CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

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

The format is based on Keep a Changelog

Unreleased as of Sprint 84 ending 2018-04-23

Added

• Initialize MiqQueue.miq_task_id column when queuing metric capture task (#17301)
• Add .yamllint config to provider generators (#17281)
• Add :transformation under product and set it to true by default (#17270)
• Add association of service_templates to TransformationMapping. (#17266)
• Add timeout knob for monitoring server roles (#17265)
• Save Physical Chassis (#17236)
• Add child retirement task methods (#17234)
• Azure labeling and tagging support (#17212)
• Add delete notification types for Tenant (#17011)
• Add InventoryObject interface automatically (#17010)
• Add support for exporting and importing tags (#16983)

Fixed

• Fix infra inventory collections for targeted refresh (#17324)
• Check for the existence of credentials. (#17313)
• Fixes for create action in Template model (#17308)
• Changing the description of the 'vlan' field in provision/network (#17306)
• Add method retire_now to container OrchestrationStack. (#17298)
• Change the role for Service provisioning create_request_tasks MiqQueue.put. (#17297)
• Add lock to retire_now start (#17280)
• Don't format PersistentVolume-capacity as bytes (#17278)
• Forcing default_value to an array if the dynamic dropdown is multiselect (#17272)
• Require dalli before using it (#17269)
• Adding scan action with userid to container_image (#17264)
• Fix call to process_tasks to run the right thing (#17255)
• Handle non-existant tag category id when importing a service dialog (#17237)
• Filter out archived and orphaned VMs in 'Running VMs' filter (#17183)
• Do not show archived and orphaned VMs on report 'Online VMs (Powered On)' (#17178)
• Use credential callback to set credentials (#14889)

Unreleased as of Sprint 83 ending 2018-04-09

Added

• Use constant to store ServiceResource status. (#17256)
• Add has_many :miq_requests in ServiceTemplate (#17242)
• Add crud for Template (#17217)
• Add remote console feature for physical servers (#17213)
• Add vault credential to factory and provision_job_options. (#17207)
• Add support for non-binary WebMKS websocket (#17200)
• Seed plugin ansible playbooks (#17185)
• Add image_create to product features (#17089)
• Adding request id to evm log (#17013)
• Adding switches support for physical infra (#16948)
• Add a Physical Rack model (#16853)

Fixed

• Set DRb conn pool to [] after closing connections (#17267)
• Removed redundant entries from start up drop down. (#17260)
• Force UTF-8 encoding on task results (#17252)
• Give more information on a failed configuration validation. (#17247)
• convert Vm#miq_provision_template to has_one (#17246)
• Fix editing Ansible Credential/Repository for restricted user (#17244)
• Log Vm or Template for Create/Update (#17240)
• Fix update_attributes to take right number of args (#17235)
• Providers discovery without unspecified discovery types (FIX) (#17229)
• Add custom Azure logger (#17228)
• Resolve string handling for "https://" or "http://" in update_rhsm_conf (#17222)
• Change the method signatures for ServiceTemplateContainerTemplate. (#17221)
• Don't ignore errors in Vm#running_processes (#17220)
• Makes http_proxy_uri class method (#17218)
• Fixed error with dialog expression when virtual column involved (#17215)
• Add 'breakable' optional argument to report_build_html_table method (#17204)
• Cache MiqExpression.get_col_type in MiqReport::Formatting (#17195)
• Fix establishing relations of tenants and cloud tenants between different cloud tenant -> tenant sync (#17190)
• Refactor ensure_nondefault method for chargeback rate (#17188)
• Add product files for physical server dashboard widgets (#17172)
• Use handled_list to get Cinder backups for all accessible tenants (#17157)
• Skip query references in Rbac when not needed (#17141)

Unreleased as of Sprint 82 ending 2018-03-26

Added

• Add vault credential support to automat playbook method. (#17192)
• Add vault credential support to Ansible playbook service template. (#17184)
• Expose get_assigned_tos as virtual attribute to allow access via the API (#17182)
• Purging of ContainerQuota & ContainerQuotaItem (#17167)
• Make resource groups taggable (#17148)
• Add rates to chargeback report (#17142)
• Support for hidden columns in reports and views (#17133)
• Allow OrchestrationTemplate subclass to customize md5 calculation (#17126)
• Report datetime columns(begining and end of resource's existence) in metering report of VMs (#17100)
• Tower Rhv credential type (#17044)
• Activate miq_task when deliver from miq_queue (#17015)
• Add tasks and models for retire as a request (#16933)
• Keep container quota history by archiving (#16722)

Fixed

• Fix provider proxy settings fallback (#17205)
• Add case insensitivity when validating uniqueness of name of new group/role (#17197)
• Fixed case of expression in OOTB report. (#17191)
• Fix RefreshWorker dequeue race condition (#17187)
• Bad skipping of assert in production env (#17173)
• Add detail and name to the new update event group (#17164)
• Fix active_provision quota check for infra VM request with invalid vm_template. (#17158)
• Add encryption key validation rake task (#17149)
• Use vm_ems_ref to reconnect events (#17145)
• Stop unbounded growth of targets (#17144)
• Don't define DISALLOWED_SUFFIXES if already defined (#17125)
• Fail Cinder/Swift Ensures if Service not Present (#17067)
• Fix policy_events relationship on VmOrTemplate (#17036)

Unreleased as of Sprint 81 ending 2018-03-12

Added

• Return a task when queueing chargeback report generation for services (#17135)
• Create an empty CSS file that is outside the asset pipeline (#17127)
• Add tagging feature for Ansible Playbooks (#17099)
• Added Embedded Ansible Content plugin (#17096)
• Moved creating task instances message. (#17093)
• Add ConfigurationScriptSource to RBAC (#17091)
• Add tagging feature for Ansible Repositories (#17083)
• Add tagging feature for Ansible Credentials (#17079)
• Backend enhancements for transformation plan request to better support UI (#17071)
• Core changes for azure targeted refresh (#17070)
• Make Taggable of AutomationManager's authentications/playbooks/repos (#17049)
• Add title display message and factory for Vault Credentials (#17048)
• Automatically fetch the right unique index (#17029)
• ConfigurationScriptSource to have last_updated_on column (#17026)

Fixed

• Only update zone if found (#17139)
• Alphabets are hard... (#17136)
• Do not divide recipients to subgroup when sending attached report (#17132)
• Fix Default log level for automation log (#17130)
• Bump manageiq-smartstate to 0.2.10 version (#17121)
• Scope the default zone to the current region (#17103)
• Fix ambiguous created_recently scope (#17102)
• Delete #retire_now since it has been moved to shared code (#17095)
• Fix single security group in provisioning (#17094)
• Remove options[:user_message] during miq_request_task creation. (#17084)
• Add uniqueness of service for generation chargeback report for SSUI (#17082)
• Remove new fields from export if empty (#17080)
• Calculate totals for hours of exitstence in metering reports (#17077)
• Consolidate Azure refresh workers (#17076)
• Adding missing Product Feature for viewing a single container (#17074)
• Move SchemaMigration from ManageIQ to ManageIQ::Schema plugin (#17072)
• Fix RBAC for User and enable tagging for Tenants (#17061)
• Configure server settings cleanup (#17059)
• Enhance logging around remove snapshot operations (#17057)
• Fix rake evm:status and evm:status_full (#17054)
• Allow individual tables to be specified for metrics (#17051)
• Removal of nil's before relationship remove_children (#17038)

Gaprindashvili-2 released 2018-03-06

Added

• Refactor VM naming method in provisioning task to support call from automate (#16897)

Fixed

• Add back the missing IP address range in Virtual Private Cloud name. (#16898)
• Fix Deleting Snapshot on Smartstate Cancel (#16885)
• Fix supports_launch_vnc_console? for VMWare VMs (#16905)
• Add << method to MulticastLogger (#16904)
• Exclude Service::AGGREGATE_ALL_VM_ATTRS from MiqExp.to_sql (#16915)
• No longer assume that a value is an array (#16924)
• Follow up to update_vm_name for Service template provisioning (#16949)
• Add nil check to serializer for invalid categories (#16951)
• Make sure Containers Exist Before Processing (#16922)
• Fix for differing behavior in DialogFieldTagControl multi/single drop downs (#16955)
• Dropping azure classic and rackspace credential types (#16936)
• Only set encryption option to net-ldap when needed. (#16954)
• Use correct comparison for multi-value default value inclusion rules (#16978)
• Checking killed worker with is_alive? (#16908)
• Lookup a category_id if a tag control passes it in (#16965)
• Fix MulticastLogger DEBUG mode (#16990)

Unreleased as of Sprint 80 ending 2018-02-26

Added

• Stop container workers cleanly (#17042)
• Differentiate being in a container vs running in OpenShift/k8s (#17028)
• Update vm transformation status in a plan (#17027)
• Add the artemis auth info as env variables in worker containers (#17025)
• Compare decimal columns correctly in batch saver (#17020)
• Add lans as a virtual relationship to ems_cluster (#17019)
• Use arel to build local_db multiselect condition (#17012)
• Add sui_product_features method to miq_group (#17007)
• Add miq_product_features to miq_group (#17003)
• Group chargeback report for VMs by tenant (#17002)
• Adding classifications for V2V (#17000)
• Rename new guest device pages (#16996)
• Two small fixes to tools/miqssh (#16986)
• Get targeted arel query automatically (#16981)
• Inventory task (#16980)
• Fix reason scope for MiqRequest (#16950)
• Add circular reference association check to import for ui update (#16918)
• Graph refresh skeletal precreate (#16882)
• Tower 3.2.2 vault credential types (#16825)
• EMS infra: adds Openstack undercloud discovery (#16318)
• [REARCH] Container workers (#15884)

Fixed

• Add #orderable? as alias method (#17045)
• Changes to catch the retirement requester in automate. (#17033)
• Fix build methods (#17032)
• Fix errors in help message (#17009)
• Handle group names with encoded special characters (#16998)
• Fix replication validation for not saved subscriptions (#16997)
• Remove empty array associations created via UI from association list (#16919)
• Fix alerts based on hourly timer for container entities (#16902)
• query also archived objects for a new ems (#16886)
• Update the human description for "cpu_used_delta_summation" (#16878)
• Singularize plural model (#16833)
• For all roles that have sui product features adds sui_notifications (#16817)
• Support Automate Git repos without master branch (#16690)

Unreleased as of Sprint 79 ending 2018-02-12

Added

• Add product features needed for v2v Transformation Mappings API (#16947)
• Add reindex to job scheduler (#16929)
• Don't return in a rake task (#16920)
• Declare Kubevirt's template as eligible for provision (#16873)
• Add scopes for MiqRequest (#16843)
• Add api_allowed_attributes to ExtManagementSystem and Provider (#16802)
• Introduce model changes for v2v (#16787)
• Graph refresh enhance local db finders (#16741)
• Graph refresh use advanced references (#16659)
• Introduce $nuage_log that logs into log/nuage.log (#16455)
• Introduce model changes for v2v (#16787)
• Adds unique within region check to pxe image type names (#16745)

Fixed

• Re-check the provider authentication if the API is responding (#16989)
• Configure yum proxy if given for updates (#16972)
• Fix physical server and topology access rights for EvmRole-operator (#16958)
• Close open connections from parent after fork (#16953)
• Fix filename when downloading pdf from Flavor summary (#16944)
• Remove chargeback rate from metering reports (#16928)
• Support mixed case basedn. (#16925)
• Implement #configuration_script because of virtual_has_one relationship (#16923)
• Only store the hostname if the hostname is valid (#16913)
• Add a 'Container Project Discovered' event (#16903)

