Release Notes

Portal

• Update ReCAPTCHA to version 2
• Added functionality for legacy, non-email formatted IBMids to be persisted during account creation.
• Customer created tickets that have managed hardware should route to the managed services queue.
• Improve order form load time for uncached packages
• Fix issue where states for countries that are not US or Canada were failing on SSL certificate orders.
• Data centers should now be shown for bare metal servers in all portals
• Multiple usability updates for order forms

API

• Fixed a bug that was causing customer power strip power cycle API calls to fail.
• Fixing a bug where the firewall validator was not checking for existing firewalls on hardware servers correctly.
• This affects the APIs allowAccessFromHost and allowAccessFromHostList for Block volumes. While these two API have been returning SoftLayer_Network_Storage_Allowed_Host[], the “assignedVolumes” element ( type SoftLayer_Network_Storage_Iscsi_NetApp) did not contain an updated lunId. (The lunId can now be updated internally whenever there is a clash with another volume’s lunId)
• Provided SLDN Documentation for SoftLayer_Virtual_Disk_Image::getAvailableBootModes()
• Move Vyatta, Brocade, and ATT Software Descriptions out from GPL class path.
• Restrict customers from accessing terminated account licenses.
• When the parent user does not have HARDWARE_VIEW permission, the child users should NOT be able to access to the hardware. So does the DH, and VSI.

Backend

• Add support for M.2 SATA drives.
• Corrected phone assignment during BluePages lookup
• Added validation for boot mode and supported boot modes when set by createFromExternalSource

Portal

• Validation of EncryptedToken fails if the impersonating user is an brand agent
• Remove invalid datacenters from fixed config bare metal order form
• Allow non-empty COS Buckets to be placed for MDMS orders.

API

• Duplicate firewall rules should not allowed to be added
• A new property has been added to SoftLayer_Virtual_Disk_Image, isEncrypted. This value returns if the disk on the image is encrypted.

Backend

• Fix the load balancer deletion failure which keeps the load balancer in delete_pending state after billing item gets cancelled.
• Resolve issue where older OS addon software was added to an OS reload with newer OS addons.
• Increase timeout value for running Network_Gateway_Configure transaction
• Modify HSM Provision Workflow to try to automatically assign a server

Portal

• Allow Master User to clear security questions for users on account.
• Fix issue when ordering SSL certs for non-US organizational addresses that had a state
• Updates to dedicated vsi and dedicated hosts order forms for encryption
• Fixed an issue where a customer cannot delete the CDN service Billing Item from Customer Portal

API

• The Permission/Resource change event log type should only show for the customer with the GENERATE_PERMISSION_REPORTS set.
• Exposes the setupFeeDeferralMonths property for the SoftLayer_Billing_Invoice_Item service.
• This release adds the class SoftLayer_Software_Description_Plesk to enable the new Plesk manufacturer
• Updating mechanism for checking for platform services brand on account brand creation
• Reverted defaulting simple ordering to suspend for hourly SAN. For now the only way for a customer to order suspend will be by using the placeOrder API and specifying the suspend packageId in the payload.
• The current documentation for SoftLayer_Billing_Item::cancelItem (https://softlayer.github.io/reference/services/SoftLayer_Billing_Item/cancelItem/) describes that by default the function will cancel the item immediately, while actually cancelImmediately parameter is set to false by default. This release fixes the documentation for that method.

Backend

• Fixed dedicated host scheduling issues which were allowing dedicate host orders in locations without sufficient capacity.
• Once a subnet is authorized access to a storage volume, IP addresses included in that subnet will not need to be authorized again. When an IP address is authorized to access to a storage volume, the subnet that IP address belongs to cannot be authorized to access the volume unless the IP address host is revoked or each IP address is added individually.
• Enable ordering of dedicated hosts with GPUs.
• Evault Password enhancements.
• Enables ordering dedicated host instances with GPUs.
• When modifying the size or performance of a File or Block storage hosted on fast hardware, the new IOPS/GB ratio must be greater than or equal to 0.301. Similarly, when modifying storage hosted on lower performance hardware the new IOPS/GB ratio must be less than 0.301. The previous boundary was 0.300 which could not be satisfied for resizes on clusters that only have fast hardware. These pages should be updated to match: https://console.bluemix.net/docs/infrastructure/FileStorage/adjustable-iops.html#adjustable-iops https://console.bluemix.net/docs/infrastructure/BlockStorage/adjustable-iops.html#adjustable-iops
• Enables ordering dedicated host instances from an encrypted image template
• This release will prevent customers from receiving old monitors notifications associated with a new customer’s server.
• Relax the restriction that all IBMid/SoftLayer User links with a given username (destinationUserAlphanumericId) must have the same ibmIdUniqueIdentifier.

Portal

• Evault Performance enhancements.
• Evault Password enhancements.

API

• Blocked deactivated templates from being pushed to cache.

Backend

• Have account disable/enable cascade to users
• Corrects Australia/West time zone to be correct GMT offset.
• Fix missing paren pair in cloud init attribute validation
• Fixes an issue that caused some Bring Your Own License orders to go to Pending Finance Approval.

