We have listened to your feedback and are finally introducing a new compact theme so that you can see more of your resources on one screen. We know some of you use a vertical layout or have become accustomed to the condensed view of Classic Manager. Check it out by using the feature toggle at the bottom left of the Cloud Manager and selecting normal or compact view.

Additionally, as a follow up to the refined search capabilities released in v0.49.0, we have added a tip on the Search bar. This will remind you of the fields and operators you can utilize to produce targeted search results.

Here is a full listing of what has been Added, Changed, and Fixed in this release:

Added:

• Display guidance to bottom of search bar to make it easier for users to work with enhanced search functionality
• Add Compact Mode (theme toggle) and corresponding settings panel on PrimaryNav
• Users can now rebuild a Linode from a StackScript
• Backup mode support for NB nodes
• Support for Toronto region
  
• Improve spacing of Domain table
• Password requirements to the PasswordInputField
  
• Add last auth IP address and last auth time to trusted devices table
  
• Include transfer stats to Linode summary panel
  
• Additional helper text for Volumes creation drawer
  
• Helper text when creating NodeBalancers
  
• Enable user to Remove Public IP Addresses
  
• Add tags column to NBs and volumes
  
• Filter volume select based on grants
  
• Apply convention for HEX values in theme files
  
• Updated-by column to support tickets
  
• Adjustments for Dark Theme in account pdf links
  

Changed:

• Display confirmation dialog before rebuilding Linode
• For Backups creation flow, only reset selection if different Linode is clicked
  
• Linode Resize flow adjusted to follow API changes (resizing Linodes now enter the migration queue)
• Rebuild Linode image select now uses tiles instead of a dropdown
  
• Update list of whitelisted events to include new event types returned by the API
  
• Update all instances of updateFor to include props.classes
• Remove Tokyo 1 as an option when creating Linodes and NodeBalancers
• Pre-populate payment amount to the current Balance
• Add disk imagize events to show progress
  
• Volume Labels Sorting
• Hide global backups setting from managed users
  

Fixed:

• Request notifications after migration finished
  
• Keyboard scrolling on custom MenuList component
  
• Regression with pagination dropdown
• Show error message when a Linode on the user’s account is jailed.
• 2FA panel
• Creation workflow styles
• Instances of renderGuard not updating components
• React-select isClearable logic
  
• Dashboard spacing
• PDF generation failure
• Error handling for SSL certificate and key when creating a NodeBalancer.
• Default lastFour (credit card digits) to empty string to prevent visual bug
  
• Graphs need better breakpoints

Added:

• Updated POST /account/payments/paypal
  • adds checkout_token to the response
• Updated GET /profile
  • adds active_since date
  • adds balance_uninvoiced amount

Fixed:

• GET profile/apps no longer returns internal client tokens

In our latest release we have introduced refined search capability. You can now specify whether you want to search by entity type, label, tag, or IP address. These search terms can be combined using Boolean operators to create complex search queries to give you exactly the results you’re looking for.

You can access this search functionality from the Search bar at the top of each page. This would be useful if you are looking for all of your Linodes, NodeBalancers, and Domains tied to a given environment, customer, or location.

A search such as:

type:linode OR type:domain OR type:nodebalancer AND tag:production

will result in a listing of all of your Linodes, Domains, and NodeBalancers that are associated with the tag production.

is:linode || is:domain || is:nodebalancer && tag:production

will return the same results.

Here is a full listing of what has been Added, Changed, and Fixed in this release:

Added:

• Enhanced Search functionality!
  • Users can now specify the search entity with type:{linode, volume, domain, nodebalancer} or is:{linode, volume, domain, nodebalancer}
  • Aside from entities, other searchable fields are label:, tags:, and ips:.
  • Users can search for entries with multiple tags applied by adding the desired tags to a comma separated list after specifying the tags field. Example tags:tagA,tagB will return all entities with tagA and tagB applied.
  • The same pattern described above applies to the ips as well.
  • Logical operators can by applied to queries: &&/AND, ||/OR, - for the not operator, and grouping with (). A query with multiple fields and no operators is implicitly treated as true for all.
• Status indicators have been incorporated into the entity icons for Linodes and Domains to provide a better visual experience.
  • Also added the Linode icon and status to the power button.
• A reset password button in Profile > Password & Authentication that will open the reset password workflow in a separate tab.
• A better user experience for secondary/restricted account users that displays messaging around and disables features that the user doesn’t have access to.

