CHANGELOG.md

2015-04-27: We are now documenting release changes on our GitHub project's Releases page.

2941

New Features:

• cpi: aws: Light stemcells can be booted in all regions [8d21386]

Improvements:

• stemcell: Bump OS images [5b7e612] - reduce daily and weekly cron load - randomize cron start times to reduce congestion - remove unnecessary packages to make OS image smaller
• director: Made gateway a mandatory param for manual network subnets [1145448]

2922

New Features:

• cli: Ignore non-existent deployment in delete deployment cmd to make CLI automation easier [dd6801e]
• cli: Add cloud config into to 'bosh deployments' output to know if deployment is using latest cloud config [bcf1d4d]

Improvements:

• stemcell: ubuntu: Do not configure eth0 since the Agent should configure networking during its start up [e481b4a]
• director: Flush DNS cache after modifying DNS records [2137b55]
• stemcell: Change rake tasks to start producting CentOS 7 stemcells [e5bceba]
• agent: Bump agent [752ff10] - set permissions on config files - more changes to network bootstrapping

2915

New Features:

• cli: Allow passing --all flag to bosh cleanup to delete all unused releases and stemcells [2bc5e62]
• cli: Modified cck --auto so that it recreated VMs if they are missing [05ee580]

Improvements:

• cpi: aws: Retry attaching disk for upto 10 mins if disk is in VolumeInUse state, since sometimes AWS is slow to propagate disk's true state. [f654c5f]
• cli: Permit creation of dev release with version [5d433d6]
• director: Bump nokogiri to 1.6.6, vcloud to 0.7.3 [39c6cdf]
• stemcell: Ensure stemcell stages run as UID 1000 (vcap's UID on stemcells) so that vcap owned files are still owned by vcap when stemcell boots up [56dd84c]
• stemcell: Add hmac-sha1 back as an allowed sshd MAC. Needed by golang and java ssh libraries. [a99c833]
• stemcell: Add syslog user to vcap group so rsyslog can write to /var/vcap/sys/log/ [b4fea21]
• cpi: openstack: Stop artificially limiting volume sizes to 1TiB [9bda2ae]
• agent: Bump agent to pull-in set of changes to networking [c4f211a]

2905

Improvements:

• stemcell: rhel: Introduced 'rhel' OS type, supporting only version 7 [5491fec]
• stemcell: rhel: Unsubscribe system from RHN once OS image has been built [259e787]
• cpi: vsphere: Log and print more info when we can't find a datastore for a disk [b5488e1]

2902

New Features:

• cli: Introduce UAA authentication

Improvements:

• stemcell: Do not verify exact kernel version to ease development workflow [b1f7afc]

Bug Fixes:

• cpi: vsphere: Don't raise an exception when finding a disk if the folder doesn't exist since cpi can be configured with multiple folders [f7c46db]
• cli: Compiling a release now places LICENSE/NOTICE at the root [9bbb51d]

2891

Improvements:

• stemcell: ubuntu: Bump libssl [f690d2e]
• stemcell: ubuntu: Bump libgnutls26 [622ffe8]

Bug Fixes:

• cli: Compiling a release places LICENSE/NOTICE at the root [58f9848]

2881

Improvements:

• cpi: vsphere: Removed CPI specific database to allow greater mobility of persistent disks (e.g. moved to a different datastore) and to prepare for externalizing vSphere CPI

2859

Improvements:

• stemcell: ubuntu: Bump to get 3.16 kernel and get libc6 from 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 [5154430] story
• director: Provide better Director job configuration f or external CPIs [3634979]

2858

Bug Fixes:

• director: Correctly save long manifests with MySQL DB [a091114]

2855

New Features:

• stemcell: ubuntu: Updated Ubuntu Trusty to 14.04.2 [7108831]
• director: Allow UAA as use management provider configuration [8ac86a2]

Improvements:

• cpi: openstack: Write the networks configuration to the config drive in preparation for allowing to use non-dhcp OpenStack networking [298fe2f]
• stemcell: ubuntu: Bump to 14.04.2 [7108831]
• cli: Add warning when loading cli takes longer than 5 secs [8aca1d8]

2852

Improvements:

• stemcell: ubuntu: Bump unzip to 6.0-9ubuntu1.3 [bd3182a]

2849

New Features:

• cli: Include license in release [c63287a]

2847

Improvements:

• stemcell: harden sshd config, and remove postfix and tripwire [1f4dd4a]
• stemcell: remove all traces of lucid stemcell [4559a69]
• agent: Bump agent to clean after compiling bits [cd3fcb9]
• cli: Store release jobs/packages tarballs in ~/.bosh/cache [c2f7ac1]

2839

Improvements:

• stemcell: Enable console output for openstack in kernel [f4f1cdd/c89b61e]
• stemcell: ubuntu: Upgrade ubuntu unzip version [9481cd4]

2831

Improvements:

• agent: Bump agent so that it waits for monit to start up during bootstrapping [4cf37f4]

2830

Bug Fixes:

• stemcell: Stemcell names include bosh prefix once again [fbb2016]

2829

Improvements:

• director: Update fog to 1.27 [08e9edc]
• stemcell: centos: Bump CentOS to resolve CVE-2015-0235 (ghost) [b7ebec5]

2827

New Features:

• stemcell: openstack: Publish raw stemcells in addition to qcow2 [382e448]

Improvements:

• director: Follow redirects when downloading remote stemcells/releases [5d2bb05]
• stemcell: Agent is responsible for creating /var/vcap/sys symlink [7563294]

2824

New Features:

• cpi: openstack: Permit volumes to default to the default availability zone, ignoring the AZ of the server. This allows multiple compute AZs with a single storage AZ configuration backed by Ceph to operate [e1b6e14]
• stemcell: upgrade libssl to 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.8 for USN-2459-1 [35799c7] story

Improvements:

• cli: Don't confirm release upload [c1e4886]

2820

Improvements:

• cpi: vsphere: Automatically create VMs/Templates folders of any depth if they are not found when VMs are created [c752e39]

2818

New Features:

• cpi: aws: Support encryption of persistent disks that are EBS volumes [1f8b6fc]

Improvements:

• agent: Bump agent so that it fails if it cannot find ephemeral disk or cannot paritition root disk to add ephemeral data partition [f3e86a8]

2811

Bug Fixes:

• stemcell: aws: Define block device mapping on aws stemcells so that older versions of the Director can still deploy them [a3d0ca1]

2810

New Features:

• cpi: aws: allow to request EBS backed ephemeral disk for any instance type by specifying ephemeral_disk on the resource_pool's cloud_properties. [e7ae973]

Improvements:

• stemcell: Run logrotate hourly instead of daily [5e841be]
• stemcell: Rotate /var/log files based on size [5e841be]

Bug Fixes:

• cpi: openstack: Use volume attachment id instead of just volume id when detaching volumes [41e69dc]

2809

Bug Fixes:

• director: Denormalize Task => User association so Tasks have username so that operator can delete Director users even if there are tasks associated with that user [11a8c7a]

2807

New Features:

• cpi: vsphere: Automatically create Datastore folders if they are not found when persistent disks are created [c2b5a51]

Improvements:

• cpi: aws: Explicitly request ephemeral disk for m3 instances on AWS because sometimes AWS fails to honor the AMI's block_device_mappings [83c6aef]

2798

Improvements:

• agent: Bump bosh-agent so that it can look up persistent disks by their OpenStack UUID instead of a device path [7d6c56c]

2797

New Features:

• cpi: openstack: Add support for OpenStack Nova scheduler hints. scheduler_hints can be now specified on the resource_pool's cloud_properties. [a32e62e]
• cpi: vsphere: Automatically create VMs/Templates folders if they are not found when VMs are created [9221ece]
• cli: added --parallel X option so that bosh sync blobs can download blobs in parallel [458180b]

Improvements:

• cli: fix issue with having empty release_versions array in release parameters so that bosh releases command still shows other uploaded releases [f3c9662]
• stemcell: monit should be started by the agent to make sure agent has time to mount /var/vcap/sys/run on tmpfs [ed7b8e1]

2792

New Features:

• monitor: adding graphite plugin to bosh-monitor [91c1836]

Improvements:

• cli: Blobstore config is no longer required to create a dev release [d0aa917]

2789

New Features:

