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### Table of Contents
**Aeolus release 0.8.0 is now available.**
These notes summarise our last development sprint - highlighting the improvements made, and listing the known issues that still need work.
Installation instructions are on the website:
http://www.aeolusproject.org/get_it.html
Packages are available for Fedora 15 x86_64, Fedora 16 x86_64 and RHEL 6.1+ x86_64.
We appreciate all assistance with testing and bug reports, as they really influence our depth and future growth.
**NOTE -** Although Aeolus is still some way from production quality, it
is suitable for testing.
**Please don't use it with live data yet.**
## Release Highlights {#releasehighlights}
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Addition of Images tab to the Pool Family details page.
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Addition of New Image button to the images list.
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Addition of New Deployable from Image button.
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Ability to view template XML on the Image Details page.
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Improvements to the the user interface for adding provider accounts to pools.
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Verification of image's existence before importing from provider.
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Addition of Creating deployables from imported images.
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Catalog Entries are now called Deployables.
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Each deployable contains a details page with:
- Status on deployable images availability;
- Functions to build and push images missing from a deployable;
- Options to add a deployable to multiple catalogs;
- Deployable permissions for users.
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Added support to handle deployables without catalog.
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Support for multiple accounts per RHEVM and VMWare providers.
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Ability to set provider account priority
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Added template validation when creating an image.
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Sanitization of assembly name to prevent launch errors.
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Addition of realm selection to Deployment Overview.
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Ability to reboot multiple instances.
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Change permissions tab label from Users to Role Assignments.
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Security fix to restrict access of database.yml.
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New icons and styling for Administer navigation, Build and Push user interface, and Deployable details.
## Critical changes to configuration {#critical-configuration}
The following changes relate to RHEVM configuration (/etc/aeolus-configure/nodes/rhevm_configure):
## Known issues still remaining {#knownissues}
A complete list of open issues can be viewed in Red Hat Bugzilla. The following are known problems due for resolution in a subsequent release:
- BZ 747895 - "error reading information on service cgconfig" while installing aeolus on f16
- BZ 767844 - aeolus conductor misrenders pages in ie8
- BZ 769526 - aeolus-configure interactive :Syntax error at ':'; expected '}' at /usr/share/aeolus-configure/modules/aeolus/manifests/profiles/custom.pp
- BZ 723327 - aeolus-push fails to push images to the correct provider when two diff sets of credentials are used
- BZ 771344 - "Error Downloading Packages: rubygem-webmock-1.6.4-1.fc15.noarch: failure:" in install aeolus on f15Build failed with long Name tag in tdl template for RHEVM
- BZ 744011 - building RHEVM templates w/ rhev agent requires updated packages
- BZ 773002 - catalog/1/deployables/$num is not updating build status in recent builds
- BZ 772285 - conductor needs to reflect a failed push in the webui.
- BZ 641130 - Deltacloud server via REST doesn't report all images of an ec2 cloud
- BZ 772996 - disable "launch" button if no images are built/pushed
- BZ 769916 - ec2 running instances shows "Pending" state
- BZ 765611 - Error connecting to framework: Address family not supported by protocol - socket(2)
- BZ 734471 - Error while launching instance for ec2 in conductor UI ( The instance gets launched)
- BZ 757684 - Failed to Push Images to RHEV NFS Export Disk
- BZ 769938 - Imagefactory building for vsphere,condorcloud and rhevm FAILED
- BZ 747048 - import f16 ami fails w/ malformed format string error
- BZ 717987 - Instance fails to launch with message "The requested Availability Zone is no longer supported..."
- BZ 733764 - Instances: download link for ec2 cert disappears after a few seconds
- BZ 745181 - iwhd needs filesystem space check
- BZ 770555 - Not able to delete stopped Instances
- BZ 748487 - RHEV Instance requires attached iso_domain
- BZ 743395 - stopping rhevm deployment causes 6+ days added to total uptime
- BZ 730105 - Stopping the imagefactory leaves resources in use
- BZ 765854 - Race condition with network service start and audrey invocation
- BZ 770445 - "undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass " : When created a catalog entry with wrong hwp
- BZ 772708 - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_view/helpers/url_helper.rb:317: [BUG] rb_gc_mark(): unknown data type
- BZ 771305 - aeolus-configure interactive : Error found in /etc/aeolus-configure/nodes/custom_configure
- BZ 772249 - After built images from UI, I see 'Images are not Built', but 'Images Ready' in deployable#show
- BZ 770574 - Build should be allowed only for that provider for which deployable is created .
