Scalr Enterprise - 7.8.0 Release notes

Release Date: 15/Mar/18

IMPORTANT: There are two changes in Scalr 7.8.0 that all customers must be aware of prior to upgrading, please click on the links below:

New Feature

  • [SCALRCORE-7692] - Feature preview (beta): Ansible Tower Integration V2: Servers, Groups and Bootstrap Configurations

  • [SCALRCORE-8260] - AWS > Support for x1e instance type

  • [SCALRCORE-8040] - Service Catalog: New applications deploy experience

Improvement

  • [SCALRCORE-7720] - Integration Hub > Phase 1: Better UX for managing Webhooks. Show Webhooks on Farm Orchestration tab

  • [SCALRCORE-8168] - Openstack > New CloudPoller (faster and less API calls)

  • [SCALRCORE-8169] - Azure > New CloudPoller (faster and less API calls)

  • [SCALRCORE-8206] - VMware > Allow to switch an IP Pool from Scalr-managed to externally-managed

  • [SCALRCORE-8237] - UI > RabbitMQ > Add re-create storage if one or more volumes missing

  • [SCALRCORE-8263] - VMware > Set cloud_location to Datacenter name and cloud_location_zone to Compute Resource name (BC Change)

  • [SCALRCORE-8269] - UI > Policy engine > add condition cloud.credentials to hostname-related policies

  • [SCALRCORE-8320] - AWS > Enable C5 & M5 instances Canada Central region

  • [SCALRCORE-8339] - Core > szradm queryenv set-global-variable needs capability to set Category

     

Bug

  • [SCALRCORE-8356] - Cost Analytics > Analytics Processing > RDS duplicate records issue

  • [SCALRCORE-7955] - UI > Farm > Add VmWare role. Networks not available with DRS-chosen option (Affected version 7.7.9)

  • [SCALRCORE-8239] - Users with certain ACL getting error in one environment (Affected Version 7.7.11)

  • [SCALRCORE-8323] - VMware > DNS information (resolv.conf) is not populated from IP pool (Affected version 7.7.11)

  • [SCALRCORE-8262] - VMware > Networks > Issues with port groups definitions in Farm Templates (Affected 7.7.12)

  • [SCALRCORE-8245] - Service Catalog > Unknown permission (update) for resource 'Service Catalog Management' (0x10b) (Affected version: 7.7.6)

  • [SCALRCORE-8272] - Azure > Error when adding cloud credentials (Affected version 7.7.12)

  • [SCALRCORE-8299] - VMware > sysprep error during deploy (Affected version 7.7.12)

  • [SCALRCORE-8344] - UI > Servers list > Utilization display broken (Affected 7.7.12)

  • [SCALRCORE-5614] - UI > FarmRole > Chef tab > Hide private key

  • [SCALRCORE-6899] - Azure > A retryable error occurred

  • [SCALRCORE-7694] - Farm Designer > Missing required tag Category

  • [SCALRCORE-7907] - Farm Templates > Orchestration > Rule with Tags condition is deployed as All servers

  • [SCALRCORE-8152] - No possibility to create new user with email existing in another account

  • [SCALRCORE-8231] - APIv2 > Azure > Register image without cloudLocation error

  • [SCALRCORE-8249] - SAML > No option to log in with user if same email used by Admin

  • [SCALRCORE-8273] - Core > Azure > False-positive check for imported servers

  • [SCALRCORE-8283] - Windows Cloudbase-init not installing Scalrarizr

  • [SCALRCORE-8292] - OTC > Cache images list in Discovery manager

  • [SCALRCORE-8357] - APIv2 > Farm Templates > VmWare FarmRole 500 error

  • [SCALRCORE-8358] - APIv2 > Storage > Message is not correct

  • [SCALRCORE-8230] - APIv2 > Create Image server error

     

BC Change:

Before: SCALR_CLOUD_LOCATION variable had datacenter ID as a value (example: datacenter-27)

After: SCALR_CLOUD_LOCATION variable has datacenter Name as a value (example: DC1)

Changes in system packages:

influxdb 1.3.5 -> 1.4.3
nginx 1.13.7 -> 1.13.9
PHP 7.1.13 -> 7.1.14
python 2.7.11 -> 2.7.14
python3 3.5.2 -> 3.5.5