Release Notes

October 5, 2017

Portal

IBM Bluemix Load Balancers are now live in the customer portal.
Performance and Endurance Block volumes can no longer have their LUN Id changed unless all host authorizations are first removed. This is to ensure synchronization between the customer portal and the storage systems.

API

None

Backend

Added more logic when auto-scaling Virtual Guests. The new logic checks the dates in the logs first and makes sure there are no other provisions or reclaims within the cooldown period of time.
Fixed an issue where Virtual Guests being deployed from Image templates were set to Skip OS updates during provisioning.

September 27, 2017

Portal

Security Groups are now live in the customer portal at https://control.softlayer.com/security/securitygroups.
Pushed some code to tidy up the Virtual Guest Family size order forms.

API

Created the enableEuLocalizedProcessing and disableEuLocalizedProcessing methods for the SoftLayer_Account.

Backend

None

September 21, 2017

Portal

Resolved an issue where a subset of DCs where not displaying the 1,2,4 or 8 core options for Dedicated Host Virtual Guests.
Pushed code that that corrected a display issue when ordering Dedicated Host Virtual Guests. When selecting Local drive Virtual Guests do not show the 3rd, 4th, and 5th disk options.

API

Added validation to prevent monthly LBaaS orders via the API since the SoftLayer_Network_LBaaS_LoadBalancer service is only available with hourly billing.

Backend

None

September 14, 2017

Portal

Fixed an issue where standard disk prices were being incorrectly hidden for some datacenters during the order process.
Virtual Guest Family sizes are now live on the order form. You can read more about the Family sizes here.
Added new functionality to the order forms to support multiple disk controllers for bare metal offerings.
Added the following new offerings in the Bluemix catalog: Container Registry, Informix On Cloud, Master Data Management on Cloud, Information Server on Cloud, JanusGraph, Monitoring, and Log Analysis.

API

Fixed a bug where the results from SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::generateOrderTemplate were not showing the new Family Size Virtual Guests.
Introduced a new feature which enables customers to specify a backend router for bare metal server orders via API.
The SoftLayer Python CLI was updated for Family Sizes and Dedicated hosts. The virtual create-options command was updated to show flavors and the dedicated host options. The virtual create command was updated to accept a flavor key and a host id.
Added the method getSupportedDataCenters to service SoftLayer_Network_SecurityGroup. The new API will return a list of SoftLayer_Location_Datacenter objects, which represent the datacenters where security groups are available.

Backend

Corrected a bug that was causing customers to be unable to boot Virtual Guests in to our rescue environment.

September 7, 2017

Portal

None

API

Exposed the SoftLayer_Network_Storage_MassDataMigration_Request, SoftLayer_Network_Storage_MassDataMigration_Request_KeyContact, and SoftLayer_Network_Storage_MassDataMigration_Request_Statu for interacting with the Mass Data Migration offering.
Fixed an issue with the SoftLayer_Billing_Currency_ExchangeRate::getAllCurrencyExchangeRates method. When customers would supply the current days date, the call would not return any exchange rate information.

Backend

Fixed a bug with ISO importing. The fix now allows import transactions to complete even without a Software Description set on the ISO.

August 24, 2017

Portal

None

API

None

Backend

Fixed a bug where cancellation tickets were not being closed after the cancellation had completed.
Corrected an issue where Security Groups were not being properly applied to the private network of Windows VSI provisions.

August 17, 2017

Portal

Fixed an issue on the order form where Dedicated Host Instance orders were not showing all size options available in some Datacenters.

API

Corrected a bug where using SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::createObject to order a dedicated host instance with SAN disks would error out with Unable to find a price for block device 0.

Backend

Pushed code to handle active/active clustering for the Cloud Load Balancing offering.

August 10, 2017

Portal

Opened up Security Groups beta to more users.
Added London 04 to the Datacenters that can utilize Security Groups. You can now configure the VSI on the checkout page to add security groups.
Customer Portal Audit Logs now report Security group changes. You can now see when a security group is attached or removed from a Virtual Guest.

API

Fixed File/Block Storage replicationStatus key to always return a string.

Backend

None

August 3, 2017

Portal

Added the new Dedicated Host offering to the catalog. A dedicated host is a physical server with workload capacity entirely dedicated to a single client’s use.
Corrected an issue where customers were unable to attach more than one dedicated host to a ticket.

API

Exposed the SoftLayer_Virtual_DedicatedHost Service. This allows you to interact with the new Dedicated Host offering.
Added the addBulkDedicatedHostAccess method to the SoftLayer_User_Customer service.

Backend

None

July 26, 2017

Portal

None

API

Deprecated the blueIdAuthenticationRequiredFlag method and replaced it with the ibmIdAuthenticationRequiredFlag method for the SoftLayer_Account service.
Added isoCodeAlphaThree to the returned data for the SoftLayer_Locale_Country::getCountries and SoftLayer_Locale_Country::getAvailableCountries methods. This returns the 3 character ISO code for a country.

Backend

Added logic for Brazil and India to support local currency for billing.

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