OpenNebula 3 SP1 (3.8.4) - Incremental Release Notes

June 18th, 2013. The OpenNebula Project announces the general availability of the first Service Pack for the OpenNebula 3 Series (3.8.4). After its first year, and for two additional years, the Project distributes a Service Pack (SP) for each major release that combines all the patches to easily install or deploy its last update. Service Packs allow users to maintain their current OpenNebula version as long as possible, preserving the stability and security of their data centers, as they transition from one OpenNebula Series to the next.

This is a maintenance release that fixes bugs reported by the community after 3.8.3 was released. This release only includes bug fixes and is a recommended update for everyone running any 3.x. Check out the OpenNebula 3.8 Twin-Jet release notes for the release highlights and a summary of the new features incorporated in OpenNebula 3.8.

Bugs Fixed in OpenNebula 3.8.4

Important bugs solved since 3.8.3 release include:

Bug #1673: Add support for 64-bit net_tx/net_rx counters
Bug #1721: VMware datastores doesn't handle non directories
Feature #1726: Pass custom information to .vmx file
Bug #1732: Fix -s & -e options for oneacct
Bug #1733: Change onehost update method rights to ADMIN
Bug #1740: Shutdown action only calls delete.sh for system datastore
Bug #1777: EC2 server does not check SignatureVersion
Bug #1792: Problem with duplicated MACs on filtering with Open vSwitch
Bug #1794: Make vmware image registration more robust by allowing files other than .vmdk
Bug #1779: Handle error when the marketplace is not available
Bug #1805: LCM::monitor_suspend_action frees the host capacity
Bug #1810: Attach disk/nic needs to check the template format
Bug #1813: Change database to hold bigger objects
Bug #1816: regionEndpoint with missing hostname in DescribeRegions

Bug #1822: Missing context .isofiles directory cleanup
Bug #1861: LDAP user password exposed in oned.log
Bug #1867: VM migration to the same host is allowed, but it will break the Running VMs counter
Bug #1889: onedb fsck removes users quotas for VMS/MEMORY/CPU
Bug #1911: Broken VMware CDROM support
Bug #1914: Client installation does not install ssh_auth.rb
Bug #1917: Sunstone won't notice when a password is changed
Bug #1918: Oneuser key does not remove BEGIN PUBLIC KEY
Bug #1921: ssh and x509 login never expires
Bug #1923: Ozones should not use settings
Bug #1933: Broken vmfs delete (USE_SSH=no)
Bug #1948: Umask hardcoded in MVDS scripts
Bug #1966: Broken datastore_mad/vmware/rm for CDROMs
Bug #1983: NETWORK_ADDRESS should be left in the vnet template
Bug #1995: DATA_VMX not working when no OS disk
Bug #1997: Re implement VMware drivers VI API calls
Bug #2037: Check if session cookie has been changed
Bug #2104: Overwriting when attaching non-persistent disk
Fix a bug the TM iscsi/delete action where it shouldn't remove the link
Fix log path for Sunstone in system wide installation
Retry kvm cancel to make sure the VM is destroyed
Multiple VMFS driver fixes
Fix rack problem with cloud servers and sunstone
Fix OpenNebula CentOS init script
Fix compilation for ruby > 1.9

Bugs Fixed since OpenNebula 3.8.0

Please see the release notes for OpenNebula 3.8.3
Please see the release notes for OpenNebula 3.8.2
Please see the release notes for OpenNebula 3.8.1
Bug #1669: Improve case sensitivity consistency
Bug #1668: XML parser fails to parse empty xml elements
Bug #1661: CLONE operation is broken for VMFS datastores with SSH connection enabled
Bug #1659: The core writes numbers in scientific notation
Bug #1593: failed: mv: cannot remove /vmfs/volumes/*: Is a directory
Bug #1119: onedb migrator 3.1.80 to 3.2.0 sets wrong uid & gid values in the DB (included in fsck)
Fix bug in host_on_error hook

Migrating to OpenNebula 3.8.4

OpenNebula 3.8.4 is API compatible with OpenNebula 3.x, so you should expect that applications and drivers developed for 3.x work with this release.

Also there have been minor changes in the OpenNebula DB schema to accommodate big resource descriptions. These changes are automatically managed by the migration process, but if you have developed any customization you may need to update it.

A detailed upgrade process can be found in the documentation.

For a complete set of changes to migrate from a 3.x installation please refer to the Compatibility Guide. You should also read this document if you are an OpenNebula 3.x user.

Getting the Software

OpenNebula is released under the Apache 2.0 open source license. The complete source tree and binary packages for OpenNebula can be downloaded here.

Please report any bug or send feedback at the development portal or at the mailing list.

The documentation of OpenNebula 3.8 can be found here.

Acknowledgements

We'd like to thank the great feedback received, it is an essential part of the process that makes OpenNebula a reality, and the primary source of improvement. A detailed list of people that have contributed to OpenNebula 3.8, can be found in the Twin-Jet release notes

About OpenNebula

More information about the project can be found at the project web page. You may be also interested in checking the OpenNebula Ecosystem that includes many interesting projects contributed by the community to enhance or add new features to OpenNebula.