ReleaseNotes/Essex

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)

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

• RPC API implementation with Apache Qpid instead of RabbitMQ

Live migration

• Resource calculations on destination host

OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery (Glance)

• API enhancements
• Usability and performance improvements