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Uniview™ OpenStack Portal Release Notes
| Version | Release Notes | Upstream | Enterprise Starter Edition docker pull | Public Cloud Edition | User Guides |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024.12 | Release Notes | Caracal | computingstack/uniview-openstack-frontends:2024-december | computingstack/uniview-openstack-collector:2024-november Uniview Core on-request | Docs |
| 2024.11 | Release Notes | Caracal | computingstack/uniview-openstack-frontends:2024-november | computingstack/uniview-openstack-collector:2024-november Uniview Core on-request | Docs |
| 2024.10 | Release Notes | Caracal | computingstack/uniview-openstack-frontends:2024-october | computingstack/uniview-openstack-collector:2024-october Uniview Core on-request | Docs |
| 2024.09 | Release Notes | Caracal | computingstack/uniview-openstack-frontends:2024-september | computingstack/uniview-openstack-collector:2024-september Uniview Core on-request | Docs |
| 2024.08 | Release Notes | Caracal | computingstack/uniview-openstack-frontends:2024-august | computingstack/uniview-openstack-collector:2024-august Uniview Core on-request | Docs |
| 2024.07 | Release Notes | Caracal | computingstack/uniview-openstack-frontends:2024-july | on-request | Docs |
| 2024.06 | Release Notes | Caracal | computingstack/uniview-openstack-frontends:2024-june | on-request | Docs |
| 2024.05 | Release Notes | Caracal | computingstack/uniview-openstack-frontends:2024-may | on-request | Docs |
| 2024.04 | Release Notes | Antelope | computingstack/uniview-openstack-frontends:2024-april | on-request | Docs |
| ~2024 | on-request | Docs |
2024-december Release Notes (current)
In this release there is an overhaul on user registration process. First change is the adoption of a short lived code, instead of a hyperlink. The new process is more secure and machine forged attacking can be generally prevented. The Google recaptcha v2 is decommissioned accordingly. The second change is to support Phone SMS integration that can be used to receive validation code, or serve as a second authenticator. Overall new process is considered providing best industry security for the process of user onboarding. All the changes are seamless backward compatible however.
In this release there is more graceful handling for metric visualization and alarm integration etc. Some absolute value based alarms such as Memory Util and Disk IOPS can be visualized with the metric to help administrator drill down or justify an alarm configured. Rate or composite metrics could be further provided on customer basis
2024-november Release Notes
Now Uniview core and collector adopt new base OS, i.e. the latest Ubuntu22.04 with series of other package adjustments. The new packaging becomes more agile as smaller storage used, and delivers high performace too
Now cloud providers can apply discounted price plan to required projects for specific durations! The feature enables CSP to launch certain promotion compaigns at ease with just concise console inputs to have background rating, billing, and invoicing covered.
Uniview collector now has a health check URI added that will respond to status check with healthy or failed msg to support possible monitoring implementation of a CSP
For large scale deploy, the pagination recently added will handle global resource interactions safer, plus other bug fixes and improvements!
2024-october Release Notes
Fontawesome and other icons libaries has been upgraded to the latest, so users can access more morden views of icons and fonts!
Now console provides users an extra utility for token based CLI by one click to generate RC scripts. That is expected to facilitate much more secure and graceful user interactions with the infrastructure.
Uniview collector has been improved with a deploy context extra configuration, so that test, staging and prod multiple use cases can be supported simutaniously by one OpenStack controller without interference.
There are multiple improvements on administrator cron job deploy and scheduler so services can run more reliably. One bug on Swift Object store console has been fixed too, which prevents from using cached selection to download not intended objects.
2024-september Release Notes
From this release, stable version of Uniview collector becomes available. More console based utilities for administrators to manage price plan are provided too, so that the integrity and error-free process are facilitated!
Besides manual management, now administors can choose to configure and enable a cron job that detects balance due by project and disable the corresponding project before it becomes out of control.
Now Uniview Montior can detect what has been configured before its attempt of loading UI packages when they will fail, so user can have a better user experences of dashboards
2024-august Release Notes
From this release, for those deploys when OpenStack Upstream can't meet business needs, by such as Ceilometer and Cloudkitty, Uniview provides an extensible and concise solution that intercepts RabbitMq message queue to compose billing data. Uniview comes along with rating module that can aggregate price plan and billing data generated by this collector into bills per billing cycle.