Gaprindashvili-1 - Released 2018-01-31

Added

• Alerts
  • Seed MiqAlerts used for Prometheus Alerts (#16479)
  • Add severity to alert definitions (#16040)
  • Add hash_expression to MiqAlert (#15315)
• Ansible
  • Procfile.example - add workers needed for embedded ansible (#16679)
  • Add log_output option for embedded ansible service (#16414)
• Authentication
  • Added support for httpd auth-api service for containers. (#15881)
• Automate
  • Add quota mixin for vm_reconfigure_request and vm_migrate_request (#16626)
  • Add #raw_stdout_via_worker method (#16441)
  • Imports old associations (#16471)
  • Add the picture association to Generic Objects via generic_object_definition (#16006)
  • Generic object add to service. (#16000)
  • Rename the key from workspace to objects (#15977)
  • Added 'playbook' as location type for Automate Methods (#15939)
  • Added AutomateWorkspace model (#15817)
  • Add new classes to have custom buttons (#15845)
  • Added support for expression methods (#15537)
  • Provisioning: Support memory limit for RHV (#15591)
  • Add a relationship between generic objects and services. (#15490)
  • Display the text "Generic Object Class" in the UI (instead of Generic Object Definition) (#15672)
  • Set up dialog_field relationships through DialogFieldAssociations (#15566)
  • Metric rollups at the Service level (#15695)
  • Remove methods for Azure sample orchestration (#15752)
  • Provisioning: Add validate_blacklist method for VM pre-provisioning (#15513)
  • Support array of objects for custom button support (#14930)
  • Add configuration_script reference to service (#14232)
  • Add ServiceTemplateContainerTemplate. (#15356)
  • Add project option to container template service dialog. (#15340)
  • Provisioning: Ovirt-networking: using profiles (#14991)
  • Add delete method for Cloud Subnet (#15087)
  • Extract automation engine to separate repository (#13783)
  • Modified destroying an Ansible Service Template (#14586)
  • Ansible Playbook Service add on_error method. (#14583)
• Chargeback
  • Add Metering Used Hours to chargeback report (#15908)
• Core
  • Add method for Vm to get 'My Company' tags (#16607)
  • Remove the column reordering tool and the schema structure validations (#16488)
  • Added Product name to VMDB::Appliance (#16409)
  • Added User Agent to VMDB::Appliance (#16410)
  • Add PostgreSQL version restriction (#16171)
  • Print file name on any error from RipperRubyParser not just SyntaxError (#16112)
  • Added user_id group_id tenant_id (#16089)
  • Enhance the the orchestrator to deal with more objects (#15962)
  • Add event streams product features (#16021)
  • Use the built-in OpenShift service environment variables (#16001)
  • Adding Child Managers to EMS (#15889)
  • Add status and state scopes, fix time for MiqTask list (#16365)
• Events
  • Add target to event existence check (#15719)
• i18n
  • Add product/compare/.yaml to string extraction (#16691)
  • Add Data Types to dictionary (#15922)
  • Add missing Cloud Volume model names (#16689)
• Middleware
  • Enable compliance check for MW server (#16375)
  • Middleware compliance assignment (#16376)
• Performance
  • Optimize speed and stabilize the batch graph refresh memory usage (#15897)
• Platform
  • Don't use secure sessions in containers (#15819)
  • Add MiqExpression support for managed filters (#15623)
  • Use memcached for sending messages to workers (#15471)
  • Evaluate enablement expressions for custom buttons (#15729)
  • Evaluate visibility expressions for CustomButtons (#15725)
  • Include EvmRole-reader as read-only role in the fixtures (#15647)
  • Add HostAggregates to RBAC (#15417)
  • Adding options field to ext_management_system (#15398)
  • Change the target of tag expressions (#15715)
  • MiqExpression::Target#to_s (#15713)
  • Rename applies_to_exp to visibility_expression for serializing (#15501)
  • Add server MB usage to rake evm:status and status_full. (#15457)
  • Chargeback: Add average calculation for allocated costs and metrics optionally in chargeback (#15565)
  • Workers: Add heartbeat_check script for file-based worker process heartbeating (#15494)
  • Make namespace into a virtual attribute (#15532)
  • Use OpenShift API to control the Ansible container (#15492)
  • Allow MiqWorker.required_roles to be a lambda (#15522)
  • MulticastLogger#reopen shouldn't be used because it's backed by other loggers (#15512)
  • Add the evm:deployment_status rake task (#15402)
  • Set default server roles from env (#15470)
  • Logging to STDOUT in JSON format for containers (#15392)
  • Allow overriding memcache server setting by environment variable (#15326)
  • Reporting: Add Amazon report to standard set of reports (#15445)
  • Changed task_id to tracking_label (#15443)
  • Add MiqQueue#tracking_label (#15224)
  • Support worker heartbeat to a local file instead of Drb. (#15377)
  • Use the Ansible service in containers rather than starting it locally (#15423)
  • Default to spawn automatically if fork isn't supported (#15425)
  • Rails scripts for setting a server's zone and configuration settings from a command line (#11204)
  • Add rake script to export/import miq alerts and alert profiles (#14126)
  • Adds MiqHelper (#15020)
  • Move ResourceGroup relationship into VmOrTemplate model (#14948)
  • Report attributes for SUI (#14829)
• Providers
  • Introduce $vcloud_log that logs into log/vcloud.log (#16641)
  • Changing the key of network device to be both ipv4 + ipv6 (#16619)
  • Added "Mass Transform" feature (#16686)
  • Add ContainerQuotaScope model, save them in save_inventory (#16555)
  • Add tag categories for VM migration (#16402)
  • Add requests and limits to Persistent Volume Claim (#16026)
  • Add ems_infra_admin_ui feature (#16403)
  • Update ems_infra_admin_ui feature to role assignment (#16484)
  • Move graph refresh internals logging to debug (#16442)
  • Save the Lan parent_id for SCVMM (#16165)
  • Directly run a playbook (#16161)
  • Adding default filters configuration to physical servers (#16158)
  • Add a Subnet model for SCVMM (#16153)
  • Extend InventoryCollectionDefault::NetworkManager with network_groups (#16136)
  • Enable alerts definitions for transactions and messaging for Middleware Server (#16133)
  • Allow a 'type' setter on MiddlewareServer (#16126)
  • Enable alerts definitions with datasource for Middleware Server (#16125)
  • Enable alerts definitions using web sessions (#16113)
  • Add policy buttons to physical server page (#16110)
  • Add ems_ref to filter duplicate events (#16104)
  • Group by docker label in chargeback for container images (#16097)
  • Add physical server to constant support policy (#16085)
  • Adds support for physical server timeline (#16084)
  • Add Service resource linking. (#16082)
  • Always check for userid as UPN (#16069)
  • Fixing middleware servers alert handling (#16048)
  • Update model to use the customization_scripts table for LXCA config patterns (#16036)
  • Parse the serial number during refresh (#15992)
  • ovn: introducing ovn as ovirt's network provider (#15929)
  • Add Report: Projects by Quota Items (#15776)
  • Use more descriptive name for seal template (#16045)
  • Enhance NetworkRouter model for Amazon (#16030)
  • Metrics Worker capture_timer more ems centric (#16004)
  • Support publish Vm by RHV (#15981)
  • Improve metrics saving (#15976)
  • Add OpenSCAP scan to supported features mixin (#15944)
  • Queue targeted refresh in a provisioning workflow (#15933)
  • Convert Container quotas to numeric values (#15639)
  • Update model to support LXCA config patterns (#15956)
  • Add orchestration stack targeted refresh method (#15936)
  • Add relation between container projects and persistent volume claims (#15932)
  • Apply distinct on lans and switches (#15930)
  • Add instance security group management to product features (#15915)
  • raw_connect method for infra provider (#15914)
  • Add Ansible Playbook custom button type (#15874)
  • Add Openscap Result to VM model (#15862)
  • Flavors create and add methods (#15552)
  • Container Template: Add object_labels (#15406)
  • Add cloud volume backup delete and restore actions. (#15891)
  • Add instantiation_attributes to Container Template Parameter (#15863)
  • Add vm security group operations (#15826)
  • Add metadata function that should return the description of the data that is stored in the options field (#15799)
  • Register product features for JDR reports (#15768)
  • Add number of container using image (#15741)
  • Add support for additional power operations (#15683)
  • Update model to support network adapters (#15371)
  • Archive Container Nodes (#15351)
  • Add Pod to PersistentVolume relationship (#15023)
  • Missing settings for a cloud batch saving and adding shared_options (#15792)
  • Needed config for Cloud batch saver_strategy (#15708)
  • Remove the Eventcatcher from CinderManager (#14962)
  • Add a virtual column for supports_block_storage? and supports_cloud_object_store_container_create? (#15600)
  • Add product features for provider disable UI (#15592)
  • Raise creation event batched job (#15679)
  • Allow to run post processing job for ManagerRefresh (Graph Refresh) (#15678)
  • Batch saving strategy that does not require unique indexes (#15627)
  • Make sure passed ids for habtm relation are unique (#15651)
  • Sort nodes for a proper disconnect_inv/destroy order (#15636)
  • Middleware: Register product feature for stopping domains (#15680)
  • Add physical infra discovery to product features (#15607)
  • Adds virtual totals for servers vms and hosts to Physical Infrastructure Providers (#15613)
  • Change name of physical infra type in discovery (#15681)
  • Adapt manageiq to new managers (#15506)
  • Ansible Tower: Azure Classic Credential added for embedded Ansible (#15626)
  • Containers: Add new class ServiceContainerTemplate. (#15429)
  • Custom reconnect block (#15605)
  • Deal with special AR setters (#15439)
  • Store created updated and deleted records (#15603)
  • Use proper multi select condition (#15436)
  • Network: Generic CRUD for network routers (#15451)
  • Physical Infrastructure: Add physical infra types for discovery (#15621)
  • Add monitoring manager (#15354)
  • Adding sti mixin to container_image base class (#15505)
  • Container Template: Add :miq_class for each object (#15475)
  • Adding ContainerImage subclasses (#15386)
  • Change the criteria for a required field of ContainerTemplateServiceDialog. (#15469)
  • Support find and lazy_find by other fields than manager_ref (#15447)
  • Add MiqTemplate to InfraManager InventoryCollection (#15400)
  • Optimize insert query loading (#15404)
  • Batch saving strategy should populate the right timestamps (#15394)
  • Add power off/on events to automate control and the foreign key to events physical server (#15138)
  • Search for "product/views" in all plugins (#15353)
  • Save resource group information (#15187)
  • Add new class Dialog::ContainerTemplateServiceDialog. (#15216)
  • Concurent safe batch saver (#15247)
  • Removed SCVMM Data as moved to manageiq-providers-scvmm (#15314)
  • Middleware: Validate presence of feed on middleware servers (#15390)
  • Add important asserts to the default save inventory (#15197)
  • Delete complement strategy for deleting top level entities using batches (#15229)
  • First version of targeted concurrent safe Persistor strategy (#15227)
  • Generalize targeted inventory collection saving (#15198)
  • Containers: Add Report: Images by Failed Openscap Rule Results (#15210)
  • Physical Infrastructure: Add constraint to vendor in Physical Server (#15128)
  • Adding helper for unique index columns to inventory collection (#15141)
  • Minor inventory collection enhancements (#15108)
  • Physical Infrastructure: Method to save asset details (#14827)
  • Blacklisted event names in settings.yml (#14647)
  • Allow Vmdb::Plugins to work through code reloads in development. (#15057)
  • Provider native operations state machine (#14405)
  • Escalate privilege (#14929)
  • Physical Infrastructure: Create asset details object (#14749)
  • Pluggable Providers: allow seeding of dialogs from plugins (#14668)
  • Add features to physical servers pages (#14709)
  • Adds physical_server methods to be used by miq-ui (#14552)
  • Link MiqTemplates to their parent VM when one is present (#14755)
  • Ansible: Refresh job_template -> playbook connection (#14432)
  • Middleware: Cross-linking Middleware server model with containers. (#14043)
  • Openstack: Notify when an Openstack VM has been relocated (#14604)
  • Physical Infra: Add Topology feature (#14589)
  • Refresh Physical Servers (#16344)
  • Additions for Amazon tag mapping in graph refresh (#16734)
  • Reconnect host on provider add (#16767)
• Provisioning
  • Change get_targets_for_source to use correct params (#16811)
  • VMware placement to support only Clusters or only Folders. (#15951)
• RBAC
  • Added SUI notifications product feature (#16107)
• Reporting
  • Add scope :without_configuration_profile_id needed by Foreman explorer UI (#16439)
  • Limit Generic Object associations to the same list of objects available to reporting. (#15735)
• REST API
  • Set current user for generic object methods (#16120)
  • Add metrics default limit to API settings (#15797)
  • Add paging links to the API (#15148)
  • Render links with compressed ids (#15659)
  • Query by multiple tags (#15557)
  • Floating IPs: Initial API (#15524)
  • Network Routers REST API (#15450)
  • Render ids in compressed form in API responses (#15430)
  • Return BadRequestError when invalid attributes are specified (#15040)
  • Return href on create (#15005)
  • Remove miq_server (#15284)
  • Add cloud subnet REST API (#15248)
  • Set_miq_server Action (#15262)
  • Add support for Cloud Volume Delete action (#15097)
  • Add Alert Definition Profiles (MiqAlertSet) REST API support (#14438)
  • API support for adding/removing Policies to/from Policy Profiles (#14575)
  • Refresh Configuration Script Sources action (#14714)
  • Authentications refresh action (#14717)
  • Updated providers refresh to return all tasks for multi-manager providers (#14747)
  • Added new firmware collection api (#14476)
  • Edit VMs API (#14623)
  • Remove all service resources (#14584)
  • Remove resources from service (#14581)
  • Bumping up version to 2.4.0 for the Fine Release (#14541)
  • Bumping up API Versioning to 2.5.0-pre for the G-Release (#14544)
  • Exposing prototype as part of /api/settings (#14690)
• Service UI
  • Add SUI product features (#16068)
  • Service dialog generation rely only on OrchestrationParameterConstraint (#16047)
• Services
  • Add manageiq_connection as an extra_var key sent through services (#16668)
  • Name service during provisioning from dialog input (#16338)
  • Adds dialog field association info to importer (#15740)
  • Removes importer association data for backwards compatibility (#15724)
  • Exports new DialogFieldAssociations data (#15608)
• Smart State
  • Snapshot Support for Non-Managed Disks SSA (#15960)
  • Create Snapshot for Azure if a snapshot is required for SSA and if so call the snapshot code.(#15865)
  • Fix sometimes host analysis cannot get the linux packages info (#15140)
• Storage
  • Add missing features for Block Storage and Object Storage (#15812)
• Tools
  • Make tools easier to run (#15957)
• User Interface
  • Allow the target attribute to be read on ResourceActionWorkflow objects (#15916)
  • Add new classes to BUTTON_CLASSES (#16181)
  • Override the href_slug method to use GUID instead of id (#16129)
  • Add dialog field description to list of values updatable by automate (#16011)
  • Add virtual columns for GenericObject and GenericObjectDefinition (#16007)
  • Expose Custom Button visability/enablement (#15911)
  • Add custom buttons to generic object. (#15980)
  • Show monitoring screen by default (#14976)
  • Features for Generic Object Classes and Instances (#15611)
  • Add entries for Physical Server (#15275)
  • Add pretty model name for physical server (#15283)

