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Unified NEWS file for Synnefo versions >= 0.13
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Since v0.13 all Synnefo components have been merged into a single repository.
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.. _NEWS-0.14:
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v0.14
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Released: Tue Jun 25 14:01:19 EEST 2013
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Synnefo-wide
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* Standardize URLs for Synnefo Components:
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  * impose structure and naming conventions to all URL related settings. Make
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    each component deployable under a user-configurable <COMPONENT>_BASE_URL.
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    Each API (compute, image, etc.) is deployable under a
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    developer-configurable prefix beneath BASE_URL.
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* Branding customization support across synnefo frontend components:
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  * ability to adapt the Astakos, Pithos and Cyclades Web UI to a company’s
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    visual identity. This is possible using the snf-branding component, which
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    is automatically installed on the nodes running the API servers for
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    Astakos, Pithos and Cyclades.
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* Create a JSON-exportable definition document for each Synnefo Components
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  (Astakos, Cyclades, Pithos, etc.) that consolidates APIs (services),
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  resources, and other standardized properties (e.g. default URL prefixes).
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* Implement common client for communication with Astakos and proper error
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  handling.
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Astakos
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* Redesign of the accounting system (quotaholder) and integration into
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  Astakos.
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* Implemented the keystone API call POST /tokens
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  * Specified the API call allong with a procedure to register a Synnefo
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    component (e.g. cyclades) along with the services it provides (e.g.
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    compute, plankton) and the resources it handles (e.g. vm, cpu).
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* All API calls are moved under '/account/v1.0'.
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* Support API calls for quotas, commissions and resources.
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* Improved user activation process
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* Improve limit of pending applications by making it a quotable resource.
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* Added fine grain user auth provider's policies.
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* Overhauling of Astakos management commands for usability and uniformity.
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Cyclades
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* Speed up private network creation, by creating a network to a Ganeti backend
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  only when a server connects to that network.
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* Rename management commands for commissions and resources for uniformity with
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  other services.
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* Synchronize Cyclades API with Openstack Compute v2.0 API.
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.. _NEWS-0.13:
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v0.13
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Released: Wed Apr 10 18:52:50 EEST 2013
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Synnefo-wide
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* Support for pooling throughout Synnefo
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  * Pooled Django DB connections, Pithos backend connections, HTTP
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    connections using single `objpool` package
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* Improved management commands
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  * Unified codebase for output of tables in JSON, CSV
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* Bring most of Synnefo code inside a single, unified repository
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  * support automatic Python and Debian package builds for individual commits
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  * with automatic version generation
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* Overhauling of Synnefo settings: renames and refactoring, for increased
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  uniformity (in progress)
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* Deployment: Standardize on gunicorn, with gevent-based workers
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  and use of Green threads throughout Synnefo
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* Documentation: New scale-out guide, with distinct node roles,
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  for mass Synnefo deployments
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Astakos
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* Support multiple authentication methods
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  * Classic (username/password), Shibboleth, LDAP/Active Directory,
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    Google, Twitter, LinkedIn
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  * Users can enable/disable auth methods, and switch between them
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* Introduce a UUID as a global identifier for users, throughout Synnefo
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  * The UUID remains constant as the user enables/disables login methods
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* Allow users to modify their email address freely
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* Per-user, per-resource accounting mechanism (quotaholder)
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* Full quota support, with per-user, per-resource quotas, based on quotaholder
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* Projects: Users can create and join Projects
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  * Projects grant extra resources to their members
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* UI Enhancements for quotas and projects
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  * distinct Usage tab, showing usage of individual resources
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  * Project management UI
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  * New Overview page
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Cyclades
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* Commission resources on quotaholder/Astakos
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* Support mass creation of flavors
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* Support for the ExtStorage disk template in Ganeti
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* Query and report quotas in the UI
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* Pass VM configuration parameters over a VM-side API (`vmapi`)
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  * Do not pass sensitive data as Ganeti OS parameters
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  * Keep sensitive data in memory caches (memcached) and
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    never allow them to hit the disk
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* Display additional backend information in helpdesk machines list
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* Allow helpdesk users to search for an account using a known machine id
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* Helpdesk actions are now logged using the synnefo's common login
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  infrastructure
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Pithos
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* Support storage of blocks on a RADOS backend, for Archipelago
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* Rewritten support for public URLs, with admin-selectable length
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Tools
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* Extend snf-burnin to include testing of Pithos functionality