Uniview Collector/Rating is an alternative to CloudKitty based solution. However the support for CloudKitty/Gnocchi/Ceilometer remains unchanged, and is the default configuration at install.
For those users that managed locally at Keystone, MFA process is added a validation step after an authenicator scans QR code before final device binding. For the users that are federatedly managed by such as Keycloak, the process is not applicable.
2024-july Release Notes
Now cloud service provider can integrate through Uniview with other identity providers such as Keycloak, enterprise user database or other popular internet users of Github, Google etc. The protocl current supported is OpenID
Public cloud service providers can have alternative option of user registration process by Keycloak user management module: popular, open, and market proven with peace of mind! Uniview SSO Landing Portal empowers CSPs to have a secure landing control with necessary credit validation, and resource allocation control after SSO users sign in and right before actual resource access is granted
Now administrators can easily get aggregated billing info, such as projects with due balance, actual consumption distribution to timely protect revenue!.
Administrators can also look back up to 12 months for the invoice number, monetary balance. both paid and non-paid etc.
2024-june Release Notes
Now administrator can easily look at statistic information of tickets, such as new tickets over time, assignments etc to understand how customer interactions go. And from this edition, more features such as "Ticket Manager" and ticket "Assignment" are supported too, so that a business can better manage higher volume of tickets by a process of distributing when a new ticket comes in. Administrator can add/delete members, and assign a ticket to a ticket manager to take care the follow-up.
The bill details by Uniview now includes the resource id when it incurs cost in a bill, such as instance_id, volume_id, bucket name etc that provides best auditing for customers to lookup.
The usage info of a resource in a bill display becomes more accurate by HOUR of the usage unit, to increase the transaction justifiablity
2024-may Release Notes
Uniview just finished the inter operability with latest OpenStack Release -- Caracal! For those clients who have AI workload over Caracal release, the benefits of Caracal can be supported by Uniview.
IntlTel artifact migrated up to date, and more intelligences are enabled such as geo-awareness to facilitate user form sumbitting at registration or payment method editing.
Now users can optionally choose to publish some important news feeds, e.g. the cloud status, new feature or down time announcements etc in the very first page to have best user attentions.
2024-april Release Notes
Since this release, Murano based application catalog is supported. Through the new edition, users who are looking for push button to start a clean app without worrying complex configurations can be best facilitated!
Due to upstream release exclusion from OpenStack community for the time being, it will be only packaged on-request to a customer build
The chart and graphic underlying has been migrated to the latest Chartjs V4, so that users can enjore the latest feature such as more animation and better performance etc.
Upon ticket creation, reply, more administrator notifications are provided and a different entry for admin is provided too!
A few of other improvements, including more comprehensive display when GPU is provisioned at instance creation, and flavor display when extra resource such as GPU is allocated!
2024-march Release Notes
In this release, the encoding is changed to accomodate various language possibilities in the attachment file name, or in the support requets contents.
In this release, the attachment format constraint to image has been removed, so that all file formats can be attached for convenience. The image local show is disabled to facilitate downloading instead
A new twilight theme is being supported to support business needed. For those businesses with a light color logo and tone, new theme can match to perfectly
New switch at vendor console is provided for user to switch between daylight and twilight themes without re-building !
Billing console and dashboards get a dedicated top entry at this release to provide easy activities organizing!
2024-february Release Notes
In this release, customers can customize invoices by administrator through intuitive configuration with no code changes needed.
Since this release service providers can choose prepaid for credit limiting use case when business requires. Multiple payment methods are supported for prepaid such as Credit Card or other bank transfer where manual intervention may be required
The pricing display becomes very flexibile without requirement on backend role and permission, so that every user regardless API permission can see the flavor based pricing easily!
Database schema has change in this release for the public cloud features.
2024-january Release Notes
To accommodate different taste of users, now customer can pick one of two ready sign in pages of Uniview
Now Ticketing system supports service rating. A user can rate (poor to excellent) every response provided from IT support to increase awareness and trust.
Now Ticketing system allows users to attach up to 3 screenshots in one reply
2023-december Release Notes
Now all outgoing email templates can be prepared in a separate manner from core packaging, so that users can easily customize by editing and providing back into their package builds
From this release, a new utility for administrator to set a payment status when wiring, checque or other payment methods other than online pay through Uniview console is available!
