems with logging in the Astakos module, which could lead to unexpected exceptions

v0.14.8¶

Released: Fri Nov 8 17:25:08 EET 2013

Synnefo-wide¶

This is the first release to support Debian Wheezy along with Squeeze. You can mix and match nodes freely.
Update Django dependency to Django>=1.2,<1.5. Django 1.4.5 is available for Squeeze through squeeze-backports.
Since this version, Synnefo ships an example Gunicorn configuration file that is automatically installed at /etc/gunicorn.d/synnefo.example.

Cyclades¶

On VM creation, pass the hashmap of the image (pithosmap://) instead of the image URL (pithos://). Access to the Pithos DB by Ganeti nodes is no longer required.
Workaround race between server creation and server deletion. This will be fixed properly by updating Ganeti to support the ‘depends’ attribute for OP_INSTANCE_REMOVE.

Astakos¶

For Shibboleth logins, store all attributes along with the user in the DB.

v0.14.7¶

Released: Wed Sep 18 17:50:12 EEST 2013

Cyclades¶

Fix bug in helpdesk view

v0.14.6¶

Released: Wed Sep 18 16:18:58 EEST 2013

Pithos¶

Substitute the PITHOS_BACKEND_QUOTA setting with two distinct settings: PITHOS_BACKEND_ACCOUNT_QUOTA & PITHOS_BACKEND_CONTAINER_QUOTA
Set PITHOS_BACKEND_CONTAINER_QUOTA default value to 0 (unlimited)
Fix bug that resulted in DB deadlocks.

Cyclades¶

Fix bug in snf-dispatcher that resulted in servers to be deleted from the DB even if the corresponding Ganeti job failed.

Branding¶

Add new BRANDING_FOOTER_EXTRA_MESSAGE setting.

v0.14.5¶

Released: Wed Aug 7 11:19:49 EEST 2013

Pithos¶

Fix security issue with handling Pithos versions.

v0.14.4¶

Released: Mon Jul 29 12:24:22 EEST 2013

Pithos¶

Fix bug in reconcile resources management command.

v0.14.3¶

Released: Thu Jul 25 12:22:47 EEST 2013

Synnefo-wide¶

Use the SYNNEFO_TRACE environmental variable to control whether the greenlet tracing code will get loaded or not.
Split the HIDDEN_COOKIES setting in HIDDEN_HEADERS and HIDDEN_COOKIES, and add the MAIL_MAX_LEN setting, to limit the mail size for unhandled exceptions.

Released: Fri Jul 12 13:13:32 EEST 2013

v0.14.2¶

Cyclades¶

Add new setting PITHOS_BACKEND_POOL_SIZE, which configures the size of the pool of Pithos backends that are used by plankton.

Pithos¶

Refactor metadata schema (table attributes) in Pithos DB to speedup current

objects by domain attribute. This is used by Plankton for listing VM images.

v0.14¶

Released: Tue Jun 25 14:01:19 EEST 2013

Synnefo-wide¶

Create ‘snf_django’ Python package to hold common code for all Synnefo components.
Create a JSON-exportable definition document for each Synnefo Components (Astakos, Cyclades, Pithos, etc.) that consolidates APIs (services), resources, and other standardized properties (e.g. default URL prefixes).
Standardize URLs for Synnefo Components, impose structure and naming conventions to related settings. Make each component deployable under a user-configurable <COMPONENT>_BASE_URL. Each API (compute, image, etc.) is deployable under a developer-configurable prefix beneath BASE_URL.
Deprecate CLOUDBAR_ACTIVE_SERVICE setting from all apps.
Common synnefo 404/500 templates (located in snf-webproject)