Changed:

• Domains now displayed in alphabetical order on the Domain listing page.
• Timestamps display in last backup table rather than humanized dates.
• Added a tooltip on the power icon for a Linode with no image, indicating that an image must be added to the Linode in order to boot.

Fixed:

• Removed client side validation that incorrectly prevented user from creating a Linode when the label started with a numeric character.

Added:

• Adds Region Features:
  • Adds features to the Region object. features is a list of strings describing what a region supports.
• Adds events for the following actions:
  • Domain update, domain record update
  • Image update
  • Linode update, disk update
  • StackScript update
  • Longview client update
  • NodeBalancer update, nodebalancer config update
  • ssh key update
  • Volume update
  • Linode config create, update, delete

Changed:

• Tag Validation expanded to 50 characters to accommodate display groups.

Changed:

• Host API docs from within developers.linode.com to unify navigation/header.
• Replace external Markdown links in the API spec with anchor tags.

Added:

• Support tickets now appended with current Cloud Manager version.
• Individual Node status in NodeBalancer Detail > Configuration > Ports
• Implemented pagey pagination to all Domain DNS records, for example a user with over 25 A/AAAA records will have a paginated table in Domain > DNS records page.
• Public and Private IP addresses are now searchable fields, displaying the corresponding Linode in the search suggestion dropdown.
• Sidebar components in Account Settings page:
  • Contact information component displaying company name, name, dddress, email, and phone number.
  • Billing information component displaying current account balance, credit card, and credit card expiration date.

Changed:

• Linode summary moved to the sidebar with individual components for:
  • Linode details
  • IP addresses
  • Last backup
  • Tags
• NodeBalancer summary moved to the sidebar with individual components for:
  • NodeBalancer details
  • IP addresses
  • Tags
• Domain Tags input field moved to the sidebar in an individual componenet
• Underlined text removed from application, notably:
  • Breadcrumb headers
  • Event notifications
  • Help landing page
  • Secondary links in table rows
• Backups CTA is now dismissible.
• NodeBalancer ports now clickable links on the NodeBalancer listing page
  • When a NodeBalancer port is clicked, the user is navigated to the Port Configuration page with the accordion panel of the port clicked expanded by default.
• NodeBalancer Graphs were removed from accordion panels, and are now displayed prominently on the NodeBalancer summary page.
• Disks added to Linodes default to the maximum size, so the user can adjust form there.
• In the additions disks table located in Linode Detail > Settings > Advanced Configuration now display the disk file system type located between the label and size columns.
• The option to reboot a Linode is removed unless the Linode is powered on.
• Only regions with block storage available are displayed in Volume creation panel.
  • Additional messaging added to Volume creation panel informing user of the data center limitations.

Fixed:

• Typo in Manual Snapshot copy.
• Spacing of Grouped NodeBalancer headers.

Added:

• Allow up to 50 characters for Tag labels
• Removed restriction preventing resize across plan generations
• Add filtering for entity type and id on Events
  • /account/events now accepts X-Filter for entity.type and entity.id
  • If filtering by entity.id, entity.type is also required
  • Allowed types are: linode, nodebalancer, domain, volume

Fixed:

• Allow issuing console tokens for IPv6 clients

Added:

• Documentation for Dedicated CPU class (“dedicated”) in Linode Types

It’s that time of year where organization and prioritization are at the top of everyone’s mind. They certainly have been for the Linode Cloud Manager team!

In today’s release, we have finalized the organizational offering to display Linodes, Volumes, NodeBalancers, and Domains by tag. Each entity page will show an ungrouped list by default, but switching the toggle at the top of the page to “group by tag” gives users the ability to organize their resources by tags.

As a reminder, tags have more power than that.

The use of tags on Volumes and NodeBalancers is a win. We didn’t have the ability to add classification labels like production, testing, backup, or customer name/account to Volumes and NodeBalancers in Classic Manager. Display groups were a feature of Classic Manager that were limited to Linodes and Domains. Now tags can be added to Linodes, Domains, Volumes, and NodeBalancers.

Why Tag? Here are some advantages:

• Associate one or more tags to each of your resources.
• This will allow you to view all tagged Linodes, Volumes, Domains, and NodeBalancers when searching by tag.
• The view by tag feature organizes all tagged resources together. You can now activate this option from the landing page for each resource type; the listed items will then be separated into a group for each tag.
• Tags are actionable: you can click on a tag anywhere in the Manager and be taken to a results page where you can view all entities that have that tag.
• You can also start typing a tag name (such as production) into the search bar at the top of each page to view a list of all entities with a matching tag.