From this release, Uniview starts providing utility for user to create/delete EC2 credential!
For monitoring solution, from this release Uniview can alert upon the hosting server disk/drive utilization reaches a threshold based on the real time checking of the filesystem of the drive!
2023-november Release Notes
Swift Object Store User Console has significant improvements in the release, esp in handling extreme characters or strings when they are part of file name or a path. Stress test shows user can generally feel free in having every character possible in object naming!
2023-october Release Notes
For Private Cloud edition, now Uniview supports monitoring of OpenStack Controller Database! Database in OpenStack controller is a vulnerable component that frequently has various issue. As a critical component, Uniview can conveniently monitor and alert various metrics such as open file number, slow query, unexpected restart etc!
In order to be consistent and error free, now a console based bill generation for administrator becomes available! Besides earlier command line based trigger, a console provides many benefits such as traceability, consistency and convenience. At the end of bill cycle, a push button is ready to generate bills per projects!
For the process of automated payment collection from Credit card at the end of billing cycle, besides earlier command line based interface, now a console is available for administrators to select the tenants (projects) and billing cycle, then start credit card pay process. A console provides better controlling, traceability, and payment issue investigation possibilities too! The command line interface is expected to be decommissioned in upcoming release!
2023-september Release Notes
Now Uniview has ticketing feature for public cloud use cases. A tenant user can conveniently create support case on the same console upon technical or billing issues. Vendor administrators have been provided a utility to respond, resolve or re-open an issue created by the tenant from Vendor console too.
The keystone authentication for Uniview such as Payment/Ticketing of non-openstack activities is adjusted to accomodate restricted keystone API call. With basic keystone policy permission, user still can be authenticated to ticketing for example!
2023-august Release Notes
Now Uniview has timeout settings for handshaking with backend API endpoints， which helps to tolerate expected/unexpected failures when system scan capabilities of complex OpenStack deployments
Now Uniview is optimized with more static view experiences on openstack identify management views.
2023-july Release Notes
Now Uniview supports extra monitoring view for tenant Octavia load balancer. With a click, user can conveniently get the critical operation data, such as metrics of listners, pools, health state etc, active connection, traffic in/out in a graphic and comparative manner
Now Uniview has a full migration from earlier version toward the new edition frontend web framework Boostrap 5, so the user can leverage all the best features such as placeholder, better datatable etc.!
There are many small enhancements on billing job, and other bugs in this current release!
2023-june Release Notes (Antelope API Support)
Uniview now has support of cores services of OpenStack Antelope editions: Keystone, Glance, Neutron, Nova, Cinder, Heat, Swift, Ceilometer and many other applications.
Now Uniview supports Receipt/Invoice Downloading upon successful due payment!
Now User can edit/create new payment method upon pay request starts, and select one or multiple billing cycles by one pay!
2023-may Release Notes
All a public cloud needs in! Finally it is exciting that Uniview now fully supports public cloud needs in this release! From user onboarding process, registration, credit card validation, pay a bill, automated credit card payment are fully supported as a click to go. By this release, user can turn a running OpenStack infrascture into cash-flow ready public cloud in minutes.
Now Uniview supports API call with Payment Gateway for the automated invoicing process. The utility can be on demand to initiate batch payment of invoicing through API call toward popular Paymeng Gateway: Stripe!
2023-april Release Notes
Now Uniview has across board optimization so that display is more context awared. When no datapoint is available from backend, the views will be adapted into effect by backfilling default value, which is even helpful when multiple resources are displayed in one comparative view in a timeframe.
Uniview provides a first version of standalone utility for bill aggregation for public cloud use case. The utility aggregates data through API query and inserts into Uniview database for bill query, invoice generation through payment gateway etc.
2023-march Release Notes
Now Uniview supports consolidated quota management for Magnum K8s along with nova, cinder, neutron quota etc. To compare with Horizon, where a standalone quota for cluster, consolidated quota is proven providing the best convinient user experiences.
Now Uniview Monitoring supports backfilling for a timeframe metric querying. That well complements the behavior of Prometheus that only valid dataset will be returned even query is across a longer period and eventually view could not show a whole image.
Uniview allows self-signed certificates handshaking now. And disabling such to allow only publicly signed certificate will be on demand to set.
