2015 Stable Releases¶
v2.14 (stable) - 13 August 2015¶
From 2.13 (candidate) to v2.14 (stable)¶
- add SlipStream instance to the text of usage email messages
- mark Java 1.7 as conflicting with SlipStream RPM package installation
- improve mechanism for initial bootstrap configuration of server from configuration files
- change URLs for event (and other clojure) resources from camel-case to kebab-case
- change change CIMI root resource api/CloudEntryPoint
- fix: pagination of results in UI
- fix: crash of node executor on empty target script output
From 2.12 (candidate) to v2.13 (candidate)¶
- reduced dependency from jdk to jre
- migrated to java 8
- provide more metrics from connectors (cpu, ram, instance type, root disk size)
- multiple bug fixes and improvements in UI
- run page refreshes asynchronously on background
- on run page alert (abort) messages are truncated (full abort message can still be seen in Global section)
- display a loading screen while waiting for request from the server
- added an ability for machine executor (orchestrator and node) to survive reboot of the host they are running on
- more metrics can now be returned by OpenStack and CloudStack connectors
- VMs section of dashboard can now display cpu, ram, instance type and root disk size if provided by the cloud connectors
- improved collection of the usage records
From 2.11 (candidate) to v2.12 (candidate)¶
- added documentation on obtaining API Key and Secret on CloudStack
- improved packaging of python code for cloud connectors
- updated and improved example image and deployment modules that are shipped with SlipStream; added documentation on how to publish the modules to running SlipStream instance
- bug fixes and improvements of the machine executor (orchestrator and node)
- initial implementation of vertical scaling of node instances
- new SlipStream dashboard layout with correspondingly adapted tour
- numerous fixes and improvements in UI
From 2.10 (candidate) to v2.11 (candidate)¶
- users can now receive daily cloud usage emails (turn on via parameter in user profile)
- changes to the server for better support of application scaling
- the cloud contextualization method can be chosen through the cloud connector configuration
- Java 1.8 is now required by the SlipStream server
- fix: handling of open subsection in URL
- fix: catch EINTR interrupt to prevent script failures on Windows
- fix: invalid URL when clicking on VM gauge in dashboard
- fix: problem with scaling scripts not being called on scaling actions
- fix: various browser issues with embedded SlipStream tour
From v2.9 (stable) to v2.10 (candidate)¶
- interactive tour available through SlipStream interface (beta)
- clicking on dashboard gauges opens the corresponding cloud section
- allow event and usage resources to be filtered
- disallow changes to parameter types through UI to be consistent with server
- improve contextualization mechanisms for Windows
- allow admins to choose contextualization method used for a cloud
- fix: dashboard gauges incorrectly rendered in some cases
- fix: wrong version comment sometimes displayed for module
- fix: module logo is not displayed
- fix: Windows deployments intermittently fail
- fix: “noscript” message was not working when JavaScript
Migration¶
No migration is needed from v2.9 to v2.14.
Commits¶
v2.9 (stable) - 18 May 2015¶
From v2.8 (candidate) to v2.9 (stable)¶
- only allow configured clouds to be used in UI
- provide pagination of event and usage resources
- package scripts for preparing usage summaries
- reduce resource requirements for collected metrics
- patch timezone handling bug in UI
- fix storage of service configuration enum parameters
- remove unnecessary dependencies in build artifacts
From v2.7 (stable) to v2.8 (candidate)¶
- allow connectors to indicate when a VM is usable (for usage records)
- improve logging (more concise messages, longer retention times)
- provide quick installation script with documentation of procedure
- provide “event” resource with standard lifecycle events
- expose “usage” summary as a resource
- updated advanced tutorial for current release
- fix bug which prevented deployments from being saved
- fix bug which erased parameters starting with “http://”
- fix deadlock associated with multiple database clients
- fix run ordering by time
- fix truncation of fields hiding information (popovers used everywhere)
- improve rendering of errors to make the cause more visible
Migration¶
The migration procedures should be run in the order from the last stable release to the current release.