Portal

• Missing pending transaction details information during volume modification process. This change will allow customers to see the status of their ordered volume modification in portal
• Improve order forms speed
• Direct Link - Backend Edit related changes for control portal
• Add localization of currencies and countries to order page currency selector.

API

• Modify SoftLayer_Event_Log::getAllEventNames to return events names without brand references
• Added pciDevices and pciDeviceAllocationStatus fields to the DedicatedHost object. These fields are mirrors of the underlying host.
• Added max size to user data container description.
• Add the account trait check on the necessary PPTP API calls

Backend

• Fixed an issue where reloads with a guest that has supported boot mode / boot mode attributes do not reload with specified boot mode
• Ensures cloud init attribute creation checks are only run when there is a primary block device to check against.

Portal

• Fixed an issue when placing orders with a state of “other”
• Fixing a bug where selecting None for multiselect options would not update the summary total on the order form.
• Loading conflicts out of band on order forms & move WWW order form assets to CDN

API

• Improve getActiveTransactionStatus performance
• Fix issues with some storage group validation edge cases

Portal

• Fixed an issue where the device list wouldn’t display any devices.
• Correct Customer Add User form when state is ‘Other’
• Updated display logic to not show null userData values without blocking other attributes that are null

API

• longName field is now required when creating brands in the API
• Added validation for keyId in ‘removeApiAuthenticationKey’ method
• Enables customers to upgrade or downgrade the number of GPUs on a virtual guest.

Backend

• Changed HSM password generator to not use vowels and to use Gemalto provided special characters for HSM passwords.

Portal

• Fixed an issue when a user with TOTP has a successful login after fewer than 10 failed attempts, the previous failed attempts are not cleared.
• Customers were unable to create EU only tickets. This change fixes the filter to pull EU data centers.
• Adds a checkbox to the WWW order form on the save quote dialog that allows the user to accept the GDPR terms and conditions. This check box must be checked to place a quote. Also adds a link the quote email that allows the user to withdraw their acceptance of the GDPR terms.

API

• Fix issue where some PaaS service plan features were not represented with billing items.
• Fixed an issue preventing parent users from editing VPN only sub users device access.
• Improved error message when an invalid parameter type is provided to the bulk add/remove portal permissions methods.
• SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group::findGcImagesByCurrentUser(string[] dataCenters) to return collection of template group for a specific account Id and optionally specify and filter list of data center short names (e.g. ‘che01’, ‘mex01’).
• Added default boot mode from sw description to getBootMode.
• New event log type: PERMISSION_CHANGE.

Backend

• Prevents reclaims from throwing an exception when a nessus scan file cannot be found.
• Better handling for failed upgrades & notifications.
• Added boot mode attributes to template when creating a new template from guest.
• Eliminating 24 hour wait period during subnet cancellation
• Improved performance of Network Ping Monitoring Notifications
• Fixed an issue where mid-month cancellation causes empty invoices
• Resolves a bug which prevented Block and File volumes to be authorized to the same host under certain circumstances, and allows IQN to be edited if only File volumes or no volumes are authorized to the host
• Allow specification of supported boot mode on image import.
• Enabling Security Groups in FRA05 Datacenter.

Portal

• Add Virtuozzo transaction provisioning and reload groups and icon.
• This changes a link in the footer of the Www Store pages
• This issue removes Google Tag Manager and Adobe Target from the SoftLayer Www template

API

• Fixes a bug that causes the euCompliantFlag on SoftLayer_Location to always return false.
• Direct Link - Fix the error message to indicate problem clearly when edit fails
• Direct Link - Increase Vendor Circuit and Vendor Name length from 30 to 40.
• Fixed addBulkVirtualGuestAccess and removeAllVirtualAccessForThisUser.

Backend

• Fixes an issue where hourly storage upgrades were erroneously charging an additional one time fee.
• Fix canadian province name encoding issues
• Modified workflow definition to do ASSIGN_HOST_RECOVERY automated when a guest can’t be allocated on a host.
• Fixed VSIs failing from “Unable to determine the uplink router for network component:” error
• Email subscription system is not send emails to customers when not opted out
• Fix issue where upgrade processing was delayed due to issues handling the upgrade invoice.
• Jumbo frames enabled for GPU Host

Portal

• Stopped creating surveys related to Bluemix assets in the SoftLayer portal

API

• The IQN of a host can no longer be changed when that host has assigned storage volumes. This is to ensure consistency within the system
• Making new storage authentication error messages viewable

Backend

• Change how “reset Master user IBMid link” treats the user from whom the IBMid is “stolen” in a linked account pair.
• Show the correct linkSpeed for Dedicated and Dedicated Hosting tenants correctly
• Fixed bug where only the first VSI guest was added to the outage ticket instead of all VSI guests associated with that host and account.
• Modify Account License Infrastructure to handle Netapp OnTap Select.
• Copy userData when doing a chassis transfer
• Fixed an issue preventing VSIs from being properly reclaimed.