• cli: add --redact-diff option to bosh deploy cli command [3b22d7a]

2788

Improvements:

• cpi: vsphere: Check for attached disk by disk_cid instead of full path because vCenter sometimes returns internal vSAN path instead of pretty UI path [ff3cedf]
• monitor: Log when health monitor is returning 500 from /healthz [bcc9dec]

2786

New Features:

• director: Add --keep-alive flag for bosh run errand command. With this flag errand VM is not deleted after errand completes. Could be used for debugging or to avoid spinning up and spinning down errand VM periodically. [59be4fe]

2785

Improvements:

• monitor: Change /healthz to return 500 if worker pool has been have been occupied for 3 minutes so that health monitor is restarted when it cannot process any more events [03e116e]
• director: Merge #698 Use ec2_endpoint from krumts [a4547a5]
• director: Default NTP servers to pool.ntp.org [2c7888e]

2781

Improvements:

• stemcell: Disable reverse DNS resolution for sshd to speed up ssh access [f4f5319]
• stemcell: vcloud: Start producing vcloud stemcells on regular schedule

Bug Fixes:

• director: Remember persistent disk cloud properties to avoid unnecessarily migrating data persistent disk [ccb2ca5]
• director: Fix leaking debug logs fds [e000906]
• director: Use gc_thresh1 set in stemcell in nats job to fix interemittent connectivity issues [be690e4]
• director: Bump bosh_vcloud_cpi gem to 0.7.2 to support persistent disk pools [9a73928]

2780

Improvements:

• agent: Bump bosh-agent to include root device partition fixes such that partitioning of root disk works on more configurations [436154f]

2778

New Features:

• cpi: openstack: Support specifying volume type for persistent disks [43aba09]
• cpi: openstack: Support specifying AZ and volume type for boot volume [43aba09]

2776

Improvements:

• stemcell: centos: Bump CentOS to 6.6 [e9d8776]
• stemcell: ubuntu: Turn on rsyslog.d kernel logging for trusty [7060389]

2765

Improvements:

• stemcell: ubuntu: Updated Ubuntu Trusty kernel to 3.13.0-39-generic [3cce75e]
• director: Honor --skip-if-exists when uploading remote releases [822f67e]
• cpi: aws: Support for additional AWS configuration properties [64b1d22]
• cpi: openstack: Add support for additional glance properties to the stemcell that can be set when using VMware hypervisor with OpenStack [d32d847]
• agent: Bump bosh-agent [9ec67d5]
  • uploading of compiled package blob is retried
  • correct capture swap disk sizes returned from gosigar

Bug Fixes:

• director: Switched bosh-registry to use bundler to install DB gems which should bring back faster compilation times for bosh-registry [34b36a3]

2754 (stemcells & release yanked)

Improvements:

• cli: Adding persistent disk type configuration for Micro BOSH via persistent_disk_cloud_properties [828df74]

2751

Improvements:

• director: Re-add director deployment events for operator to be notified about deloyment start/finish/failure [b63c8f7]
• agent: Bump bosh-agent [d5218ef]
  • Add FileRegistry for warden inf. for e2e testing of new bosh-micro-cli

2749

Improvements:

• director: Do not run the first errand if there is only one errand [7c37a8a]

2748

Improvements:

• director: Add configurable ssl options for the director nginx [6e497ef]
• agent: Bump bosh-agent to disable SSLv3 support (agent's micro server) [9ec67d5]

Bug Fixes:

• director: Correct invalid default value for config_drive for OpenStack [9e2d9db]

2745

Improvements:

• stemcell: aws: Resume producing light stemcells for non hvm virtualization [c10fb93]

2744

New Features:

• cli: Added bosh errands command to list for deployment [PR 625]

Improvements:

• director: update bosh_vcloud_cpi gem version 0.7.1 to pull in fixes for missing CPI methods [f32af44]
• director: Refactored NatsRpc to handle all director NATS calls to fix occasional worker hangs [870dd6f]
• director: Run NATS.connect on EM thread to fix occasional worker hangs [94e7d6a]

2743

New Features:

• cpi: openstack: Add openstack CPI multiple manual networks support for Ubuntu 14.04 using BOSH agent [c239db2]

Improvements:

• director: Refactored transitive dependency resolution to fix bug with importing releases [80aade1]
• cpi: Bosh::Registry#update_settings considers 2xx successful to be compatible with new registry used by bosh-micro cli [01f26f2]
• cpi: Add bin/aws_cpi to bosh_aws_cpi as preparation for externalizing AWS CPI [8c31679]

2739

New Features:

• cpi: openstack: Make config drive config optional for open stack [0d77bd4]
• cpi: openstack: Allow to configure CPI to use either cdrom or disk for config-drive mechanism [2696cdb]
• stemcell: aws: Build hvm light aws stemcell in addition to PV [2754b45]

2732

New Features:

• cpi: openstack: Add use_config_drive [6a444ae]

Improvements:

• stemcell: Lock down os_image_version in code [9de9ed3]
• stemcell: openstack: Convert openstack image to qcow2 0.10 compat [679f670]
• stemcell: ubuntu: Symlink vim to vim.tiny on Ubuntu [27f0d1a]
• director: Require disk_size to be set on a disk_pool in manifest [7b85b28]
• cpi: vsphere: Creates VM even when multi-tenant folder already exists [191c889]
• cpi: openstack: Added openstack_region property for volumes [73af42c]

2719

Improvements:

• cpi: vsphere: Remove drs rule attribute cleaner [4348d0d]
• cpi: vsphere: Use datacenter name from config in configure_networks [f580676]

2717

New Features:

• agent: Use remaining space on root disk for ephemeral storage and swap if OpenStack flavor does not include separate ephemeral disk [250d15a]

Improvements:

• director: upgraded bosh components to use Ruby 2.1.2p95 [14e4702]
• cpi: openstack: updated fog to 1.23.0 [245e086]
• director: Set content-type while creating blobs on s3 [e69beab]
• stemcell: openstack: Reduce OpenStack root partition to 3 GB [e9681a7]
• stemcell: lucid: Remove lucid stemcells [2124ed4]
• agent: Try running monit stop/unmonitor for longer period of time to handle 503 Service Unavailable error from monit [250d15a]

2710

New Features:

• director: allow to configure compiled packages cache to use local blobstore [9e99ea9]

2707

New Features:

• cpi: aws: allow to specify EBS volume type (supports gp2 and standard) [b79f37e]
• cpi: pass in cloud_properties to CPI create_disk method to support custom disk types [675c4c0]
• cli: show deployment changes in non-interactive mode [da70f67]
• cli: retry director requests on OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError [3e8bee4]
• director: control the number of PowerDNS backend db connections [c4e0b28]
• director: Added support for disk_pools in the deployment [7499c0b]

Improvements:

• stemcell: build: allow to set proxy username/password for downloading [4b3c6f0]
• spec: remove ci-reporter [beb2709]

Bug Fixes:

• agent: Make sure dav-blobstore cli performs proper http error checking when uploading blobs from the agent [7dc191a]

2693

New Features:

• cpi: vsphere: experimental support for specifying VM anti-affinity rules on BOSH resource pools [76fa819]

Improvements:

• cpi: openstack: bosh task X --cpi displays detailed OpenStack CPI logs [55ef66d]
• stemcell: trusty: upgraded to linux-image-3.13.0-34-generic kernel [66a5e34]
• spec: added scripts for running BOSH integration tests in Docker container [193a563]

2690

Bug Fixes:

• director: fixed IP allocation when number of VMs matches number of IPs [82c1ee9]

2686

Bug Fixes:

• cli: open temp file as binary to suppress LF->CRLF conversion on Windows [992c921]
• stemcell: clean up /etc/resolconf/resolv.conf.d files [a3d5902]

2685

New Features:

• cpi: vsphere: allow users to delete persistent disks via bosh cck [95cb126]
• cli: support specifying director port 443 [98a2d5f]
• cli: removed percent sign from non-percent load averages [17fd4e4]

Improvements:

• director: updated controller routing to speed up responses [ccfa737]
• agent: bumped yagnats to catch NATS subscription failures [44bc312]

2682

Improvements:

• cli: update bosh upload release X --skip-if-exists to support uploading semi-semantic releases [480f5f2]
• cli: retry downloading if SHA mismatches during release building [bbd4a13]