Release Notes
New Features:
Added hooks execution to create event messages !600​
Added blueprint version as blueprint variable {{ account://application_version}} !603​
Added support for Stripe and PayPal, Added customer console billing dashboard !447​
Added billing pricing page !605​
Bug Fixes:
Fixed extra API calls in customer console dashboard which now loads dashboard 5X faster. !604​
BugFixes:
Fixed validate end user API !599​
Fixed error messages UI !598​
Fixed customer console redirect to signup settings !602​
Fixed external links in customer console custom menus !601​
BugFixes:
Fixed start application from Vendor Console doesn't start. !588​
Fixed complete signup form for end-users. !596​
Fixed update first name last name rendering. !597​
New Features:
Authentication based on Google Identity Platform !570​
Extended endpoint information for accounts !581​
Updated Octant to 0.16.3 !584​
Customer custom signup information can now be used in webhooks and email templates !587​
Added
?preventRedirect=trueQueryString to the customer Console to actively prevent redirection into the application !593​Account creation now uses FirtName LastName instead of FullName !588​
Bug Fixes:
Fixes new account error messages !582​
Fixed email template defaults !583​
Fixed customer console React.JS safly destruct objects !585​
Fixed handle of long hook execution !580​
Fixed end-user account creation email uses the wrong URL !589​
Fixed Customer Console now redirects to entry point URL !591​
Fixed UI crashes on automation "Add Header" button !594​
Bug Fixes:
Fixed waiting for account creation clouds annimation !579​
New Features:
Adding management for AWS EKS !533​
Send custom email notification on version upgrade !556​
Added ability to create Account-level notes !568​
Added Application Stacks !537​
Added message container splash screen clouds background !575​
Bug Fixes:
Fixed prevent upload of blueprint without semantic version !559​
Fixed Email notifications now respect trial end date changes !560​
Fixed Lock PyJWT to version 1.7.1 !572​
Fixed button colors for vendor and customer consoles. !574​
Fixed UI console errors !576​
Fixed UI error handling for blueprint upload !577​
Fixed flashing screen of initial load for the Kubernetes UI. !578​
Internal Changes
Handle account creation via backend task instead of API !566​
Celery tasks are now executed based on priority and include expiration !567​
API timeouts are now configured via environment variables !573​
Fix CI
Bug Fixes:
Fix upload blueprint URL in UI !561​
Bug Fixes:
Adding missing tests manual execution. !558​
Tests results are shown per blueprint, it is now possible to run tests via UI. !544​
Reorganize main menu. !550​
Bug Fixes:
Fixed instructions for creating a new blueprint in the Blueprints UI. !551​
Fixed redundant error messages for applications in Running state. !552​
Fixed member invitations automatic cleanup. !553​
Fixed continuous account change to active. !557​
Fixed dynamic parameters of non-existing components now show proper error messages in events. !555​
New Features:
BugFix:
Fixed DNS creation !546​
Fix UX on Variable Secrets
BugFix:
Adding helm3 home for celery
New Features:
Support Helm3 !491​
Cluster providers automatic tagging !539​
Detailed error messages in app status dispaly !531​
Update UX styling !542​
Bugfix:
Bugfix:
Fixed error await message when viewing shared components. !535​
Bugfix:
Freeze celery to version 4.4.7
Main Themes:
Application Status Detection
New Hooks
Azure Kubernetes Service management improvements
New Features:
UI: Vendor Console: Detailed application status !520​
Keep track of app status after it started !509​
Adding icon updates to app state details !524​
Application live status detection !525​
Add failure-threshold to the blueprint !532​
Hooks: Add new hooks preupgrade, post_upgrade, delete !515​
Azure: Add and remove node pools !518​
Azure: Adding VM Size Labels !522​
Azure: cluster node pool details UI part !530​
Email notifications on app error status !513​
Bug Fixes:
Resolve "Custom Menu breaks the customer console" !519​
"Changing trial date should also change the accounts billing plan trial date" !516​
Vendor Console > Account >App - shows all app objects twice!527
App state details view flickers with wrong account information !528​
Bug-fixes:
Added console logs for kubeconfig dumping
Octant embeded iframe is now 100%
New Features:
513-blueprint-output-in-dry-run
332-log-event-when-service-not-found
