Pike Series Release Notes¶

New Features¶

• Heat has additional configuration option for plugin_dirs parameter. This parameter provides a list of directories to search for plug-ins. This change allows configuration of plugin_dirs parameter in heat.conf file.

• Add openstack-db tag to Exec that run db-sync.

Deprecation Notes¶

• heat::rpc_backend is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use heat::default_transport_url instead.

Other Notes¶

• Change rabbit_heartbeat_timeout_threshold param from 0 (disable the heartbeat) and use default value from oslo module (unset param in configuration file).

• Drop keystone_ec2_uri default value because engine was down when user is checking heat service status and the endpoint was not created in Keystone.

Upgrade Notes¶

• Deprecated keystone authtoken signing_dir option is removed in Pike.

New Features¶

• Add new parameter ‘reauthentication_auth_method’ for heat re-authentication configuration.

New Features¶

• Ability to configure cache for heat using oslo::cache class.

• Add new parameter “notification_topics”, AMQP topic used for OpenStack notifications.

• The necessary manifests have been added to run the heat api services over httpd (heat-api, heat-api-cfn, and heat-api-cloudwatch).

• Support the clients/endpoint_type parameter in ::heat.