From v2.8 (candidate) to v2.9 (stable)¶
No migration required.
From v2.7 (stable) to v2.8 (candidate)¶
Database migration is required from v2.7 to v2.8. The following steps MUST be followed:
Upgrade SlipStream
Stop SlipStream
$ service slipstream stop
Stop HSQLDB (or your DB engine)
$ service hsqldb stop
Execute the following SQL script /opt/slipstream/server/migrations/014_enumvalues_size_fix.sql:
$ java -jar /opt/hsqldb/lib/sqltool.jar --autoCommit --inlineRc=url=jdbc:hsqldb:file:/opt/slipstream/SlipStreamDB/slipstreamdb,user=sa,password= /opt/slipstream/server/migrations/014_enumvalues_size_fix.sql
Start HSQLDB (or your DB engine)
$ service hsqldb start
Start SlipStream
$ service slipstream start
Commits¶
v2.7 (stable) - 15 April 2015¶
New features and bug fixes from v2.7¶
- Bug fixes for launching and accessing Windows virtual machines
- Support for v5.5 of vCloud API
- Allow input parameters to be specified for simple image run to avoid having to create a deployment for this
- Add back App Store to the image chooser
- Add custom error pages for SlipStream frontend proxy
- Make forward/backward navigation more natural (avoid URLs with fragment changes in history)
- Improve rendering of tables on mobile devices
Migration¶
No migration is required from v2.6.1 to v2.7.
Commits¶
v2.6.1 (stable) - 7 April 2015¶
New features and bug fixes¶
From 2.6 (candidate) to 2.6.1 (stable)¶
- UI critical bug fix: null pointer exception in the VMs section of dashboard
- UI bug fix: ‘Undefined’ incorrectly prepended to ‘Provisioning’ message
From 2.5 (candidate) to 2.6 (candidate)¶
- Expose event resource
- Allow usage notes to be added to image and deployment modules
- Filter VMs by User (for administrator) and by Run Owner
- Add more node information in VM resources (UI and XML)
- Allow input parameters for simple run
- Allow
- Improvements to VMs resource: additional node information, ability to filter by User/Run Owner/Run UUID
- Ability to run an image with installation scripts even if the image has not been built.
- Ensure that a module “copy” operation copies all fields
- Fix for time zone parsing error
- Ensure build image operation works
- Fix bugs in v2.5 that caused SlipStream to stop responding to requests and that caused ready applications to be moved to “finalizing” incorrectly
- Improve standard example applications: Ubuntu Standalone, CentOS Standalone, Wordpress, and LAMP++
- Improve monitoring of service with collectd
- Ensure time is aligned between SlipStream services by adding ntpd to SlipStream deployments
- Move documentation to dedicated server and remove the embedded documentation from the SlipStream server
- Numerous UI improvements: disactivating buttons when actions are not allowed, display user-friendly state in dashboard, improvements for touch devices, fix wrapping of fields on small devices, improve organization of sections in user profile
From v2.4.2 (stable) to v2.5 (candidate)¶
- Added the Event server
- Improved authorization mechinisme
- Improved logging
- Improved the collector
- Improved stability of the /vms resource when there is a huge amount of VMs
- Improved the Run dialog on the UI:
- The Cloud for all node can be selected at one place
- The two checkboxes in the user profile to define the
keep running
behaviour was converted into a dropdown menu - The
keep running
behaviour can be redefined - Tags can be defined when creating a Run.
- The value selected for
Cloud
andKeep running
dropdown menus correspond to the default of the user profile. - It’s now possible to create a Run even if there is no SSH key in the user profile
- An error is displayed if SSH access is asked but there is no key in the user profile
- Improved the time needed to terminate VMs with
stratuslabiter-terminate-instances
. - Increased the maximum amount of items returned by /vms and /run to 500
- New packaging for the community edition.
- Fixed a bug where deployment scripts were not executed when running a simple image.
