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

Changed

• Support
  • Allow selecting multiple files when attaching to a ticket
  • Auto-collapse attachments when a ticket contains more than 5 attachments
  • Increase support search results to display up to 20 results
• Profile
  • Truncate whitespace when adding SSH keys
• Billing
  • Display last four credit card digits when submitting payment

Fixed

• Volumes
  • Issue where creating a volume would potentially display the wrong region for the attached linode
• Stackscripts
  • When creating a linode from Stackscript, the SSH Key access panel failed to display on image selection
• Misc.
  • Issue where certain modals could not be dismissed with the escape key
  • On Linode creation, the password field now appears disabled until an image is selected
  • Two-factor authentication QR code border visibility in dark theme

Added

• Added closeable support tickets via /support/tickets/:id/close
  • Only applies to tickets that are closeable

Added

• Added backups-enabled to /account/settings to automatically add backups service for new Linodes.
• Added tags for Linodes
• Added linode/types-legacy collection, returning all Linode types that cannot be deployed.
• Added successor field to Linode Type object.

Fixed

• Fixed issue with backup windows when a window could not be determined.
• Fixed bug related to reattaching volumes to another Linode when the original Linode is deleted.

Added

• Added User SSH Keys
  • Allows storage and deployment of public SSH Keys
  • Added GET /profile/sshkeys
  • Added POST /profile/sshkeys
  • Added GET /profile/sshkeys/{ssh_key_id}
  • Added PUT /profile/sshkeys/{ssh_key_id}
  • Added DELETE /profile/sshkeys/{ssh_key_id}
  • Added SSH Key labels to User object
• Allow deploying Linodes with stored SSH Keys
  • Added authorized_users to POST /linodes/instances/
• Allow rebuilding Linodes with stored SSH Keys
  • Added authorized_users to POST /linodes/instances/{linode_id}/rebuild
• Allow deploying Disks with stored SSH Keys
  • Added authorized_users to POST /linodes/instances/{linode_id}/disks
• NodeBalancer config rebuild
  • Allows fast track config/node rebuilding
  • POST nodebalancers/{nodebalancerId}/configs/{configId}/rebuild
• Add expires to Image map for automatic Images

Fixed

• Removed duplicative Event for StackScript creation
• Fixed typo in DNS error message
• Added ‘field’ to StackScript errors

Added

• Added POST /linode/instances/{linodeId}/migrate
  • In some circumstances, a Linode may have pending migrations scheduled that that you can initiate when convenient.
  • This endpoint initiates the scheduled migration, which will shut the Linode down, migrate it, and then bring it back to its original state.
• Added POST /domains/import
  • Imports a domain zone from a remote nameserver that allows zone transfers (AXFR).
• Added ability to create a Linode with private networking enabled.
  • POST /linode/instances now accepts a boolean “private_ip”.
  • If true, the created Linode will have private networking enabled when created.
• Added optional “config_id” to POST /linode/instances/{linodeId}/reboot

Fixed

• Fixed example response for POST /volumes/{volumeId}/attach

Added

• Added fast-track NodeBalancer creation
  • POST /nodebalancers now accepts “configs”, details of configs to create
  • Each config in “configs” must have at least one node in “nodes”
• Added X-Spec-Version header to API responses
  • Indicates the version of Linode’s OpenAPI specification describes this API
  • Spec is available at https://developers.linode.com/openapi.yaml
• Added persistent ordering to all collections
  • All collections are now returned in a predictable, consistent order
• Added watchdog_enabled to Linode object
• Added X-Spec-Version header to all responses
  • This header describes the version of our OpenAPI spec that describes this API

Fixed

• Require shutting down before resetting root password for a disk
• Fixed url for Community events

Added

Added missing “resizing” Linode status.

Fixed

• Fixed bug where Linodes got stuck in rescue mode.
• Fixed bug when attaching a Volume to a Linode with no configs.
• API now returns 500 when an IP Address cannot be allocated.
  • Previously, this incorrectly returned a 400.
• Fixed 500 on POST /domains/:id/records with service.
  • Bug occurred when service was sent into this endpoint without "type": "SRV".
• Fixed errors caused by illegal characters in URL errors.

Added

• Added fields to Notification object
  • Added “label” - a brief description of the notification
  • Added “severity” - one of “minor”, “major”, or “critical”
  • Added “until” - a datetime or null
  • Added “notice” to possible values for “type”
• Added POST /linode/instances/:id/disks/:id/clone
  • This used to be at POST /linode/instances/:id/disks/:id
• GET /linode/instances is now filterable on “id”
• GET /account/events is now filterable on “id”