- BZ 773277 - Deployments with stopped instances in it does not get deleted.
- BZ 768028 - F16 doesn't build in Factory
- BZ 770532 - Failed. Response code = 500. Response message = Internal Server Error when clicked on build button for mock.
- BZ 773580 - For non-admin user submenu for Administer is rendered when clicked on My Accounts.
- BZ 694525 - IE8 : undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass for Hardware profile
- BZ 740810 - IE8 is misrendered in /conductor
- BZ 773244 - Instances created by a user should be automatically stopped and deleted when the user is deleted
- BZ 771627 - launch instance fails for providers added once images are built and pushed.
- BZ 773407 - Launching, w/ a realm w/ multiple providers fails
- BZ 770354 - No validation for Priority field in Add Provider Page
- BZ 767570 - Non admin user able to launch instance even after revoking access of "global Deployable User "
- BZ 767933 - Non user can stop an instance created by admin even when all deployable permissions are revoked.
- BZ 772353 - odd import image workflow can cause: Failed. Response code = 400. Response message = Bad Request.
- BZ 773672 - Ouptut of Push should show Provider Image not ID
- BZ 773410 - provider priority is not taken into account when launching instances w/ Realm w/ multiple realms(datastores)
- BZ 772644 - Realm.scan_for_new fetches realms only from first account
- BZ 770087 - Search fails for realms.
- BZ 765908 - Status stays pending on instance that failed to launch at RHEV
- BZ 773466 - template xml validation results in mis-rendered page
- BZ 743677 - turn providers off fail to stop instances
- BZ 772784 - unable to navigate to user "my account, logout" in ie8
- BZ 773198 - Uptime is displayed twice for instances
- BZ 770377 - Wrong error message displayed when launching image for a provider for which images are not pushed
- BZ 751209 - concurrent builds causes some builds to fail
- BZ 741592 - Disclaimer,Terms of Use and Support links not directed to correct page.
- BZ 773034 - image details page needs ajax updates of image status
- BZ 754943 - Image push to vSphere fails if all virtual networks are Distributed Virtual Switches
- BZ 772781 - imagefactory does not detect local jeos image, cached modified media builds as running
- BZ 741748 - pushing vsphere/rhevm images displays console passwd in plain txt
- BZ 750504 - Unable to update default hardware Profile(backend).
Full lists of relevant issues in Bugzilla:
## Issues Resolved {#issuesresolved}
The following section contains links to closed issues.
- Redmine 2864 - Create a VM based test harness for Snap
- Redmine 2865 - Snap: Replace all 'subprocess' / 'tempfile' calls w/ a 'capture_output' helper method
- Redmine 2867 - Add icons to launch gsnap from menus
- Redmine 2868 - Snap: Indentation fixes
- Redmine 2869 - Snap: Make sure deb post-install command line tools don't run in Snap
- Redmine 2872 - Snap: Add more and better documentation
- Redmine 2919 - "touch: missing file operand" displayed while restarting aeolus-conductor
- Redmine 2890 - aeolus-cli build/push lists out target image hash but does not associate which provider
- Redmine 2891 - need error message for image import with incorrect parms
- Redmine 2892 - trim whitespaces in /etc/aeolus-configure/nodes configs
- Redmine 2909 - new script to read in config files and ensure it is properly formatted
- Redmine 2893 - aeolus-cleanup cleans up everything, should be more selective
- Redmine 2894 - unmount rhevm nfs failure error; device is busy
- Redmine 2895 - aeolus-configure-image returns /usr/bin/ruby: No such file or directory -- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/aeolus-image-0.1.0/bin/aeolus-image (LoadError).
- Redmine 2898 - aeolus-configure-2.0.1-1.el6.fc14.noarch fails http 404 on https://localhost/conductor/providers
- Redmine 2901 - "Error Downloading Packages: rubygem-webmock-1.6.4-1.fc15.noarch: failure:" in install aeolus on f15
- Redmine 2902 - 'Failed to find root/Administrator password in TDL" error in aeolus-image build
- Redmine 2912 - As a user of the cli, I want a stable api structure
- Redmine 2913 - Propose change, if needed, get buy-in from group
- Redmine 2914 - Implement change based on design change to cli
- Redmine 2916 - Configure should not write /root/.aeolus-cli
- Redmine 2918 - Configure should set owner of pg_hba.conf to postgres
- Redmine 2920 - aeolus-cli rename to aeolus
- Redmine 2767 - Provisioning F16 and exploring Openstack feature