April 2024 CNX8 CR6 release

What's New:

• Install K8s 1.29
• containerd 1.6.26-3.1
• nginx install will now build with the headers-more-nginx-module to allow the removal of server information from header. Set build_nginx to false to install from package manager instead without the module.

Jan 2024 CNX8 CR5 release

What's New:

• Automate CNX7 spring dependencies update (KB0099835)
• Harbor OCI support to install / upgrade Helm charts from OCI registry in Harbor.
• Install K8s 1.28
• Support AlmaLinux9 as target Connections environment

The following is needed before installing/upgrading the Component Pack to v8.0 CR5.

• Product Requirement: WAS 8.5.5 is upgraded to Fixpack 24
• Automation Requirement: jmespath library needs to be installed on the host running the playbook

Note: The OpensSearch Stack chart is currently temporarily unavailable on Harbor. Please refrain from setting setup_opensearchstack to true in the inventory until the chart is accessible again.

Oct 2023 CNX8 CR4 release

What's New:

• RedHat 9 support
• OpenSearch Stack deployment support

Improvement:

• containerd 1.6.21
• Use SHA file (if present) to validate Connections install kit
• Incorporate changes in #275
• FIx (#286)
• FIx HA issue in ElasticSearch within a multiple data node setup

July 2023 CNX8 CR3 release

Default version updates:

• Kubernetes 1.27
• Helm 3.11.3
• Containerd 1.6.21
• WAS FP23
• SDI FP9

Helm template changes:

• Add force_regenerate to bootstrap.yml.j2
• Configurable persistentVolumePath for Huddo chart
• Ground work for OpenSearch Stack (not officially supported yet)

May 2023 cnx8cr2 release

Improvement:

• Updated OpenSearch pod scaling process to prevent unnecessary scaling.
• Updated Helm search process to avoid redundant fetches.
• Added kubectl rollout status checks after charts deployment.
• Sametime Integration support automation. See VARIABLES.md for the variables needed.
• Allow alternative location to download HAProxy via haproxy_url variable.

Change:

• Updated Huddo Boards deployment to pull from their images hosted in Quay.io.
• Upgrade Calico to 3.25.

Feb 2023 Release - HCL Connections v8 CR1

• Sample Inventories changes to install Connections v8 CR1
• Install WebSphere FP22 + PH49497 as default
• Install Kubernetes 1.25 as default and related changes for Connections v8 CR1 Component Pack
• Updated documentations
• misc fixes and improvements

Oct 2022 Release - HCL Connections v8 Support

This release provides support to install the Component Pack from the HCL Harbor online repository.

• Updated README.md and upgrade doc to install HCL Connections 8
• New playbooks setup-component-pack-complete-harbor.yml and setup-component-pack-complete-development-harbor.yml
• New code path to support deploying from Harbor.
• Sample inventories

Sept 2022 Release

This release covers:

New:
Docs 2.02 support

April 2022 Release

This release covers:

New:

• WAS FP21 support

Fix:

• Helm version detection fix
• Documentation updates

March 2022 Release

Fix:

1. Fix an issue when deploying with Oracle backend where DB2 tasks are run
2. Address issue in setup-kubectl in cluster environment when copying files
3. Set Invite user type default to be external
4. Fix Huddo Boards deployment issues
5. Remove redundant was-dmgr-config-interceptor folder

Improvement

1. Stop setup-kubernetes.yml playbook if one of the roles fails.
2. Use --delete-emptydir-data in Kubernetes drain node for later version
3. New enable_action_center variable to enable/disable the Action Center
4. Documentation updates