Release Notes

Portal

• Improved reliability of File and Block Storage provisioning.

API

• Brand Master Accounts may no longer place orders
• Added an API endpoint that allows brands to disconnect, reconnect, and disable their customer accounts. SoftLayer_Account_Lockdown_Request

Portal

• Storage groups default to max size if no size is specified.
• Changed generic error messages on Catalyst enrollment to specify more clearly the problem encountered.

Portal

API

• Updated documentation on SoftLayer_Hardware_Server::reloadOperatingSystem
• Improved performance of SoftLayer_Account::updateVpnUsersForResource
• Speed improvement to Cloud Migrate transaction

Portal

• Fixed an issue with some Object Storage accounts not being listed properly
• Fixed an issue where some ticket attachments were not getting uploaded.
• Adds restrictions on ordering a server in the India DC. More Information
• Fixed creation of billing item for managed resources that require a transfer price
• Eliminates false errors from being thrown during bandwidth usage polling
• Fixes No-OS rescue transactions from failing. No-OS rescues now default to a Linux rescue environment. There will be a future issue to allow customers to choose between Linux and Windows rescues environments for No-OS rescues.

API

• Fixed an issue with ticket routing for branded account upgrades
• Correct issue wherein secondary subnets were not being configured on inside VLANs when unrouted from a Gateway Device
• Reverted restrictions on user creation added in the 2010-10-07 release.

Portal

• Properly display all VAT summary rates on invoices
• Correct SSL VPN authentication lockouts caused by a set of automated actions

API

• The First Name, Last Name, Street Address, City, Country, ZIP, State, Company Name, Office Phone fields must not be blank when creating a user.
• No longer possible to cancel Endurance Storage while there are active blocking actions happening.
• Adds getPublicCustomerOwnedImages to the SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group service
• Fixed a bug when adding new configuration value for a Nimsoft Monitoring Robot causing a failing transaction.

Portal

• New IBM cloud theme

API

• Decreased monitoring robot provisioning time
• Improved SAML authentication logs
• Corrects a bug where the replications schedule may not be returned for all Endurance Storage volumes.
• Improved SoftLayer_Hardware_Server::lastOperatingSystemReload() request performance
• Adds the ability to order hardware security modules via the API.

Portal

API

• Invalid characters are now being removed from ARIN/RIPE/APNIC registrations
• Engendered network address translation context awareness in VLAN verification actions.

API

• Adds account creation source record to brand master accounts created during the brand creation process preventing failures during account creation

Portal

• Correcting ability for Agents to Escalate a Ticket to SoftLayer Sales Group
• Fixed a minor storage view error
• The validator was previous incorrectly kicking out firewall orders for servers which have the private VLAN as an inside VLAN but not the public VLAN. This has been fixed and the validator should now allow those orders to go through.

API

• SoftLayer_Account.nextInvoiceIncubatorExemptTotal is now depreciated and will be removed in a later version
• Numbers are no longer valid characters for a lastName field when creating an account.

Portal

• Fixes a problem where some orders would be authorized several times before being collected.

API

• Prevents CoreOS Virtual Guests from using rescue layer as it is not supported