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CloudStack-UI 1.0.6 is released july, 22, 2017. The release adds new functions and fixes several bugs. It also includes deep refactoring for VM creation and display component. This release notes document covers main improvements of the release.
Developers have spent more than a week doing the refactoring the old code which was written without proper design on early project phase. Right now that component has been reimplemented from scratch. It helped to introduce new VM filtering and groupping interface. The refactoring also was vital because the team is planning implementing additional display mode for all items. Currently the UI supports "cards" view which is great for an user who has several VMs but another user with lots of VMs would like to have list view similar to native ACS interface. So in next releases list view will be introduced for VMs and other objects.
Reorganized VM details tabs. Previously tabs were "keyword" labeled, in this release they were changed to icons. It helps implementing more tabs with a compact and visually self-descriptive labels.
NIC and SG details and configuration are moved to a separate tab which will help implementing additional network operations for advanced CS zones.
Resource usage bar allows switching between "used" and "free" presentations to help users understanding capabilities in a better way.
In the release VM tags and Template tags tabs are introduced. Unlike the native ACS interface which doesn't use tags, CloudStack-UI uses tags very extensively to provide additional UX capabilities. In the version tags tabs are implemented but in future versions tags will interact with UI plugins to provide additional capabilities like clientless SSH access.
Since Angular Material 2 is mature now, includes better and more beautiful components we decided switching from MDL to Material2 which will be completed in several iterations.
Release 1.0.7 is expected to be released on August, 7th, 2017. The release is expected to include a new functionality. It is listed as follows:
- Templates to VM tags copy support (client-side);
- Web-SSH plugin, which enables SSH connection facility to VMs without desktop client installed;
- Pulse plugin, which enables displaying of CPU/RAM/IO/NET metrics per VM.
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