V0.5 - Beta Release for VMWorld

Baseline for the Beta release in VMWorld.

Features:

Better node monitoring & reaction to events
Cloud Pool
External Syslog Integration
Mirrored pools - async mirroring
Phone Home Proxy configuration
Activity Log improvements
NooBaa2NooBaa cloud sync
Amazon V4 Authentication Support
Content Tiering Demo (Movies)
FE Layout Changes
Mongo Listen on local port only
Capacity Calculations
Multidrive - Disable unwanted drives
Clustering (HA) code - Inactive
FE Facelift
Root password randomization

Major bug fixes in all areas

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.5.0/NooBaa-v0_5.ova
https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.5.0/noobaa-NVA-0.5.0-e455df2.tar.gz

0.4.7 Limited Lifecycle support

Based on 0.4.6

his version has a limited lifecycle support.

It currently supports the following API and will not be visible in the UI

putBucketLifecycleConfiguration
getBucketLifecycleConfiguration

The support includes only expiration while day=0 or date provided.

It will store any configuration, and return it, but will use only the expiration day (=0) or expiration date.

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.7/noobaa-NVA-0.4.7-5e0f0ae.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.7/NooBaa-v0_4.7.ova

0.4.6

Includes the following fixes:

1. DNS name fixes
2. SSL certificate support
3. Machine Learning to suggest node assignment in pool based on read , write, ip, etc inputs provided to ML.
4. check for openssl on linux as prereq for installation
5. added response for post_bucket_delete and delete option for s3cat
6. Multi Drive on linux fixed

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.6/noobaa-NVA-0.4.6-86b604e.tar.gz

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.6/NooBaa-v0_4.6.ova

V0.4.5

Mainly fixes:

1. Internal recovery during upload objects, in case of inaccessible nodes (internally known as report bad block).
2. NTP fixes.
3. Clean up deleted blocks from agents, not only from the database.
4. Linux Agents - Removed redundant link to node from /usr/bin/
5. Visual indication for full storage.
6. Diagnostics for win/linux fixes
7. One drive per agent (until now we had non interesting list of drives)
8. Shorter name for agents
9. Audit modifications for missing accounts for part of the operations.
10. S3 error encoding - we sent invalid xml incase of a failure during multipart upload

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.5/noobaa-NVA-0.4.5-bc5d19b.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.5/NooBaa-v0.4.5.ova

V0.4.4

Features:

1. Time setup - NTP and manual.

Fixes:

1. Audit updates
2. Time Skew (AWS time difference detection set to 2min)
3. Support windows diagnostics

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.4/noobaa-NVA-0.4.4-652ac6e.tar.gz

V0.4.3

Features:

1. Bucket permission - Administrator can now isolate buckets per application users.

2. First step - tiering - Movies parts (first and last parts) get more replications on faster servers

3. UI Usability fixes
   3.1 Bucket name added to the parts list of node

   3.2 Pool name added to file parts. In addition the view has changed a little to show replicas.

   3.3 Pool name added to nodes list in Assign Nodes window

   3.4 Install node styling and one liner option for deployment

Fixes:

1. S3 fixes for folders
2. S3 performance
3. Node page with many parts crashes chrome #1101
4. Typo fixes

Upgrade package:

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.3/noobaa-NVA-0.4.0-47869a8.tar.gz

V0.4.2

1. Major S3 issue with get_bucket (list objects) with prefix, but without delimiter.
2. Typo fix

Upgrade package:

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.2/noobaa-NVA-0.4.0-d2ba040.tar.gz

V0.4.1

Update:

1. S3 Encoding fixes.
2. Server Diagnostic button added (Configuration-> Diagnostics Tab). #1050
3. Fix for Navigation to node with special characters in its name failed #990

V0.4

Packages

upgrade package - https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.0/noobaa-NVA-0.4.0-757f6c4.tar.gz

ESX -
https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.0/ESX/NooBaa_v0.4.mf
https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.0/ESX/NooBaa_v0.4-disk1.vmdk
https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.0/ESX/NooBaa_v0.4.ovf

KVM -
https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.4.0/KVM/NooBaa_v0.4-disk1.qcow2

1. New management console with all features support.
2. Performance improvements - upload of single connection 70MBps, multiple connections 250MBps.
3. Agents communication is by default in a range of TCP and UDP ports with automatic fall back. Default TCP ports range is 60100 - 60600
4. Multiple pools support - pool is a group of nodes, defined by the user. A relations of data placement can be defined: Stripe, Spreading the data across the chosen pools
   Mirror, Full duplication of the data in each chosen pool
5. NooBaa to any S3 compatible storage (including NooBaa) sync, BI Directional or One way.
6. Multi Drive support - NooBaa will take advantage of every drive on the hosting storage node (each drive will be displayed as a separated node)
7. AWS V4 support
8. Free space policy - will stop writing if less than 10GB free space available, static for now.
9. Performance measurements of each node - HD Read/HD Write/Round Trip Time to metadata server.
10. Diagnostic tools improvements, online testing for agents connectivity and bandwidth.
11. Auditing events filtering
12. Informative dashboards with capacity and usage statistics.
13. support X64 for windows agents.

--------------- Internal -----------

1. New log system. Logs can be found under /var/log/noobaa*
2. Spelling mistakes fixes
3. First wizard to show http instead of https.
4. New audit events for cloud sync operations, pools operations, bucket operations, etc
5. Cloud sync - added support for all AWS regions except Seoul.
6. Allows DNS settings from the UI - mainly to configure agent configuration string. We adde tests to make sure everything is available.
7. Versioning of MD server and Agents - now visible in node's info and configuration-> version in the MD server.
8. Security updates - reduced the amount of times we return a secret key from the server to the client. Will be removed completely soon. Remove the secret key from the agent configuration after the first join to the system.
9. Hadoop compliance - support dates format (RFC 822), required by Hadoop and supported by AWS s3.
10. NTP fixes.
11. S3 compatibility fixes, mainly returned errors.
12. Brought back AWS authentication V2 and V4

0.3.9.1 ALPHA - TCP only version

This one includes fixes for cloud sync - now support all AWS s3 regions (except SEOUL) and signature types
In addition, it includes a removal for another mongo instance (under /etc/init.d) and starts NTP.

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.3.9.1/noobaa-NVA_0.3.9.1.RC5.tar.gz

OVA:

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.3.9.1/NooBaa_0391.ovf
https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.3.9.1/NooBaa_0391.mf
https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.3.9.1/NooBaa_0391-disk1.vmdk

Guide:

https://storage.googleapis.com/noobaa-releases/0.3.9.1/NooBaa%20Getting%20Started%20Guide.pdf