Also in this release, and in keeping with the spirit of those January improvement goals, we hit the Design Gym to practice some conditioning and tone up our Cloud Manager. Our Design and Engineering team worked to promote uniformity with each entity and present the look and feel of the search results page throughout the application.

Here is a full listing of what has been Added, Changed, and Fixed:

Added:

• Sorting for remaining Linode table headers.
• Entity icons on Dashboard page, and entity listing pages for:
  • NodeBalancers
  • Domains
  • Volumes
• Group by Tag for NodeBalancers.
• Group by Tag for Volumes.
• Friendly error message when graph data is unavailable for a newly created Linode.

Changed:

• Removed Documentation panel sidebar.
• Improve pagination experience.
• Order of tabs on the Profile page.
• My Profile > My Apps changed to My Profile > OAuth Apps.

Fixed:

• Update timezone error.
• Fix pagination display logic.
• Invalid Date on OAuth Apps.
• Graph Display Options (Last 30 Days).

Fixed:

• Mismatched labels/descriptions for fields in API schemas

Added:

• Trusted Devices
  • Lists devices with active Remember Me sessions on the account for the past 30 days, device name and browser used.

Added:

• Disk storage information modal in Linode > Settings > Advanced
• Grouping of Domains by tags on Domain listing page.
• Add payment PDF generation
• Add invoice PDF generation
• Display loading until images are available.
  • Source images data from Redux.
  • Add images to Redux on load.
• Improved linode listing page table.
  • Remove + icon to display all ip addresses on linode row.
  • Hide copy icon for ip addresses until hover.
  • The icon for a Linode was added to the Linode row.
  • Plan column removed, linode plan and details now listed under the label in the Linodes columns.
  • Added a column for tags.
• Account tab for StackScripts, lists all scripts created on the account the user has permissions to read/write.
  • If an account user does not have access to StackScripts, then a message indicating the user does not have the proper permissions will display.
• Trusted Device table in My Profile> Password & Authentication> New section titled Trusted Devices.
  • Lists devices that have been active on the account for the past 30 days, device name and browser used.
  • Ability to untrust/delete a trusted device.

Changed:

• Explicitly check for errors before setting local storage.
• Move image toast logic to ToastNotifications.tsx
• Allow submitting empty array for IP sharing
• Explicitly declaring background color on table cells for printer compatibility.
• Update documentation. Update casing on label.
• Set default image in Create from Image flow.
• Default label name during Linode creation.
• Update react-dev-utils and webpack-dev-server
• Update Radio Input Label text size on Create Volume drawer
• Update pagination styling
• Update source Linode on linode_clone schedule/start
• Refactor domains dashboard card to use Redux state
• Update community events, make all clickable.
• Update dashboard transfer card to new design
• Add Render Guard to Contact Info/Config Forms
• Change Pagination Controls to handle many pages
• Add reduxed images to LinodeRebuild
• Improved error handling.
• Respond to community_like events, display in menu
• Update Copy Around Restricted Users
• Update search results size limit to 100
• Capitalize linode progress bar text

Fixed:

• Credit card payment request ccv field.
• Safari autofill on root password reset.
• Parse timestamps in UTC for notifications.
• Hide radio buttons on edit disk drawer.
• Display notice on successful deletion of a user.
• Submission of the enable back ups for all Linodes drawer caused duplicate listings of Linodes.
• Display Scratch Code when enabling TFA

Added:

• Printer friendly invoice page by navigating to Account > Billing info > Recent Invoices > Invoice
  • Clicking Print/Download navigates to a printer friendly invoice page and opens a a browser print preview to print and save to a PDF.
  • CTL/Command + P from the invoice page will achieve the same as clicking the Print/Download button.

Added:

• Users can now display their Linodes grouped by its tags.
• Users can import existing display groups from Linodes and Domains as tags from the dashboard.
  • For example; If a user were to have three Linodes in the display group “production”, a new tag of “production” would be created and applied to those three Linodes.
  • The existing display groups remain unchanged.

Fixed:

• Linode chart statistics sometimes cause a crash.
• Viewing one StackScript, out of 1100, caused the application to crash. Gee thanks!
• URL encoded text was being injected into the search bar.