515-custom-menu-items
Bug Fixes:
Fixing auth URL to accept any subpaths
514-fix-on_failure-property-of-hooks
510-broken-blueprint-does-not-set-error-app-state
517-skip-blueprint-error-on-customer-deletion
520-fix-simple-line-icons-css-build
New Features:
Blueprint tests !496 #159
Blueprint dry-run mode !499 #159
Add Kubernetes Management(Octant) UI !498 #508 #483
Support "Textarea" as setting_descriptor !477 481
Helm_set is optional, setting_descriptor is optional !478 #330
Prevent Blueprint removal for live accounts !486 #161
Events now shown as YAML instead of JSON !493 #428
AKS: Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) management, it is now possible to connect to existing AKS clusters, initialize helm, and !472 #473
AKS: It is now possible to create new AKS clusters from the JovianX UI. !484 #492
Hooks support environment variables !488 #498
Hooks support for service_account_name and namespaces !489 #499
Accept access_token as an alternative to Auth Bearer token !487 #497
Auto-sync octant Kubeconfigs with JovianX loaded Kubeconfigs #486
Support Kubernetes 1.16+ - Move to Kubernetes stable API Apps/V1 instead of AppsV1beta2Api!480 #487 !496 #505
Bug Fixes:
Fixed account page when not settings_descriptors defined #512
Fixed run-tests name generation !501 #159
Fixed save target context/cluster on deploy-time, show app from saved context. !482 #488
Defined Kubernetes and Helm timeouts to 30 seconds !494 #509
Fixed access token via auth subpath !485 #496
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Bug Fixes:
Validate Kubeconfig file on upload !459​
Account deletion stuck in Terminating !460​
Create an event on account status change !461​
check_application_launch_status crashes on incorrect DNS configuration !462​
Events should be able to handle events with binary data !464​
Node utilization dashboard breaks when no metrics coming from Kubernetes API !466​
Change Blacklist wording to Blocklist !475​
New Features
Set endpoints by settings_descriptors !471​
Blueprint: It now possible to set application endpoints via blueprint settings_descriptors
settings_descriptors:- name: hadisplay: 'Enable High availability cluster'description: 'This option will replicate your application across the world. It will drastically reduce latency'input_type: checkboxdefault: falseselect_options:- name: truecomponents:- name: node-componenthelm_set:- key: ha0-managervalue: true# added new directive `endpoins` under component setting_descriptors.endpoints:- name: 'application_web_interface'service_name: nodetype: main_entry_pointentry_point_url: 'http://{{ account://end_company }}.jovianx.app/ha-true'label: 'application_web_interface'port: 80dns: '{{ account://end_company }}.jovianx.app'​
New Features:
Account status: Accounts can now easily change the account status from Trial, Active and Suspended. !441​
Application scale-down: JovianX now allows manually scale-down and scale-up an account application. Application Scale-down updates the controller replicas to 0, and Scale-up returns the replica count to the state it was before scaling down. !442​
Application controller status: Show Kubernetes application StatefullSets, Deployment, Jobs, and Replicasets. !431​
Event Automation: Variables are now supported in the webhook URLs. !444​
User Invite Blacklists: User invitations now respect the email blacklist. !454​
Kubernetes Kubeconfig is now optional. !445​
Bug fixes:
Better handling of Helm communication errors with Tiller. !446​
Fixed accounts list sorting. !451​
Fixed Plans page, settings prices for feature flags. !448​
Fixed application readiness check. !452​
Fixed trials date display. !453​
Fixed Job completing check status. !455​
Updated icons and UI titles. !456​
Resolve "Change application manifest(jovianx.yaml) to root from ./ in blueprint". !440 #423
Fixed: Added support for commas in helm parameter values. !439 #420
Fixed: Added an event that includes the generated helm release name to the account events. #387
Fixed: Added an event with an error message when starting an application with a non-existing context. #412
fixed: post_install is now part of the application "starting" phase. #405
Fixed: DNS wildcards are now not deleted on account deletion. #339
Refactoring of vendor and customer-company internal business logic. !438 #416
Resolve "Upload multiple Kubeconfig files" !351
Resolve "Blueprint Linter" and add force_update !423
Resolve "Trigger Webhooks based on system events" !425
Improve plans view !426
