New Features¶

• Event actions are now retried if they fail. This allows events to beexecuted successfully even if they are scheduled at the same time as an APIoperation such as update lease. Operators can configure the number ofretries using the [manager]/event_max_retries configuration value.

Bug Fixes¶

• Blazar now supports being deployed in a multi-region setup. Operators ofOpenStack deployments with multiple regions must set the new configurationoption[DEFAULT]/os_region_name. Seethe configuration referencefor more details.

Other Notes¶

• Blazar now supports being run under Python 3. ThePython 3 and Python 3.5 classifiers have been added.

New Features¶

• The resource monitoring feature is available from this release.This feature monitors states of resources in the freepool. If any failureis detected, reservations which suffer from the failure are healed.New flags have been introduced into leases and reservations to indicatehealth of reserved resources.Resource monitor is plugable and the compute host resource monitor iscurrently supported. Seeresource monitoring documentation in detail.

• Lease status is introduced in this release.With this change, transition graphs of statuses of leases, reservations,and events are redefined while keeping backward compatibility.If you update Blazar from an older version, the lease status isautomatically updated fromNone by an Alembic database migration script.Seestate machine documentation for more details.

New Features¶

• A new Hosts panel is supported in the Reservation group of the Admindashboard. The following operations are supported:

  • Show a list of hosts

  • Show details of a host

  • Create host(s)

  • Update a host

  • Delete host(s)