Managed service PostgreSQL now supports multi-node setup with automatic fail-over.
IMPROVED
Admin: Preparations for new Billing Accounts' list and Users' list
FIXed
Admin: Fixed issue where billing account suspend reason was made empty when saving the changes.
06.12.2021
v2.66
IMPROVED
Admin: It is now possible to get Monthly Reports for a specific time period by selecting exact start and end date (previously only Last x Months was available)
FIXed
Pre-payment plan now allows deleting credit card without any restrictions
Fixed issue of sometimes incorrectly showing 0 as service package price
Unassign Floating IP API does not require an empty JSON body to be sent anymore
Increased resilience for multi-location data replication
Admin: Fixed issue with input fields being uneditable in mobile view
Admin: Fixed issue with unassigning IP from VM in Admin VM view
November 2021
25.11.2021
v2.65
IMPROVED
Improved usability, look and feel for Access Delegation in UI
Documented cloud_init parameter in API doc for Create VM
FIXed
Fixed issue of UI breaking if Google Tag Manager tag was not configured
11.11.2021
v2.64
New
Added support for recurring payments for pre-payment customers (documentation will follow soon)
Resizing boot disk while VM is running is now properly disabled in all views and API endpoints
Fixed topup input to not reset its value in case of erros
Fixed billing account detail view hiding data after modifying fields
Fixed creating VM from snapshot, new disk size can now be same or bigger, but not smaller
Fixed memory leak in telegraf monitoring agent
Entering referral code with rogue whitespace from copy-paste is now handled gracefully, ignoring the whitespace
Admin: fixed MoM prediction in admin dashboard
October 2021
21.10.2021
v2.63
New
Introducing Managed Services to the platform for alpha testing, currently hidden from end users
In the first setup there will be MariaDB available as a managed service.
Admin: New actions in admin view VM list: Rescue Mode and Virtual Console
Admin: In Admin Virtual Console view, user password can be quickly reset to gain or restore access
IMPROVED
Preparation for scaling multi-location feature
Improved monitoring and alerts
FIXed
Windows based app images are now properly handled like Windows, regarding management and charging for Windows license
Fixed failing Windows creation and cloning in some scenarios
Fixed “waiting for verification” screen after user registration, email is now shown properly
Fixed and cleared some dangling data in network management
Admin: Fixed Warren share prediction calculation on dashboard
12.10.2021
v2.62
IMPROVED
Preparations to support more scalable multi-location architecture
Preparations to optimize queries' pagination
Admin: Improvements in Grafana alerts
05.10.2021
v2.61
IMPROVED
User gets notification in UI when back button has been clicked to confirm if user really wants to make this action.
Copy to Clipboard action in UI now indicates better if action was completed.
Admin: Dashboard Storage chart has been improved to better show storage state for multiple locations.
Improved the flow how new App catalog and VM images are added to platform.
FIXed
Improved VM stopping robustness
Details view now closes properly when the resource is deleted
Host CPU model is respected when automatically migrating VMs
Fixed the issue of having Floating IP duplicates
Fixed the issue of dangling network resources, now a proper cleanup is performed
September 2021
09.09.2021
v2.60
New
Added support for restriction level TERMINATED. In pre-payment cases it is now possible to set time when VMs will be automatically deleted when billing account has had negative balance.
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Starting restriction level for post-payment customers after they have been verified is now configurable per site.
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Added support for Google Tag Manager
IMPROVED
Updated VM locking and status handling. When VM has been stopped but the VM does not stop gracefully then an automatic force stop is done for the VM after 2 minutes. In addition VM should not stay locked for long periods anymore.
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Users who have been given impersonation access but are not yet platform users can now get past onboarding flow without having to enter billing data when singing up the platform. This helps in case an access is shared to a user who will not be creating any resources but only wants to use platform by using someone else’s account using access sharing feature.
FIXed
When clicking reload button under billing account details view balance history is also reloaded now
Creating VM from snapshot to another location should not have been allowed in UI.
Fixed SSH field visibility issue for VM create view. In few cases the field was not available.
August 2021
12.08.2021
v2.59
New
VM can now be started in Rescue Mode from UI
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Added a default OG image (image that is shown when sharing site in social media) to the platform. It is also possible to set up a customised image.
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Referral program is now more visible to users. There is a separate block for Referral program on billing account details page with explanation and amounts of credit that the user will get. Billing accounts are also visible on desktop, you can see billing account state there and have quick access to referral codes.
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There is a new section called “Balance history” now available for every billing account. This shows added and used credit data.
IMPROVED
Added button to enter to full screen mode when viewing virtual console.
Billing details view is now split into tabs for better usability
Updated the design of the loader when creating new VM.
FIX
Updated the showing of notification text on desktop. In some cases the text and context when it was shown dit not match.
