Release Notes

Portal

• Resolved an issue that was preventing orders from completing on accounts with Account Defined Networking enabled.
• Resolved an issue that was preventing order quotes from being properly saved for later use.
• Removed the TLS_X cipher option for SSL Offloading on Load Balancers in the customer portal. Furthermore, any attempts to configure TLS_X through the API will now result in a NotSupported exception.
• Improved Cancellation Error Messaging for Already Canceled Services.

API

• The data types redundancyEnabledFlag and redundancyCapableFlag on SoftLayer_Network_Component will now reflect properly for unbonded network components and bonded components with a bonding type of Etherchannel in a dual path environment.
• Addressed an issue where calling SoftLayer_Network_Application_Delivery_Controller_LoadBalancer_VirtualIpAddress::editObject without specifying a serviceGroup ID was causing a duplication of serviceGroups.

Backend

• Fixed an issue with checking user status for users connected to the SoftLayer VPN when making SOAP calls to the API.
• Created a process that will allow users to authenticate via SAML even if they don’t exist in in the customer portal yet. Upon login the new user will be created automatically. To assign permissions the user will need to provide a roles attribute with the SAML token.
• Enabled SAML on all Customer accounts.

Portal

• Resolved an issue that was preventing orders from completing on accounts with Account Defined Networking enabled.
• Resolved an issue that was preventing order quotes from being properly saved for later use.
• Removed the TLS_X cipher option for SSL Offloading on Load Balancers in the customer portal. Furthermore, any attempts to configure TLS_X through the API will now result in a NotSupported exception.
• Improved Cancellation Error Messaging for Already Canceled Services.

API

• The data types redundancyEnabledFlag and redundancyCapableFlag on SoftLayer_Network_Component will now reflect properly for unbonded network components and bonded components with a bonding type of Etherchannel in a dual path environment.
• Addressed an issue where calling SoftLayer_Network_Application_Delivery_Controller_LoadBalancer_VirtualIpAddress::editObject without specifying a serviceGroup ID was causing a duplication of serviceGroups.

Backend

• Fixed an issue with checking user status for users connected to the SoftLayer VPN when making SOAP calls to the API.
• Created a process that will allow users to authenticate via SAML even if they don’t exist in in the customer portal yet. Upon login the new user will be created automatically. To assign permissions the user will need to provide a roles attribute with the SAML token.
• Enabled SAML on all Customer accounts.

Portal

• Fixed an issue where there is an additional forward slash in the return redirect from PayPal ordering.
• Fixed an issue preventing the warning message from being displayed with improper virtual server configurations on the ordering page.
• The link to order private node virtual servers in the control portal will now properly direct users to the private node order page.

API

• None

Backend

• Updated backend monitoring agent APIs, which will make the monitoring services more efficient and reliable.
• Updated windows post install scripts for better error handling.

Portal

• Updated the order receipt page, added some useful links to documentation about the purchased product.
• Streamlined the form which is used to submit orders.

API

• Fixed an issue with SoftLayer_Hardware::createObject that was preventing processor restricted operating systems from being ordered with fixedConfigurationPreset.

Portal

• None

API

• Fixed a bug in SoftLayer_Hardware_Server::createObject that was preventing sshKeys from being properly installed on the new server.

Backend

• Disabled quotes that contain products from specific packages: 56, 126, 142, 143, 146, 147, 148, 158, 234
• Updated the Linux post provisioning process to output more verbose log files.

Portal

• Resolved an issue where private subnets were not populating in the VLAN selector for private networking only server orders.
• Resolved an issue preventing OS reloads from Image Templates from completing due to inactive packages on the template.

API

• None

Portal

• Resolved an issue with incorrect placements of order sliders during checkout.

API

• API deprecation warning: SoftLayer_Network_Component::getPortStatistics will be functionally deprecated on May 2, 2016. After this time the method will return a deprecated exception. Upon the next release version of the API, it will be removed.

Backend

• Fixed a rare bug in Hourly Bare Metal provisions that occurred when a customer had a VLAN on a Monthly Bare Metal server router in the same datacenter as the new Hourly Bare Metal Server. The issue causes a stuck transaction during the provisioning process.
• Added the functionality to register .us TLD domains.

Portal

• Resolved an issue that was preventing the portal from properly enabling Private VLAN spanning.

API

• Exposed getAllowedHardwareIds and getAllowedVirtualGuestIds to the SoftLayer_User_Customer service. This helps with API timeout issues on accounts with a large amount of Bare Metal Servers and or Virtual Guests.
• Resolved an issue where calling denySharingAccess would cause an image template to go in to an inconsistent state.

Backend

• Added the ability to specify userdata to Hourly Bare Metal Servers
• Enabled the automatic migration of local disk VSIs on disabled hosts on VSI power off or reboot.

Portal

• Resolved an issue where internal technical support updates were being sent in the customer facing section of tickets.
• Fixed an issue with Advanced Monitoring alert emails not being sent to customers.
• When the option to order a ‘Dedicated Firewall (Dedicated) Option’ is selected, ‘Bare Metal Server Firewall Option’ is now deselected to prevent the order form from producing the error when continuing to checkout. Conversely, if a ‘Bare Metal Server Firewall Option’ is selected, the ‘Dedicated Firewall (Dedicated) Option’ will be deselected.
• Expired quotes that contain products from specific packages: 56, 126, 142, 143, 146, 147, 148, 158, 234. The status of the quote will be updated to DELETED.

API

• Exposed secureTransportCiphers and secureTransportCipherCount as Data Types for SoftLayer_Network_Application_Delivery_Controller_LoadBalancer_VirtualIpAddress.
• Exposed getAvailableSecureTransportCiphers which yields a list of the SSL/TLS encryption ciphers that are currently supported on a virtual IP address instance.
• The API now allows for customer configuration of SSL ciphers to be used on a Load Balancer via SoftLayer_Network_Application_Delivery_Controller_LoadBalancer_VirtualIpAddress::editObject()

Backend

• Made a change to allow customers to have multiple abuse email contacts.
• Resolved an issue in which a subnet may be incorrectly reclaimed when only management interfaces are utilizing addresses.

Portal

• Resolved an issue where Data Transfer tickets were not populating with ship date any notes and/or tracking details.

API

• None

Backend

• Fixed a bug where the incorrect storage volume name was reported in snapshot threshold alert tickets.
• Corrected an issue with FreeBSD provisions that was causing non-swap space to be set as EXT3 instead of UFS.
• Resolved an issue where license updates for RedHat were not properly occurring on VSI’s.