Astakos¶

Redesign of the accounting system (quotaholder) and integration into Astakos.
- Simplified the quotaholder model; removed tables Entity and Policy; now table Holding contains limit and usage for every holding.
- Extended table Holding, so that we can keep track of quota for every valid combination of holder (e.g. user), resource, and source (e.g. the default system or some specific project).
- Refactored code for issuing and resolving commissions for robustness; added a ‘force’ option to bypass the upper limit check when issuing a commission.
- Simplified syncing to the quotaholder; removed fields from models Project and ProjectMembership, previously needed for syncing; removed state PROJECT_DEACTIVATED from ProjectMembership.
- Removed settings ASTAKOS_QUOTAHOLDER_URL, ASTAKOS_QUOTAHOLDER_TOKEN, and ASTAKOS_QUOTAHOLDER_POOLSIZE.
API-related changes:
- Implemented API calls for quota, resources, and commissions.
- Moved all API calls under ‘/account/v1.0’.
- Implemented the keystone API call POST /tokens under ‘/identity/v2.0’.
Service and resource specification and handling:
- Specified a format for defining services along with the API endpoints and the resources they expose. Migrated internal resource name by prefixing it with service name (e.g. ‘vm’ becomes ‘cyclades.vm’); renamed registered service ‘pithos+’ to ‘pithos’.
- Specified a procedure to register a Synnefo component, its services and their resources in astakos and set the resources’ default base quota limit. Removed resource definitions from settings.
- Moved service and resource presentation data out of the respective db models into a separate file of UI constants.
Converted the limit on pending applications from a setting to a quotable resource. Converted the related user setting to a user-specific base quota limit. Deprecated model UserSetting; removed setting ASTAKOS_PENDING_APPLICATION_LIMIT.
Changes in locking strategy:
- Lock only project’s chain for all project operations; lock user before syncing to quotaholder.
- When locking multiple rows (e.g. users or holdings) include an ORDER BY clause in the query to impose ordering on locking.
Changes in views:
- Replaced custom transaction context with a simple decorator for managing transactions and a context ‘ExceptionHandler’, which logs and suppresses exceptions
Added fine grain user auth provider’s policies.
- Administrator can override default auth provider policies to a specific user or group of users.
- Optionally a user can be assigned to a list of groups, based on the authentication method he choosed to signup.
Removed explicit handling of SMTP errors on each email delivery. Exceptions are now propagated to base django exception handler.
Email used in html/email tempaltes which prompt user to contact for service support prompts is now defined in CONTACT_EMAIL setting introduced in snf-common settings.
Improvements in user activation flow
- User moderation now takes place after the user has verified his email address.
- User model enriched with additional user state fields
- Split activation email from moderation process. Administrator is required to moderate user explicitly using the user-modify –accept or user-modify –reject commands.
- Improved logging throught out user activation procedures.
Remove deprecated AstakosUser model fields: provider, third_party_identifier
Allow override of authentication provider messages using the following format in setting names: ASTAKOS_<PROVIDER_MODULE>_<MSGID>_MSG
Cloudbar automatically tries to identify the active service based on window location.
Removing authentication provider view is now CSRF protected.
New API access view, containing useful information to users on how to access available Synnefo services API’s.
Remove of ASTAKOS_*_EMAIL_SUBJECT settings. All email subjects are now defined in astakos.im.messages module. Overriding default values can be achieved using custom gettext files or using astakos messages settings:
```
#change of greeting email subject
ASTAKOS_GREETING_EMAIL_SUBJECT_MESSAGE = 'Welcome to my cloud'
```
Remove ASTAKOS_ACTIVATION_REDIRECT_URL and ASTAKOS_LOGIN_SUCCESS_URL from astakos .conf file. Settings are dynamically computed based on ASTAKOS_BASE_URL.
Management commands:
- Introduced new commands:
  - authpolicy-{add, list, remove, set, show}
  - group-{add, list}
  - component-{add, list, modify, remove}
  - reconcile-resources-astakos
  - resource-{export-astakos, import, modify}
  - service-{export-astakos, import, show}
- Renamed commands:
  - astakos-quota to quota
  - user-update to user-modify
  - full-cleanup to cleanup-full
- Removed commands:
  - astakos-init
  - invitation-{details, list}
  - project-sync
  - resource-{add, remove}
  - service-{add, remove, token-renew, update}
  - user-invite
  - user-set-initial-quota (integrated its functionality in user-modify and quota)
- Added quota and project-related information in user-show command; added membership information in project-show.

