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Unified NEWS file for Synnefo versions >= 0.13
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Since v0.13 all Synnefo components have been merged into a single repository.
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v0.13next
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Released: UNRELEASED
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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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Astakos
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* Redesign of the accounting system (quotaholder) and integration into
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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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* 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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* Synchronize Cyclades API with Openstack Compute v2.0 API.
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Released: Wed Apr 10 18:52:50 EEST 2013
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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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* 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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* Overhauling of Synnefo settings: renames and refactoring, for increased
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* Deployment: Standardize on gunicorn, with gevent-based workers
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* Documentation: New scale-out guide, with distinct node roles,
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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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* Extend snf-burnin to include testing of Pithos functionality