Changed

• Automate
  • Provisioning: First and Last name are no longer required. (#14694)
  • Add policy checking for request_host_scan. (#14427)
  • Enforce policies type to be either "compliance" or "control" (#14519)
  • Add policy checking for retirement request. (#14641)
• Performance
  • Ultimate batch saving speedup (#15761)
  • Memoize Metric::Capture.capture_cols (#15791)
  • Don't run the broker for ems_inventory if update_driven_refresh is set (#15579)
  • Merge retirement checks (#15645)
  • Batch disconnect method for ContainerImage (#15698)
  • Allow batch disconnect for the batch strategy (#15699)
  • Optimize the query of a service's orchestration_stacks. (#15727)
  • MiqGroup.seed (#15586)
  • Use concat for better performance (#15635)
  • Do not queue C&U for things that aren't supported (#15195)
  • Add memory usage to worker status in rake evm:status and status_full (#15375)
  • Inventory collection default for infra manager (#15082)
  • Cache node_types instead of calling on every request (#14922)
  • Introduce: supports :capture (#15194)
  • Evmserver start-up: Improve ChargeableField.seed (#15236)
  • Do not schedule Session.purge if this Session is not used (#15064)
  • Do not queue no-op destroy action (#15080)
  • Do not schedule smartstate dispatch unless it is needed (#15067)
  • Avoid dozens of extra selects in seed_default_events (#14722)
  • Do not store whole container env. in the reporting worker forever (#14807)
  • BlacklistedEvent.seed was so slow (#14712)
  • Remove count(*) from MiqQueue.get (#14621)
  • MiqQueue - remove MiqWorker lookup (#14620)
• Platform
  • Move MiqApache from manageiq-gems-pending (#15548)
• Providers
  • Drop support for oVirt /api always use /ovirt-engine/api (#14469)
  • Red Hat Virtualization Manager: New provider event parsing (#14399)
  • Middleware: Stop using deprecated names of hawkular-client gem (#14543)
  • Add config option to skip container_images (#14606)
  • Pass additional metadata from alert to event (#14301)
• User Interface
  • Split up miq_capacity into three separate controllers (#15869)
  • Use update:ui rake task instead of update:bower (#15578)

Depricated

• Provisioning
  • Label has been deprecated and I need PR for day (#16671)

Fixed

• Authentication
  • Add raw_connect? method to ExtManagementSystem (#16636)
  • Fixes a stack trace issue (500) during API authentication. (#16520)
  • If the userid is not found in the DB do a case insensitive search (#15904)
  • A tool for converting miqldap auth to external auth with sssd (#15640)
  • Converting userids to UPN format to avoid duplicate user records (#15535)
  • External auth lookup_by_identity should handle missing request parameter (#16386)
• Automate
  • Use UUID to ensure the uniqueness of job template name (#16672)
  • Rescue migration error and update status (#16705)
  • Adds field unique validator check to dialog (#16487)
  • Fix for custom button not passing target object to dynamic dialog fields (#15810)
  • miq_group_id is required by automate. (#15760)
  • Fix service dialog edit (#15658)
  • Set user's group to the requester group. (#15696)
  • Fixed path for including miq-syntax-checker (#15551)
  • Provisioning: Validate if we have an array of integers (#15572)
  • Services: Add my_zone to Service Orchestration. (#15533)
  • Checks PXE customization templates for unique names (#15495)
  • Rebuild Provision Requests with arrays (#15410)
  • Services: Add orchestration stack my_zone. (#15334)
  • Add orchestration_stack_retired notification type. (#14957)
  • Revert previous changes adding notification to finish retirement. (#14955)
  • Adjust power states on a service to handle children (#14550)
  • Display Name and Description not updated during import (#14689)
  • Service#my_zone should only reference a VM associated to a provider. (#14696)
  • Fixes custom button method for things with subclasses (#16378)
  • Scope User and MiqGroup searches within the current region (#16756)
• Chargeback
  • Consider cloud volumes as data storages in chargeback (#16638)
  • Add back listing of custom attributes in chargeback (#16350)
  • Stop cashing fields for ChargebackVm report (#16683)
  • Fix max method on empty array in chargeback storage report (#16575)
  • Fix chargeback report when VM is destroyed (#16598)
  • Delete tag assignments when deleting a tag that is referenced in an assignment (#16039)
  • Rate selection using union of all tags in reporting(consumption) period (#15888)
• Core
  • Fix for failure to update service dialog - Couldn't find DialogField without an ID (#16753)
  • Add missing gettext into MiqUserRole (#16752)
  • Use USS (unique set size) instead of PSS for all the things (#16570)
  • Make ContainerLogger respond to #instrument (#16694)
  • Allow full error log (#16550)
  • Parse models of > 3 namespaces (#16704)
  • Fixes wrong number of arguments in purge_queue (#16706)
  • Send IDs through exec_api_call as a regular param not a block (#16708)
  • Dont queue email sending when notifier is off (#16528)
  • Ensure that the zone name is unique only within the current region (#16731)
  • Fix cached query for total unregistered vms (#16577)
  • No need to call normalized_status (#16578)
  • Skip seeding of categories if their creation is invalid (#16568)
  • Don't return a duplicate object from MiqGroup#settings (#16572)
  • Handle deprecated classes in arel (#16560)
  • Fix error in timeout checking for job without target (#16627)
  • Use the server IP for the AWX database host when the rails config is no good (#16621)
  • Handle autoload error not caught by safe_constantize (#16608)
  • Cache invalidation... (#16601)
  • Add purging for vim_performance_tag_values with disabled tags (#16425)
  • Add a connection to the pool if there is only one for embedded ansible (#16477)
  • Fix Expression builder argument error by reverting #5506 (#16255)
  • Move the notifications to include more of the setup (#16508)
  • Finish simplifying NTP configuration using Settings (#16393)
  • Fix issue where plugin settings had higher precedence than manageiq (#16535)
  • When importing report symbolize keys only in 'db_options:' section (#16143)
  • Allow group settings with string keys (#16142)
  • Add the help menu to the permissions template yaml file (#16096)
  • Fix error importing Widget on Custom Report page (#16034)
  • Queue destroying of linked events when instance of MiqServer destroyed (#15995)
  • Tool to replicate server settings to other servers (#15990)
  • Ruby 2.4 - Replace all Fixnum|Bignum (#15987)
  • Cancel before_destroy callback chain for MiqServer by throwing 'abort' (#15986)
  • Fix event_catcher blacklisted events logging (#15945)
  • This allows access to the worker object and also allows the web service workers to start the rails server which was broken (#15880)
  • Allows seeding a database with groups from other regions. (#15876)
  • Find_by_queue_name expects a string as queue_name (#16359)
  • Fix Zone creation (#16391)
  • Sort array of queue names (#16400)
• Events
  • Fix the ems_event add_queue method (#16187)
• i18n
  • Add missing gettext into MiqAction (#16766)
  • Add missing model names into locale/en.yml (#16604)
  • Fix string interpolations (#16468)
  • Add Middleware Server EAP/Wildfly translation (#16492)
• Inventory
  • Log less details about the targets (#16405)
  • Print name instead of manager ref [(#16411)](Print name instead of manager ref #16411)
• Metrics
  • Calculate Metering Used Hours only from used metrics in metering reports (#16677)
• Platform
  • Use ruby not runner for run single worker (#15825)
  • Handle pid in run_single_worker.rb properly (#15820)
  • Handle SIGTERM in run_single_worker.rb (#15818)
  • Bump to non-broken network discovery (#15798)
  • Get tag details for no specific model (#15788)
  • Support logins when "Get User Groups from LDAP" is not checked (#15661)
  • Give active queue worker time to complete message (#15529)
  • Seeding timeout (#15595)
  • RBAC: Add Storage feature to container administrator role (#15689)
  • Reporting: Do not limit width of table when downloading report in text format (#15750)
  • Authenticatin: Normalize the username entered at login to lowercase (#15716)
  • Fix CI after adding new columns to custom_buttons table (#15581)
  • Check for messages key in prefetch_below_threshold? (#15620)
  • Cast virtual attribute 'Hardware#ram_size_in_bytes' to bigint (#15554)
  • Refactor MiqTask.delete_older to queue condition instead of array of IDs (#15415)
  • Run the setup playbook if we see that an upgrade has happened (#15482)
  • Alerts: Fail explicitly for MAS validation failure (#15473)
  • Fix pseudo heartbeating when HB file missing (#15483)
  • Only remove my process' pidfile. (#15491)
  • Add UiConstants back to the web server worker mixin (#15518)
  • Add vm_migrate_task factory. (#15332)
  • FileDepotFtp: FTP.nlst cannot distinguish empty from non-existent dir (#9127)
  • Put back region_description method that was accidentally extracted (#15372)
  • Make user filter as restriction in RBAC (#15367)
  • Add AuthKeyPair to RBAC (#15359)
  • Workaround Rails.configuration.database_configuration being {} (#15269)
  • Move signal handling into the MiqServer object (#15206)
  • Format trend max cpu usage rate with percent (#15272)
  • Do not queue e-mails unless there is a notifier in the region (#14801)
  • Fixed logging for proxy when storage not defined (#15028)
  • Fix broken stylesheet path for PDFs (#14793)
  • RBAC: Add middleware models to direct RBAC (#15011)
  • RBAC for User model regard to allowed role (#14898)
  • Fallback to ActiveRecord config for DB host lookup (#15018)
  • Use ActiveRecord::Base for connection info (#15019)
  • Miq shortcut seeding (#14915)
  • Fix constant reference in ManagerRefresh::Inventory::AutomationManager (#14984)
  • Set the db application_name after the server row is created (#14904)
  • Remove default server.cer (#14858)
  • Fixed bug: timeout was not triggered for Image Scanning Job after removing Job#agent_class (#14791)
  • Use base class only when it is supported by direct rbac (#14665)
  • Alter embedded ansible for rpm builds (#14637)
• Providers
  • disconnect flag not respected in link_ems_inventory (#16618)
  • Fix missing operations for MW datasource (#16611)
  • remove satellite6 credential type from embedded ansible space (#16663)
  • Create a task when destroying an ems (#16669)
  • Add container events to pod (#16583)
  • Hide by default the Middleware tab in UI (#16698)
  • Disconnect inventory on targeted refresh (#16718)
  • Stop generating vim_performance_tag_values rows (#16692)
  • Add vm_destroy event to MiqEventDefinition (#16257)
  • Fix missing do_disconnect check in link_inventory (#16726)
  • Allow proxying WebMKS consoles using the WebsocketWorker (#16490)
  • Add the missing container template openshift to the en.yml (#16595)
  • Catalog Item type list is dependent on installed providers (#16559)
  • Allowing OperatingSystem for CloudManager graph refresh (#16605)
  • Fix has_required_role? for InventoryCollectorWorker (#16415)
  • Missing cascade delete for host_storages (#16440)
  • Truncate name of refresh task to 255 (#16444)
  • Datastores duplicated after a refresh (#16408)
  • Added a Maintenance key to the hash struct (#16464)
  • Refresh new target do not run post_refresh (#16436)
  • Add two new types to MW server factories (#16478)
  • Container ssa annotate success (#15031)
  • Require handsoap in VimConnectMixin (#16450)
  • Require miq_fault_tolerant_vim in raw_connect (#16500)
  • Unique EmsRefresh.refresh targets if there are over 1,000 targets (#16432)
  • Add MiqException prefix to vm snapshot exceptions (#16186)
  • Changed Friendly_name to accept Arrays of queue_names (#16172)
  • Remove duplicate metric_rollups not dealing with active relation (#16166)
  • Fix Product Features (#16164)
  • Fix attach/detach disks automate methods (#16160)
  • Change Failure label by Rollback (#16148)
  • Delegate name attribute to parent_manager (#16067)
  • Fix for when target new refresh fails (#16043)
  • Disabling batch saving for VmOrTemplate because of needed hooks (#16031)
  • Fix the lenovo's event_catcher time (#16012)
  • Change error notification level from success to error (#15998)
  • Add nil checks for manager_uuids and references (#15934)
  • Proxy support for cloning ansible repo and add provider (#15762)
  • Have parent inventory collections as dependencies (#15903)
  • Orchestrate destroy of dependent managers (#15590)
  • save_vms_inventory needs to respect disconnect flag (#15924)
  • When trying to find char layout for middleware messaging return correct file path (#15872)
  • Add the missing openstack Cloud Tenant translation to en.yml (#15744)
  • Fix non existent container showing in report (#15405)
  • Make networks vms relations distinct (#15783)
  • Add custom reconnect logic also to the batch saver (#15777)
  • Fix saving of refresh stats (#15775)
  • Adding require_nested for new azure_classic_credential (#15770)
  • Re-adding "Create Service Dialog from Container Template" feature (#15653)
  • JobProxyDispatcher should use all container image classes (#15519)
  • Remove remains of container definition (#15721)
  • Use archived? instead of ems_id.nil? (#15633)
  • Return VMs and Templates for EMS prev_relats (#15671)
  • Fix bug in InventoryCollection#find_by with non-default ref (#15648)
  • Remove methods for Azure sample orchestration (#15752)
  • VMware Infrastructure: Fix Core Refresher if there is no ems_vmware setting (#15690)
  • Pluggability: change ManageIQ::Environment to run bundle install on plugin_setup (#15589)
  • Fix orchestrated destroy (#15339)
  • Wait for ems workers to finish before destroying the ems (#14848)
  • Return an empty relation instead of an array from db_relation() (#15325)
  • Physical Infrastructure: Fix the hosts key in method which save physical server (#15199)
  • Foreman: Added a check that URL is a type of HTTPS uri. (#14965)
  • Refactor start_clone method and break up powershell functions (#14842)
  • Microsoft Infrastructure: [SCVMM] Always assume a string for run_powershell_script (#14859)
  • Sleep some more time in ansible targeted refresh (#14899)
  • Create or delete a catalog item on update (#14830)
  • Prefer :dialog_id to :new_dialog_name in config_info (#14958)
  • Containers: Update miq-shortcuts (#14951)
  • Hawkular: Fix defaults for immutability of MiddlewareServers (#14822)
  • Move public/external network method into base class (#14920)
  • Ensure that genealogy_parent exists in the vm data before using it (#14753)
  • All_ems_in_zone is not a scope yet so we can't chain 'where' (#14792)
  • Ansible Tower: Reformat Ansible Tower error messages (#14777)
  • Containers: Removed duplicate report (#14515)
  • Google: Fix typo on "retirement" string in google provisioning dialog. (#14800)
  • Physical Infrastructure: Fix vendor key in physical server (#14828)
  • Storage: Fix StorageManagers Cross Linkers (#14795)
  • VMware: Create a notification when a snapshot operation fails (#13991)
  • Ensure remote shells generated by SCVMM are closed when finished (#14591)
  • Always evaluate datawarehouse_alerts (#14318)
  • Use human friendly names in task names and notifications for Tower CUD operations (#14977)
  • Nullify dependents when destroying configuration_script_sources/configuration_scripts (#14567)
  • Use organization instead of organization_id when talking to Tower (#14538)
  • Fix task name for task that create Tower project (#14656)
  • Ensure job is refreshed in the condition of state machine exits on error (#14684)
  • Parse password field from dialog and decrypt before job launch (#14636)
  • Ansible Service: skip dialog options for retirement (#14602)
  • Modified to use Embedded Ansible instance (#14568)
  • An Ansible Tower "Inventory" is a ManageIQ "InventoryRootGroup" (#14716)
  • Fix for External Automation Manager Inventory Group (#14691)
  • Notification after Tower credential CUD operations (#14625)
  • Product features for embedded ansible refresh (#14664)
  • Notification after Tower credential CUD operations (#14625)
  • Product features for embedded ansible refresh (#14664)
  • Do unassign tags when mapped tags list becomes empty (#16370)
  • C&U fix bug in Targets#capture_vm_targets (#16373)
  • Fixed: ESxi host does not exit maintenance mode (#16710)
  • ensure monitoring manager deletion and creation on endpoint update (#16635)
  • Set limits for VM and Template names and descriptions (#16736)
  • Reconnect host on provider add (#16750)
  • Adding hostname format validation (#16714)
  • Added get_targets_for_base class methods (#16707)
• Provisioning
  • Changes cloud network list to follow availability zone rules (#16688)
  • Adding the option to set default vlan (#16504)
  • Fix email issue in miq_provision_quota_mixin active_provision by_owner method (#16693)
  • Fix allowed_vlans to call preload correctly (#16702)
• RBAC
  • Removed redundant "Monitor" main tab node. #16648 (#16648)
  • Standalone ServiceUI product features require, updating affected roles (#16329)
  • Fix nil cases of allocated disk types in chargeback reporting (#16434)
  • Add Missing button features to miq_features.yaml (#16027)
  • Ensure that base_class of first target is used for RBAC scope (#16178)
  • Add belongsto filter for other network models (#16151)
  • Move rule for network manager to belonsto filter (#16063)
  • Add Tasks start page URL to shortcuts yaml file (#16061)
  • Save key pairs in Authentication table (#15485)
  • Lower the report level of routine http errors in the Fog log (#15363)
• Replication
  • Prevent replication subscription to the same region as the current region (#16446)
  • Scope Tenant#name validation to the current region (#16506)
• Reporting
  • Add proper translation for manageiq_providers_cloud_manager_vms (#16666)
  • Update translation to resolve ambiguous Provider:Type field (#16673)
  • Fixed syntax with orderby in RSS Feed YAML files (#16493)
  • Unconditionally seed all standard reports and widgets (#16062)
  • Do not show container and cloud providers on 'Monthly Hosts per Provider' report (#15822)
  • Expand scope of report definitions that visible to a user (#16716)
  • Add more translations for cloud resources and templates (#16744)
• REST API
  • web service worker needs to load MiqAeDomain etc. (#15769)
  • manageiq-api should be a plugin (#15755)
  • Allow operator characters on the RHS of filter (#15534)
  • Force ascending order (#15559)
  • Allow compressed ids when updating a service dialog (#15619)
  • Make request APIs consistent by restricting access to automation/provision requests to admin/requester (#15186)
  • Render ids in compressed form in API responses (#15430)
  • Use correct identifier for VM Retirement (#15509)
  • Return only requested attributes (#14734)
  • Return Not Found on Snapshots Delete actions (#15489)
  • Redirect tasks subcollection to request_tasks (#15357)
  • Request members should allow access to users with admin role (#15163)
  • Requests should allow access to users with admin role (#15151)
  • Correctly configure custom attributes for DELETEs (#14751)
  • Return correct custom_attributes href (#14752)
  • Render DELETE action for notifications (#14775)
  • Allow policies to be deleted via DELETE (#14659)
  • Allow partial POST edits on miq policy REST (#14518)
  • Return provider_class on provider requests (#14657)
  • Return correct resource hrefs (#14549)
  • Removing ems_events from config/api.yml (#14699)
• Services
  • Fix check_quota(:active_provisions) for Service MiqRequest invalid service_template (#16769)
  • Change the type name for the catalog Item from 'Container Template' to 'Openshift Template' (#16639)
  • ServiceTemplate: add scope for unassigned items. (#16445)
• Smartstate
  • Increase Timeouts and Worker Memory for Azure SSA (#16016)
  • Add Heartbeat Thread to SmartProxy Worker (#16685)
• User Interface
  • Added factories that are need to run spec tests in the BZ fix (#16794)
  • Add MiqWdigetSet to Dashboard dictionary translation (#16784)
  • Update group/role EvmGroup-desktop product features (#16788)
  • Fixed control explorer feature id (#16780)
  • Update user roles to proper access physical infrastructure views (#16637)
  • Add Compute Infrastructure Hosts filter for ESX 6.5 (#16703)
  • Set default values for help menu link target types in settings.yml (#16549)
  • Update Catalog tab of Publish VM dialog (#16599)
  • Fix resize approval to work for editing requests (#16381)
  • Add monitoring menus (#15866)
  • This fixes Cockpit console from attempting to connect to AWS and GCE on private instead of public ip addresses and enables Cockpit console for RHOS. (#15901)
  • Remove rails-controller-testing from Gemfile (#15852)
  • Fail with descriptive message when no EMS (#15807)
  • Sync up dropdown list in My Settings => Visual Tab => Start Up (#14914)
  • Added jobs.target_class and jobs.target_id to returned dataset in MiqTask.yaml view (#14932)
  • Renamed action to copy Service Dialog (#16623)