Admin: Migrating a VM now properly updates hypervisor info of this VM in VMs table and detail view
July 2021
26.07.2021
v2.58
IMPROVED
Added API documentation for private networks
Added a hard quota of max 10 private networks per user per location
Removed the quota of having only 3 unassigned Floating IP addresses, now users can create as many as they like, as long as they pay for them
VM locks will now expire after 20 minutes, the infamous “locked by another action” error message now states how long the lock has been held
Major improvements to platform setup to make adding new hypervisors easier
FIX
Fixed the issue of generating MAC addresses that collide with existing MACs
Fixed starting and thus breaking VMs that are already running in rescue mode
Fixed some arcane error messages for when VM creation fails
2021.08.02 hotfix: Fixed deleting VM, keeping IP address now starts charging for it
08.07.2021
v2.57
New
Support for managing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks. Customers will now be able to create additional private networks for themselves. New network can be selected when creating new VM. At first stage only new VMs can be created to new network. Existing VMs will stay in the already available network called “My network”, which will be visible also in UI for users now. As a workaround if user wants to use new network on existing VMs we suggest creating a new VM from current VMs snapshot and then adding that VM to the suitable network.
Support for starting VM in recovery mode. It will now be possible for customers to start their VM in a recovery mode. This feature will be available only via API at first stage.
Referral code sharing by URL. It is now possible to share referral code via url as well. The URL is visible on users billing account view. Clicking the link will direct new user to the signup flow and referral code will be auto-filled on the onboarding flow.
Admin: Support for adding and showing billing account suspend reason. When billing account is suspended, admin can now add a reason for suspending. The reason will be also shown for the user in their billing account view.
IMPROVED
Admin: VMs chart on dashboard can now be splited by location.
Admin: Table filtering affects now CSV export.
FIX
Fixed error "Invalid auth credentials" on login
Admin: Fixed issue where Migrate VM modal would not close properly after successful migrate.
June 2021
15.06.2021
v2.56
New
Admin: It is now possible for Admin to edit billing accounts referral code. Currently the referral code is pre-generated value consisting of random numbers and letters. Admin can now edit the value as needed.
2021.06.22 hotfix: It is now possible to disable creating new resources in some locations
IMPROVED
Admin: Both referral codes are now visible in Admin UI, the one new customer used during signup and the one customer can share. This enables admin to search who shared code for new customer.
Improved how disabling and enabling Referral program acts in UI
2021.06.29 hotfix: Admin: Changed list query timeouts to 10 minutes to make data load eventually
FIX
Admin: VM status Recreating is now also visible in admin VM list when searching for VMs
Admin: Fixed loading overlay in Admin panel
Fixed issue, setting minimum VM RAM to 2 GB is now supported in UI
Full country name is now shown on invoices instead of only country code
2021.06.28 hotfix: Floating IP addresses ending with .123 do not cause trouble in UI anymore
2021.06.28 hotfix: Fixed creating new VMs for users with long VM history
2021.07.02 hotfix: Fixed BCA VA payment method flow in Duitku
2021.07.02 hotfix: Users can not override minimum topup amount in UI anymore
2021.07.02 hotfix: Deleting VM and keeping the Public IP now properly unassigns the IP
01.06.2021
v2.55
New
New and updated end-user onboarding flow. We changed which fields are needed to be filled in during the onboarding process. As a result user has to fill in less information so that it would be easier to onboard new users.
Support for Rerferral Program feature. Every user on the platform now has a referral code attached to their billing account which they can see in UI. The referral code can be shared to invite new users to signup to the platform. When a new user signs up to the platform and uses a referral code both users can get extra credit to their billing account for it. The credit amounts given to the users can be configured per platform as needed.
IMPROVED
Admin: Added few smaller metrics to dashboard
Added a warning text to UI in case VM has more than one disk attached to VM and when customer tries to clone a VM or create a new VM from snapshot or backup.
FIX
Added missing Duitku payment mehtod icons for BCA and Mandiri
May 2021
20.05.2021
v2.54
New
Added action log for Floating IP
Added functionality for charging for unassigned Floating IPs
IMPROVED
Improved VM locking, including clarifying error messages
Greatly reduced time of recovering VMs from a dead or restarted hypevisor
FIX
Fixed VM status handling in some edge cases
06.05.2021
v2.53
IMPROVED
Optimised VM deleting, offloaded some work to background process
Improved prevention for destructive dual-brain scenario (more than one VM instances running with same boot disk)
Admin: Added Totals row to Object storage buckets in admin panel
FIX
Fixed currency format on invoices
Fixed issue that text about free credit was not always shown on signup page
Fixed issue where VM create view was not always correctly shown in case of slower connection.
April 2021
13.04.2021
v2.52
New
Users can see precise price list for VMs and other resources that shows how costs are calculated
VM network interface traffic can now be limited with global configuration
IMPROVED
Improved platform's mobile users experience even more
Updated currency specific numbers format and rounding
Billing accounts linked resources are now clickable and direct to resource view
Admin: Updated how large numbers are shown on dashboard
Admin: Optimised some dashboard data queries
FIX
UI does not throw bunch of errors any more when session expires
Admin: Fixed dashboard view when there are not enough data to show charts
March 2021
25.03.2021
v2.51
New
Support for gradual pricing. It means that it is now possible to define different prices for different CPU/RAM/Disk sizes.
Rate limiting for certain API requests to prevent backend resource starvation
IMPROVED
Removed Trial ribbon from the floating IP.
