Newton Series Release Notes

14.2.9

New Features

  • It’s now possible to disable heat stack password field in horizon. horizon_enable_heatstack_user_pass variable has been added and default to True.

14.2.6

New Features

  • The horizon_images_allow_location variable is added to support the IMAGES_ALLOW_LOCATION setting in the horizon_local_settings.py file to allow to specify and external location during the image creation.

14.1.1

New Features

  • It’s now possible to change the behavior of DISALLOW_IFRAME_EMBED by defining the variable horizon_disallow_iframe_embed in the user variables.

14.0.2

Upgrade Notes

  • The variables horizon_requirements_git_repo and horizon_requirements_git_install_branch have been removed in favour of using the URL/path to the upper-constraints file using the variable pip_install_upper_constraints instead.

14.0.0

New Features

  • The os_horizon role now has support for the horizon ironic-ui dashboard. The dashboard may be enabled by setting horizon_enable_ironic_ui to True in /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml.

  • The os_horizon role now has support for the horizon magnum-ui dashboard. The dashboard may be enabled by setting horizon_enable_magnum_ui to True in /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml.

  • The horizon_keystone_admin_roles variable is added to support the OPENSTACK_KEYSTONE_ADMIN_ROLES list in the horizon_local_settings.py file.

  • Deployers can now blacklist certain Nova extensions by providing a list of such extensions in horizon_nova_extensions_blacklist variable, for example:

    horizon_nova_extensions_blacklist:
  - "SimpleTenantUsage"

  • Horizon now has the ability to set arbitrary configuration options using global option horizon_config_overrides in YAML format. The overrides follow the same pattern found within the other OpenStack service overrides. General documentation on overrides can be found here.

  • The os_horizon role now supports configuration of custom themes. Deployers can use the new horizon_custom_themes and horizon_default_theme variables to configure the dashboard with custom themes and default to a specific theme respectively.

  • The new LBaaS v2 dashboard is available in Horizon. Deployers can enable the panel by setting the following Ansible variable:

    horizon_enable_neutron_lbaas: True

  • Horizon now has a boolean variable named horizon_enable_ha_router to enable Neutron HA router management.

  • Horizon’s IPv6 support is now enabled by default. This allows users to manage subnets with IPv6 addresses within the Horizon interface. Deployers can disable IPv6 support in Horizon by setting the following variable:

    horizon_enable_ipv6: False

    Please note: Horizon will still display IPv6 addresses in various panels with IPv6 support disabled. However, it will not allow any direct management of IPv6 configuration.

  • The horizon next generation instance management panels have been enabled by default. This changes horizon to use the upstream defaults instead of the legacy panels. Documentation can be found here.

  • Added horizon_apache_custom_log_format tunable to the os-horizon role for changing CustomLog format. Default is “combined”.

  • The os_horizon role now supports the ability to configure whether apt/yum tasks install the latest available package, or just ensure that the package is present. The default action is to ensure that the latest package is present. The action taken may be changed to only ensure that the package is present by setting horizon_package_state to present.

  • The Sahara dashboard is available in Horizon. Deployers can enable the panel by setting the following Ansible variable:

    horizon_enable_sahara_ui: True

Upgrade Notes

  • The default horizon instance launch panels have been changed to the next generation panels. To enable legacy functionality set the following options accordingly:

    horizon_launch_instance_legacy: True
horizon_launch_instance_ng: False

  • Installation of horizon and its dependent pip packages will now only occur within a Python virtual environment. The horizon_venv_bin, horizon_venv_enabled, horizon_venv_lib_dir, and horizon_non_venv_lib_dir variables have been removed.

  • The variable horizon_apt_packages has been renamed to horizon_distro_packages.

  • The os_horizon role always checks whether the latest package is installed when executed. If a deployer wishes to change the check to only validate the presence of the package, the option horizon_package_state should be set to present.

  • The database and user creates have been removed from the os_horizon role. These tasks have been relocated to the playbooks.

Security Issues

  • Horizon disables password autocompletion in the browser by default, but deployers can now enable autocompletion by setting horizon_enable_password_autocomplete to True.

Bug Fixes

  • The standard collectstatic and compression process in the os_horizon role now happens after horizon customizations are installed, so that all static resources will be collected and compressed.