Release Notes

API

• Remove property SoftLayer_Location::onlinePptpVpnUserCount
• Deprecate SoftLayer_Network_Subnet::activeTransaction and SoftLayer_Network_Subnet_IpAddress_Global::activeTransaction
• Provide flag and API on the hardware object to denote billing change available SoftLayer_Hardware::getAvailableBillingTermChangePrices

Backend

• Prevent image captures for servers not in ACTIVE status
• Allow bare metal customers to migrate to term-based pricing. Customers can now upgrade from monthly to one-year, monthly to three-year or one-year to three-year term agreements.
• Ensure phone field validation methods are executed during user sync from cloud.ibm.com to SLDN.
• Take the same Rescue Layer steps to boot from ISO regardless of amount of memory on the guest.
• During reclaim of Replica the _REP schedule are removed from Primary volume

API

• Reverted a change from 2021-07-16, making SoftLayer_Hardware_Chassis.unitSize and int again, due to issues with the golang client not being able to properly un-marshal the data.

API

• Fix a rare issue that would prevent orders with very specific payloads and account conditions.
• Restrict apiKey creation to ACTIVE or VPN_ONLY users.

Backend

• Prevent stalling on File and Block storage volumes during a reclaim.

API

• Fixed an issue that prevented resultLimits from working with the SoftLayer_Account::getVirtualGuests() API call when filtering based on a datacenter.
• Add an exception for the visibility of the apiKey during the initial creation of the key and value
• Changed SoftLayer_Hardware_Chassis.unitSize from int to float to accommodate larger values

Backend

• Fixed an issue preventing VPC Block Storage volumes from getting reclaimed properly.

API

• Added ‘hardwareFunctionDescription’ property to the SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest class
• SoftLayer_Hardware_Component_Firmware_SeverityTypes records names for ‘minor’ is update to ‘Optional’ and ‘important’ updated to ‘Recommended’
• Create new option for more restrictive rules on VPN access management, if an account attribute that selects the new behavior is set. Restricts sslVpnAllowedFlag update to users with VPN_MANAGE permission

Backend

• New features like duplication, snapshots, etc will be enabled for v1 File and Block customer volumes

Portal

• Fixed an error where CPU/RAM graphs for virtual servers were showing 5x their actual value.
• Update https://cloud.ibm.com/infrastructure/vmware-solutions/console/settings page with current user’s api key to fix no bare matel error due to hardware permissions.

API

Backend

• Successfully complete reclaim of host authorized block replica volumes, if same host is authorized to multiple block storage volumes.
• Prevent servers with Veeam software from being captured
• Fixed an error when converting a storage volume to independent would cause a stuck transaction.
• Automatically create a new snapshot. if the old snapshot does not exists with respect to the snapshot ID.

API

• Deprecate SoftLayer_Network_Subnet::activeTransaction. Expect an empty response from this key during subnet provisioning.

Backend

• Added validation for missing required security groups allow_https and allow_outbound for new orders
• Removed the ability to order a File or Block replica volume using an interval schedule

API

• Improve performance for getIamId for deleted users, will help user listing on account with large #’s of deleted users.
• API improvement for consoleData
  • Add websocketPath to SoftLayer_Container_Virtual_Guest_ConsoleData
  • Fix issue with customers not being able to generate a valid signed JWT token.
  • Rename SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_BrowserConsoleAccessLog to SoftLayer_Virtual_BrowserConsoleAccessLog
  • Rename SoftLayer_Container_Virtual_Guest_ConsoleData to SoftLayer_Container_Virtual_ConsoleData

Backend

• Fixed an issue with sending compliance report email.

API

• VMWare order: an incorrect error message is displayed if a name is too long
• Adds the sourcePort property to the SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_BrowserConsoleAccessLog class

Backend

• Fixing compliance reports tool.
• Updated the way we determine if a billing item has a reclaim transaction for Storage As A Service billing items. Allow customers to reclaim a storage as a service billing item that has been previously un-cancelled.

API

• Exposes Browser Console Logs to the SLDN so that customers may access them.
  • SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_BrowserConsoleAccessLog
  • SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::browserConsoleAccessLogs
• Optimized the ‘datacenter’ ORM key on the Virtual_Guest class

Backend

• Ensure pricing not available to a customer does not inadvertently cause an OS reload of the current OS.
• Fix the manual snapshot after dr failover
• Updated chunk size for image exports to COS from 64mb to 128 mb
• disallowing image captures on private network only servers