Release Notes

API

• Allow a user to delete themselves (API level)

Backed

• Allow the successful restoration of monthly-billed Netscaler guests that are still in 24 hour RECLAIM_WAIT status
• Enhanced authentication security for Cloud storage.
• Fixed VSI provisioning emails to use correct currency symbols.

API

• Removed automatic masking of ‘subnet’ key from IP addresses fetched by SoftLayer_Network_Subnet::getRoutableIpAddresses
• Updated SLDN documentation for creating a brand.
• DEPRECATED SoftLayer_Account::updateVpnUsersForResource
• Added SoftLayer_Product_Package::noUpgradesFlag
• Added bnppCompliantFlag

Backend

• Fix an issue causing some hardware orders to use the wrong partitioning layout.
• Merge master user / account owner IP restrictions when existing accounts are linked

API

• Begins the process of deprecating bandwidth related SLDN endpoints on the SoftLayer_Account and SoftLayer_Network_Bandwidth_Version1_Allotment class that are no longer being supported.
• fixes bug in ordering fixed config presets with both core and processor restricted prices

Backend

• Volume name were not appearing in the snapshot capacity warnings.
• Fixed an issue preventing device from be added on a BAP account when added from the Support Center
• Fixed a bug with migrating dedicated host that have no guests attached.
• Prevent live migrations for VPC, Netscaler, Reserved Capacity, and Encrypted Disk guests

Catalog

• Ensure getting upgrade prices for hardware and virtual server upgrades includes the currently-billed fees, rather than the listed catalog fees.
• Fixed an issue where “update order received” and “order being reviewed” emails were not showing local currencies.
• Fix issue preventing some forms of SAP Certified hardware orders.

API

• Implement disabledSnapshot for Block and File volume replicas

  • SoftLayer_Network_Storage::disableSnapshots

• Prevent detach of local disks for VSIs greater than 300GB

  • Exception:

  <faultcode>SoftLayer_Exception_Public</faultcode>
  <faultstring>Disk capacity exceeds the maximum size eligible for portability on local storage and can not be detached.</faultstring>
  

• Fixed an issue causing fixed configurations to not handle disk controller limits properly.

  • When verifying or placing an order, fixed configuration presets will populate the storageGroups property on server order containers with those defined by their preset, rather than remaining empty. Verifying an order now does not fail if the storageGroups property is set when a fixed configuration preset is also provided. Any storage groups will be ignored in favor of the preset’s.
  • The order response will now contain the fixed config preset’s storage groups on verifyOrder and placeOrder responses.

Backend

• Remove advanced monitoring/nimsoft as a requirement for managed services servers

API

• SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::createArchiveTransaction and SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::createArchiveTemplate will return a Image template, and not a transaction
• Network_Subnet::setTags() and Network_Subnet::tagReferences
• UTF-8 support for SoftLayer_Network_Subnet and SoftLayer_Network_Subnet_IpAddress note fields.
• Deprecate RWHOIS service & SWIP based Registrations. See RIR Registrations and RWhois deprecation notice for more information. The following have been removed.
  • Account::getRwhoisData()
  • Network_Subnet::getSwipTransaction()
  • Network_Subnet::activeSwipTransaction()
  • Network_Subnet::findAllSubnetsAndActiveSwipTransactionStatus()
  • Network_Subnet::getRwhoisData()
  • Network_Subnet::createSwipTransaction()
  • Network_Subnet_Rwhois_Data (all)
  • SoftLayer_Network_Subnet_Swip_Transaction (all)

Backend

• Bug fix for live migration SWAP disk coalescing issues.
• Enables ordering and reloading bare metal servers with an image template.
• Added the list of modified fields on User_Customer objects to the event logs so it can be viewed by the customers

API

• Fixes a bug when users attempt to create some load balancer pools.

Backend

• Fixed ordering bug for reserved capacity groups.

API

• Fixed bug where sub-brand accounts could not be created.
• Clarify the text of error message when an operation is performed with an invalid user status.

API Deprecation

• Server.getPrivateVlanByIpAddress()
• Network_Vlan.getPrivateVlanByIpAddress()
• SoftLayer_Network_Component.storageNetworkFlag
• SoftLayer_Hardware.storageNetworkComponents

Backend

• Will now properly notify customers for potential Evault overages.

Catalog

• Created disk drive destruction price category and allowed for drive destruction ordering.

API

• customers can better identify which specific storage product is on their bills
• Added regions to SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group
• Added SoftLayer_Network_Gateway::getAllowedOsPriceIds()
• • Added SoftLayer_Network_Gateway::isLicenseServerAllowed()

Backend

• Fix emails when substitutions have extended characters

Catalog

• Remove Item ID 11327 from Package 2634 as it is not qualified by HWSOL.
• Add 8280 processor to 1111 and 2670 packages
• Add 2-CPU SAP-certified Intel Cascade Lake servers for HANA
• Add 4-CPU SAP-certified Intel Cascade Lake servers for HANA
• Add WDC04 to product package 2670
• New Release: Microsoft SQL Server 2019
• Enable 4U E5-2650v4 in TOK05
• Add SJC01, SJC03 and SJC04 to package 2634
• Remove DAL07, MEL01, & SEA01 from Catalog/Order Forms
• Add GPU VSIs to IKS GPU package
  • AC1.8x60x25
  • AC1.8x60x100 (SAN)
  • ACL1.8x60x100 (LOCAL)
  • AC1.16x120x25
  • AC1.16x120x100 (SAN)
  • ACL1.16x120x100 (LOCAL)
• Remove the 2TB SATA HDD from product package 2670
• Add Intel Optane PCIe Drives to product package 2670
• Retire Habanero Offering q

Portal

• Improve wording on the IaaS order and quote checkout pages and improve the tax estimations provided for quotes.

API

• Fixed an issue with SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::getCpuMetricDataByDate throwing an Exception about too much data requested.

Backend

• Fixed a private to private lbaas image upgrade issue
• Restricting deletion of SSL certificates configured in Loadbalancer HTTPS listener
• Allow user to specify public subnet to provision public load balancers
• More accurately show that packages and presets have GPU products or not in the catalog.
• Fixed an issue where new storage volumes >250G were not having their IOPs limited properly.
• Will now properly notify customers for potential overages.

API

• Update SoftLayer_Account::getNetworkStorage() API call for replicationStatus, should no longer throw Exceptions on certain volumes.
• Fix for SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::setTags() when tags are empty. Effectively calling setTags with an empty tag will clear tags on the VM.
• Update storage and image information tables with backingFileWdek and ImageWdek fields to support custom encrypted images.
• Prevent SUSPENDED->IAMID_INVALID transition for SoftLayer_User_Customer::editObject()
• SoftLayer_User_Customer_Notification_Hardware::createObject will return the created object.
• Improve documentation for SoftLayer_User_Customer_Notification_Virtual_Guest.
• Add start and end date, and server ID parameters to the new SoftLayer_Account::getBandwidthList() API.
• Adds a limit to queries for SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking data.
  • Exception: SoftLayer_Exception_ApiRequestFailed
  • Message: API request failed. Expected result size too large, please update the query
• SoftLayer_Account_Historical_Report methods getAccountUrlUptimeSummary, getAccountHostUptimeSummary, getAccountUrlUptimeGraphData, getAccountHostUptimeGraphData have had a nullable accountId parameter added due to PHP7’s strictness, but it is unused. No behavioral change to callers providing the previous parameters. This nullable accountId parameter is required in manually built requests as an element.**

Backend

• Clarify the error message when placing quotes without a country.