Improved UX for the accounts list !427
Resolve "Vendor Console: Delete account confirmation show account name" !429
Resolve "Blueprint: choose component context" !437
Fixed Error message on kubeconfig file load !436 #418 (closed)
Resolve "Accounts not switching to Running" Added reties for helm errors in App status check !424
Fix styles for Accounts page !428
Change title crash to error !433
Resolve "change kube_context_conf to kube_context" !434
Fix header field !435
Error message on kubeconfig file load !436
Fixes Update application fails if there's no admin_email and admin_password in the blueprint !422 #402
Updated Flask and Gunicorn to last versions !421 #401
Fixed update application with dot('.') in the blueprint are not started successfully !419 #392
Fixed agent pull mechanism from external sources !420 #393
Fixed automated email notification "X days after signup" reminder not sent !414 #386
Fixed application status not changing to 'running' when helm does not have a supported controller object(ie when the helm chart doesn't have any of the following objects: Deployment, StatefulSet, ReplicaSet, Service). !415 #389
Update accounts page to show 30 accounts in ascending order by creation time. !413 #385
Fixed email notification BEFORE_TRIAL_ENDS - !408 #382
Log application status changes in the events. - !409 #372
Abandoned accounts (ie accounts that did not complete configurations and app was not started) redirect to complete account configuration page. - !406 #380
Fixed DNS records are not deleted when deleting account - !410 #384
Fixed bug in application Upgrade - !407 #381
New Features:
Blueprint: Shared Components are now naively supported. This allows creating and managing components that can be shared and accessed by all account components. To add a shared component, in the application manifest (jovianx.yaml) set the directive deploy_per: application in the component you would like to be shared. Example shared component:
- name: mongodb-componentversion: 1.0.0provider: helm_charthelm_chart_name: mongodb-chartdeploy_per: application # <--------Shared componnet directivehelm_set:- key: mongodbUsernamevalue: user- key: mongodbDatabasevalue: test_db
This allows managing the life-cycle of the component separately from individual account components. To manage the life-cycle of shared components, and review shared component status, go to Application > Share Components, this allows to start , stop and upgrade shared components. (!336 #274)
Email Notifications Cc and Bcc: Now you can add Cc and Bcc to all email notifications sent to accounts (!393 #368)
Blueprint Download: You can now download a blueprint archive from vendor Console !392 #204
Email notifications: Report email on errors. It is now possible to receive email notifications when errors occur on account creation. To configure email notifications go to Email Notifications > Send email after application started, on the bottom of the card setup Report errors to ( !387 #367)
Email Notification Events: An event is created on sending email notifications !402 #378
Helm retry Mechanism: When there helm communication errors occur there's a new retry mechanism that re-tries to execute the command when a re-execution can succeed. !399 #377
Fixed save PayPal secret details - !389 #361
Fixed endpoints URL on Customer Console !398 #375
Added Limitation of number of vendors !403 #354
Resolve UX small labels (!384 #363)
Fix Agree to terms of use and Privacy Policy if configured (!382 #360 )
Fix "Customer Console progress bar design (!381 #359)
Fix app dashboard disappears when clicking on "App" top navigation tab"(!380 #358)
Added pagination for Blueprints, Accounts, Upgrade button (!374 #335 )
Remove pricing when price is 0, add billing cycle indication(!375 #347)
UI and UX improvements in customer console hosted sign-up (!377 #352)(!378 #355)( !379 #356)
Remove unused email var application urland fix broken source editor in Email Editor (!369 #327 #329)
Fix get Favicon/Custom CSS/CustomJS ( !376 #351)
Fixed endpoints API which returns an error when one/more components don't have endpoints (!373 #342)
Blueprint: Disable endpoints for disabled components: When a component is disabled, either as a part of component configuration by a `setting_descriptor`, all component's endpoints are disabled too. (!372 #337)
...components:- name: component-nameenabled: falseendpoints:- name: 'User application'service_name: kubernetese-service-name.namespace...