2023-february Release Notes
Now Uniview supports alerting function that various infrastructure metrics threshold, high CPU/Memory, instance down/up of bare metal, or OpenStack services can be real time alarmed through email, slack, PagerDuty and any other http webhooks. The function further improves the operability of OpenStack by out of box full monitoring suite ready and keep the best integrity and process fluency. Alert dashbaord is integrated into vendor dashboard, and an alert detail console is provided along too.
Now user has best flexibility of choice of using application credential by a separate utility to enable/disable by a click. Administrator console allows admin to enable/disable the option of all users in the same easy way.
Various bugs are fixed and some Heat Stack user action UI effects are improved in this releases.
2023-january Release Notes
Now Uniview supports vendor best-practice CPU over-committing ratio, instead of a NOVA configuration, so that dashboard CPU allocation ratio becomes an even better helper for administrator in capacity planning and making resource scaling up decision.
Now Uniview supports self MFA enabling to every cloud users, regardless of their roles and permissions,with no need of administrator through the process. Please note back end API policy and Keystone proper configuration are needed to support this! Please consult our support team for the configurations.
Various bugs are fixed and some Swift user action UI effects are improved in this releases.
2022-december Release Notes (Applauses for Zed Support)
The core components of Zed, 26th OpenStack Release of 2022, are being supported at Uniview right now!
Extra CPU utilization by cpu millisecond counter, and load average (1m, 5m and 15 minutes average) are both provided respectively to support the need of views from different angle. Metrics aggregated at Uniview are more auditable too, by alignment with common performance CLI tools such as top and htop etc!
Majority metric views of Instances, Bare-metals and Hosting servers across board now have both small and large views with easy switch, mouse drag pickable daterange to search. So that user can easily dig in suspicious part when in need.
2022-november Release Notes
App layouts are supported for normal cloud users, administorator, or monitoring etc.
The view of designated is overhauled to be more user friendly
2022-october Release Notes
Spanish becomes one language officially support by Uniview this month release.
Routing and Language pack improvements, data table performance and other user not-visible improvements etc
Uniview has gone through many polishing across instance view, object view, designate zone view etc to render stable and visual pleasant effects!
2022-september Release Notes
Uniview is optimized to support very large user base deployment to support high concurrent user requests. The performance tuning is configrable by administrators at deployment configurations too.
Uniview now supports multi regions OpenStack deploy with capability of discovering regions and backends. At console, user can easily click a button to switch between regions
Uniview supports discovering the type of endpoints, such as HTTP/HTTPS, LAN vs WAN for proper handshaking
Now Uniview portal supports full cycle managements of clustering: profile, node, cluster and etc
Now Uniview portal supports managements of DNS: zone and records
Now Uniview portal supports fraut prevention at user regisration. Administrator can configure by providing the DNS and Google "I'm not a bot" fraud prevention key at administrator console without code change.
2022-august Release Notes
Now Uniview portal admin can customize business rebranding needs by simply a click! That will also simplify automated install as care of customization can be left to post-install setting at admin console.
Customized items: Signin page master logo; Favicon; Main page logo; Privacy policy; Terms of use
Now portal admin can switch different theme at console with simply a click! As business has a need to match the theme to their logo etc, a theme change is frequently required
User profile is more aligned with dashboard service by fluency improvement, e.g. disabling avatar
The overall view is adjusted, and outgoing notification is generalized per custom branding and business terms
2022-july Release Notes
Now user can skip database provisioning to simplify portal install manual process. From this release docker service has the capability of identifying status, e.g. existing version, or a fresh install, then will do accordingly seed database, or upgrade the database from earlier version! Upfront install of Uniview portal is much simpler
2022-june Release Notes
New uploading experience of object files/folders: real time, acurate uploading status, drag and drop as many files as user wants. The frontend is better tuned in terms of how to refresh when there is delay of availability after uploading is complete
2022-may Release Notes (Applauses for Yoga Support)
Now ComputingStack Frontend Integrations support the core components and API of YOGA version of OpenStack 2022.
2022-april Release Notes
Now user can conviniently find cost info at very first landing page to be tuned, and welcome view are also generally improved to be concise.
2022-march Release Notes
Swift Console API process is re-compiled to accomdate special charaters. However, there is not user facing view change.
