Major Changes
This is a minor update to 1.5 capabilities. The enhancements include:
- Credential Manager
- Long-lived tokens – users with Long Lived token permissions can now create tokens with a lifetime upto 9 weeks.
- Users can also revoke their tokens if needed. Revoked tokens are maintained in Token Revoke list.
- There are new Control Framework capabilities:
- Long-lived tokens – updated to use the long lived tokens and check against the Token Revoke list to disallow operations for revoked tokens.
- POA (Perform Operational Action) Add/Remove SSH Keys – users can request to add/remove SSH keys to/from the slivers using POA API.
- There will be an updated release of FABlib and Jupyter notebooks that helps experimenters take advantage of these new capabilities
- Documentation will be forthcoming as part of FABlib update to support these features.
- Internet2 AL2S/CloudConnect updated as per new AL2S API.
- Bug Fixes to gracefully handle Openstack Delete VM leaks.
- List Resources enhanced to return more granular information for sites including the resource information per worker on each site.
- Oversubscription support – EDC and EDUKY sites have been enabled to support CPU over subscription.
- New Permissions Slice.OnlyEDUKY added to redirect slices from Educational Projects to EDYKY.
- Portal: Long-lived token holder list on Project detail page; ephemeral key support for Web SSH feature in Slice Viewer; static content addition of branding resources page. See portal release notes for more details.
Packages and Components
Control Framework
| Control Framework Core | |
| Orchestrator | Long lived tokens, POA Add/remove SSH keys, List Resources, Permission: Slice.OnlyEDUKY |
| Site Aggregate Manager | Over subscription, Openstack Delete VM Leaks |
| Network Aggregate Manager | AL2S support |
User APIs and libraries
| FIM (Basic resource descriptions) | Permission: Slice.OnlyEDUKY |
Portal and System Services
| Credential Manager | Long lived token support. |
| Portal | Long-lived token holder list on Project detail page; ephemeral key support for Web SSH feature in Slice Viewer; static content addition of branding resources page. |
Future enhancements
We expect the following features or limitations to be addressed in upcoming releases (expected release and date indicated):
| New features or known limitations | Expected in release |
| FABlib enhancements to support latest features | Ongoing |
| Advance reservation support | 1.7, Fall 2024 |
| Ability to manage available compute images | 1.7, Fall 2024 |
| Support for Tofino P4 switches | 1.7, Fall 2024 |
Bugs
Please see Forums for discussions of known bugs in this and other releases.