Release Notes

API

• Correct volume usage and limits should show in command output

Backend

• Support IAM Policy equivalent to VPN_MANAGE permission
• Improve performance when querying package regions, which should result in faster load times of order forms.

API

• Global IP billing items will only have a null provisionTransaction
• Reduced payload of SoftLayer_Network_Component getObject calls for unmasked keys

Backend

• The hardware power state record will be updated whenever the power state is changed via IPMI
• VLANs can be cancelled when associated to scale groups. The association will be automatically deleted during reclaim.
• Added support to order VMware with vSphere version 7.0
• Prevent a very rare disk image attach bug that deletes destination disk
• Set Debian default boot mode to HVM only.
• Customers will be able to order/manage duplicates of volumes that were originally ordered as STaaS Version 1

API

• Deprecate the ‘bundleItems’ relational property on ‘SoftLayer_Billing_Item’. Not to be confused with ‘bundledItems’, which is the correct relational property to use.
• Functionality to enable disable snapshot usage warning notification. SoftLayer_Network_Storage::setSnapshotNotification and SoftLayer_Network_Storage::getSnapshotNotificationStatus
• Update getbandwidthData function call to work properly.
• Adds deviceStatus to virtual guest class
• Update powerOff and powerOn and powerOffSoft methods to call updateDeviceStatus method and update the device status accordingly.
• Add SoftLayer_Hardware_Status link from SoftLayer_Hardware
• Update SoftLayer_Billing_Item::cancel to call updateDeviceStatus
• Addresses over billing when PlanId changes
• Adds deprecation tagging support for SLDN and metadata documentation

Backend

• Fix dedicated host migrations to retain proper CPU, memory, and disk space allocations

API

• Fix issues with SoftLayer_Account_Authentication_Attribute_Type::getAllObjects.
• Replaced softwareComponent[0] to the operatingSystem ORM key to fix if software components are in incorrect order.
• Customers can choose to enable or disable getting snapshot usage warning notification

API

• Improved SLDN documentation for some SoftLayer_User_Customer services.
• he change will prevent stalling the reclaim PI and also prevent a customer from waiting until its manually fixed
• Deprecated SoftLayer_Network_Tunnel_Module_Context::activeTransaction and SoftLayer_Network_Tunnel_Module_Context::transactionHistory
• This feature will provide an option ( configurable from slcli ) to enable and disable snapshot space usage warning notification.
• Added a condition to avoid No outgoing transition for Check Clone Quota On Status could be selected to continue the process

Backend

• Prevent multiple processes from running at the same time to reconfigure a guest’s KVM console.

API

• Fix incorrect metrics in SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::getMemoryMetricDataByDate
• API to get active transaction on a firewall
• Fixes an issue where spaces in objectMask causes SoftLayer_Event_Log::getAllObjects to error.

Backend

• Prevent stalling Network_Storage reclaim jobs to prevent a customer from waiting until its manually fixed
• Corrects checking for existing vaults during ordering
• Updating reserved capacity to allow non-Core/RAM upgrades.

API

• Expose resetLink methods (resetLinkOpenIdConnect/resetLinkOpenIdConnectUnified ) to SLDN, allow master users to self-service change their own IBMid.

Backend

• Seamlessly perform block volume failover without manual intervention when certain errors are thrown by backend storage

Backend

• Update physical size limit for VSI images templates to be imported from COS to 250GiB

API

• Remove property SoftLayer_Location::onlinePptpVpnUserCount
• Deprecate SoftLayer_Network_Subnet::activeTransaction and SoftLayer_Network_Subnet_IpAddress_Global::activeTransaction
• Provide flag and API on the hardware object to denote billing change available SoftLayer_Hardware::getAvailableBillingTermChangePrices

Backend

• Prevent image captures for servers not in ACTIVE status
• Allow bare metal customers to migrate to term-based pricing. Customers can now upgrade from monthly to one-year, monthly to three-year or one-year to three-year term agreements.
• Ensure phone field validation methods are executed during user sync from cloud.ibm.com to SLDN.
• Take the same Rescue Layer steps to boot from ISO regardless of amount of memory on the guest.
• During reclaim of Replica the _REP schedule are removed from Primary volume

API

• Reverted a change from 2021-07-16, making SoftLayer_Hardware_Chassis.unitSize and int again, due to issues with the golang client not being able to properly un-marshal the data.