Revision as of 07:47, 27 March 2012

This page is a first start at the known features in Essex up to the E3 milestone. Do not take this as truth just yet.

Release Notes, Essex

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New Features

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)

swift (1.4.4)

• Expiration for objects stored
• More detail to rate limit errors
• Add man pages for swift
• Enhance tempauth to enable autocreated accounts
• System metrics work for cluster monitoring (recon) - creates zone specific stats and socket stats

swift (1.4.5)

• Better process tools for old or hung proceses
• Support marker queries in Swift CLI

OpenStack Compute (Nova)

Volumes

• Separate Nova Volume API
• Nexenta volume driver
• SolidFireSanISCSIDriver sub-class in san.py

Security

• More secure root wrapper

Authorization and Authentication

• Authorization - Can <user> <do something> to <some resource>?
• Enable euca-upload-bundle and euca-register through X509 Cert management
• Rewrite the keystone export to work properly

Hypervisor-specific

• KVM and Xen Disk Management Parity
• Unify a common path for VNC Consoles for XenServer or KVM
• XenAPI support for Security Groups
• Support KVM booting from ISO images
• Support for XenServer 5.6 and high availablilty networking added to DevStack
• Report capabilities to ZoneManager for KVM to match capability of XenServer
• Libvirt File Injection
• Libvirt/KVM resize
• Remove Hyper-V support
• Security group driver code for XenAPI for firewalls
• Fast image cloning support for Xenserver

API

• Separate Nova Admin API
• Console log now available through Compute API
• Return request ids in responses to enable better troubleshooting
• Refactor extensions to eliminate ExtensionMiddleware and LazySerializationMiddleware to call extensions directly
• Validate EC2 API parameters upon execution
• Improve VM state management to constrain state transitions
• Volume snapshot and backup API extension
• Separate nova metadata service
• Remove non-standard ec2 extensions for roles, user, project, vpn in an "admin" EC2 API

Network

• Changes to network representations in nova database (Untie the Nova network models)
• Move cloudpipe calls to a Compute API extension
• Support multiple floating IP ranges
• Manage DNS entries for instances, for floating IPs, for different DNS servers
• Add floating IP support to QuantumManager
• Compute Network info copy for performance improvement
• Bandwidth rate multipliers and base limits
• Add support for NAT to QuantumManager

Messaging

• RPC API implementation with Apache Qpid instead of RabbitMQ

Live migration

• Resource calculations on destination host

Orchestration and troubleshooting enhancements (for lack of a better term)

• Ensure uuids internally to references instances
• Adds ability to get the last error using a nova-manage command
• Remove callbacks from virt drivers
• Network info model for nova
• Host aggregates, a mechanism to further partitioning an availability zone, i.e. into multiple groups of hosts that share common resources like storage and network.
• Improvements for Scaling Zones
• Add Image Cache Management to Compute Nodes
• Bare-metal provisioning with Tilera tiled-processor back-end
• Optional Host and Admin VM information

Console Access to VMs

• Remove ajaxterm from nova (not secure, not maintained)

OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery (Glance)

Authorization

• Interim AuthZ service for Glance
• Protect or unprotect an image

API enhancements

• Configurable number of Glance API processes

Usability and performance improvements

• Add option to allow custom directory for data buffering
• Show progress bar for uploading an image
• Allow images to be uploaded to glance from an external location via the X-Image-Meta-Location header
• Support Qpid for glance notifications over AMPQ
• Support sendfile(2) to remove userspace copying of image file data

OpenStack Identity service (Keystone)

Known Issues and Limitations

Known packaged distributions

OpenSUSE 12.1 / SLES11 SP2

• https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=isv:B1-Systems:OpenStack:release:Essex
  • https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=isv:B1-Systems:OpenStack:release:Essex:requirements

You can find all details about the repositories for OpenSUSE 12.1 and SLES11 SP2 on our packaging site in the wiki: Packaging/SUSE