Release Notes

API

• Removed all guest-related methods from SLDN exposure on the SoftLayer_Virtual_Host class, since customer-managed guests are no longer available as a product and therefore host information is not exposed to customers for their guests.
• Update volumeStatus as string in case of ISCSI volume
• Updated SLDN Documentation for SoftLayer_User_Customer_ApiAuthentication to match behavior
• Deprecate Autoscale for Classic API methods
• Adding new package names to Sendgrid product items.
• Clarify 2nd event log entry for IAM Token good with 2FA failure

Backend

• Prefer keeping the same IP addresses when restarting a provision
• Added code to delete networks after the deletion of provisioning network in SoftLayer_Virtual_Host
• Unroute static subnets targeting primary IP addresses upon host reclaim.

API

• Deprecated the following ORM relations:

  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::network
  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::secondaryRouter

• Deprecated the following methods:

  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::getFirewallProtectableIpAddresses
  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::getFirewallProtectableSubnets
  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::getNetwork
  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::getPrivateVlan
  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::getPublicVlanByFqdn
  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::getReverseDomainRecords
  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::getSecondaryRouter
  • SoftLayer_Network_Vlan::updateFirewallIntraVlanCommunication
  • SoftLayer_Hardware::networkStatus / SoftLayer_Hardware::getNetworkStatus()
  • SoftLayer_Hardware::networkStatusAttribute / SoftLayer_Hardware::getNetworkStatusAttribute()
  • SoftLayer_Hardware::downstreamNetworkHardwareWithIncidents / SoftLayer_Hardware::getDownstreamNetworkHardwareWithIncidents()
  • SoftLayer_Hardware_Group::networkStatus
  • SoftLayer_Hardware_Group::downstreamHardwareWithIncidents

• Updated documentation of SoftLayer_Network_Vlan service and data type.

• Deprecate all customer-managed guest. Information about guests running on customer managed hardware will no longer be available in the API

• Deprecate Host::billedPerGuestFlag and Host::billedPerMemoryUsageFlag

• Deprecated the following SLDN properties and methods.

• New permissions checks to SoftLayer_Network_Storage APIs

Backend

• Enable ordering additional private network interface on bare metal servers
• Allow users to cancel VLANs with customer bare metal hosts trunked to them
• Prevent creation of new Autoscale Scale groups

API

• SLDN Documentation added for SoftLayer_User_Customer::getAuthenticationToken & SoftLayer_User_Customer::validateAuthenticationToken

Backend

• Migrate Reserved Capacity Instance when there is an os mismatch

Backend

• Correctly check for consistent disk types during guest upgrades. Disk types (local/SAN) are more consistently checked when performing upgrades on virtual servers, preventing them from having multiple disk types at a time.

API

• A new orm key in server class that will allow for additional private networks.

Backend

• Fix minor suspendable guest billing issues.
• Fix IAM login for SL user with IP address restrictions AND 2FA
• Prevent compute orders in closing DCs when the account has no presence there
• Lowering subnet size limit to /29 for select VLANs previously limited to /28

API

• Update link to virtual server capacity documentation.
• In the SoftLayer_Tag class put a limit on the number of tags in setTags
• Fix errors when ordering from large quotes
• Customers can know the progress of a dependent duplicate conversion as and when needed.
• LBaaS ability to enable secure flag and set same-site=none
• Updating SoftLayer_User_Customer SLDN documentation for the editObjects call.
• Improved minimum size overflow error messaging for subnet orders

Backend

• Update email URL link on subnet orders to new subnet page.

API

• Expose information about remaining credit, allowing customers to evaluate how much money they can use from a Flex Credit enrollment
• Added account property length validation
  • Last name: 30
  • Phone: 50
  • Address 1 & 2: 100
  • City: 100
• Updated ‘datacenter’ ORM key in the guest class to use targetDatacenterId property
• Allow empty array for as the templateObject for SoftLayer_Network_Firewall_Update_Request/createObject/, which will delete all firewall rules.

Portal

• make PhoneFactor feature unavailable in UI

Backend

• Fix major bugs with suspendable VSI billing for VMs that are unused during the billing cycle
• Updated description for new vendor code for vmware
• Added new vendor code for vSphere SWD
• Enable ordering of Secondary Subnets in unrouted state.
• Enable ordering of private static Secondary Subnets.
• Enable ordering of Global IP Addresses in statically routed state.

API

• Adds provision tracking variables: SoftLayer_Provisioning_Version1_Transaction_OrderTracking
• Add incoming external transaction id(s) to event log for getPortalLoginTokenOpenIdConnect
• Improved documentation of SoftLayer_Network_Subnet

Backend

• Improve customer tickets for custom image ping check failures
• Changed ticket wording around emergency host evacuations
• Enable storage groups to be defined with PCIe drives including Mirrored M.2.

API

• There will be an orm key orderTrackingState on the Transaction class
• Ensure removal of Permission Resources of a specific device type when adding an ACCESS_ALL_ Permission
• Improved VLAN cancellation error message
• Deprecated the extensionRouter key on SoftLayer_Network_Vlan
• A new API validateAccessHosts was released which checks if an ip is behind gateway or not

Backend

• Fix an issue that prevented verifying some virtual guest orders and quotes that included placement groups.
• Fixed various bug fixes for suspendable billed VSI usage tracking.