4.12 Release Notes

Series Information

• Initial Release: February 2024 (4.12.0)
• Latest Version: 4.12.6 (July 2024)
• Status: Supported (Superseded by 4.13)
• End-of-Life: TBD

Major Features & Themes

Enhanced User Experience

Key Improvements

• New dark mode user interface
• Improved VM management interface
• Enhanced recipe handling
• Streamlined tenant management

Virtualization Improvements

Performance Updates

• Enhanced nested virtualization support
• Live migration of named CPUs
• Support for latest AMD/Intel processors
• Increased VM core count (up to 1024)
• Improved VM storage performance

Security & Authentication

Security Features

• TOTP 2-Factor authentication
• Support for offline systems and licensing
• Enhanced tenant isolation
• Improved password management
• Support for latest NVIDIA security updates

Performance

Performance Gains

• 25% faster network migrations
• Improved storage performance during contention
• Enhanced disk operations
• Dedicated vSAN meta cache
• Upgraded to Linux kernel 6.1

4.12.6 (July 2024)

Features & Fixes

Security & Authentication

• Added TOTP 2-Factor authentication
• Added support for 2FA (email or TOTP) logins from the console/ssh
• Optimized brute-force attack handling during login
• Updated SSH to address CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion) - applies to systems with SSH enabled via External firewall on public network
• Fixed SSH-related issues:
  • Resolved sshd issue where /home/root would get created on root login
  • Fixed UI audit logging for root user SSH key login
  • Removed deprecation warning with pam and sshd

Virtual Machine Management

• Increased max VM core count to 1024 (requires q35-8.1 or newer)
• Enhanced VM boot process:
  • EFI disks now created at first boot vs creation time
  • Added ability to detach VM from recipe at first boot using "YB_DETACH_RECIPE=firstboot"
  • Added cloud-init disable option via recipe ("YB_DISABLE_CLOUDINIT" with values: true, false, or purge)
• Fixed issues with:
  • VM Exports volume browsing from New VM form
  • Cloning VM nested virtualization properties
  • Nested virtualization in tenants
  • VMware backups presenting VMX/nvram files

Cloud & Storage

• Increased maximum cloud snapshots from 1000 to 2048
• Extended maximum SMART hours to 10 years for older drive warning status
• Added support for device assets for advanced options
• Improved snapshot management:
  • Auto-deletion of Volume and VM snapshots in non-redundant VSAN state
  • Fixed restoration from cloud snapshots without UUID specification
• Volume syncs now prevent:
  • VM Exports use as destination
  • Snapshot creation when used as source
• Added metadata extraction for vendor change-block-tracking from VM Exports

Networking

• Added IPv6 support on Layer2 networks
• Enhanced network functionality:
  • Added physical device passthrough to network containers for MAC-based filtering
  • Fixed issues with wireguard peer creation (>27 peers) in tenant/smaller systems
  • Resolved Let's Encrypt issues in proxy-enabled tenants
  • Fixed VMware Service container network changes during runtime
  • Improved physical interface detachment during layer2 type changes
  • Fixed bond configuration for multiple bonded networks
  • Resolved network migration "Initializing" status issues

User Interface & Experience

• Improved tenant management:
  • Fixed dashboard graph display
  • New tenant form now defaults to "Custom"
  • Added resource availability notifications for vGPU/GPU cluster status
• Enhanced user experience:
  • Public links default to filename
  • Fixed session timeout login popup
  • Fixed permissions form capitalization
  • Fixed marketplace error state on fresh install with pending license

System Administration

• Fixed issues with:
  • License acquisition on low space root filesystem
  • Tenant node/vnet power state reporting
  • Recipe question import logging
  • Remote repository recipe questions import logging

OS & Installation

Installation & Boot Management

• Added support for:
  • iPXE config boot
  • Serial console resizing via xterm (using "resize" command)
• Enhanced installation process:
  • Improved external network selection
  • Maintenance network question limited to advanced installer
  • Removed license credential prompt on resume if blank
  • Fixed scale-out node configuration after first boot
  • SWAP no longer requested after node1

System Infrastructure

• Improved GPU driver management:
  • Syslog now reports skipped NVIDIA driver installation
  • Enhanced PCI device handling during installation
• Enhanced boot and storage:
  • Fixed boot partition flashing for EFI
  • Improved storage-node boot with non-bootable VSAN disks
  • Fixed controller node storage mounting from non-vsan boot
  • Increased disk partitioning timeout to 30 seconds
• Network improvements:
  • Faster auto-network detection with VLAN conflict detection
  • Fixed NTP synchronization with IPv6
  • Improved yb-api functionality:
    • Enhanced token login
    • Added username/token auto-detection for physical access
    • Fixed /sys/tokens posting
• Added system diagnostics for filesystem and memory debugging

4.12.5 (May 2024)

Features & Fixes

Virtual Machine & Console

• Added Windows key to virtual keyboard toggle on VM console page
• Increased VM console paste limit to 1024 characters
• VMware backups will now make a copy of VMX files
• Fixed a false-positive error that could be logged during a VM migration