2022-feburary Release Notes
Billing and rating become offically supported out of box in feb-2022 release. User can view/generate/download monthy bill with service break down such as instance type, networking incoming/outgoing, volume usage etc and configurable to all metrics collected by Ceilomter. A comprensive cost dashboard is provided in the release too. As built over API call, billing integration with backend is easy and straightforward as only either standard Gnocchi or Monasca in place is required
Instance creation wizard now provides more visual filters per image architecture, OS distro etc. User now can even conviniently launch instance from source panels such as image
2022-january Release Notes
Mutliple changes including uploading protocol and meta data editing etc in this release!
Multiple changes including security group association, floating IP creation in process of association were improved in this release
More explicit image info is better displayed in the VM creation wizard taking advatange of Image meta data info
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2021-december Release Notes
Now Intos Cloud Portal supports core components of the latest version of Openstack: Xena, e.g. compute, storage and networking. Applications specific is expected to come very soon, such as Kubernetes, Database, and Loadbalancer!
Welcome landing page is improved to more comprehensively cover monitoring, wizards, and business relevant pointers
Now user can even safely and conveniently in a guided way to create a VM by staying on one panel with a few clicks
YAML apply becomes a fun of a click away without a process of pulling out credential and setup kubectl cli env etc. Another improvement is that now Kubernetes dashboard is organized more organicly per cluster to fit in most of real user cases of per cluster context.
2021-November Release Notes
Now critical resources have desirable protections from accidental deletion at console! The sources include such as Kubernetes cluster, heat stack, neutron router, swift container etc
Now the system has the capacity for managing user info in business context beyond the constraint of keystone, such as business name, address, telephone
2021-October Release Notes
Many small improvements over the course, such as MySQL2 support in moving to latest mysql server etc!
Now the system can differentiate machine created project vs real project and use different ways of loading for administror dashboard
2021-september Release Notes
Now user can download super large object through portal with full peace of mind, transparently, responsively and securely. What you see is what you get!
The landing page changes to have user to select clusters before loading workload, service and other kuberntes objects, to accommodate use cases of large number of clusters user can access
Select to display window can show more conveniently enriched, grouped user oriented information details
2021-august Release Notes
Users now experience more controlled process for large object uploading through Intos UI after the process and protocol overhauls, such as all real time, speed and progress clarity. The drag and drop on combined folders and individual files become even easier too.
Admin users can just click to enable or disable projects and users.
Admin users have convenience of capacity management now. Hypervisor, Block storage and other Bare-metal level details can be queried and grouped to display. Basic operations at baremetal level are possible too over Intos UI.
2021-july Release Notes
On router, now user can manage static route, such as adding new route, removing existing route.
The search button has been enhanced across all console pages with more sophisticated view and experience.
User can filter out object views per cluster, per namespace or per both
2021-june Release Notes
In Virtual Machine creation, now user can have a short cut to skip optional steps to review and submit to create VM. When multiple networks exist, the VM creation with auto network may fail.
In this version of Intos Portal, user can conduct daily operation of GROUP, such as create, edit and delete.
User now can cordon and uncordon a node conveniently at Intos Portal, so that user has flexibility of enabling or disabling node schedulability.
User Profile has been more accurate, and nova tenant VM memory metric graphical etc
2021-may Release Notes
Now user can browse kubernetes node, deployments, configurations and services etc with one click. User has also options (still limited) to edit attributes of pod, deployment etc then save to apply without kubectl and credential environment to setup.
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2020-january Release Notes
First release of Intos Cloud Portal becomes downloadable to the public
User has a experience boosted process of creating OpenStack VM, comprehensive, one pane of glass and error-free
Volume creation, deletion, editing and security utilities; Container and object CRUD with drag and drop
User can just one click create, delete and edit network, subnet, port, security group, routers, floating IP and all other network objects
The world only known seamless integrated solution, so a user would have tenant monitoring graphic views by only a click away. CPU, Memory, Disk and Network and more
User can automatically register and create an account at OpenStack Cloud. Email notification and other on-demand communications are supported
Welcome with Wizards, Monitoring and Business contexts
Instance Creatin Wizards
Responsive Instance View with All Needs Handy
Metrics Display from Various Angles
Admin Dashboards
Full Kubernetes Dashboard
Edit or Create New Kubernetes Objects
One click to bind MFA
Drag and Drop to manage Swift Objects
Billing dashboard: informative and functional
Customer usage lookup with metering by hour
Support and Ticket Utility
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