UX: New Plan form Plans Page: Create new plan page is now available as a separate page, accessible form the plans list page (!365 #318)
Customer Console Card: It is now possible to create your own application cards to the customer console. A new endpoint type: card is now available, which shows the content of the entry point URL as a card on the customer console (!337 #278)
endpoints:- name: 'Application API'service_name: nodeport: 8008path: /apitype: card # <---------------dns: '*.jovianx.app'entry_point_url: 'http://{{ account://end_company }}.example.com/app'
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Email Notifications: endpoint links and labels templates - You can now reference all your endpoint labels and URLs in the email notification template (!347 #288)
endpoints:- name: my_cool_appservice_name: "{{ account://components/my_component/helm_release_name }}-my-k8s-serivce"label: "My cool app" # <--------port: 9090path: /type: main_entry_pointdns: '{{ account://end_company }}.cloud.example.com'entry_point_url: 'https://{{ account://end_company }}.cloud.gigaspaces.com:'
UX: Embeddable account creation form iFrame does not show footer links to terms and conditions and and privacy policy (!370 #328)
UX: New icons on the global dashboard (!368 #326)
UX: New icons on account application dashboard (!371 #338)
Fixed: Account status icons are not shown (!363 #319)
Fixed: Side navigation nested routes are misaligned !364 #322)
Fixed: app actions buttons alignment !366 #323)
Fixed: Customer Console redirect to application internal authentication is not redirecting into app (!367 #325)
NEW FEATURES:
Blueprint: Immutable settings - It is now possible to create user defined settings(via settings_descriptors) that are immutable. This prevents the end user from being able to change settings that were selected on account creation. (!360 #283)
Example:
settings_descriptors:- name: some_featuredisplay: 'Enable this cool feature'description: 'This option will enable this cool feature'input_type: checkbox # immutable applies to any input typeimmutable: true # <----------
Blueprint: endpoint labels - Allows defining labels to endpoints, the labels are presented in the customer console instead of endpoint URL (!342 #287)
- name: 'Application API'service_name: nodeport: 8008path: /apitype: entry_pointentry_point_url: 'http://{{ account://end_company }}.jovianx.app/app'label: 'This Is My Cool App Endpoint' # <------------------------------------
Email Notification: Added {trial days left} and {trial days total} to all templates - When creating email templates it is now possible to show the trial time and how many days left in the trial (!346 #280)
Change trial end date for trial accounts - You can now change the trial end date for existing trial accounts (!352 #292)
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Account application status dashboard shows Kubernetes objects status (!359 #308)
UX: Email preview variables are unified with variables preview (!354 #314)
UX: Show confirmation for save action (!344 #293)
UX: Settings in side menu are split into separate pages (!348 #296 #297)
UX: Plans in side menu are split into separate pages for plans list and create a new plan page (!361 #313)
UI: Login page support for smaller screens (!356 #311)
UX: Align title styles and sizes (!355 #312)
BUGFIXES: Sporadic delays in async and scheduled tasks execution(!349 #303)
Agent bootstrap-config link is not created correctly(!353 #305)
Font sizes remain same on UI ReactsJS build(!362 #317 #320)
Email notification doesn't use correctly environment variable "{ username }" (!350 #304)
Application Entry points table is now shown correctly(!357 #309)
Remove redundant button "Open Customer Console" from account page (!358 #310)
Blueprint: ability to enable and disable components by settings descriptors - This allows adding and removing helm charts based on used selected settings. For example deploy additional software components when the user selects to enable additional features. (!326 #264)
...components:- name: kafkaversion: 1.0.0provider: helm_charthelm_chart_name: kafkaenabled: false # <-- Kafka is *not* installed by default...settings_descriptors:- name: select_use_caseinput_type: selectdefault:​select_options:- name: install_kafkadisplay: "Enable Kafka by this selection"components:- name: kafkaenabled: true # <-- enable Kafka if users selects option...