Changed

• Unify IPv4, IPv6 GET/POST; use “type”: “public”
• Moved /managed/linode_settings to /managed/linode-settings
  • /managed/linode_settings/:id moved to /managed/linode-settings/:id
  • This was to keep our convention of using dashes in URLs instead of underscores
• Password no longer accepted in POST /account/users
  • You may no longer provide a password when creating a new user
  • New users will immediately receive a password reset email to set their password
• Changed returned Region IDs
  • Slugs such as “us-east-1a” are now returned as “us-east”
  • These values had previosuly been accepted as input.
  • “us-south” was renamed “us-central”
  • Old values are still accepted (and translated) in requests
• Moved GET/PUT for range/pool v6 addresses to /networking/ips
  • GET /networking/ipv6/:address moved to GET /networking/ips/:address
  • PUT /networking/ipv6/:address moved to GET /networking/ips/:address
• /linode/instances/$id/rebuild returns a Linode
• Fixed inconsistent responses for action endpoints
  • POST /linode/instances/:id/backups-enable now returns {} on success
  • POST /linode/instances/:id/backups-disable now returns {} on success
• Creating a payment now returns the new payment
  • POST /account/payments now returns a Payment object
  • POST /account/payments/paypal/execute now returns a Payment object
• Moved ipv4-specific networking endpoints
  • POST /networking/ip-assign moved to POST /networking/ipv4/assign
  • POST /networking/ip-sharing moved to POST /networking/ipv4/share
  • POST /networking/ipv4/assign now returns {} on success
    

Removed:

• Removed “addresses” from GET /linode/instances/:id/ips response
  • These addresses are now returned in GET /networking/ips
• Removed the ability to change another user’s email address
  • PUT /account/users/:username no longer accepts “email”
  • PUT /profile can still be used to change your own email address

Added

• Added support for refresh tokens
  • Apps with an active refresh token are returned in GET /profile/apps
  • Revoking an app’s access to your account expires any refresh tokens it has

Changed

• Removed the ability to change passwords
  • Removed POST /profile/password
  • Removed POST /account/users/:username/password
  • To reset your password, use manager.linode.com

Fixed

• Fix output for ipv6 RDNS endpoints
  • PUT /networking/ips/:address now returns the modified v6 address
  • PUT /linode/instances/:id/ips/:address now returns the modified v6 address
  • Nothing has changed for these endpoints when :address is a v4 address
• Fixed bug setting RDNS for v6 addresses
• Fixed bug making it impossible to provide authorized_keys when rebuilding a Linode

Added

• Added GET /networking/ips
  • Returns all ipv4 and ipv6 addresses on your account
• Added support for short region slugs
  • Omitting the suffix of a region slug picks a default
  • For example, “us-east” is treated as “us-east-1a”
• Support tickets ordered by status, update date

Changed

• Unified IPv4 and IPv6 Objects
  • Removed “range” from IPv6 object
  • Added “linode_id” to IPv6 object
  • Added “region” to IPv6 object
• Removed GET /networking/ipv4
• Separated /networking/ipv6 into /pools and /ranges
  • Added GET /networking/ipv6/pools
  • Added GET /networking/ipv6/ranges
  • Removed GET /networking/ipv6
• Changed GET /linode/instances/:id/ips response
  • ipv6.link_local is now a full IPAddress object
• Improved response for unrestricted user’s grants
  • Changed GET /profile/grants and GET /account/users/:username/grants
  • Now returns a 204 with no content when getting grants for unrestricted users
• Moved /linode/instances/:id/ips/sharing to /networking/ip-sharing
  • linode_id must now be passed in, along with existing ips list
• Removed deprecated “distribution” fields and endpoints
  • Removed GET /linode/distributions
  • Removed GET /linode/distributions/:id
  • These fields or endpoints had been deprecated since 2017-12-11
• Changed POST /managed/contacts
  • “phone” is an object containing primary and secondary numbers
  • phone_primary -> phone.primary
  • phone_secondary -> phone.secondary
• Changed account/notifications
  • Removed xsa notification type
  • Renamed balance_outstanding to payment_due
• Changed error response
  • “field” changed to represent nesting with x.x
• Changed GET/PUT /account
  • Renamed “vat_number” to “tax_id”
• Removed managed_issue from POST /support/tickets

Fixed

• Cloned linodes now copy original Linode’s image
• Fixed bug parsing OAuth Scopes when creating token

Added

• Added POST /images to create an image from a disk
• Added “message” to Notification object
  • Described the notification in a human-readable manner
• Added ability to enroll in Managed
  • POST /account/settings/managed-enable
• Added “uid” to Profile response
• Added ssl to PUT /nodebalancers/$id/configs/$id

Changed

• Removed “token” Authorization scheme
  • The same value is accepted as “Bearer”
  • No longer accepted: “Authorization: token $TOKEN”
  • Please send as: “Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN”
• Changed POST support/tickets
  • Now accepts “managed_issue” (boolean) instead of “managed_issue_type”
• Reworked backups response
  • Removed “daily” and “weekly”
  • Added “automatic”
  • Removed “availability” from Backup object
  • Removed “service” object
• Removed /linode/instance/:id/disk/:id/imagize
  • Functionality moved to POST /images
• Reworked /account/settings into two endpoints
  • Changed /account/settings endpoint to /account
  • network_helper and longview_subscription remain in /account/settings
• Removed ‘max’ from /account/transfer
• Removed /nodebalancers/$id/configs/$id/ssl
• Removed zonefile object from Domain
• Changed Notification types
  • scheduled_migration -> migration_scheduled
  • pending_migration -> migration_pending
  • scheduled_reboot -> reboot_scheduled
  • outstanding_balance -> balance_outstanding
  • important_ticket -> ticket_important
  • abuse_ticket -> ticket_abuse