Added

• community_like Event type
• Include prefix_length in ipv6 global pools response

Fixed

• Consistent ordering of Linode IPv4s
  • Public addresses come before private addresses, order is always the same
• New Users are assigned a referral code

Added:

• Add Total Traffic to stats
• Styling for Stats/Units
• Paypal Client-Side Validation
• Revert error poc
• Reorder providers. Convert ThemeProvider to renderChildren.
• style toast messages
• create component abstraction for toasts
• add: toasts story
• pass props to tags to close suggestion menu on click
  
• error poc
• make CVV field optional
• Add analytics to GetAllEntities()
• Correct permission decision logic in API token utils.
• code cleanup and destructure new asSuggestion prop
• style tags inside search result suggestion
• event propagation and focus styles
• Stats/Units on graphs
• make tags in selects consistent with new styles
• refactor tag button styles
• Tag links
• updating back up data section for dark theme
• updating copy icon component colors, removing the override from IP address component
• better padding for dashboard table cells
• Make clickable row UX more consistent
• switch volume columns
• add search data
• Upgrade Typography component consistent with @material-ui/core@3.5.1
• Display resize instructions on form submission.
• Add SSH key event message…
• Refresh volumes list on volume_clone event.
• Report counts of successes and failures for backups
• Remove sendToast for enqueSnacback
• Replace Toasts with Notistack

Changed:

• reduce main nav items padding under medium breakpoint
• update progress bar for linodes
• Update docs links to Cloud Manager versions.
• update notistack version and remove unnecessary declaration
• Update email notification setting label for clarity
• Events polling updated.

Fixed:

• fix: send config id with attach volume request
• Edit SOA drawer loading button styling bug
• fix typing for notistack
• Fix NodeBalancer Tag Error
• Fix mutation error handling

Added:

• Search results page with a dedicated URL
  • Search results page is grouped by entities (Linodes, NodeBalancers, etc.)
  • Search results page link appears first in the search bar results
    
  • Search results page displays the first five results per entity, and a button to display remaining results for the given entity
  • Search can be used to display all entities with a common tag
• Tags for Volumes
  • Tags can be added during Volume creation
  • Tags can be added/removed from an existing Volume
• Tags for NodeBalancers
  • Tags can be added during NodeBalancer creation
  • Tags can be added/removed from an existing NodeBalancer
    
• Network helper global setting
  • Users now have the option to enable/disable
  • Network helper is enabled by default
• Ability to attach a file to a support ticket
• Breadcrumb navigation to Users and User Detail
• Mobile typography was implemented throughout the app

Changed:

• UX improvement when creating/resizing a volume attached to a linode with the addition steps necessary to complete the volume creation process
• Get Help section links and tiles were updated for consistent displays and interactions
• Added pricing to Volume clone and resize panel

Fixed:

• External (public) Ip’s are displayed first (before private IPs) on Linode grid cards, and Linode Details page
• Character decoding on the blog feed
• Tags extending beyond the search bar results now wrap

Added:

• Added ‘tags’ to NodeBalancers
  • The NodeBalancer object now includes “tags”, an array of string
  • POST /nodebalancers now accepts “tags”, an array of strings
  • GET /tags/:tag now returns tagged NodeBalancers in addition to other types

Breaking:

• User management has been merged into the account section.
  • The Account & Billing and Users navigation items have been removed in favor of just “Account”.
  • This caused breaking changes to the URL pattern.
    • /users -> account/users
    • /users/stevemcqueen -> /account/users/stevemcqueen
    • /users/stevemcqueen/permissions -> /account/users/stevemcqueen/permissions

Added:

• Domains can now be tagged and will be included in search results when searching for tags.
• Linode Backups
  • Users can now enable automatic backups for all existing Linodes which do not have backups.
  • Users can now enroll in automatic backups for all newly created Linodes.
  • Added backup information and actions on the dashboard.
  • Added time since last backup to the list view of user’s Linodes.
• Pricing information has been added to the;
  • Volume creation drawer
  • Volumes call to action placeholder
  • Backups call to action placeholderM
• Updated by/closed by details to support tickets.
• Breadcrumb navigation to Linodes, NodeBalancers, Domains, and Support Tickets.

