The main changes of note in this release are:
the upgrade of the Orchestration Service (Heat) from stable/Queen to stable/Train.
Various web dashboard additions and improvements.
For a full list of the included changes please see upstream release notes for stable/Stein and stable/Train
Some of the key new features included in this release are:
Upgrade Heat template version from heat_template_version.2018-03-02
to
heat_template_version.2018-08-31
Added a new config option server_keystone_endpoint_type to specify the keystone authentication endpoint (public/internal/admin) to pass into cloud-init data
Add rbac_policy and subnetpool support for OS::Neutron::Quota resource
Add UDP to supported protocols for Octavia.
Add tags support for ProviderNet resource
OS::Aodh::LBMemberHealthAlarm resource plugin is added to manage Aodh loadbalancer_member_health alarm.
Support tags property for the resource OS::Octavia::PoolMember, the property is allowed to be updated as well.
Some of the key areas addressed are:
Erroneously, availability_zone for host aggregate resource types was considered mandatory in heat templates. It is now optional.
Heat can now perform a stack update to roll back to a previous version of a resource after a previous attempt to create a replacement for it failed.
Empty string passing in for volume availability_zone can be correctly handled now. For this case, it’s same as no AZ set, so the default AZ in cinder.conf will be used.
Non-ASCII text that appears in parameter constraints (e.g. in the description of a constraint, or a list of allowed values) will now be handled correctly when generating error messages if the constraint is not met.
OS::Neutron::Port resources will now be replaced when the mac_address property is modified. Neutron is unable to update the MAC address of a port once the port is in use.
personality property of OS::Nova::Server is now deprecated, please use user_data or metadata instead.
In this latest version the following improvements have been included:
Improved dashboard experience for the Container Infra (Kubernetes) service.
Support for creating object storage containers with a single region storage policy.