Atmosphere Release Notes -- Freyja (May 21, 2013)

Release Notes – Freyja

This release updates the infrastructure that Atmosphere uses to interact with the cloud and the user interface.

Improvements and Changes

• See Jira project

UI

• New functions for instances can now be:
  • suspended/resumed
  • rebooted
  • resized
  • shutdown/started
• Settings screen allows users to switch cloud providers.
• Settings screen provider modules provide overall summary of user's instances, volumes, and resource usages for each.
• Compact menu in top left of header provides quick provider-switching capability.
• Quotas for volume capacity and volume count displayed to user during volume creation.
• User can request more resources from New Instance screen or a specific Instance screen.
• UI handles API request failures more gracefully and displays specific error messages to users.

Service

• New RESTful API
• Improved the email system. We now CC the sender on requests.
• New mosh is installed on boot.
• Many additional improvements and bug fixes to our boot script.
• Fixed shellinabox so it now works with more keys. See the shellinabox issue.
• Infrastructure improvements to support multiple clouds. Look for further improvements here next release.
• Total CPU time is now available to users.
• Monitoring works across multiple clouds.
• Our code is now open source on github. 

For additional information on some issues see the Jira Release Notes.