Current Series Release Notes

12.0.0.0b2-32

New Features

  • The Network QoS panel allows users to view a list of created network policies. This panel displays a table view of the name, id, description and shared status of each policy.
  • Added a locked status column on admin/project instances table. It will show a locked or unlocked icon if nova 2.9 or above is used. The locked status is also available on instance details panel.

Upgrade Notes

  • OPENSTACK_ENDPOINT_TYPE setting now has a consistent default value and it defaults to publicURL. If you use the default value, previously (at least Ocata release) Horizon used internalURL for keystone and publicURL for other services. The default value is now publicURL, so if you want horizon to use internalURL to talk with back-end services, ensure to set OPENSTACK_ENDPOINT_TYPE to internalURL.

Bug Fixes

  • Unnecessary API calls to back-end services are eliminated when checking the quota and usage in individual panels. Each panel checks a resource can be created by retrieving the current quota and usage for the resource. However, the previous implementation retrieves quota and usage of unrelated resources (For example, Nova usage is retrieved when checking a network usage). It can be a performance problem in large deployments. This behavior is now fixed to load quota and usage only for resources which are really required.

12.0.0.0b2

New Features

  • Added a new create_volume setting under the LAUNCH_INSTANCE_DEFAULTS dict. This allows you to set the default value of “Create Volume”, when Cinder is available.
  • The available language list is now automatically generated based on the availability of translation message catalogs of languages instead of maintaining the language list manually. If message catalogs (PO files) of some language exist for both django and djangojs domains of horizon and openstack_dashboard, the language will appear in the language list. If you need to change the initial set of languages, set LANGUAGES in local_settings.py.
  • Horizon workflow Step now support allowed() method to determine the step should be displayed conditionally. The workflow Step class already support policy check and permission mechanism to decide the step should be displayed, but allowed() is used to support more complex or dynamic condition.

Upgrade Notes

  • String attributes action_present and action_past were dropped from horizon.tables.BatchAction. action_present and action_past methods are the recommended way to define action labels for BatchAction. The offical way allows us to define more complete strings for action labels and this also allows translators to translate more flexibily.
  • [blueprint drop-nova-network] Horizon nova-network floating IP and security groups supports have been droppped in Pike release. nova-network has been marked as deprecated in Nova in Newton release and horizon support was dropped in favor of it. Neutron now becomes a requirement for floating IP and security groups. Other operations on instances which created with nova-network should work same as before.
  • The settings enable_firewall and enable_vpn which have been deprecated since Juno release are now actually dropped. If you are using these settings to disable FWaaS v1 and VPNaaS dashboards, use REMOVE_PANEL of the Pluggable Panel mechanism <https://docs.openstack.org/developer/horizon/topics/settings.html#pluggable-settings-for-panels> to disable these panels. Note that Horizon checks the availability of FWaaS v1 and/or VPNaaS in your Neutron deploymennt and disables corresponding panels if not available, so in most cases you do not need to take care of the change.

12.0.0.0b1

New Features

  • Gives end-users the ability to create and delete ports in their networks. The functionality will be implemented into the project network details table. Following the discussions in the bug discussion. This functionality will be enabled/disabled via policy. Blueprint can be found at [blueprint network-ports-tenant] Bug can be found at [bug 1399252]
  • The Access & Security panel’s tabs have been moved to their own panels for clearer navigation and better performance. API Access is now a top level panel and Key Pairs now resides in the Compute panel group. Floating IPs and Security Groups are now in the Network panel group.
  • Download buttons for OpenStack RC files have been added to the user dropdown menu in the top right of Horizon.
  • Adds complete support for Glance v2 so that Horizon no longer depends on having a Glance v1 endpoint in the Keystone catalog. Also provides code compatibility between Glance v1 and v2.
  • Adds a new config value called IMAGES_ALLOW_LOCATION, which allows users to set locations when creating or updating images. Depending on the Glance version, the ability to set locations is controlled by policies and/or configuration values.
  • Now it is possible to enable/disable port security in Horizon, when the port-security extension is available. Note: Neutron allows disabling the port security on a port only when no security groups are associated to it
  • Panel group is introduced in the Admin dashboard to organize admin panels better. Panels in “System” group of Admin dashboard are now categorized into four groups: “Compute”, “Volume”, “Network” and “System”.
  • Securtiy group “Add rule” form now allows to specify ‘any’ IP protocol and ‘any’ port number (for TCP and UDP protocols). This feature is available when neutron is used as a networking back-end. You can specify ‘any’ IP protocol for ‘Other Protocol’ and -1 means ‘any’ IP protocol. You can also see All ports choice in ‘Open Port’ field in case of TCP or UDP protocol is selected.

Known Issues

  • If you set ‘images_panel’ to False for the ANGULAR_FEATURES option (which is not the default) and configure Horizon to use Glance v2, Ramdisk ID and Kernel ID don’t show properly on the “Edit Image” screen.

Upgrade Notes

  • Horizon is updated to use the same API policy target rules with Nova, if you made any changes to Horizon’s old nova policy file before, make sure to apply your specific policy changes to the new Nova policy file used by Horizon.
  • The profile_support setting has been removed from the OPENSTACK_NEUTRON_NETWORK dict, and any usages have been removed from the Horizon code base. If you were relying on this being set by default, you will now need to manually set the value in your plugin/customisation.
  • The OPENSTACK_IMAGE_FORMATS variable must be added to the REST_API_REQUIRED_SETTINGS setting in local_settings.py
  • As a result of Admin dashboard reorganization, panel groups of many Admin panels have been changed. Operators who customize Admin panels (for example, disable some Admin panels) through enabled directory need to update panel groups in enabled files. Horizon plugin developers and deployers may also need to update panel configurations under enabled directory to adapt the new Admin menus.

Other Notes

  • Glance v2 doesn’t support the copy-from feature, so this feature is disabled in Horizon when using Glance v2.
  • The output from the Glance image list API has changed between v1 and v2 such that admins logged into Horizon will now see all images in the cloud on the Project->Compute->Images panel.