horizon/releasenotes/source/juno.rst

Juno Series Release Notes

Release Overview

The Juno release cycle brings a significant update to the user experience; numerous stability improvements; support for Sahara; and significant enhancements in feature support for networking, volumes, databases and images. The community continues to grow and gain speed. Read on for more details.

Highlights

New Features

Sahara

The OpenStack Data Processing project (Sahara) was formally included into the integrated release in Juno and Horizon includes broad support for managing your data processing. You can specify and build clusters to utilize several data types with user specified jobs while tracking the progress of those jobs.

Neutron

Neutron added several new features in Juno, including:

• DVR (Distributed Virtual Routing)
• L3 HA support
• IPv6 subnet modes

Horizon provides support for these new features with the Juno release. These features provide much greater flexibility in specifying software defined networks.

An existing feature in Neutron that Horizon now supports is the MAC learning extension.

Glance

In Juno, Glance introduced the ability to manage a catalog of metadata definitions where users can register the metadata definitions to be used on various resource types including images, volumes, aggregates, and flavors. Support for viewing and editing the assignment of these metadata tags is included in Horizon.

Cinder

In a continued effort to provide more complete API support, several additional features of the Cinder API are now supported in Horizon in the Juno release.

Some of these features include:

• Creating and restoring volume backups
• Enabling resetting the state of a snapshot
• Enabling resetting the state of a volume
• Supporting upload-to-image
• Volume retype
• QoS (quality of service) support.

Trove

Trove supports using multiple types of datastores, e.g., mysql, redis, mongodb. Users can now select from the list of datastores supported by the cloud operator when creating their database instances.

Another addition is support for utilizing and restoring from incremental database backups.

To improve support for Neutron based clouds, when creating a database instance, the user can now specify the NIC for the database instance on creation allowing direct access to the instance by the user.

Nova

The new Nova instance actions view provides a list of all actions taken on all instances in the current project allowing users to view resulting errors or actions taken by other users on those instances.

Administrators now have the ability to evacuate hosts off hypervisors which can aid in system maintenance by providing a mechanism to migrate all instances to other hosts.

Improved Plugin Support

The plugin system in Horizon continued to improve in the Juno release. Some of those improvements:

• Support for adding plugin specific AngularJS modules
• Support for adding static files, e.g., CSS, JS, images
• Ability to add exceptions
• Fixing ordering issues
• Numerous other bug fixes

Enhanced RBAC support

In an ongoing effort to support richer role based access control (RBAC) in Horizon, the views for several more services were enhanced with RBAC checks to determine user access to actions. The newly supported services are compute, network and orchestration. These changes allow operators to implement finer grained access control than just "member" and "admin".

The identity panels (domains, projects, users, roles, groups) have also been converted to support RBAC at the view level. The identity panels have been moved from the admin dashboard into their own 'Identity' dashboard and accessibility is determined by policies alone. This is the first step toward consolidating the near duplicate content of the project and admin dashboards into single views supporting a wide range of roles.

UX Changes

In Juno, Horizon transitioned to utilizing Bootstrap v3. Horizon had been pinned to an older version of Bootstrap for several releases. This change now allows Horizon to pick up numerous bug fixes and overall improvements in the Bootstrap framework. The look and feel remains mainly consistent with the Icehouse release.

Under the Hood

Improved Translatability

In an effort to improve the translations for Horizon, updates to remove concatenations and better handle tense were made.

JavaScript Libraries Extracted

As part of the Horizon team's ongoing efforts to split the repository into more logical pieces, all the 3rd party JavaScript libraries that Horizon depends on have been removed from the Horizon code base and python xstatic packages have been utilized instead. The xstatic format allows for easy consumption by the Django framework Horizon is built on. Now JavaScript libraries are utilized like any other python dependency in Horizon.

Conversion from LESS to SCSS

The supported stylesheets in Horizon have been converted to utilize SCSS rather than LESS. The change was necessary due to a prevalent lack of support for LESS compilers in python. This change also allowed us to upgrade to Bootstrap 3, as parts of the Bootstrap 3 LESS stylesheets were not supported by existing python based LESS compilers.

Known Issues and Limitations

Rendering issues in extensions

The conversion to utilizing Bootstrap v3 can cause content extensions written on top of Horizon to have rendering issues. Most of these are fixed by a simple CSS class name substitutions. These issues are primarily seen with buttons and panel content widths.

Online Compression

With the move to SCSS, there may be issues with utilizing online compression in non-DEBUG mode in Horizon. Offline compression continues to work as in previous releases.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1379761

Neutron L3 HA

The HA property is updateable in the UI, however, Neutron API does not allow the update operation because toggling HA support does not work.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1379761