Victoria Series Release Notes

17.7.0-2

Upgrade Notes

  • The glance::api class now supports a lock_path parameter that configures the oslo.concurrency lock_path with a platform specific default value. Distributions that are used to defining the lock_path with a distribution specific config file may need to override the default glance::api::lock_path value.

Bug Fixes

  • Bug #1980539: Configure the oslo.concurrency lock_path, which is now required by cinder backends.

17.7.0

New Features

  • The new glance::api::authtoken::service_type parameter has been added to configure the service_type parameter in authtoken middleware.

17.6.0

New Features

  • A new parameter cinder_mount_point_base is introduced into glance::backend::multistore::cinder class, so that operators can provide the cinder mount point for NFS volumes.

Bug Fixes

  • The swift::backend::multistore::swift::swift_store_config_file is now set to /etc/glance/glance-swift.conf by default. Because of this change the parameter is automatically set to use the configuration file generated by puppet-glance.

17.5.0

New Features

  • Add new configuration option ‘rbd_thin_provisioning’ and ‘filesystem_thin_provisioning’ to rbd and filesystem backends to enable or not sparse upload, default are False.

17.4.0

New Features

  • Added disk_formats option which allows configuration of the image_format/disk_formats config setting; some backends perform poorly with specific disk formats, for example Ceph with QCOW2 images and in these scenarios it might be useful to filter out of the allowed disk formats those which are unwanted.

17.3.0

New Features

  • The following new parameters have been added, which can be used to set the interface parameter in authtoken middleware.

    • glance::api::authtoken::interface

    • glance::registry::authtoken::interface

Upgrade Notes

  • The glance::registry class and its subsequent classes have been removed. This means that support for glance-registry service has been removed.

Deprecation Notes

  • The glance::api::enable_v2_api parameter has been deprecated and has no effect now.

  • The following parameters have been deprecated and has no effect now, in favor of removal of support for glance registry service.

    • glance::api::registry_client_cert_file

    • glance::api::registry_client_key_file

    • glance::api::registry_client_ca_file

    • glance::config::registry_config

    • glance::config::registry_paste_ini_config

  • The following resource types have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

    • glance_registry_config

    • glance_registry_paste_ini

17.1.0

New Features

  • Added cache_prefetcher_interval in glance-api.conf, using which the periodic job will run as per the set interval and prefetch images into cache.

  • Add new options glance::backend::multibackend::swift::swift_buffer_on_upload and glance::backend::multibackend::swift::swift_upload_buffer_dir Indicate whether or not Glance should buffer image data to disk while uploading to swift. This enables Glance to resume uploads on error.

Deprecation Notes

  • The glance::api::enable_v1_api parameter has been deprecated and has no effect, infavor of deprecation of Image v1 API.