2024 Release Notes

December

 

06.12.2024, v2.118

New

  • It is now possible to request for additional user information on onboarding page and to verify that against a custom service to better integrate Warren users with an existing platform

IMPROVED

  • VPC networks' configuration has been updated to allow end users to do custom routing between their VMs, e.g. to configure a VM with a public IP address as a NAT gateway to other VMs in that network

FIXed

  • Fixed a bug that was introduced in v2.116, in some cases Windows license was not properly charged for, fixed the issue and recalculated the charges retrospectively where applicable and possible

November

 

21.11.2024, v2.117

New

IMPROVED

  • Custom VM size selector usability has been improved, in addition to the slider selection, it is now possible to enter specific numbers

  • Internal refactoring related to VM storage, images and snapshot handling

  • Invoice PDF for credit top up now properly states that the credit is for cloud services

FIXed

  • Fix floating IP API for IP addresses that end with .123, deleting such addresses used to cause strange API errors

  • Sign up related error messages are fixed to be more user friendly and readable

October

 

17.10.2024, v2.116

New

  • Invoice payment can now be configured for pre-payment environments, new billing accounts that have Invoice payment chosen are automatically created with post-payment plan

  • Windows VM images can be configured to either include Windows license price or not, this makes it possible to sell Windows with license included and Windows without a license at the same time

  • Support for ClicToPay payment gateway

IMPROVED

  • Added some extra text regarding Terms & Conditions to Top Up dialog if SSLCOMMERZ is used

FIXed

  • Check Load Balancer rule limits also in UI for quicker feedback

  • Admin: Fixed CMGR on admin dashboard for new setups where there isn’t enough data yet

September

 

23.09.2024, v2.115

IMPROVED

  • By default cloud-init user-data now includes configuration that does not mark as user password immediately expired, making it easier to create and operate VMs with scripts

FIXed

  • Load balancer is now limited to 8 forwarding rules, load balancers with many rules can cause network issues

  • Load balancer forwarding rule port is now validated to be between 1 and 65535

13.09.2024, v2.114

FIXed

  • In some configurations VMs were not able to reach each other by their public IP address, this has been fixed by updating network policies in SDN layer

  • Fixed rounding of VAT amounts for fractional VAT percentages

August

 

30.08.2024, v2.113

New

  • VM network interface bandwidth can now be limited globally and per VM, configuration is available in admin Settings and VM table and detail view

  • Admin can see currently effective libvirt definition XML in VM detail view to make debugging easier

IMPROVED

  • VAT percentage now supports fractional numbers

12.08.2024, v2.112

IMPROVED

  • qemu-guest-agent service is no longer activated from cloud-init config by default when VM is created, OS base images are expected to have the service installed and configured to auto start

FIXed

  • Fixed an issue with floating IP address billing where same address was billed multiple times in certain cases

July

 

09.07.2024, v2.111

FIXed

  • Fixed an issue where in some specific case an IP address was charged for as both assigned and unassigned at the same time

June

 

20.06.2024, v2.110

New

  • Support for SSLCOMMERZ payment gateway

FIXed

  • Fixed a bug that caused accounting for VM running hours after VM had been deleted in some rare occasion

  • Failing to pay an invoice with a small amount will not stop processing other invoices of same user

  • Fixed an issue with cleaning up orphaned containers during deployment

  • Fix error message of API that exposes sensitive data in certain unhappy path cases

  • Fix login for Google profiles that have longer profile picture URLs

May

 

14.05.2024, v2.109

FIXed

  • Fixed a bug where user provided input was directly inserted into their page HTML, potentially breaking their own view while other users, including admins would not have been affected

  • Notice about billing account being limited is now shown in all different VM create views, e.g. when creating new VM from a backup

  • Improved stability for component on Hosts that registers VMs when they are started, fixing root cause for missing networking and terminal capabilities in VMs.

April

 

30.04.2024, v2.108

New

  • Resource allocation limits can now be applied also to pre-payment plan, limits are removed once user has made enough top ups. Read more here: Limiting new users

IMPROVED

  • More control over conditions for rewarding users with the extra credit coming from referral program. Read more here:
    Updates to referral program feature

  • Post payment invoices now have additional informative number that shows the sum of all unpaid invoices

FIXed

  • Fixed storage bucket file browser for suspended buckets, informative warning is now shown instead of cryptic error

  • Removed Google Tag Manager configuration API doc from user facing API doc

March

 

14.03.2024, v2.107

IMPROVED

  • Admin: Separate managed services on Admin Dashboard Usage graph

FIXed

  • Admin: Host pool list does not count deleted hosts anymore

February

 

27.02.2024, v2.106

New

  • Alipay and GrabPay support with Stripe, including currency conversion at payment for currencies not directly supported

IMPROVED

  • Managed service list shows if service is running or not

FIXed

  • Fixed a bug that prevented changing billing account of API token

  • Identified and fixed a bug that caused too many threads on control nodes to be created and not cleaned up

14.02.2024, v2.105

New

  • S3 Object storage detail view now includes a file browser to show and manage bucket contents

IMPROVED

  • S3 Object storage Secret Key is hidden in detail view, click to copy or show

  • Better handling of hypervisor restarts, VMs are automatically set for recovery once the HV boots up

FIXed

  • Fixed a visual bug when uploading a file to S3 bucket and navigating to a different folder before upload ends

  • Improved robustness for removing stale disks that stay locked in RBD indefinitely

06.02.2024, v2.104

New

  • Added button to VM detail view to open RDP connection to Windows VM

  • S3 bucket file browser initial release, visible only when manually enabling a feature flag in web browser console

IMPROVED

  • API doc now explains how disk UUID is shown in OS as disk serial number

FIXed

  • Modified SSH button to open the connection in an external application instead of providing access to the user's UI container to prevent malicious users from abusing compute resources

  • VMs are now stopped gracefully when billing account is switched to FROZEN level

  • Topup events in Google Analytics do not contain the amount anymore

  • Fixed UI flow of creating new VPC when initiated in Create VM view

  • Referral block on user dashboard does not ask user to choose a billing account if they only have one

January

 

04.01.2024, v2.103

New

  • Removed "New" labels from everywhere in UI

  • VM disks are now identifiable by /dev/disk/by-id/... entries that contain the first part of disk UUID

IMPROVED

  • Updated Google Analytics tracking events to better support new version GA4

  • Server classes order shown in VM Create can now be configured

  • More robust recovery for VM's regarding underlying hardware incidents

  • Support for extended language codes in user preferences

  • Improvements to performance of calculating and billing user resource usage to better handle growing number of users

  • VM details network bandwidth usage graph tooltip shows both Download and Upload at the same time

  • Admin: Mobile UX improvements for admin settings

FIXed

  • Fixed opening SSH connection to VM in UI when VM was reinstalled and host key changed

  • Fixed a long delay that happened in some cases when opening Top Up dialog for the first time

  • Assign IP in VM detail view does not end up in broken state anymore if IP is not selected and Approve is clicked

  • Admin: Fixed showing period on report detail view in admin

  • Admin: Updating host pool configuration will update all open Admin VM details views accordingly