- Bugfixes
Migration¶
The migration procedures should be run in the order from the last stable release to the current release.
From v2.6 (candidate) to v2.6.1 (stable)¶
No migration necessary.
From v2.5 (candidate) to v2.6 (candidate)¶
You have to execute the following script (while HSQLDB is running) to do the BD migration:
java -jar /opt/hsqldb/lib/sqltool.jar --autoCommit --inlineRc=url=jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001/slipstream,user=sa,password= --sql "UPDATE VmRuntimeParameterMapping SET hostnameRuntimeParameterUri = CONCAT(REGEXP_SUBSTRING(vmstateRuntimeParameterUri,'^[^:]+'),':hostname') WHERE hostnameRuntimeParameterUri IS NULL;"
From 2.4.2 (stable) to v2.5 (candidate)¶
IMPORTANT: v2.5 requires data migration from v2.4.2. The following steps MUST be followed:
Upgrade SlipStream
Ensure SlipStream is running
Execute the following python script 012_edit_save_all_users.py from the directory /opt/slipstream/server/migrations/
$ cd /opt/slipstream/server/migrations/ $ python 012_edit_save_all_users.py <username> <password>
<username>
and<password>
have to be credentials of a SlipStream administrator.Stop SlipStream
$ service slipstream stop
Stop HSQLDB (or your DB engine)
$ ss-db-shutdown
Execute the following SQL script /opt/slipstream/server/migrations/013_convert_to_keep_running.sql:
$ java -jar /opt/hsqldb/lib/sqltool.jar --inlineRc=url=jdbc:hsqldb:file:/opt/slipstream/SlipStreamDB/slipstreamdb,user=sa,password= /opt/slipstream/server/migrations/013_convert_to_keep_running.sql
Start HSQLDB (or your DB engine)
$ service hsqldb start # ignore start error
Start SlipStream
$ service slipstream start
Commits¶
v2.4.2 - 28 February 2015¶
New features and bug fixes from v2.4.0¶
- Change monitoring implementation to avoid corrupted dashboard information
- Improve monitoring implementation to avoid peaks in activity
- Allow deployments to set a tolerance for provisioning failures
- Fix bug that caused service catalog entries to be deleted
- Allow style of UI to be more easily customized
- Validate multiplicity values in deployments
- SlipStream client now backs off and waits when server is loaded
- Add network mapping parameters for OpenStack connector
- Add pagination support for VM listings on dashboard
- Optimize uploading of reports to improve performance
- Numerous minor improvements and bug fixes in UI
Migration¶
IMPORTANT: v2.4.2 requires data migration from v2.4.0. The following steps MUST be followed:
- Stop SlipStream
- Stop HSQLDB (or your DB engine)
- Execute the following SQL files located in
/opt/slipstream/server/migrations
:
011_add_maxprovisioningfailures_in_node.sql
- Start HSQLDB (or your DB engine)
- Start SlipStream**
Command to stop HSQLDB:
java -jar /opt/hsqldb/lib/sqltool.jar --inlineRc=url=jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001/slipstream,user=sa,password= --sql 'SHUTDOWN;'
Example command to execute the migration script:
java -jar /opt/hsqldb/lib/sqltool.jar --autoCommit --inlineRc=url=jdbc:hsqldb:file:/opt/slipstream/SlipStreamDB/slipstreamdb,user=sa,password= /opt/slipstream/server/migrations/011_add_maxprovisioningfailures_in_node.sql
Commits¶
v2.4.1 - 20 February 2015¶
This release is deprecated because of problems discovered after deployment. Use the v2.4.2 release.
v2.4.0 - 13 January 2015¶
New features and bug fixes¶
- New UI based on Bootstrap
- Added export of users as CSV
- Image Run will attach extra disk if defined in cloud parameters and the action is supported by the cloud connector
- Minor updates and fixes in StratusLab and StratusLabIter connector
Migration¶
No DB migration (from v2.3.9) is required.