<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><h1 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:6pt">Hello MAASters!<div style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal">I'm happy to announce that <span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-m_-4350213122137879703gmail-m_3632387417989482255gmail-m_-6017491875508332844gmail-m_-2610015628522759358gmail-m_-7597725679799699246m_4907854997625649261gmail-m_7965301072257707271m_665147157036645582gmail-m_-3670360393666344736m_-5234276351499639310m_-1176146184979649107gmail-il">MAAS</span> <span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-m_-4350213122137879703gmail-m_3632387417989482255gmail-m_-6017491875508332844gmail-m_-2610015628522759358gmail-m_-7597725679799699246m_4907854997625649261gmail-m_7965301072257707271m_665147157036645582gmail-m_-3670360393666344736m_-5234276351499639310m_-1176146184979649107gmail-il">2</span>.4.<span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-m_-4350213122137879703gmail-m_3632387417989482255gmail-m_-6017491875508332844gmail-m_-2610015628522759358gmail-m_-7597725679799699246m_4907854997625649261gmail-m_7965301072257707271m_665147157036645582gmail-il">0</span> <span class="gmail-il">beta</span> 2 is now <span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-m_-4350213122137879703gmail-m_3632387417989482255gmail-m_-6017491875508332844gmail-m_-2610015628522759358gmail-m_-7597725679799699246m_4907854997625649261gmail-m_7965301072257707271m_665147157036645582gmail-m_-3670360393666344736m_-5234276351499639310m_-1176146184979649107gmail-il">released</span> and is available for Ubuntu Bionic.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal"><b><span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">MAAS</span></span> Availability</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-il">MAAS</span> <span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-il">2.4</span>.<span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-il">0</span> <span class="gmail-il">beta</span> 2 is currently available in Bionic's Archive or in the following PPA:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal"><i>ppa:<span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-m_-4350213122137879703gmail-m_3632387417989482255gmail-m_-6017491875508332844gmail-m_-2610015628522759358gmail-m_-7597725679799699246m_4907854997625649261gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-m_-4350213122137879703gmail-m_3632387417989482255gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-m_-4350213122137879703gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_-4544373130102487278gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">maas</span></span></span></span></span>/next</i></div></h1></div><div><br></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-498ae66f-d4b8-a48c-7f92-45cf3a880e74"><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MAAS 2.4.0 (beta2)</span></h1><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New Features & Improvements</span></h2><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MAAS Internals optimisation</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Continuing with MAAS’ internal surgery, a few more improvements have been made:</span></h3><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Backend improvements</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Improve the image download process, to ensure rack controllers immediately start image download after the region has finished downloading images.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reduce the service monitor interval to 30 seconds. The monitor tracks the status of the various services provided alongside MAAS (DNS, NTP, Proxy).</span></p></li></ul><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">UI Performance optimizations for machines, pods, and zones, including better filtering of node types.</span></p></li></ul><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">KVM pod improvements</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Continuing with the improvements for KVM pods, beta 2 adds the ability to:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Define a default storage pool</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This feature allows users to select the default storage pool to use when composing machines, in case multiple pools have been defined. Otherwise, MAAS will pick the storage pool automatically depending which pool has the most available space.</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">API - Allow allocating machines with different storage pools</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Allows users to request a machine with multiple storage devices from different storage pools. This feature uses storage tags to automatically map a storage pool in libvirt with a storage tag in MAAS.</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">UI Improvements</span></h3><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Remove remaining YUI in favor of AngularJS.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As of beta 2, MAAS has now fully dropped the use of YUI for the Web Interface. The last section using YUI was the Settings page and the login page. Both sections have now been transitioned to use AngularJS instead.</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Re-organize Settings page</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The MAAS settings  have now been reorganized into multiple tabs.</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Minor improvements</span></h3><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">API for default DNS domain selection</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Adds the ability to define the default DNS domain. This is currently only available via the API.</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vanilla framework upgrade</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to thank the Ubuntu web team for their hard work upgrading MAAS to the latest version of the Vanilla framework. MAAS is looking better and more consistent every day!</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bug fixes</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please refer to the following for all 37 bug fixes in this release, which address issues with MAAS across the board:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://launchpad.net/maas/+milestone/2.4.0beta2">https://launchpad.net/maas/+milestone/2.4.0beta2</a></span></p><div><br></div></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Andres Rodriguez<div>Engineering Manager, MAAS</div><div>Canonical USA, Inc.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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