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Revision as of 22:49, 27 January 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
<<TableOfContents()>>
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)
OpenStack Compute (Nova)
Authorization and Authentication
- Authorization - Can <user> <do something> to <some resource>?
- Enable euca-upload-bundle and euca-register through X509 Cert management
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
API
- Separate Nova Volume 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
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
Messaging
Live migration
OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery (Glance)
- API enhancements
- Usability and performance improvements