Blueprint: Checkbox with single option action - This allows defining checkbox in setting descriptors with actions only when enabled, or only when disabled (!330 #217)
...settings_descriptors:- name: VPNTunneldisplay: 'Enable VPN tunnel'description: 'Setup cennection to your app via VPN tunnel'input_type: checkboxdefault: trueselect_options:- name: true # <-- helm_set used only when true, no action when falsecomponents:- name: node-componenthelm_set:- key: enable_vpnvalue: true...
Blueprint: Design entry_point_url when DNS uses wildcards - When using wildcards in DNS names and Kubernetes Ingress, it is now possible to define the entrypoint URL template for the endpoint. (!331 #276)
endpoints:- name: 'User application'service_name: ingress.ingress-namespaceport: 80path: /apptype: entry_pointdns: '*.example.com' # <-- DNS Wildcardentry_point_url: 'https://{{ account://end_company }}.example.com/app' # <-- Optional, If found, use this URL​​
Blueprint: Disabled radio and Disabled Select - It is now possible to defined disabled select and radio options in setting descriptors, this is useful for showing features that are not yet available or presenting featured that were deprecated. (!338 #289)
- name: cloudProviderdisplay: 'Cloud Provider'description: 'You can select amoung three leaders of cloud infrastructure'input_type: radiodefault: azuredescription_title: 'Choose your provider'select_options:- name: doenabled: false # <-- Disabled radio optiondisplay: 'Digital Ocean'- name: supportdisplay: 'Support package'input_type: selectdefault: premiumdescription: 'Basic support is included for all customers and covers availability of the Atlas service, connectivity issues, and questions about the UI or platform features.'select_options:- name: '24/7'display: 'support 24/7'enabled: false # <-- Disabled select option
Email notification template HTML editor - It is now possible to edit the HTML of email notification templates. (!340 #272)
"Terminate application" option on all app states - Previously the Terminate Application option was available only when the application was in "running" state, now it is possible to terminate the application on all intermediate states. (!333 #166)
Customer Console: Application Settings - users can now view and update their settings from the customer console(!335 #275)
Customer Console: Show Agents only when an agent was uploaded (!329 #277 #279)
Customer Console: Custom HTML page for while app in starting state - It is now possible to show a custom HTML page while the application is starting and all components and getting ready to be used by the user. (!334 #253)
Back button from pod/service/storage views. (!341 #285)
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Helm connection stream errors were causes issues fetch app statues, now helm connection errors have special handlers. (!339 #286)
Validate email template variables before saving - All email notification templates and used account variables { } are now validated upon saving. (!328 #230)
Pods In pending are now show their pending messages (!327 #266 )
Prevent negative numbers in the wizard(!332 #149)
Login screen: enter key triggers login(!343 #291)
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Set email notification FROM field, Set Subject per notification type - It is now possible to define the reply-to address and the subject line for each of the notification emails sent to end customers. (!215 #260)
Delete inactive accounts with grace period and auto delete - Now it is possible to configure auto-delete period for accounts that are not active(non-paying and out of trial), it is also possible to set the grace period which scales down the application for predefined period before deleting use data. (!281 #177 #178 #179 #132 #254)
Optional Payment on signup - It is now possible to make payment optional on signup and not require the end user to provide payment details on registration. (!325 #218 #231)
Embedded Signup iframe snippets - You can now just copy/paste our code snippets to embed JovianX signup page within your marketing landing pages. (!317 #267)
Vendor-to-EU Invitation email template editor - You can now edit the email template that is sent when a user send an invite to a team member. (!307 #243)
Application start failures are now logged as events. (!318 #269)
Updated UI and UX elements for signup and registration wizard. (!320 #227)
Blueprint: input_type: select and input_type: radio now use the the first option as default. If the default option is not defined or empty the first option is now selected as default. (!323 #270)
Invite members now sends signup URL with HTTPS instead of HTTP(!313 #265)
External IPs are now displayed correctly (!324 #248)
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#262 Embeddable Account Signup - It is now possible to embed JovianX account signup in your own marketing landing pages.