Networking

• BGP now handles graceful restarts more efficiently
• Added advanced network option to enable 802.1ad (QinQ)
• Enhanced virtual IP management:
  • Fixed issue where deleting a virtual IP address was automatically applying firewall rules
  • Optimized refresh handling for batch virtual IP operations (single refresh for multiple IPs)
• Network diagnostic queries will now clean themselves up if they become stale
• Fixed an issue where max vxlan fdb entries might not get set to 0

System Administration

• Changed maximum password length from 64 to 256
• Improved cluster management:
  • Cluster's Target max ram pct updates now reflect in overall cluster RAM usage
• Enhanced node diagnostics:
  • Fixed inability to send diagnostic queries to unresponsive nodes
• User Management:
  • Fixed issue where creating users with invalid display names left database references
• Performance Improvements:
  • Sped up generating the NAS recipe
  • Optimized machines dashboard API query

OS & Installation

Storage Management

• Fixed storage tier removal completion requiring node1 reboot
• Added online vSAN drive deletion capability (CLI only)
• Fixed rare vSAN repair detection issues under specific CPU conditions

System Infrastructure

• Added support for additional NIC vendors and devices
• Enhanced kernel functionality:
  • Added missing NFT counter module for firewall tracking in 5.10 kernel
  • Fixed PXE booted nodes using incorrect kernel version
• Improved disk management:
  • Fixed partitioning and discovery issues
  • Adjusted partitioning timeout for systems with slow drive discovery

4.12.4 (April 2024)

Features & Fixes

Virtual Machine & GPU Management

• Each machine now has a unique, permanent UUID (read-only)
• Added warning display for VMs with virtio-scsi drives and UEFI compatibility issues
• Enhanced GPU management:
  • Fixed GPU device attachment to tenant VMs with TPM devices
  • Improved tenant node GPU device handling and assignment
  • Added support for additional GPUs on Intel based systems
  • Tenant node GPU devices now show offline state when disabled
• Fixed issue where graphs still show data after VM power-off
• Fixed VMware Service attachment to layer 2 network issues

Authentication & Security

• Fixed group synchronization with DUO auth source
• Improved two factor authentication validation message links
• Fixed volume antivirus profile detachment issues

User Interface & Experience

• Fixed multiple dark mode issues
• Enhanced user prompts for MAC preservation and preferred tier during shared object imports
• Sites dashboard improvements:
  • Better site status reflection
  • Fixed site visibility issues for some users
  • Hidden IP address field on vnets dashboard for 'none' router type
• Added log filtering in diagnostics
• Fixed arp-scan functionality in diagnostics

System Administration

• Modified update process to prevent individual package selection
• Enhanced diagnostic capabilities

OS & System

Boot & Hardware Management

• Accelerated boot partition flashing
• Enhanced hardware synchronization:
  • Forced node hardware clock sync with UTC
  • Improved EFI boot registration with boot-next option
• Added qemu-guest-agent package
• Fixed API token expiration 404 errors
• Various vSAN fixes and enhancements

Installation

Network Configuration

• Automated Core and DMZ network MTU determination
• Enhanced installation process:
  • Improved swap configuration visualization
  • Removed VLAN option for non-core physical networks
  • Better error output for cluster validation
  • Additional unattended options
  • Minimum MTU warning (9000) on core networks
  • IP conflict detection at install time
  • EFI boot option registration at install time
• Storage optimization:
  • 10-second improvement in NVMe drive formatting
  • Increased boot-only drive partition size to 4G (from 1G)

4.12.3 (April 2024)

Features & Fixes

System & Configuration

• Fixed cluster CPU auto-detection issues on slower systems
• Fixed several issues with SMTP and settings
• Fixed VM recovery from cloud snapshots when attached to non-existent recipes
• Fixed styling issues related to dark mode

OS & Installation

• Added additional advanced vSAN settings for tweaking high-latency environments
• Fixed boot option availability issue when hard-power off occurs during boot partition updates

4.12.2 (April 2024)

Features & Fixes

GPU & Hardware Support

• Added support for NVIDIA 16.5 driver
• Enhanced hardware management:
  • Fixed CPU vendor detection for host mode Intel CPU
  • Added fiber channel scan for drive refresh
  • Enhanced IPMI service management:
    • Automatic restart for devices marked as "busy"
    • Fixed IPMI address loading in UI

Storage & vSAN Management

• Enhanced vSAN capabilities:
  • Added ability to clear reference counts from VSAN diagnostics
  • Added VSAN online since and up since times to node drives
  • Fixed total read/write on node drive dashboard
  • Added multiselect support for VSAN drives (closing/initializing/formatting)
• VSAN rates on main dashboard now show decimals

Authentication & Security

• Complete overhaul of Two Factor Authentication and Require Password Change
• Added API support for root CA registration
• Fixed SMTP refresh settings on startup