Removed

• Core
  • Passing a class as a value in an Active Record query is deprecated (#16008)
• Middleware
  • Remove middleware reports (#16712)
  • Removing all middleware performance charts (#16713)
  • Revert "Enable mwPolicies" (#16701)

Unreleased as of Sprint 78 ending 2018-01-29

Added

• Picture content is moving to the pictures table. (#16810)
• Adding apply config pattern feature (#16796)
• Add orphan purging for vim_performance_states (#16754)
• Introduce virtualization manager (#16721)
• Graph refresh refactoring internal indexes (#16597)

Fixed

• Rescue attempt to get backlog for remote db in PglogicalSubscription#backlog (#16889)
• Don't dependent => destroy child managers (#16871)
• Event state machine is added to replace the synchronous refresh. (#16868)
• Change DescendantLoader to handle non-AR classes in the models directory (#16867)
• Many things rely on authentications check it first (#16864)
• Added before_save to MiqTask to initialize MiqTask#started_on when task become active (#16863)
• Add missing role for container user groups (#16861)
• Pass target object when evaluating expression for Generic Object (#16858)
• When using http only set env variable to allow insecure sessions (#16854)
• Allow users already in UPN format (#16849)
• Fix memory leak with ruby/require/autoload_paths (#16837)
• Change the way active_provisions are calculated. (#16831)
• Add acts_as_miq_taggable to AuthPrivateKey (#16828)
• Update users' current_group on group deletion (#16809)
• Add condition to fix deletion of Default Container Image Rate (#16792)
• Fixed expression evaluation for custom button in CustomActionMixin (#16770)
• Change aliases for container entities (#16765)
• Provider to orchestrate_destroy managers first - Alt (#16755)
• EmsRefresh task name to use demodularize classname (#16594)
• ContainerServicePortConfigs using :container_service :name (#16454)
• Fix the pre-defined Auditor role's permissions. (#16394)

Fine-4

Added

• Automate
  • Add ae_state_max_retries to root object. (#46)
  • Add missing service model change for calculating active quota counts for Service requests. (#69)
• Platform
  • Only remove my process' pidfile. (#15491)
• Providers
  • Implement :reboot_guest for VM (#52)
  • Add additional logging into the websocket proxy for easier debugging (#15428)
  • Add validate_blacklist method for VM pre-provisioning (#15513)
  • Add blacklists for VM username and password when provisioning (#88)
  • ovirt-networking: using profiles (#14991)
  • Disable delete button for the active snapshot on oVirt (#54)
  • Update provision requirements check to allow exact matches (#72)
  • Add config option to skip container_images (#14606)
  • Create Snapshot for Azure (#15865)
  • Option needed for new ems_refresh.openshift.store_unused_images setting (#11)
• RBAC
  • Include EvmRole-reader as read-only role in the fixtures (#15647)
• Services
  • Add group in manageiq payload for ansible automation. (#15787)
• Smart State
  • Snapshot Support for Non-Managed Disks SSA (#15960)
  • Increase Timeouts and Worker Memory for Azure SSA (#16016)

Fixed

• Authentication
  • Normalize the username entered at login to lowercase (#15716)
  • Converting userids to UPN format to avoid duplicate user records (#15535)
• Automate
  • Add validate_blacklist method for VM pre-provisioning (#15513)
  • Fix vm_migrate_task statemachine_task_status value. (#38)
  • Need to pass the user's group in to automate when the provision starts. (#61)
  • miq_group_id is required by automate. (#15760)
• Chargeback
  • Delete tag assignments when deleting a tag that is referenced in an assignment (#16039)
• Core
  • Do not limit width of table when downloading report in text format (#15750)
  • Check for messages key in prefetch_below_threshold? (#15620)
  • Give active queue worker time to complete message (#15529)
  • Fix constant reference in ManagerRefresh::Inventory::AutomationManager (#14984)
• Platform
  • Add vm_migrate_task factory. (#15332)
  • Check for messages key in prefetch_below_threshold? (#15620)
  • Normalize the username entered at login to lowercase (#15716)
  • Collect log follows symlink recursively to the origin file (#15420)
• Providers
  • Return VMs and Templates for EMS prev_relats (#15671)
  • Fix VM password restrictions (#87)
  • Fix unhandled exception in metrics collection when missing credentials (#53)
  • Add explicit capture threshold for container (#15311)
  • Avoid Tower in notifications for embedded ansible (#15478)
  • Pass userid before going to automation (#54)
  • Manager name not updated on foreman provider edit (#5)
  • Remove the expose of manager to Embedded Ansible Job in service model. (#47)
  • Avoid Tower in notifications for embedded ansible (#10)
  • Choose build pod by name AND namespace (#15575)
  • disconnect_storage should be called once (#62)
  • Matching on array order is failing sporadically (#15692)
  • Revamp create_vm_script to use configuration (#9)
  • Force array context for VMs, hosts, vnets and images (#13)
  • Don't break refresh if a flavor couldn't be found (#69)
  • Fixed cases causing waiting on timeout in vm_import (#73)
  • fix builds namespace matching (#33)
  • Handle case where do_volume_creation_check gets a nil from Fog (#73)
  • Fix non existent container showing in report (#15405)
  • 'try' in case its a v2 tower which doesn't have v3 attr (#17)
  • Quota - Calculate quota values for active provisions. (#15466)
  • Do not downcase the amazon IAM username (#296)
  • Skip invalid container_images (#94)
  • Proxy support for cloning ansible repo and add provider (#15762)
  • Check if project_id is accessible (#23)
• RBAC
  • Move rule for network manager to belongsto filter (#16063)
• Reporting
  • Cast virtual attribute 'Hardware#ram_size_in_bytes' to bigint (#15554)
  • Unconditionally seed all standard reports and widgets (#16062)
• REST API
  • Return Not Found on Snapshots Delete actions (#15489)
  • Use correct identifier for VM Retirement (#15509)
  • Allow operator characters on the RHS of filter (#15534)
  • Set the current userid when running a report (#30)
• Security
  • Use nil ca_certs to trust system CAs (#63)
• Services
  • Set user's group to the requester group. (#15696)
• User Interface
  • Fix for found as option in drop down service dialogs (#15456)
  • Don't unconditionally update verify_ssl (#52)]
  • Login Start Pages dropdown list - Clouds menus (#15017)
  • Fix for custom button not passing target object to dynamic dialog fields (#15810)