Cyclades¶

Make ‘type’ attribute required for network create API request.
Networks not created to all Ganeti backends upon creation, they are instead created to a backend only when a VM connects to the network.
Add ‘CYCLADES_ASTAKOSCLIENT_POOLSIZE’ setting which tunes the size of the http connection pool to astakos.
Remove ‘CYCLADES_USER_CATALOG_URL’ and ‘CYCLADES_USER_FEEDBACK_URL’ settings
Remove CYCLADES_USE_QUOTAHOLDER, CYCLADES_QUOTAHOLDER_TOKEN, CYCLADES_QUOTAHOLDER_URL, CYCLADES_QUOTAHOLDER_POOLSIZE settings
Rename ‘cyclades-usage-verify’ management command to ‘reconcile-resources-cyclades’. Also, remove ‘cyclades-usage-reset’ command, which is equivalent to ‘reconcile-resources-cyclades –fix’.
Rename ‘cyclades-reconcile-commissions’ management command to ‘reconcile-commissions-cyclades’.
Remove obsolete ‘MAX_VMS_PER_USER’, ‘MAX_NETWORKS_PER_USER’, “VMS_USER_QUOTA” and “NETWORKS_USER_QUOTA” settings, since their usage is covered by Quotaholder.
Remove obsolete setting ‘API_ROOT_URL’, since it is being covered by the use of CYCLADES_BASE_URL* Remove obsolete setting ‘API_ROOT_URL’, since it is being covered by ‘CYCLADES_BASE_URL’.
Remove obsolete settings GANETI_DISK_TEMPLATES and DEFAULT_GANETI_DISK_TEMPLATE

Cyclades helpdesk¶

Additional start/stop vm action
Display extend backend info in vm’s view
Fixed IP lookup

Pithos¶

Remove PITHOS_AUTHENTICATION_USERS setting, which was used to override astakos users.
Remove ‘PITHOS_USER_CATALOG_URL’, ‘PITHOS_USER_FEEDBACK_URL’ and ‘PITHOS_USER_LOGIN_URL’ settings.
Remove PITHOS_USE_QUOTAHOLDER, PITHOS_QUOTAHOLDER_URL, PITHOS_QUOTAHOLDER_TOKEN and PITHOS_ASTAKOSCLIENT_POOLSIZE
Enforce container-level atomicity in (most) Pithos API calls.

Tools¶

v0.13¶

Released: Wed Apr 10 18:52:50 EEST 2013

In v0.13 the code was very heavily refactored for increased uniformity since most of the Synnefo components have been merged into a single repository. Thus, just for this version we will not document a complete Changelog (features, fixes, improvements, issues, setting changes), but rather just copy from the NEWS file with minor additions wherever needed.

Synnefo-wide¶

Support for pooling throughout Synnefo
- Pooled Django DB connections, Pithos backend connections, HTTP connections using single objpool package
Improved management commands
- Unified codebase for output of tables in JSON, CSV
Bring most of Synnefo code inside a single, unified repository
- support automatic Python and Debian package builds for individual commits
- with automatic version generation
Overhauling of Synnefo settings: renames and refactoring, for increased uniformity (in progress)
Deployment: Standardize on gunicorn, with gevent-based workers and use of Green threads throughout Synnefo
Documentation: New scale-out guide, with distinct node roles, for mass Synnefo deployments