Networking & BGP

• Fixed issues with:
  • BGP network initialization
  • BGP interface deletion with associated firewall rules
  • L2 networks diagnostic query expiration
  • Apply Proxy firewall rule refresh
• Enhanced FQDN Proxy feature for tenants

Tenant & Virtual Machine Management

• Improved tenant creation:
  • Added MAC address offset randomization
  • Added support for \({\)random} and \({\)random:start:end} recipe variables
• Enhanced VM management:
  • Added option to remove ctrl-alt-delete confirmation on VM console
  • Fixed auto-machine-power-on logic enabled flag
  • Fixed OVA imports from NAS volume
• Increased supported nodes per-cluster to 255
• Fixed remote recipe device downloads

User Interface & System Tools

• Several UI/theme fixes
• Enhanced upload functionality:
  • Added ability to skip file size check for Upload from URL (for 1-time URLs)
• Changed "cluster power off" to "cluster shutdown"
• Improved cluster CPU auto-detection
• Fixed license request file generation
• Fixed spice console password
• Fixed clone ISO build issues

OS & Installation

• Service improvements:
  • Started lxc.service before appserver for cgroups/dependencies
  • Fixed older NVIDIA GRID driver compatibility issues
  • Fixed multiple ipmievd issues
• Installation enhancements:
  • Added version display in header
  • Enabled LLPD in installer
  • Fixed time sync during quick install
  • Fixed CLI login menu reboot
• System updates:
  • Updated base QEMU to 8.1.5
  • Updated to Kernel 6.1.81 and 5.10.212
  • Added additional FC drivers
• Fixed issues with:
  • Scale-out VSAN warning status
  • VSAN encryption key auto-negotiation during boot
  • Installer restart with tagged VLAN on core physical network
  • Drive selection and tier settings during installation

Over 50 additional minor fixes and enhancements were also included in this release.

4.12.1 (March 2024)

Features & Fixes

• Fixed NAS volume export availability for NFS

Security Updates

• Added support for NVIDIA drivers:
  • Version 13.10
  • Version 16.4
  • See NVIDIA security portal for complete security details

4.12.0 (February 2024)

Major Features

Virtualization & CPU Support

• Added nested virtualization advanced option to all CPU types per VM
• Enhanced live migration capabilities:
  • Support for named CPUs with nested virtualization
  • Full support for Intel processors
  • Partial support for AMD processors
• Added support for newer AMD and Intel processors
• Enhanced VM networking:
  • Added numtxqueues and numrxqueues configuration for VM NICs via advanced settings
  • Enabled direct VM NIC attachment to VPN network
  • Added MTU configuration for wireguard interfaces

User Interface & Experience

• Introduced new dark mode for the UI
• Enhanced VM management interface:
  • New VM screen shows and allows recipe updates
  • Added CPU type recommendations based on cluster
  • Added RAM usage to VM history
  • Added clipboard text hiding option for VM console
• Product help now links to public wiki

System & Security

• Implemented support for disconnected systems
• Added offline licensing support
• Introduced Tenant Isolation feature

Performance Improvements

Storage & System

• Enhanced VM storage performance during per-node contention
• Added dedicated meta cache to vSAN
• Improved storage management:
  • Increased disk delete performance
  • Reduced impact for larger drives
  • Enhanced drive hotplug performance
  • Automatic device integrity check on bad block detection
• Updated to Linux kernel 6.1

Network & Synchronization

• Network migrations are now 25% faster
• Increased site synchronization speed for low latency networks
• Enhanced VMware integration performance

Functionality Enhancements

GPU & Hardware Support

• Added support for NVIDIA drivers 13.9, 15.4, 16.3
• Enhanced GPU management:
  • vGPU/GPU machine drives now filter based on parent machines cluster
  • Various improvements to GPU setup
• Added support for wear level detection on older Intel SSDs

Virtual Machine Management

• Enhanced VM snapshots:
  • Snapshots marked as quiesced when specified and machine is offline
• Drive tier changes restricted while VM is running (temporary limitation)
• Improved UEFI support:
  • Newer UEFI VMs now use 4M layout (addresses Windows 10 issues)
  • Fixed readonly flag for OVMF legacy VMs

System Administration

• Enhanced tenant management:
  • Storage usage now updated every minute (previously 5 seconds)
  • Non-compute cluster selection restricted for VMs/tenants
  • Fixed MSS clamping
• Added diagnostic node query for network bonding
• Added confirmation for hotplug/unplug commands in NAS
• Added override for long physical drive timeouts

Bug Fixes

Virtual Machine & Network

• Fixed issues with:
  • Audio devices for spice
  • Core NIC renaming in VLANs
  • Long NIC device names
  • VMs having hosts with invalid port group data (switchid/vlan)
  • Remote recipe downloads automatically setting to first cluster
  • GPUs set to NVIDIA vGPU without populated profiles

System & Configuration

• Fixed hostname validation for NAS
• Improved BGP functionality
• Various minor performance and stability improvements