Fine-3

Added

• Automate

  • Automate - added vmware reconfigure model to quota helper. (#14756)
  • Provisioning: Ovirt-networking: using profiles (#14991)
  • Services
    • Log zone(q_options) when raising retirement event. (#15317)

• Platform

  • Set database application name in workers and server (#13856)
  • Fix startup shortcut YAML setting for Configuration Management (#14506)
  • Generate virtual custom attributes with sections (#14837)
  • Allow reports to be generated based on GuestApplication (#14939)
  • Allow deletion of groups with users belonging to other groups (#15041)
  • Track and kill embedded ansible monitoring thread (#15612)
  • RBAC
    • Include EvmRole-reader as read-only role in the fixtures (#15647)

• Providers

  • Ansible Tower
    • Add status column to Repositories list (#14855)
    • Use $log.log_hashes to filter out sensitive data. (#14878)
  • Containers
    • Add purge timer for archived entities (#14322)
    • Delete archived entities when a container manager is deleted (#14359)

• Red Hat Virtualization: Reduce the default oVirt open timeout to 1 minute (#15099)

  • Add a virtual column for supports_block_storage? and supports_cloud_object_store_container_create? (#15600)

• REST API

  • Add cloud tenants to API (#14731)
  • Add SQL store option to token store (#14947)
  • Configuration_script_sources subcollection (#15070)

Changed

• Providers
  • Add config option to skip container_images (#14606)

Fixed

• Automate

  • Fix for custom button not passing target object to dynamic dialog fields (#15810)
  • miq_group_id is required by automate. (#15760)
  • Control: Remove the policy checking for request_host_vmotion_enabled. (#14429)
  • Provisioning
    • Add validate_blacklist method for VM pre-provisioning (#15513)
    • Filter out the hosts with the selected network. (#14946)
    • Add :sort_by: :none to GCE Boot Disk Size dialog field. (#14981)
    • Force status removal and default value (#15685)
  • Services
    • Set user's group to the requester group. (#15696)
    • Use extra_vars to create a new dialog when editing Ansible playbook service template. (#15120)

• Platform

  • Add a marker file for determining when the ansible setup has been run (#15642)
  • Give active queue worker time to complete message (#15529)
  • Authentication
    • Check the current region when creating a new user (#15516)
    • Normalize the username entered at login to lowercase (#15716)
  • Format time interval for log message (#15370)
  • Add vm_migrate_task factory. (#15332)
  • Start Apache if roles were changed and it is needed by the current roles (#15078)
  • Add a notification for when the embedded ansible role is activated (#14867)
  • Reporting
    • Do not limit width of table when downloading report in text format (#15750)
    • Fix chargeback report with unassigned rates (#15580)
    • Cast virtual attribute 'Hardware#ram_size_in_bytes' to bigint (#15554)
    • Fix key for regexp in miq_expression.yaml (#15452)
    • Include cloud instances in Powered On/Off Report (#15333)
    • Correct field names for reports (#14905)
    • Changed report name to be consistent with actual produced report. (#14646)
  • Fix constant reference in ManagerRefresh::Inventory::AutomationManager (#14984)
  • Do not delete report if task associated with this report deleted (#15134)
  • Workers
    • Only remove my process' pidfile. (#15491)
  • Check for messages key in prefetch_below_threshold? (#15620)

• Providers

  • Inventory
    • Return VMs and Templates for EMS prev_relats (#15671)
  • Ansible Tower: Let ansible worker gracefully stop (#15643)
  • Limit CloudTenants' related VMs to the non-archived ones (#15329)
  • Containers
    • Add default filters for the container page (#14893)
    • Fix Containers dashboard heatmaps (#14857)
  • Microsoft Infrastructure
    • [SCVMM] Remove -All from Get-SCVMTemplate call (#15106)
  • Network
    • Fix network_ports relation of a LB (#14969)
  • Virtual Infrastructure: Add a method to InfraManager to retrieve Hosts without EmsCluster (#14884)

• REST API

  • Allow operator characters on the RHS of filter (#15534)
  • Fix virtual attribute selection (#15387)
  • Make TokenManager#token_ttl callable (evaluated at call time) (#15124)
  • Return Not Found on Snapshots Delete actions (#15489)
  • Use correct identifier for VM Retirement (#15509)

• SmartState: Fixed bug: one call to Job#set_status from `VmScan#call_snapshot_delete' has one extra parameter (#14964)

• User Interface (Classic)

  • Show Network Port name in Floating IP list (#14970)
  • Add missing units on VMDB Utilization page for disk size (#14921)
  • Add Memory chart for Availability Zones (#14938)
  • Removed grouping from all Middleware views (#15042)
  • Fix URL to Compute/Containers/Containers in miq_shortcuts (#15497)
  • Fail with descriptive message when no EMS (#15807)

Fine-2

Added

• REST API
• Enable custom actions for Vms API (#14817)

Fixed

• Platform

  • Ensure order is qualified by table name for rss feeds (#15112)

  • RBAC

    • Fix tag filtering for indirect RBAC (#15088)

• Providers

  • Ansible Tower
    • Check that the Embedded Ansible role is on (#15045)
    • Encrypt secrets before enqueue Tower CU operations (#15084)
    • Hint to UI that scm_credential private_key field should have multiple-line (#15109)
    • Only run the setup playbook the first time we start embedded ansible (#15225)

Fine-1

Added

• Automate

  • Alerts
    • Pass metadata from an EmsEvent to an alert (#14136)
    • Add hide & show alert status actions (backend) (#13650)
  • Ansible Tower
    • Service Playbook updates fqname and configuration_template (#15007)
    • Require EmbeddedAnsible playbook to create playbook service (#14226)
    • Add relationships between Ansible job and its playbook (#14144)
    • Associate job with credentials (#14113)
    • Save newly created dialog_id in options (#14254)
    • Collect more attributes for Ansible Tower job (#14076)
    • Add Run Ansible Playbook control action type (#13943)
    • Create service template with Ansible Tower after first creating a new job template (#13896)
    • Added "Ansible Playbook" to the list of catalog item types (#13936)
    • Expose job_template from a service template (#13895)
    • Create catalog item after job templates are created (#13893)
    • Create temporary inventory when execute a playbook (#14008)
    • Run a control action to order Ansible Playbook Service (#13874)
  • Control: Enforce policies type to be either "compliance" or "control" (#14519)
  • Orchestration
    • Add Picture to Orchestration Template (#14201)
    • Use task queue for update stack operation (#13897)
  • Provisioning
    • Change vLan name to Virtual Network (#13747)
    • Advanced networking placement features and automate exposure for OpenStack (#13608)
    • Add multiple_value option to expose_eligible_resources (#13853)
  • Service Model
    • Add ae service model for S3 CloudObjectStoreContainer (#14164)
    • Add ae service model for S3 CloudObjectStoreObject (#14189)
  • Services
    • Add a add_to_service method to Vm (#14416)
    • Add orchestration_stacks to ServiceAnsiblePlaybook (#14248)
    • Update catalog item without config_options (#14147)
    • Set the initiator from the workflow/request (#14070)
    • Add service object to deliver to automate. (#13956)
    • Create a provision request for a service template (#13972)
    • ServiceTemplate update_catalog_item (#13811)
    • Add create_catalog_item to ServiceTemplateAnsibleTower (#13646)
    • Tool to create a service dialog for an Ansible playbook (#13494)
    • Resource action - Add service_action. (#13751)
    • Initial commit for ansible playbook methods and service model. (#13717)
    • Add automate engine support for array elements containing text values (#11667)
    • Modified destroying an Ansible Service Template (#14586)
    • Ansible Playbook Service add on_error method. (#14583)
    • Add 'delete' to generic object configuration dropdown (#13541)
  • Automate Model: Add Amazon block storage automation models (#13458)
  • Orchestration Services: create_catalog_item to ServiceTemplateOrchestration (#13628)
  • Add create_catalog_item class method to ServiceTemplate (#13589)
  • Save playbook service template (#13600)
  • Allow adding disks to vm provision via api and automation (#13318)
  • Move MiqAeEngine components into the appropriate directory in preparation for extracting the Automate engine into its own repository (#13406)
  • Automate Retry with Server Affinity (#13363)
  • Service Model: Added container components for service model (#12863)
  • Expose attach/detach method for volume (#14289)
  • Allow passing options when adding a disk in automate. (#14350)

• Platform

  • Add remote servers to rake evm:status_full (#14107)
  • Include embedded ansible logs in log collection (#14770)
  • Ansible Tower
    • Create initial tower objects when we start the worker (#14283)
    • Add embedded_ansible to the list of roles that need apache (#14353)
    • Raise a notification when the embedded ansible server starts (#14529)
    • Move embedded ansible worker thread up to start_runner (#14256)
    • Run #authentication_check after the embedded ansible service starts (#14235)
    • Rely on 10 minute starting_timeout instead of a heartbeating thread (#14053)
    • Add methods for configuring and starting Ansible inside (#13584)
    • New class for determining the availability of embedded ansible (#13435).
  • Authentication: Ensure user name is set even when common LDAP attributes are missing. (#14142)
  • RBAC
    • Introduce CloudTenancyMixin to fix RBAC for cloud_tenant based models (#13535)
    • Add RBAC for rss feeds (#14041)
    • Add View and Modify/Add RBAC features for the Embedded Automation Provider (#13716)
    • Add list of providers to RBAC on catalog items (#13395)
  • Reporting
    • Add archived Container Groups (#13810)
    • Adding new report and widgets for Containers (#13055)
    • Add option for container performance reports (#11904)
  • Chargeback
    • Chargeback without C & U (#13884)
    • Containers: Enterprise rate parent for chargeback (#14079)
    • Add tenant scoping for resources of performance reports in RBAC (#14095)
    • Introduce Vm/Chargeback tab backend (#13687)
    • Charge SCVMM's vm only until it is retired. (#13451)
  • Add a #backlog method to PglogicalSubscription objects (#14010)
  • Metrics: Collect metrics for archived containers (#13686)