Changed pre-payment customers balance handling. Now customers whose balance is negative will also get usage report at the end of the month. Unpaid amount is moved over to the ongoing month.
Improved platform's mobile users experience.
Admin: Improved Compute allocation chart view, when there are many HVs
Added utm campaign url tracking support for login page
FIX
Fixed smaller bugs that raised after the multi-location development.
Fixed VM statuses getting out of sync and deleted VMs reappearing
04.03.2021
v2.50
New
Multi-location support is now fully released. When multiple locations are configured, it will allow users to choose to which location new virtual machines will be created and see created resources from multiple locations.
Admin: Admins will be able to also see virtual machines from multiple locations. Location column is added to the tables. Also dashboard is updated to allow seeing charts for all locations.
Admin: It is now possible to unassign public IP from VM directly from the Admin view.
Admin: For each running VM in table there is now visible current host information.
Added additional text about S3 buckets pricing to bucket create view and details view.
List view always has sort by name as secondary sort order
Admin: Hypervisors chart is improved.
CPU and RAM charts can now be viewed next to each other for one HV.
Percentage is shown for HV that represents how full one HV is.
HV status is now shown more clearly on chart.
Admin: It is now possible to search for deleted VMs without timeout. There is possible to choose period for the search to limit the amount of data in the response. Timeout can still happen if very long period is chosen.
FIX
S3 buckets Last Modified date was hidden from end-users UI because it does not show any meaningful information.
Admin: Fixed issue with Storage graph on smaller screen not showing numbers fully.
Admin: When migrating VM between HVs a longer timeout period is now used.
Admin: Platform initiated VM action like shutting down because billing account is suspended is now visible in action log
Admin: When exporting to CSV file, a dash is now used to denote missing values
February 2021
18.02.2021
v2.49
New
Users can now enter a referral code while onboarding the platform (Feature must be enabled per request). Admins can see from billing account table the entered referral code.
Fedora 33 is now available for Pilw users.
IMPROVED
Updated VM CPU and RAM size selection sliders, sliders have been changed in a way that it is not possible to select incorrect CPU and RAM combinations anymore.
Added more informative texts about S3 storage pricing to the UI.
Deleting small S3 buckets happens now much quicker.
End of month reports and invoices generation time can now be modified so that the generation can happen during the night also in Indonesia.
Admin: VM OS version is now also shown in VM table in addition to OS name.
Admin: Migration modal on HV list now shows how much resource is used on HV
Admin: S3 buckets now have user email also stored
FIX
Fixed issue where incorrect payment method was visible on IdRoot onboarding page.
S3 Buckets "Last Modified" date was hidden from end-users because it does't give any meaningful information to users.
Admin: Fixed issue where CPU/RAM/DISK info was missing from VM migration modal
Admin: Fixed issues with table filtering storing and reloading.
Added Created date and Modifed date to S3 buckets, dates are visible for users and for Admins in the UI
FIX
Fixed issues where whitespace was breaking search in filters
Admin: Fixed tooltip on donut charts on dashboard
22.01.2021
v2.47
New
Admin: There are now 3 new actions in the VM actions menu. Start, Stop and Force Stop.
S3 Object Storage service is now available in IDCloudhost console.
IMPROVED
Updated the UI layout how VM disk are shown for users in the VM details view.
FIX
Fixed issue with monthly reports not being sent to end users in some pre-payment cases. Now at the months change all users will get a Monthly Report with their used services.
Admin: Reload Data button in VM table now also updates host list in the migration modal.
14.01.2021
v2.46
New
MikroTik RouterOS is now available as VM App in Pilw.io
Admin: There is now an actions column for all VMs in the list as a last column. This menu is going to have actions that can be done with the VM.
Admin: It is now possible to migrate VMs between hypervisors.
Admin: It is now possible to view VM action logs from the UI.
IMPROVED
Admin: Redesigned tables hover effect
FIX
Admin: Fixed whitespace breaking search in filters
Admin: Fixed progress text in modal while changing host status
12.01.2021
v2.45
New
VM disk size can now be increased
Added support for LinkedIn tracking
IMPROVED
Added VM App Catalog item name on desktop as tooltip
FIX
Stabilised VM metrics component
Removed payment method "Other methods" if not applicable
Fixed an issue with freezing some prepayment billing accounts for a brief moment during month change
Fixed list header filter bar to make it always visible
06.01.2021
v2.44
New
Admin: Setting HV status flags can be now done from UI. Admin > Hosts > Status. Make sure Status column is visible in the table.
Added Facebook Pixel tracking script from PILW
Added missing icons for new App Catalog items
When App Catalog icon is missing a default image is now shown.
IMPROVED
Text "Exit" is now used instead of "Stop" when ending impersonation session.
Deleting billing account is not possible when there are linked resources, API tokens and IP addresses are now also visible in users billing account details view as linked resources.
Admin: Grafana dashboard now has VM disk IOPS charts
FIX
Admin: Fixed issue with negative values on Hypervisor charts
Admin: Clicking on invoice ID in Monthly Reports table now opens invoice details in new tab instead of the same tab.