Astakos¶

Support multiple authentication methods
- Classic (username/password), Shibboleth, LDAP/Active Directory, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn
- Users can enable/disable auth methods, and switch between them
Introduce a UUID as a global identifier for users, throughout Synnefo
- The UUID remains constant as the user enables/disables login methods
Allow users to modify their email address freely
Per-user, per-resource accounting mechanism (quotaholder)
Full quota support, with per-user, per-resource quotas, based on quotaholder
Projects: Users can create and join Projects
- Projects grant extra resources to their members
UI Enhancements for quotas and projects
- distinct Usage tab, showing usage of individual resources
- Project management UI
- New Overview page
refactored/improved /login endpoint used by desktop/mobile clients. * endpoint url is now exposed by weblogin service * clients should use unauthenticated identity/tokens api to resolve the

endpoint url
- view only allows redirects to pithos:// scheme urls
- removed uuid from redirect parameters. Client should use authenticated request to identity/tokens to retrieve user uuid.

Cyclades¶

Commission resources on quotaholder/Astakos
Support mass creation of flavors
Support for the ExtStorage disk template in Ganeti
Query and report quotas in the UI
Pass VM configuration parameters over a VM-side API (vmapi)
- Do not pass sensitive data as Ganeti OS parameters
- Keep sensitive data in memory caches (memcached) and never allow them to hit the disk
Display additional backend information in helpdesk machines list
Allow helpdesk users to search for an account using a known machine id
Helpdesk actions are now logged using the synnefo’s common login infrastructure

UI¶

Removed feedback endpoint. Feedback requests delegate to astakos feedback service. FEEDBACK_CONTACTS, FEEDBACK_EMAIL_FROM settings removed, and no longer used.
UI_LOGIN_URL, UI_GLANCE_URL, COMPUTE_URL settings no longer required to be set and are dynamically computed based on ASTAKOS_BASE_URL and CYCLADES_BASE_URL settings.
File group is no longer included in ssh keys personality metadata sent in create vm calls.

Support storage of blocks on a RADOS backend, for Archipelago
- new settings: PITHOS_RADOS_STORAGE, PITHOS_RADOS_POOL_BLOCKS, PITHOS_RADOS_POOL_MAPS
X-Object-Public now contains full url (domain + proper component prefix + file path)
Rewritten support for public URLs, with admin-selectable length
- new settings: PITHOS_PUBLIC_URL_SECURITY, PITHOS_PUBLIC_URL_ALPHABET
Enable pithos backend to use external quotaholder component
- new settings: PITHOS_USE_QUOTAHOLDER, PITHOS_QUOTAHOLDER_URL, PITHOS_QUOTAHOLDER_TOKEN, PITHOS_QUOTAHOLDER_POOLSIZE
Moderated version debiting mechanism
- new setting: PITHOS_BACKEND_FREE_VERSIONING
Proxy Astakos user-visible services
- new settings: PITHOS_PROXY_USER_SERVICES, PITHOS_USER_CATALOG_URL, PITHOS_USER_FEEDBACK_URL, PITHOS_USER_LOGIN_URL

Extend snf-burnin to include testing of Pithos functionality

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Unified Changelog file for Synnefo versions >= 0.13¶

v0.15.2¶

Cyclades¶

Cyclades UI¶

v0.15.1¶

Synnefo-wide¶

Astakos¶

Cyclades¶

Cyclades UI¶

Pithos¶

v0.15¶

Synnefo-wide¶

Astakos¶

Cyclades¶

Cyclades UI¶

Cyclades Userdata¶

Pithos¶

v0.14.10¶

Cyclades¶

v0.14.9¶

v0.14.8¶

Synnefo-wide¶

Cyclades¶

Astakos¶

v0.14.7¶

Cyclades¶

v0.14.6¶

Pithos¶

Cyclades¶

Branding¶

v0.14.5¶

Pithos¶

v0.14.4¶

Pithos¶

v0.14.3¶

Synnefo-wide¶

v0.14.2¶

Cyclades¶

Pithos¶

v0.14¶

Synnefo-wide¶

Astakos¶

Cyclades¶

Cyclades helpdesk¶

Pithos¶

Tools¶

v0.13¶

Synnefo-wide¶

Astakos¶

Cyclades¶

UI¶

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