• Providers

  • Enhanced inventory collector target and parser classes (#13907)
  • Force unique endpoint hostname only for same type (#12912)
  • New folder targeted refresh [Depends on vmware/32] (#14460)
  • Amazon
    • Namespace the mappable object types add Amazon VM and Image types. (#14288)
    • Map Amazon labels to tags (#14436)
    • Import AWS Tags as CustomAttributes for Instances and Images (#14202)
    • Move amazon settings to ManageIQ/manageiq-providers-amazon (#13192)
  • Ansible Tower
    • Tower CUD check and run refresh_in_provider followed by refreshing manager (#15025)
    • Tower CUD to invoke targeted refresh (#14954)
    • Refresh job_template -> playbook connection (#14432)
    • Prepare parameter hash before passing to Tower API credential CU (#14483)
    • Add manageiq to the extra_var before launching a job (#14354)
    • Use embedded tower default objects for ManageIQ (#14467)
    • Catalog item accepts remove_resources option (#14328)
    • Enable scm_credential type in refresh (#14471)
    • Add a concern for storing and accessing embedded ansible object ids (#14377)
    • Added Inventory to EmbeddedAnsible namespace (#14282)
    • Create/Update/Delete Ansible Tower Projects and Credentials via queue (#14305)
    • Add retire_now to Embedded Ansible job. (#14479)
    • Destroy Ansible Playbook job templates (#14461)
    • Add job_plays to job (#14331)
    • Add EmbeddedAnsible workers to WorkerManagement (#14234)
    • Refresh to pick up scm options for Tower Project (#14220)
    • Refresh to pick up extra attributes of Ansible Credentials (#14106)
    • Enhanced dependency and references scanning (#13995)
    • Introducing find by and find or build by methods (#13926)
    • Model change for Ansible Tower Credential (#13773)
    • Add missing ConfigurationScriptSource hierarchy and Automate models (#14069)
    • Models for EmbeddedAnsible provider (#13879)
    • Refresh inventory (#13807)
    • Event Catcher (#13423)
    • Migrate AnsibleTower ConfigurationManager to AutomationManager (#13630)
  • Cloud Providers
    • Enable cloud_tenant based RBAC for additional models (#14036)
    • Update Cloud Image View to Differentiate Between Snapshots and Non-Snapshots (#12970)
    • Allow cloud volume to provide a list of volumes for attach (#14058)
    • Add relationship between VM and ResourceGroup. (#14000)
    • Support operation create on CloudObjectStoreContainer (#14269)
  • Console: Add product feature for VMware WebMKS HTML consoles (#13945)
  • Containers
    • Support alerts on container nodes (#13812)
    • Add External Logging Support SupportFeature (#13319)
    • Add datawarehouse logger (#13813)
    • Instantiate Container Template (#10737)
    • Collect node custom attributes from hawkular during refresh (#12924)
    • Add alerts on container nodes (#13323)
  • Middleware
    • Cross-linking Middleware server model with containers. (#14043)
    • Be able to use tls when connecting to Hawkular (#14054)
    • Send data source properties when adding data source operation is performed (#13937)
    • Middleware server group power ops (#13741)
  • OpenStack
    • Use task queue for set/unset node maintenance (#13657)
    • Use task queue for CRUD operations on auth key pair (#13464)
    • Add OpenStack excon settings (#14172)
    • Add OpenStack infra provider event blacklist (#14369)
  • Physical Infrastructure
    • Add Physical Infra Topology feature (#14589)
    • Add physical infra refresh monitor (#14424)
    • Add physical server views to the product (#14031)
  • Pluggable
    • Ems event groups - allow provider settings (deeper_merge edition) (#14177)
    • Add registered_provider_plugins to Vmdb::Plugins (#13983)
  • Red Hat Virtualization
    • New provider event parsing (#14399)
    • Use the new OvirtSDK for refresh (#14398)
    • Don't pass empty lists of certificates to the oVirt SDK (#14160)
    • Always pass the URL path to the oVirt SDK (#14159)
    • Set 'https' as the default protocol when using oVirt SDK (#14157)
  • VMware Infrastructure: Validate CPU and Memory Hot-Plug settings in reconfigure (#12275)

• REST API

  • Remove all service resources (#14584)
  • Remove resources from service (#14581)
  • Bumping up version to 2.4.0 for the Fine Release (#14541)
  • Exposing prototype as part of /api/settings (#14690)
  • Add Alert Definitions (MiqAlert) bulk edits support (#14397)
  • Add_resource to Service api (#14409)
  • API Authentication create (#14217)
  • Added support for API slugs (#14344)
  • Enable put/patch on configuration script sources and authentications (#14381)
  • API Enhancement to support fine-grained settings whitelisting (#13948)
  • Create configuration script sources (#14006)
  • Edit Authentications API (#14319)
  • Delete and update configuration script sources (#14323)
  • Delete authentication in provider (#14307)
  • Collections API for Cloud Volumes (#14260)
  • Orchestration stack subcollection (#14273)
  • Add cloud types to authentication options (#13951)
  • Adds host to physical server relationship (#14026)
  • Adding support for a format_attributes parameter (#14449)
  • Added Api::Utils.resource_search_by_href_slug helper method (#14443)
  • Enhanced API to have a task created for provider refreshes (#14387)
  • Add Alert Definitions (MiqAlert) REST API support (#13967)
  • Enhance service edit to accept attribute references (#14124)
  • Delete service templates via POST (#14112)
  • Delete services via POST (#14111)
  • Delete templates via POST (#14110)
  • Exposing regions as a primary collection /api/regions (#14109)
  • Add authentications sub collection to ConfigurationScriptPayload (#14002)
  • Improve error handling on destroy action (#14098)
  • Differentiate Vms/Instances in messages (#13971)
  • Authentications Read and Delete api (#13780)
  • Create service template REST api (#12594)
  • Snapshots revert API (#13829)
  • Add snapshotting for instances in the API (#13729)
  • Bulk unassign tags on services and vms (#13712)
  • Add bulk delete for snapshots API (#13711)
  • Improve create picture validation (#13697)
  • Configuration Script Sources API (#13626)
  • Api enhancement to support optional collection_class parameter (#13845)
  • Allows specification for optional multiple identifiers (#13827)
  • Add config_info as additional attribute to Service Templates API (#13842)
  • API collection OPTIONS Enhancement to expose list of supported subcollections (#13681)
  • API Enhancement to support filtering on id attributes by compressed id's (#13645)
  • Adds remove_approver_resource to ServiceRequestController. (#13596)
  • Add OPTIONS method to Clusters and Hosts (#13574)
  • VMs/Snapshots API CRD (#13552)
  • Add alert actions api (#13325)
  • Copy orchestration template (#13053)
  • Expose Request Workflow class name (#13441)
  • Sort on sql friendly virtual attributes (#13409)
  • Expose allowed tags for a request workflow (#13379)

• SmartState

  • Make docker registry & repo configurable for 'image-inspector' (#8439)
  • Warn if OpenSCAP binary not available (#13878)

• Storage

  • Add Amazon EC2 block storage manager EMS (#13539)

• User Interface (Classic)

  • Add missing ui_lookup for Repository (#14485)
  • Remove 'retired' column from the services list (#14378)
  • Changes for Embedded Ansible models (#14199)
  • Add missing fields to Middleware views (#14115)
  • Add multiselect option to dropdowns (#10270)
  • Core changes for Ansible Tower Playbooks & Repositories UI (#13731)
  • Core changes for Ansible Credentials UI (#14020)
  • Added changes to show Catalog Item type in UI (#13516)
  • Physical Infrastructure provider (lenovo) changes required for the UI (#13735)
  • Adding Physical Infra Providers Menu Item (#13587)
  • Added new features for the Ansible UI move to the Automation tab (#13526)
  • Added new features for the Ansible UI move to the Automation tab (#13526)
  • Add edit functionality for generic object UI (#11815)

Changed

• Automate

  • Switched to the latest version of ansible_tower_client gem (#14117)
  • Update the service dialog to use the correct automate entry point (#13955)
  • Change default provisioning entry point for AutomationManagement. (#13762)
  • Look for resources in the same region as the selected template during provisioning. (#13045)

• Performance

  • Optimize number of transactions sent in refresh (#14670)
  • Optimize store_ids_for_new_records by getting rid of the O(n^2) lookups (#14542)
  • Do not run MiqEventDefinitionSet.seed twice on every start-up (#14725)
  • Do not run these seeds twice (#14726)
  • Speed up MiqEventDefinitionSet.seed (#14721)
  • Do not store whole container env. in the reporting worker forever (#14807)
  • Make Widget run without timezones (#14386)
  • boot skips all seeding with env variable (#14207)
  • Add a cache for full Feature objects (#14037)
  • Report Widget (#14285)
  • Skip relationship query when we know there are none (#14480)
  • Report Widget (#14285)
  • Speed up widget generation (#14224)
  • Fix ordering by VMs in NetworkManagers list (#14092)
  • Use eager_load for extra_resources (#13904)
  • Perfomance fix for Object Storage Manager deletion (#14009)
  • Avoid N+1 queries by including snapshots (#13833)
  • Load created Vms in batches so they don't load all in memory (#14067)
  • Do not keep all association records in the memory (#14066)
  • Scanning for used attributes for query optimizations (#14023)

• Platform

  • RBAC
    • Allow descendants of Host model to use belongsto filters in RBAC (#14852)
    • Add chargeback to shortcuts to allow access to chargeback only. (#14809)
    • Define new product features for specific types of Storage Managers (#14745)
  • Reporting
    • Support dots and slashes in virtual custom attributes (#14329)
    • Link recently_discovered_pods widget to rpt (#14493)
  • Allow regex for MiqExpression::Field which contains numbers in associations (#14229)
  • Move the call to reload ntp settings to the server only (#14208)
  • Ansible Tower: Use http_port extra variables instead of nginx ones (#14204)
  • Fix ordering by VMs in NetworkManagers list (#14092)
  • Configure apache balancer with up to 10 members at startup (#14007)
  • Remove admin role for tenant admin (#14081)
  • Ansible: Properly monitor the embedded ansible service (#13978)
  • Remove the mechanisms around "configuring" central admin (#13966)
  • Allow users to input ipv6 where it makes sense (#70)
  • Rename events "ExtManagementSystem Compliance*" -> "Provider Compliance*" (#13388)
  • Use the new setup script argument types (#14313)
  • Exclude chargeback lookup tables in replication (#14466)

• Providers

  • Move azure settings to azure provider (#14345)
  • Ansible event catcher - mark event_monitor_runnning when there are no events at startup (#13903)
  • Virtual Infrastructure: Deprecate callers to Address in Host (#14138)
  • OpenStack
    • Add openstack cloud tenant events (#14052)
    • Set the raw power state when starting Openstack instance (#14122)
  • Use task queue for VM actions (#13782)
  • Red Hat Virtualization
    • Drop support for oVirt /api always use /ovirt-engine/api (#14469)
    • Resolve oVirt IP addresses (#13767)
    • Save host for a VM after migration (#13511)

• Storage

  • Rename Amazon EBS storage manager (#13569)

• User Interface (Classic)

  • Updated patternfly to v3.23 (#13940)

Fixed

• Automate

  • Retirement: Change retire_now to pass zone_name to raise_retirement_event. (#15026)
  • Added finish retirement notification. (#14780)
  • Add policy checking for retirement request. (#14641)
  • Fix services always invisible (#14403)
  • Fixes tag control multi-value (#14382)
  • Don't allow selecting resources from another region when creating a catalog item (#14468)
  • Merge service template options on update (#14314)
  • Fix for Service Dialog not saving default value for drop down or radio button (#14240)
  • Avoid calling $evm.backtrace over DRb to prevent DRb-level mutex locks (#14239)
  • Fix Automate domain reset for legacy directory. (#13933)
  • Services: Power state for services that do not have an associated service_template (#13785)
  • Provisioning: Update validation regex to prohibit only numbers for Azure VM provisioning (#13730)
  • Allow a service power state to correctly handle nil actions (#13232)
  • Increment the ae_state_retries when on_exit sets retry (#13339)
  • Ansible Tower
    • Ensure job is refreshed in the condition of state machine exits on error (#14684)
    • Parse password field from dialog and decrypt before job launch (#14636)
    • Ansible Service: skip dialog options for retirement (#14602)
    • Modified to use Embedded Ansible instance (#14568)
  • Control
    • Add policy checking for request_host_scan. (#14427)
    • Add the logic to allow a policy to prevent request_vm_scan. (#14370)
    • During control action host was not being passed in (#14500)
  • Provisioning
  • Remove reverse! call for timezone after converting structure to hash (#14772)
  • First and Last name are no longer required. (#14694)
  • Use fetch_path to handle the case where :ws_values is nil. (#14797)
  • Services: Service#my_zone should only reference a VM associated to a provider. (#14696)

• Platform

  • Chargeback
    • Group chargeback with unknown image under 'unknown image' (#14816)
    • Charge since the first MetricRollup (#14666)
    • Group results with unknown project under 'unknown project' (#14811)
  • Reports: Add Container entities to TAG_CLASSES (#14535)
  • Make worker_monitor_drb act like a reader (#14638)
  • Do not pass nil to the assignment mixin (#14713)
  • Use base class only when it is supported by direct rbac (#14665)
    • Metrics: Split metric collections into smaller intervals (#14332)
  • Add balancer members after configs have been written (#14311)
  • MiqApache::Conf.create_balancer_config expects a :lbmethod key (#14306)
  • If we can't update_attributes on a queue row, set state to error (#14365)
  • Do not truncate(255) message attribute in miq_tasks table (#14105)
  • Fix "Multiple Parents Found" issue when moving a relationship. (#14060)
  • Core
    • Fix missing reason constants (#13919)
    • Rescue worker class sync_workers exceptions and move on (#13976)
  • Reporting: Ignore custom attributes that have a nil name (#14055)
  • Chargeback
    • Skip calculation when there is zero consumed hours (#13723)
    • Bring currency symbols back to chargeback reports (#13861)
    • Fix tier selection when using different units. (#13593)
    • Fix rate adjustment rounding bug (#13331)
    • Charge only for past hours (#13134)
    • Delegate custom attributes to images in ChargebackContainerImage (#14395)
  • Add MiqUserRole to RBAC (#13689)
  • Fix broken C&U collection (#13843)
  • Instead of default(system) assign current user to generating report task (#13823)
  • Tenant admin should not be able to create groups in other tenants. (#13483)
  • Replication: Expose a method for encrypting using a remote v2_key (#13083)

