Release Notes for F5 Openstack Agent¶

v9.8.49.1(Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

[OPENSTACK-2698] Agent timeout parameter change to apply to python requests timeout arg
[OPENSTACK-2671] Encrypt password by python fernet

Bug Fixes¶

Limitations¶

v9.8.49(Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

[OPENSTACK-2406] Disable ESD refresh job
[OPENSTACK-2440] Enable toa function for FTP and HTTPS
[OPENSTACK-2459] Let –transparent and –customize control XFF function

Bug Fixes¶

Limitations

v9.8.48 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Bug Fixes¶

[OPENSTACK-2381] Only update interval from api side

Limitations

v9.8.48beta (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

[OPENSTACK-2350] depercated customized to configure xff
[OPENSTACK-2350] feat: disable –customized to update xff
[OPENSTACK-2350] refact: refactory XFF function to use transparent
[OPENSTACK-2350] feat: add TOA funtion for TCP listener
[OPENSTACK-2349] Support redirect LTM policy

Bug Fixes¶

[OPENSTACK-2262] Fix IPv6 redirect host parsing
[OPENSTACK-2350]fix: depercated –customized insertXforwardedFor
[OPENSTACK-2350] fix: TOA update need to delete profile and iRule
[OPENSTACK-2342] fix: selfip recreating fails to catch HTTP 409
[OPENSTACK-2341] fix: get all nodes in a partition

Limitations

v9.8.47 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

[OPENSTACK-2224] new way for health monitor timeout
[OPENSTACK-2223] add UDP health monitor type

Bug Fixes¶

[OPENSTACK-2214] If member already exists, it causes HTTP 409 ERROR
[OPENSTACK-2286] Fix deb requirements
[OPENSTACK-2277] Add a periodic config save task to save the configuration
[OPENSTACK-2282] Fix resources creation conflict issue
[OPENSTACK-2294] Multiple agents updating snatpool member causes bigip incosistency problem
[OPENSTACK-2295] Ensure route domain id consistency

Limitations

v9.8.46 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Feature change member update process

Bug Fixes¶

Fix the KeyError issue of heartbeat periodic task.
Fix typo fix from reponse to response
Fix rds cache pollute problem
Fix project named route domain
Fix check project_id at global_routed_mode is True
Fix bigip status check
Fix cleanup all snat, vlan and self ip before removing partition
Fix only check nodes in current partition
Fix Catch all exception for route domain creation
Fix periodic_interval
Upgrade eventlet to version 0.31.0 for Dependabot vulnerable
Fix the issue of deleting nodes and snat in bigip ha mode
add checking status support and don’t send the members with status of none or checking

Limitations

v9.8.45 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Change the algorithm from least-connection-node to least-connection-member for source_ip algorithm in neutorn
Use HEAD or GET for monitor
Remove persist profile from vs, if its default pool remove persistence
When update listener with customized paramater then bind the new http profile to the listener

Bug Fixes¶

Error loadbalancer cannot delete, cause of no partition
Fix the issue of route domain issue: id already exists.
Fix some logs
Fix log type
Will not del the vs customized property. It will use when configuring the other bigips in cluster mode
The extra items such as customized, tls in payload will cause error for updating operation

Limitations

v9.8.44 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Add lbaas-listener-update –customized support.
Add avaliability_zone configuration for agenting state reporting
Ensure to overwrite persistence profile
Tolerate persistence timeout in string type

Bug Fixes¶

Fix customized bug of vs == None
Handle both None and ‘’ situations for listener[‘customized’]
Fix ‘error opening BIG-IP - active:BIG-IP ready for provisioning’

Limitations¶

v9.8.43 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Support to modify client ca certificate
Support client authentication
Add ‘–customized’ support for listener creation.
Support session persistence timeout parameter in API
Customerised timeout value in persistence iRule and tolerate negative or None value of persistence_timeout
Change icontrol heartbeat interval as same as _report_state.
Support to modify lb operating_status accordingly

Bug Fixes¶

Fix listener exception log
Fix member batch deletion breakdown
Remove obsolete bwc code
Throw exception if no active bigips
FIX backwards compatibility problem of SNAT pool member name.

Limitations¶

v9.8.42 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Bug Fixes¶

FIX backwards compatibility problem of SNAT pool member name.

Limitations¶

v9.8.41 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Remove the previous bwc function

Bug Fixes¶

Limitations¶

v9.8.40 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

protocol 0 support
listener tls support

Bug Fixes¶

Fix operating status issue
fix http profile issue

Limitations¶

v9.8.21 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Bug Fixes¶

Remove unnecessary dependency package

Limitations¶

v9.8.20 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Support L7Policy and L7Rule in Agent lite mode
Support FTP and TERMINATED_HTTPS protocol in Agent lite mode
Support to create VS specific http profile, cookie persistence profile and source_addr persistence profile

Bug Fixes¶

Fix HA sync bug in L2 network mode

Limitations¶

v9.8.19 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Create virtual server specific http_cookie and source_addr persistence profile

Bug Fixes¶

Improve the performance of route domain and partition cleanup

Limitations¶

v9.8.18 (Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Add a ‘lite’ mode for F5 OpenStack Agent, which can improve the performance to deploy BIG-IP configuration and also tolerate some of the manual configuration changes made by user in BIG-IP.

Bug Fixes¶

Route domain and partition deleted while deleting loadbalancer.

Limitations¶

Agent lite only works with F5 LBaaS driver whose performance mode is 3.

v9.8.6 (Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

snat transparent and udp
bandwidth control
diameter, SIP

Bug Fixes¶

Limitations¶

v9.8.3 (Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Refresh esd with trigger

Bug Fixes¶

Limitations¶

v9.8.2 (Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Enhanced Advanced Load Balancer(ALB).
- Added a switch to control whether or not b64decode 2 passwords

Bug Fixes¶

Limitations¶

v9.8.1 (Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike, Queens)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent supports Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike and Queens Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Enhanced Advanced Load Balancer(ALB).
- Added support for Queens
- Added some HPB code
- Enabled REGEX comparison type for l7 rules
- Added some IPv6 code

Bug Fixes¶

Limitations¶

v9.8.0 (Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Pike)¶

NOTE: This version of F5 Openstack Agent will support Mitaka, Newton, Ocata and Pike Openstack releases.

Added Functionality¶

Enhanced Advanced Load Balancer(ALB).

Add 2 profile types support in Enhanced Service Definition(ESD):
- HTTP profile.
- OneConnect profile.

Bug Fixes¶

Can not create selfip in both units using the same route domain ids.
Deletes incorrect route domain.