#252 Select Blueprint Version on account creation - It is now possible to select the blueprint version for creating a new account on SaaS admin console.
#265 BUGFIX: invite members now sends invitation links with correct scheme(http/https)
#219 BUGFIX: Favicon in customer Console now refreshes on new ICON upload.
#259 BUGFIX: Application entrypoints UI now supports showing services from other namespaces(Ingress use-case)
#250 BUGFIX: Main dashboard now shows volume sizes correctly
#258 BUGFIX: Account Application page now doesn't show Oops message when app started with blueprint that doesn't have plan.
New Features:
#210 Account user management: Allow JovianX SaaS administrators to invite co-workers into the account. Support management of account's users including invitation and removal from an account.
#257 Blacklist email domains: It is now possible to configure a list of email domain names that are not permitted to sigh-up. This can be used for blocking non-work related email address.
#256 Application Manifest: Support service_name with namespaces as part of endpointconfiguration. This can be used for creating DNS A records with an Ingress controller IP address on new account creation.
Following example is now supported:
jovianx.yaml...endpoints:- name: 'User application'service_name: node.this-is-a-namespacedns: '{{ account://end_company }}.jovianx.app'...
#255 Application Manifest: First occurrence of entry_point acts as default main_entry_point in case main_entry_point is not specified.
#209 Optionally Prevent users from self-signup into existing account.
#238 Helm execution outputs are not logged as account events. This helps to better understand Helm related executions.
Bug Fixes:
#249 BUGFIX: Oops error message is shown in some cases when a pod in pending state.
#240 BUGFIX: On account creation screen align custom text field with default text fields.
#246 BUGFIX: Align settings toggles to the right.
New Features:
#226 Application URL Template in Email notifications - Added new template {Application URL} that allows using the URL for the application in the email notification that is sent after the application starts.
#228 Account Signup Custom Fields Order - It is now possible to change the order of the fields on sign up form.
#229 Log End User Login Events - When an end-user is logging into the application an event is created in events log.
#221 DNS TTL 1 Sec - DNS records are now created with TTL of 1 second for faster availability.
#214 Wait Message While App Starts - For some applications take longer time to start after a user signs up. It is now possible to setup a custom waiting message that is shown on signup.
#224 Kubernetes Resources Tabs: All Kubernetes resources can be found in tabs view for improved visibility of all Kubernetes resources related to an account.
#222 Show correct protocol http and https for ports 80 and 443
#223 Kubernetes services now show all available ports exposed by service with links
Bugfixes:
#212 BUGFIX: Accounts didn't show correctly when some metadata was missing due to missing configuration
#233 BUGFIX: Agent install instructions on account view was not shown
#235 BUGFIX: Manifest: helm_set is now optional in application manifest.
#232 BUGFIX: Account creation button was disabled when agree to terms of use was not required
#225 BUGFIX: Agree on terms switch is now off by default, making terms of use an opt-in requirement
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#191 - Helm release name is now a random 5 chars string to support long account and vendor names
#199 - Blueprint can access the auto generated helm release name via {{ account://components/<COMPONENT-NAME>/helm_release_name }}
#194 - Admin console | Display application settings and helm parameters in tables
#195 - Support application DNS names in customer console and admin console.
#183 - UX | Enhance data Loader mechanism
#200 - UX | Improved page loader
#198 - BUGFIX - Pricing is calculated incorrectly, PayPal configuration can prevent the application from starting correctly.
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#175 - End User Reset Password
#103 - Application Manifest Settings Descriptions
#192 - End User Signup Wizard Enhancement for drop down menu
#189 - End User Signup Wizard Enhancement - UI
#164 - Admin Console Reset Password
#182 - Button spinners on long operations
#186 - End User Signup Wizard static width
#151 - End User Signup Wizard recalculates price on on-action
#185 BUGFIX - DNS is invoked even when disabled causing applications not on start
#168 BUGFIX - Accounts are not deleted correctly when PayPal is disabled
#190 BUGFIX - Account trial period is not calculated correctly
#100 BUGFIX - Vendor Console account creation now tests password length
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