• Providers

  • Fixing full_name not returning docker_id when it should (#14412)
  • Remove queue serialization (#13722)
  • Fix general CloudNetwork class_by_ems method (#14392)
  • Prevent a DVPortGroup from overwriting a LAN with the same name in provisioning (#14292)
  • Fix EmsRefresh miq_callback when merging queue items (#14441)
  • Pass hosts as a parameter to create the service dialog (#14507)
  • Provide better error message when migrating to the same host (#14155)
  • Fixed refresh & save for Physical Infra. (#14351)
  • Always pass valid date format (#14296)
  • Check if project has credential before try to use it (#14297)
  • Ansible Tower
    • Fix saving hosts in ansible playbook job (#14522)
    • Add missing authentication require_nested (#14018)
    • Disable SSL verification for embedded Ansible. (#14078)
    • Allow create_in_provider to fail (#14049)
    • It's _log not log and we don't need the undefined variable prefix (#14846)
    • Reload the ems object in the event catcher if we fail to start (#14736)
    • Add multiline to ssh attribute (#14707)
    • Create/update Tower project with scm_credential (#14618)
    • Nullify dependents when destroying configuration_script_sources/configuration_scripts (#14567)
    • Use organization instead of organization_id when talking to Tower (#14538)
    • Fix task name for task that create Tower project (#14656)
    • An Ansible Tower "Inventory" is a ManageIQ "InventoryRootGroup" (#14716)
    • Fix for External Automation Manager Inventory Group (#14691)
    • Notification after Tower credential CUD operations (#14625)
    • Product features for embedded ansible refresh (#14664)
  • Console: Added missing parameter when requesting OpenStack remote console (#13558)
  • Containers
    • Container Volumes should honor tag visibility (#14517)
    • Fix queueing of historical metrics collection (#14695)
    • Identifying container images by digest only (#14185)
    • Create a hawkular client for partial endpoints (#13814)
    • Container managers #connect: don't mutate argument (#13719)
    • Fix creating Kubernetes or OSE with credentials.auth_key (#13317)
  • Google: Ensure google managers change zone and provider region with cloud manager (#14742)
  • Metrics: Handle exception when a metrics target doesn't have an ext_management_system (#14718)
  • Microsoft Infrastructure
    • Enable VM reset functionality (#14123)
    • Ensure remote shells generated by SCVMM are closed when finished (#14591)
  • Middleware: Hawkular Allow adding datawarehouse provider with a port other than 80 (#13840)
  • OpenStack Cloud Network Router: Raw commands are wrapped in raw prefixed methods (#13072)
  • OpenStack Infra: Ssh keypair validation fixes (#13445)
  • Pluggable: Changing ordering of checks to see if snapshot operations are supported (#14014)
  • Red Hat Virtualization
    • Add oVirt cloud-init customization template (#14139)
    • Disks should be added as 'active' in RHV (#13913)
    • Use the provided database name during metric collection (#13909)
    • Fix authentication of metrics credentials in RHV (#13981)
    • Set timeout for inventory refresh calls (#14245)
    • Fix Host getting disconnected from Cluster when migrating a VM in (#13815)

• REST API

  • Allow partial POST edits on miq policy REST (#14518)
  • Return provider_class on provider requests (#14657)
  • Return correct resource hrefs (#14549)
  • Removing ems_events from config/api.yml (#14699)
  • Ensure actions are returned correctly in the API (#14033)
  • Return result of destroy action to user not nil (#14097)
  • Convey a useful message to queue_object_action (#13710)
  • Fix load balancers access in API (#13866)
  • Fix cloud networks access in API (#13865)
  • Fix schedule access in API (#13864)

• SmartState

  • Timeout was not triggered for Image Scanning Job after removing Job#agent_class (#14791)

• User Interface

  • Fix mixed values in Low and High operating ranges for CU charts (#14324)
  • Revert "Remove unneeded include from reports" (#14439)
  • Added missing second level menu keys for Storage menu (#14145)
  • Update spice-html5-bower to 1.6.3 fixing an extra GET .../null request (#13889)
  • Add the Automation Manager submenu key to the permission yaml file (#13931)
  • Added missing Automate sub menu key to permissions yml. (#13819)

Euwe-3

Added

Automate

• Allow passing options when adding a disk in automate. (#14350)
• Added container components for service model. (#12863)
• Services
  • Add automate engine support for array elements containing text values. (#11667)
  • Add multiselect option to dropdowns (#10270)

Platform

• Authentication: Ensure user name is set even when common LDAP attributes are missing. (#14142)
• Chargeback
  • Add tenant scoping for resources of performance reports in RBAC (#14095)
  • Enterprise rate parent for containers chargeback (#14079)
• RBAC: Add RBAC for rss feeds (#14041)

Providers

• Openstack
  • Add openstack excon settings (#14172)
  • Add :event_catcher_openstack_service setting (#13985)
• Red Hat Virtualization Manager: Resolve oVirt IP addresses (#13767)

Changed

Performance

• Optimize number of transactions sent in refresh (#14670)
• Make Widget run without timezones (#14386)
• Speed up widget generation (#14224)

Platform

• RBAC: Remove admin role for tenant admin (#14081)
• Reporting: Support dots and slashes in virtual custom attributes (#14329)

Fixed

Automate

• Provisioning: Add multiple_value option to expose_eligible_resources. (#13853)
• Services
  • Fixes tag control multi-value (#14382)
  • Power state for services that do not have an associated service_template (#13785)

Platform

• Appliance: Move the call to reload ntp settings to the server only (#14208)
• Chargeback: Do not pass nil to the assignment mixin (#14713)
• Fix "Multiple Parents Found" issue when moving a relationship. (#14060)
• Workers
  • Make worker_monitor_drb act like a reader again! (#14638)
  • Fix missing reason constants (#13919)
  • Add balancer members after configs have been written (#14311)
  • Rescue worker class sync_workers exceptions and move on (#13976)
  • Configure apache balancer with up to 10 members at startup (#14007)
  • If we can't update_attributes on a queue row set state to error (#14365)

Performance

• Optimize store_ids_for_new_records by getting rid of the O(n^2) lookups (#14542)

Providers

• Containers
  • Delegate custom attributes to images in ChargebackContainerImage (#14395)
  • Fix queueing of historical metrics collection (#14695)
  • Identifying container images by digest only (#14185)
  • Container Project reports: add archived Container Groups (#13810)
• Metrics
  • Split metric collections into smaller intervals (#14332)
  • Handle exception when a metrics target doesn't have an ext_management_system (#14718)
• Microsoft: SCVMM - Enable VM reset functionality (#14123)
• Openstack: Set the raw power state when starting Openstack instance (#14122)
• Red Hat Virtualization Manager
  • Set timeout for inventory refresh calls (#14245)
  • Add oVirt cloud-init customization template (#14139)
  • Fix authentication of metrics credentials in RHV (#13981)

SmartState

• Add the logic to allow a policy to prevent request_vm_scan. (#14370)

User Interface (Classic)

• Update spice-html5-bower to 1.6.3 fixing an extra GET .../null request (#13889)
• Fix mixed values in Low and High operating ranges for CU charts (#14324)

Euwe-2

Added

Automate

• Automate Retry with Server Affinity (#13543)

Platform

• Chargeback
  • Chargebacks for SCVMM (rollup-less) (#13419)
  • Chargebacks for SCVMM (rollup-less) [2/2] (#13554)
  • Prioritize rate with tag of VM when selecting from more rates (#13556)
• Reporting: Add option for container performance reports (#11904)

Providers

• Ansible Tower: Advanced search for Ansible Tower Jobs not visible on switch from a different tab (#12717)
• Containers: Common mixin: ui_lookup should get a string (#13389)
• Microsoft Azure: Delete all resources when deleting an Azure stack (#24)

User Interface (Classic)

• Ops_rbac - group detail - don't render trees that are not visible (#13399)
• Launch a URL returned by an automate button (#13449)
• Remove confirmation when opening the HTML5 vnc/spice console. (#13465)
• Cloud Network UI: Task queue (#13416)

Changed

Automate

• Look for resources in the same region as the selected template during provisioning. (#13045)

Performance

• Don't lookup category names if tag tree view all (#13308)

Platform

• Add list of providers to RBAC on catalog items (#13395)
• Gem changes
  • Upgrade azure-armrest gem to 0.5.2. (#13670)
  • Use version 0.14.0 of the 'ovirt' gem (#13425)
  • Updated PatternFly to v3.15.0 (#13404)

Providers

• Network: Added exception clases for router add/remove interfaces (#13005)

User Interface

• UX improvements for attaching Openstack cloud volumes to instances (#13437)
• Add latest VMRC API version (#184)

Fixed

Notable fixes include:

Automate

• Inconsistent attribute names inside Automate Engine (#13545)
• Allow a service power state to correctly handle nil actions (#13232)
• Increment the ae_state_retries when on_exit sets retry (#13339)

Platform

• Chargeback
  • BigDecimal not working properly on ruby 2.3.1 (#13634)
  • Skip calculation when there is zero consumed hours (#13723)
• Tenant admin should not be able to create groups in other tenants. (#13483)
• Add MiqUserRole to RBAC (#13689)
• Reporting: Introduce report result purging timer (#13429)

Providers

• Hawkular: Adding alt and title attributes for buttons (#13468)
• RHEV
  • Save host for a Vm after migration (#13618)
  • Fix Host getting disconnected from Cluster when migrating a VM in RHEV (#13836)
  • Disks should be added as 'active' in RHV (#13913)
• OpenStack
  • Add Openstack metric service to Settings (#13918)
  • OpenStack Infra: ssh keypair validation fixes (#13445)
  • Console: Added missing parameter when requesting OpenStack remote console (#13558)

User Interface (Classic)

• Pulled out simulation parameters (#13472)
• Advanced search not working for the ansible job (#12719)
• Fix missing Smart State Analysis button on Cloud Instances list view (#13422)
• Remove disabling of 'instance_retire' button (#14016)
• Fix Snapshot revert (#13986)
• Make created filters in Datastores visible and fix commiting filters (#13621)
• Add missing icons for provider policies & compliance events (#13502)
• Allow configuration managers providers and configuration scripts trees to display the advanced search box (#13763)
• Cloud Subnet UI: Task queue validation buttons (#13490)
• Tenant admin should not be able to create groups in other tenants. (#151)
• Floating IPs: Adds missing route for wait_for_task (#192)
• Fix valid_tenant check in ops (#203)
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Removed the option to migrate the VMs outside of the cluster. (#207)
• Fix check_box_tag parameters for snap_memory (#217)
• Add list of roles to rbac (#271)
• Fix assigning roles in group form (#296)
• Fix repeating values on Y-axis of C&U charts (#40)

Euwe-1

Added

Automate

• Automate Model

  • Added top_level_namespace to miq_ae_namespace model to support filtering for pluggable providers
  • Added /System/Process/MiqEvent instance
  • 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.
  • Import Rake task OVERWRITE argument: Setting OVERWRITE=true removes the target domain prior to import
  • 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

• Generic Objects

  • Model updates
    • Associations
    • Tagging
  • Service Methods: add_to_service / remove_from_service
  • Service models created for GenericObject and GenericObjectDefinition
  • 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

• 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

• Methods

  • 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.
  • taggable? to programmatically determine if a Service Model class or instance is taggable.
  • Added $evm.create_notification

• Provisioning

  • Service Provisioning: Exposed number_of_vms when building the provision request for a service
  • 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
  • Show shared networks in the OpenStack provisioning dialog
  • 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)
  • Set zone when deliver a service template provision task

• Reconfigure: Route VM reconfigure request to appropriate region

• Retirement

  • Restored retirement logic to verify that VM was provisioned or contains Lifecycle tag before processing
  • Built-in policy to prevent retired VM from starting on a resume power
  • Added lifecycle tag as a default tag
  • Schema change for Cloud Orchestration Retirement class
  • Added Provider refresh call to Amazon retire state machine in Pre-Retirement state

• Service Dialogs

  • Added ‘Visible’ flag to all dialog fields
  • Support for “visible” flag for dynamic fields

• Service Models - New

  • Compliance: expose :compliance_details
  • ComplianceDetail: expose :compliance, expose :miq_policy
  • MiqAeServicePartition
  • MiqAeServiceVolume
  • GenericObject
  • GenericObjectDefinition

• Service Models - Updates

  • MiqAeServiceServiceTemplateProvisionTask updated to expose provision_priority value
  • MiqAeServiceHardware updated to expose a relationship to partitions.
  • Added cinder backup/restore actions
  • New associations on VmOrTemplate and Host models
    • expose :compliances
    • expose :last_compliance
  • Expose ems_events to Vm service model
  • Expose a group's filters.