Changed:

• We’re now preventing users from submitting the create a support ticket form until all necessary information has been provided.
• Hide the “current credit card” if there is no credit card on file.
• The CPU chart on the Linode detail page has been updated to scale the to usage.
• Details about a Linode and Domains are no longer tucked away in accordions.
• Payments and invoices are now sorted by descending date (newest first).
• We’ve made some mobile friendly adjustments to the display of our menu!
• Documentation links now have a persistent underline to make it clear they’re links.
• Providing feedback via Hively now opens in a new window.
• Made tab navigation much easier on mobile.
• Enhanced select styles are now visually consistent with regular selects.

Fixed:

• Side navigation was hidden for certain users.
• Toggling between grid and list view on the Linodes screen would not persist event progress information.
• Attempting to delete the active user would crash the application. (Hey, it’s better than deleting yourself!)
• TTL can now be set/changed for MX records.
• Booting from a user created configuration was failing.
• H1s are now used only once per page site-wide.

Added

• Updates tag endpoints to accept and return Volumes
  • GET /tags
  • POST /tags
• Added tags to Volumes

Fixed

• Fixed validating RDNS when set via /networking endpoint

Added:

• Customer Support
  • Linode Community questions are now searchable from the Support Landing Page
  • Customers can now close their own support tickets under the following conditions:
    • Ticket is in “autoclose” status
    • Ticket has not been opened by Linode (covered by autoclose requirement)
    • May not close tickets that have not been interacted with by Linode (covered by autoclose requirement)
    • Tickets closed by customer should be marked as closed by customer
    • Support Ticket objects should indicate if they are closable

Changed:

• Tightened whitespace on tables. Considerably reduced the padding on table cells to give users the ability to see more items at a glance. Similar changes were made to summary panels in an ongoing effort to improve our information density overall.
• We changed the way that a user will view their DNS records. Today when you view DNS records you have to expand all of the accordions to see details of your domains. Now when you view a domain you can see all details of the domain without having to expand all the accordions.
• Updated Launch console button to appear as a link on mobile devices.
• Hively got an upgrade!
  • Icons have been enhanced to support new icons.
  • Hively icons will not show on tickets more than 7 days old

Fixed:

• The account owner was able to restrict their account by toggling the permissions.
• A recent refactor didn’t take into account paginated API methods that take an entityId. This was causing an API 404 error when requesting Disks from the LinodeConfig menu.
• Issue on the List Linodes page, where switching to list view after linode creation would display the Linode as “Provisioning” after it already booted.
• On the volumes listing page, addressed an issue where updating a volume label would fail.
• In order to make the clickable table row entries more efficient, we made tags clickable.
• Fixed an issue where attempting to create a linode from a snapshot (coming from the linode detail page) displayed plans smaller than the original Linode snapshot as selectable.
• When creating a linode from a backup or snapshot, the linode created does not automatically boot, rather it must be booted manually after the restoration from backup is complete. Also, the Distro image fails to display in the manager, until the linode has been booted.
• Issue where users were unable to deploy a new linode from a snapshot when landing on the Create From Backup creation page from the Linode Detail * Backups page.
• Resolved an edge case where attempting to restore a snapshot to an existing linode, if the restore drawer was dismissed and then reopened, the Linodes select would fail to list any linodes.

Added:

• Added ‘tags’ to Domains
  • The Domain object now includes “tags”, an array of strings
  • POST /domains now accepts “tags”, an array of strings
  • GET /tags/:tag now returns tagged Domains in addition to Linodes

Added:

• Added “migration_imminent” notification for Linodes that will migrate soon
• POST /linode/instances/:id/migrate can now initiate scheduled migrations

Fixed:

• Fixed bad interaction between clone and global backups_enabled that resulted in failed clone

Fixed:

• Backup restore not restoring to destination Linode

Added:

• Pagination!
  • Users can now page through large lists of entities thoughout the app, including: Nodebalancers/Images/Oauth Clients(Apps)/Tokens/Users/Volumes/Invoices/LinodeConfigs
• Documentation!
  • The documentation panel has received some updates, including Docs for volumes, domains and stackscripts

Changed:

• Eliminate pencil icon site-wide, using hover/edit state instead.
• Defer API requests on Linode summary, settings and Nodebalancer summary until user action is taken

Fixed:

• Error reporting when creating a new Nodebalancer config
• Ellipsis being truncated on blog texts incorrectly
• Text overflow in the dashboard of entities with long names
• Linodes with flags/long names breaking the layout on list linodes
• Issue where a users settings are erroneously requested multiple times
• Linodes with unknown images failing to display in the linode summary panel