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Important Notes

  1. These recent versions of API clients - CLI v0.4.0, Go SDK v0.1.0-beta4, and Terraform v0.3.0 - remain compatible with v8 besides rack networking configurations.

  2. If you want to leverage the new rack networking configurations (see New Features), please review the Networking section of the API documentation for the new configurable options and get the newer CLI binaries (v0.5.0).

System Requirements

Please refer to v1.0.0 release notes.

Installation

Oxide Computer Model 0 must be installed and configured under the guidance of Oxide technicians. The requirement may change in future releases.

Upgrade Compatibility

Upgrade from version 7 is supported. We recommend shutting down all running instances on the rack before the software update commences.

All existing setup and data (e.g., projects, users, instances) will remain intact after the software update.

New Features

Rack networking configurations

  • Improved BGP support (maghemite#199)

    • Use of the enforce-first-as option. (maghemite#208)

    • Specifying ASN of BGP peer to prevent unauthorized/unintended remote peering. (maghemite#151)

    • Additional BGP configurations such as keepalive time, multi-exit discriminator, import/export policies, local preferences, and operator-defined communities.

  • Operator can now use the new networking_allow_list_update API to restrict the Oxide API/UI endpoint access by source IP address. (omicron-PR#5686)

Rack reconfigurator

  • The new feature provides the foundation for rack component replacement and configuration changes. In v8, the reconfigurator module supports the programmatic configuration of new sleds for instance and disk mirror placement.

  • Additional capabilities are being developed to support other rack reconfiguration use cases. More details are forthcoming in release v9.

  • The reconfigurator module is currently only accessible by Oxide technicians. It will be made available to rack operators in a future release.

Console usability improvements

In this release we focused on making the web experience friendlier for new users.

Docs popover - Snapshots

Bug fixes and minor enhancements

  • Web Console

  • Users can now create snapshots from disks attached to stopped instances. (omicron#3289)

  • Floating IP create returned a 404 error when users without fleet admin privileges specified the IP pool to use. (omicron#5508)

  • An initial set of SMBIOS tables are now exposed to the guest via fw_cfg and the OVMF ROM. (propolis#628)

  • Instance delete was stuck in stopping state due to deadlock during VM halt and destroy. (propolis#675)

  • Storage job queue management has been improved to avoid kicking out a disk mirror during heavy writes. (crucible-PR#1252, crucible-PR#1256, crucible-PR#1260)

  • Metrics producer registration logic was refactored to use a lease-based renewal process to support sled replacement. (omicron#5284)

Firmware update

  • None

Known Behavior and Limitations

End-user features

Feature AreaKnown Issue/LimitationIssue Number

Image/snapshot management

Disks in importing_from_bulk_writes state cannot be deleted directly. The procedures to unstick a canceled disk import are not obvious to CLI users.

omicron#2987

Image/snapshot management

Image upload sometimes stalls with HTTP/2 on Firefox.

omicron#3559

Image/snapshot management

The ability to modify image metadata is not available at this time.

omicron#2800

Instance orchestration

Instance or disk provisioning requests may fail due to unhandled sled or storage failure on rare occasions. Users can retry the requests to work around the failures.

omicron#4259, omicron#4331

Instance orchestration

Disk volume backend repair may fail to complete under heavy large write workload, preventing instances from starting or stopping.

crucible#837

Instance orchestration

Instance hostname validation has been strengthened. Instances with a now-invalid hostname will fail to start, though they can still be listed and viewed. If the disks attached to them are valuable, they may be detached from the invalid instances, and re-attached to a new instance. The invalid instance may be deleted at that time.

omicron-PR#4938

Telemetry

VM instance memory utilization and network throughput metrics are unavailable at this time.

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VPC and routing

Inter-subnet traffic routing is not available by default. Router and routing rules will be supported in future releases.

omicron#2232

Operator features

Feature AreaKnown Issue/LimitationIssue Number

Access control

Device tokens do not expire.

omicron#2302

Control plane

Sled and physical storage availability status are not available in the inventory UI and API yet.

omicron#2035

Control plane

When a sled is rebooted outside of the maintenance settings, new instances on the sled may be unable to reach existing instances on other sleds until those instances have been restarted.

omicron#5214

Control plane

Operator-driven software update is currently unavailable. All updates need to be performed by Oxide technicians.

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Control plane

Operator-driven instance migration across sleds is currently unavailable. Instance migrations need to be performed by Oxide technicians.

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Telemetry

Hardware metrics such as temperatures, fan speeds, and power consumption are not exposed to the control plane at this time.

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User management

User offboarding from the rack is not supported at this time. Apart from updating the identity provider to remove obsolete users from the relevant groups, operators will need to remove any IAM roles granted directly to those users in silos and projects.

omicron#2587

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