• Services

  • Set default entry points for non-generic catalog items
  • Service resolution based on Provision Order
  • 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
    • Created service_connections table to support connecting services together along with metadata

Platform

• Centralized Administration
  • Server to server authentication
  • Invoke tasks on remote regions
  • Leverage new API client (WIP)
  • VM power operations
  • VM retirement
• Chargeback
  • Support for generating chargeback for services
  • Will be used in Service UI for showing the cost of a service
  • Generate monthly report for a Service
  • Daily schedule generates report for each Service
  • Enables SUI display of Service costs over last 30 days
  • Containers
    • Added a 'fixed_compute_metric' column to chargeback
    • Added rate assigning by tags to container images
    • Chargeback vm group by tag
• Database Maintenance
  • Hourly reindex: High Churn Tables
  • Periodic full vacuum
  • Configure in appliance console
  • Database maintenance scripts added to appliance
• Notifications
  • Dynamic substitution in notification messages
  • Generate for Lifecycle events
  • Model for asynchronous notifications
  • Authentication token generation for web sockets
  • API for notification drawer
• 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
  • DB Cluster - Primary, Standbys
  • Uses repmgr (replication)
  • Failover
    • Primary to Standby
    • Appliance connects to new primary DB
    • Primary/Standby DB config in Appliance Console
    • Database-only appliance config in Appliance Console
    • Failover Monitor
    • Raise event when failover successful
• Replication: Add logging when the replication set is altered
• Reporting
  • Watermark reports updated to be based on max of daily max value instead of max of average value
  • Custom attributes support in reporting and expressions
    • Selectable as a column
    • Usable in report filters and charts
• Tenancy
  • Groundwork in preparation for supporting multiple entitlements
  • ApplicationHelper#role_allows and User#role_allows? combined and moved to RBAC
  • Added parent_id to CloudTenant as prerequisite for mapping OpenStack tenants to ManageIQ tenants
  • Mapping Cloud Tenants to ManageIQ Tenants
    • Prevent deleting mapped tenants from cloud provider
    • Added checkbox "Tenant Mapping Enabled" to Openstack Manager
    • Post refresh hook to queue mapping of Cloud Tenants
• Appliance Console: Removed menu items that are not applicable when running inside a container
• Nice values added to worker processes

Providers

• Core
  • Override default http proxy
  • Known features are discoverable
  • Every known feature is unsupported by default
  • Allow Vm to show floating and fixed ip addresses
  • Generate a csv of features supported across all models
• Amazon: Public Images Filter
• Ansible Tower
  • Collect Job parameters during Provider Refresh
  • Log Ansible Tower Job output when deployment fails
• Containers
  • Persist Container Templates
  • Reports: Pods for images per project, Pods per node
  • Deployment wizard
  • Models for container deployments
  • Limit number of concurrent SmartState Analyses
  • Allow policies to prevent Container image scans
  • Chargeback rates based on container image tags
  • Keep pod-container relationship after disconnection
  • Label based Auto-Tagging UI
• Google Compute Engine
  • Use standard health states
  • Provision Preemptible VMs
  • Preemptible Instances
  • Retirement support
  • Metrics
  • Load Balancer refresh
• Middleware (Hawkular)
  • JMS support (entities, topology)
  • Reports for Transactions (in App servers)
  • Support micro-lifecycle for Middleware-deployments
  • 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
    • Support for alert profiles and alert automated expressions
  • Added entities: Domains and Server Groups including their visualization in topology
  • Datasource entity now has deletion operation
  • Cross linking to VMs added to topology
  • Operations: Add Deployment, Start/stop deployment
  • Performance reports for datasources
  • Collect more metrics for datasources
  • Deployment entity operations: Undeploy, redeploy
  • Server operations: Reload, suspend, resume
  • Live metrics for datasources and transactions
  • Performance reports for middleware servers
  • Crosslink middleware servers with RHEV VMs
  • Collect and display deployment status
  • Datasources topology view
  • Added missing fields in UI to improve user experience
  • Middleware as top level menu item
  • Default view for Middleware is datasource
  • 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
  • Add support to overwrite an existing deployment
• Kubernetes: Cross-linking with OpenStack instances
• Microsoft Cloud (Azure)
  • Handle new events: Create Security Group, VM Capture
  • Provider-specific logging
  • Added memory and disk utilization metrics
  • Support floating IPs during provisioning
  • Load Balancer inventory collection for Azure
  • Pagination support in armrest gem
• Microsoft Infrastructure (SCVMM): Set CPU sockets and cores per socket
• Networking
  • Allow port ranges for Load Balancers
  • Load Balancer user interface
  • Separate Google Network Manager
  • NFV: VNFD Templates and VNF Stacks
  • Nuage: Inventory of Managed Cloud Subnets
  • Nuage policy groups added
    • Load balancer service type actions for reconfigure, retirement, provisioning
  • UI for creating subnets
  • UI for Network elements
• OpenStack
  • Cloud
    • Collect inventory for cloud volume backups
    • UI: Cloud volume backup
    • UI: CRUD for Host Aggregates
    • UI: CRUD for OpenStack Cloud tenants
    • Enable image snapshot
    • Map Flavors to Cloud Tenants during Openstack Cloud refresh
    • Associate/Disassociate Floating IPs
    • Region Support
    • Create provider base tenant under a root tenant
    • Topology
  • Infrastructure
    • Set boot image for registered hosts
    • Node destroy deletes node from Ironic
    • Enable node start and stop
    • Ironic Controls
    • UI to register Ironic nodes through Mistral
    • Topology
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  • Get Host OS version and type
  • Disk Management in VM Reconfigure
  • Snapshot support
  • Report manufacturer and product info for RHEVM hosts
  • Make C&U Metrics Database a mandatory field for Validation
  • Migrate support
  • Enable VM reconfigure disks for supported version
• Storage
  • New Swift Storage Manager
  • New Cinder Storage Manager
  • Initial User Interface support for Storage Managers
• VMware vSphere
  • Storage Profiles modeling and inventory
  • Datastores are filtered by Storage Profiles in provisioning
• vCloud
  • Collect status of vCloud Orchestration Stacks
  • Add Network Manager
  • Collect networking inventory
  • Cloud orchestration stack operation: Create and delete stack
  • Collect virtual datacenters as availability zones
  • Event Catcher
  • Event monitoring

REST API

• Support for /api/requests creation and edits
• Token manager supports for web sockets
• Added ability to query virtual machines for cockpit support
• Support for Bulk queries
• Support for UI notification drawer
• API entrypoint returns details about the appliance via server_info
• Support for compressed ids in inbound requests
• CRUD support for Arbitration Rules
• Added GET role identifiers
• Support for arbitrary resource paths
• Support for Arbitration Profiles
• Support for Cloud Networks queries
• Support for Arbitration Settings
• Updated /api/users to support edits of user settings
• Support for report schedules
• Support for approving or denying service requests
• Support for OpenShift Container Deployments
• Support for Virtual Templates
• Added /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

• Renamed from Self-Service UI due to expanding number of use cases
• Language selections separated from Operations UI
• Order History with detail
• Added Arbitration Rules UI
• Service Designer: Blueprint API
  • Arbitration Profiles
    • Collection of pre-defined settings
    • Work in conjunction with the Arbitration Engine
  • Rules Engine: API
• Added datastore for the default settings for resourceless servers
• Create picture
• Generic requests OPTION method
• API for Delete dialogs
• Cockpit integration: Added About modal
• Set default visibility to true for all dialog fields

SmartState

• Add /etc/redhat-access-insights/machine-id to the sample VM analysis
• 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
• 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.
• Containers: Settings for proxy environment variables
• Support analysis of VMs residing on NFS41 datastores

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
• 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
• Both UIs updated to latest PatternFly and Angular PatternFly
• Internationalization
  • Virtual Columns
  • Toolbars
  • Changed to use gettext’s pluralization
  • i18n support in pdf reports
  • i18n support for UI plugins
• Ansible Tower Jobs moved to the Configuration tab (from Clouds/Stacks)
• Interactivity added to C3 charts on C&U screens
• Settings moved to top right navigation header
• Tagging for Ansible Tower job templates
• Live Search added to bootstrap selects
• Add GUID validation for certain Azure fields in Cloud Provider screen
• OpenStack: Register new Ironic nodes through Mistral
• Timeline resdesign
• vSphere Distributed Switches tagging
• Patternfly Labels for OpenSCAP Results
• Notifications
• Conversion of Middleware Provider form to Angular
• Add UI for generating authorization keys for remote regions
• Topology for Cloud Managers
• Topology for Infrastructure Providers
• Show replication excluded tables to the replication tab in Settings
• Fix angular controller for Network Router and Cloud Subnet

Changed

Automate

• Description for Datastore Reset action now includes list of target domains
• 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
• Generic Object: Model refactoring/cleanup, use PostgreSQL jsonb column
• Changed Automate import to enable system domains
• Google schema changes in Cloud Provision Method class

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
  • Services -> Workloads -> All VMs page load time reduced from 93,770ms to 524ms (99%) with a test of 20,000 VMs
• 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
• Reduced the time and memory required to schedule Capacity and Utilization data collection.
• Capacity and Utlization improvements included reduced number of SQL queries and number of objects
• Improved tag processing for Alert Profiles
• Do not reload miq server in tree builder
• Prune VM Tree folders first, so nodes can be properly prune and tree nodes can then be collapsed
• For resource_pools only bring back usable Resource Pools

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
• Expression refactoring and cleanup with relative dates and times
• Set appliance "system" memory/swap information
• PostgreSQL upgraded to 9.5 needed for HA feature
• Performance: Lazy load message catalogs for faster startup and reduced memory
• Replication: Added "deprecated" in replication worker screen (Rubyrep replication removed in Euwe release)
• Tenancy: Splitting MiqGroup
  • Filters moved to to Entitlement model
  • Enabler for sharing entitlements
• MiqExpression Refactoring
• LDAP: Allow apostrophes in email addresses

Providers

• Core
  • Remove provider specific constants
  • Ask whether provider supports VM architecture instead of assuming support by provider type
• Ansible: Automate method updated to pass JobTemplate “Extra Variables” defined in the Provision Task
• Hawkular
  • Upgrade of Hawkular gem to 2.3.0
  • Skip unreachable middleware providers when reporting
  • Add re-checking authentication status functionality/button
  • Refactor infrastructure for easier configuration
  • Optimization and enhancement of event fetching
• Microsoft SCVMM: Set default security protocol to ssl
• vSphere Host storage device inventory collection improvements

REST API

• Updated /api entrypoint so collection list is sorted
• API CLI moved to tools/rest_api.rb
• Update API CLI to support the HTTP OPTIONS method

User Interface

• Dynatree replaced with bootstrap-treeview
• Converted to TreeBuilder - Snapshot, Policy, Policy RSOP, C&U Build Datastores and Clusters/Hosts, Automate Results
• CodeMirror version updated (used for text/yaml editors)
• Default Filters tree converted to TreeBuilder - more on the way
• Cloud Key Pair form converted to AngularJS
• Toolbars:Cleaned up partials, YAML -> classes
• Provider Forms: Credentials Validation improvements
• Updated PatternFly to v3.11.0
• Summary Screen styling updates

Removed

• Platform
  • Removed rubyrep
  • Removed hourly checking of log growth and rotation if > 1gb
• User Interface: Explorer Presenter RJS removal

Fixed

Notable fixes include:

Automate

• Fixed case where user can't add alerts
• Fixed issue where alerts don't send SNMP v1 traps
• 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
• Provisioning
  • VMware Infrastructure: sysprep_product_id field is no longer required
  • Provisioned Notifications - Use Automate notifications instead of event notifications.
• Fixed ordering ae_domains for a root tenant
• Set default value of param visible to true for all field types
• Git Domains
  • When a domain is deleted, also delete git based bare repository on the appliance with the git owner server role
  • Only enable git import submit button when a branch or tag is selected

Platform

• Authentication
• Support a separate auth URL for external authentication
• Remove the FQDN from group names for external authentication
• Use correct adjustment in chargeback reports
• Replication
  • Add repmgr tables to replication excludes
  • Don't consider tables that are always excluded during the schema check
  • Fix typo prevention full error message
• Tenancy: User friendly tenant names
• Perform RBAC user filter check on requested ids before allowing request
• Increase worker memory thresholds to avoid frequent restarts
• Send notifications only when user is authorized to see referenced object
• Increase web socket worker's pool size

Providers

• Fix targeted refresh of a VM without its host clearing all folder relationships
• Containers: Ability to add a container provider with a port other than 8443
• Microsoft Azure: Fix proxy for template lookups
• VMware vSphere: Block duplicate events
• VMware: Fix for adding multiple disks
• Openstack
  • Catch unauthorized exception in refresh
  • Add logs for network and subnet CRUD
  • Remove port_security_enabled from attributes passed to network create
• Middleware: Fix operation timeout parameter fetch
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  • Access VM Cluster relationship correctly
  • Pass storage domains collection in disks RHV api request
  • Require a description when creating Snapshot

REST API

• Hide internal Tenant Groups from /api/groups
• Raise 403 Forbidden for deleting read-only groups
• API Request logging
• 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
• Ability to bring VM out of retirement from detail page
• Inconsistent menus in Middleware Views
• Save Authentication status on a Save
• RBAC:List only those VMs that the user has access to in planning
• Enable Provision VMs button via relationships
• Missing reset button for Job Template Service Dialog
• Fix for custom logo in header
• Fall back to VMRC desktop client if no NPAPI plugin is available
• Default Filters can be saved or reset
• Prevent service dialog refreshing every time a dropdown item is selected
• RBAC: Add Storage Product Features for Roles
• Set categories correctly for policy timelines

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 ansibletowerclient 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