Xena Series Release Notes

19.5.0

New Features

  • Added disable_compute_service_check_for_ffu paramter to nova::workarounds to configure the configuration option with the same name.

  • Added enable_qemu_monitor_announce_self paramter to nova::workarounds to configure the configuration option with the same name.

  • The following parameter and class have been added, to support usage of the service token feature with the Barbican key manager.

    • The nova::key_manager::barbican::send_service_user_token parameter

    • The nova::key_manager::barbican::service_user class

  • Add sysinfo_serial parameter to control a Serial number entry generation method. Defaults to $::os_service_default.

  • The nova_flavor resource now supports the project_name property. This property should be used instead of the project property when project name is used instead of project id.

  • New parameters max_client_requests and admin_max_client_requests allow to configure corresponding settings for libvirt.

  • Added parameter wait_for_vif_plugged_event_during_hard_reboot to nova::workarounds to configure the config option with the same name.

19.4.0

New Features

  • The new nova::compute::mkisofs_cmd parameter has been added to change the mkisofs tools. This is going to assist with transition from genisoimage to xorriso.

  • The new nova::logging::watch_log_file parameter has been added.

  • The new nova::cron::archive_deleted_rows::sleep parameter has been added.

  • This modules now supports modular libvirt daemons. Here is the list of daemons currently supported.

    • virtnodedevd

    • virtproxyd

    • virtqemud

    • virtsecretd

    • virtstoraged

    More information regarding modular libvirt daemons is available here. Libvirt Daemons <https://libvirt.org/daemons.html> _.

Upgrade Notes

  • The nova::compute::vgpu::enabled_vgpu_types parameter has been removed.

Deprecation Notes

  • The nova::scheduler::query_placement_for_availability_zone parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

  • The nova::compute::vgpu class has been deprecated in favor of the new nova::compute::mdev class.