Release date: 2022-09-15
The release notes for Snow Commander® version 9.2.0 include new features and enhancements, upgrade notes, deprecated features, and corrections. To access release notes for previous versions, go to the Release Notes Archive.
New
This release introduces the following new features:
System Administrators can now apply custom attributes to organizations and use organization-specific metadata in workflows.
System Administrators can now generate an Azure reserved instances (RI) recommendations report by one or three year intervals to help monitor and reduce spending. Report configurations include: generation schedule, scope of provided cloud account regions, and display of supported currencies.
Commander will now enforce minimum complexity rules for new and updated local user account passwords. This feature will enhance security for new and updated local user account passwords against common password attacks. For more information, see Manage Your Account.
Enhancements
This release introduces the following enhancements to existing functionality:
System Administrators can now ensure that only authorized Commander users are able to action approval emails by enabling the embotics.workflow.approval.link.auth.enabled advanced system property. This system property is configured globally for the Commander instance. When enabled, users accessing approval email links will be required to authenticate with a valid user account that has the sufficient roles and permissions to approve service and change requests.
Commander has made a number of security improvements to align with industry standards.
Upgrade notes
You can upgrade directly to Commander version 9.2.0 from versions 8.5.x - 9.1.1. For more information, see Upgrade Commander.
Before upgrading, it's recommended that you review all release notes between the version you're currently using and the version you're upgrading to. Release notes for previous Commander versions are available in the Release Notes Archive.
Corrections
- 26306 Completion emails now properly display disk changes.
- 26175 Commander no longer rejects server names containing hyphens when configuring Active Directory.
- 25826 Commander now prioritizes stronger encryption (namely AES128/256) for connection to Active Directory when allowed by Windows Server.
- 25486 Completion workflow modules can now be copied, edited, and imported when input variables are referenced.
Deprecations and removals
These are the deprecations and removals for version 9.2.0.
Version | Removed |
|---|---|
9.2.0 | Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is no longer supported. Support had been deprecated in version 8.7.0. |
Version | Deprecated |
|---|---|
9.2.0 | The VM Billing Report will soon be deprecated, with its functionality replaced by the Cloud Billing Report in a future release. In the interim, prior to its removal, the VM Billing Report will no longer support Public Cloud; the Cloud Billing Report should be used for all Public Cloud billing. |
9.2.0 | The Join Domain Guest OS workflow step may no longer work as expected due to Microsoft hardening changes in Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), and this functionality will be removed in a future release. A functionally equivalent workflow module, Join Domain, has been created and can be downloaded from the Snow Software public Cloud Management GitHub repository. |
9.1.0 | Media library support is deprecated, and this functionality will be removed in a future release. |
9.0.1 | Splitting single service cost among multiple organizations. |
9.0.1 | Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Integration. Notification systems that use SNMP trap listeners must be updated. |
9.0.1 | Splunk integration. Rightsizing recommendations based on guest OS performance metrics are no longer supported. |
9.0.1 | Cost models for public cloud will no longer be targeted at anything below the account level. Cost models will still apply below accounts, but must be targeted at the account level. |
8.1.0 | VM Billing Report for Public Clouds: You can use the VM Billing Report for private cloud environments; however, for public or hybrid cloud environments it's recommended that you use the Cloud Billing Report. The ability to use the VM Billing Report for public clouds will be removed in a future release. |
8.10.0 | The /cloud-accounts/{id}/access-rights/{user} endpoints in the Commander API are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use /users/{name}/access-rights/cloud-accounts and /users/{name}/access-rights/datacenters instead. |
8.7.0 | Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is deprecated as of version 8.7.0 and will be removed in a future release. |
8.7.0 | vSphere datastore scanning is deprecated, and this functionality will be removed in a future release. |
8.7.0 | Service Portal access for non-organizational users is deprecated, and this functionality will be removed in a future release. |
8.7.0 | Quarterly and weekly timespans for displaying costs in the Admin Portal and the Service Portal are being deprecated. The options that will remain for showing costs are Daily, Monthly, and Annually. |
7.0.2 | End of Life Policy, Suspect Policy, and Approval Policy and the relevant VM states are deprecated as of version 7.0.2 and will be removed in a future release. |
Known issues
To view any potential issues that have been raised by the Commander support team, go to the Known Issues section of the Snow Support Hub.