Fixed

• Fix Transfer Pool return values
• Stopped returning default backups window for Linodes
  • This impacted Linodes that were still scheduling backups only
• Don’t set cancel_account grant when it’s not requested
• Suppresses shutdown event notification for rebuild
• Send emails for TFA to the acting user

Added

• Added enable, disable managed service endpoints
  • Added POST /managed/services/:id/enable
  • Added POST /managed/services/:id/disable
  • Added status to managed service JSON response object
• Added GET /managed/stats endpoint
• Added PUT /managed/linode_settings
• Added PUT endpoints to managed service
• Add managed_issue_type to support/tickets/
  • GET /support/tickets returns new managed_issue_type key
  • POST /support/tickets now accepts this key if the account has Managed Services enabled
• Added GET /managed/issues and GET /managed/issues/:id
  • GET /managed/issues returns all issues, including relevant history
  • GET /managed/issues/:id returns a single issue
  • Since managed issues are backed by support tickets, uses the ticket ID
• Added vat_number to /account/settings
  • Can be viewed and updated
• Sends emails when enabling/disabling TFA
• Rendered zone file returned in Domain object
• Added DELETE /managed/services/:id endpoint
• Added DELETE /managed/contacts/:id

Changed

• Update /linode/distributions and /image responses
  • remove status key
  • remove filesystem key
  • remove last_used key
  • rename creator -> created_by (string)
  • rename min_deploy_size -> size (int)

Fixed

• Allow filtering of GET /images

Added

• Added POST account/payments/paypal
  • Stages a PayPal payment and returns the payment_id
• Added POST account/payments/paypal/execute
  • Execute a PayPal payment that has been authorized in PayPal
  • This is required for Linode to capture funds and credit your account
• Added POST /domains/$id/clone
  • New endpoint can be reached at POST domains/:domain_id/clone
  • Requires a new domain be provided in the post body

Changed

• Unify Distributions and Images
  • Removes Distribution.architecture
  • Renames Distribution.updated to last_used (Datetime)
  • Renames Distribution.disk_minimum to min_deploy_size (Integer)
  • Adds Distribution.filesystem (String)
  • Adds Distribution.created (Datetime)
  • Adds Distribution.description (String)
  • Adds Distribution.status (String)
  • Adds Distribution.type (String)
  • Adds Distribution.is_public (Boolean)
  • Adds Distribution.creator (String)
  • Adds Image.deprecated (Boolean)
• Renamed “distribution” to “image”
  • POST /linode/instances takes “image” instead of “distribution”
  • POST /linode/instances/:id/disks takes “image” instead of “distribution”
  • POST /linode/instances/:id/rebuild takes “image” instead of “distribution”
  • Linode object returns “image” instead of “distribution”
  • StackScript object returns “images” instead of “distributions”
• Change Image IDs to Slugs
  • slugs match the format private/:image_id
• Moved volumes to top level
  • Changed all references from /linode/volumes to /volumes

Fixed

• Ensure POST domain/records accepts and honors ttl_sec
• Fixed Linode create from a Stackscript using UDFs

Changed

• Reworked UserGrant system
  • Three Grant levels are now enforced: No grants, “read_only”, and “read_write”
  • “read_only” allows access to GET endpoints
  • “read_write” is equivalent to legacy “all” grant
  • Legacy “all” or “access” grants are treated as “read_write”
• Changed GET /account/users/:username/grants
  • Grants response objects now always include “id”, “label” and “permissions”
  • “permissions” can be null or an enum of either “read_only” or “read_write”
• Changed PUT /account/users/:username/grants
  • Grants now accepted in the new format detailed above
• Changed GET /profile/grants
  • Grants returned in new format detailed above
• Added support for CAA Domain records
• Changed POST /linode/instances/:id/disks
  • Now accepts “image” - an image ID to deploy from

Changed

• Changed POST /account/payments
  • Now accepts “usd” as a string representing a dollar amount, including cents
  • Valid values include “0.10”, “10.00”, “100.20”, and “$1.00”
  • Invalid values include 10, 10.01, “10”, “10.001”, and “10.0”
• Added GET /account/notifications
  • Read-only collection of Notification objects
  • Returns important information about your account that may require action
• Added GET /images
  • Lists images on your account
• Added GET /images/:id
  • View a single image on your account
• Added PUT /images/:id
  • Update an image on your account
• Added DELETE /images/:id
  • Deleted an image you own
• Added POST /linode/instances/:id/disks/:id/imagize
  • Creates a new image from a disk you own
• Added GET /longview/clients
  • Returns a list of Longview clients on your account
• Added POST /longview/clients
  • Creates a new Longview client on your account
• Added GET /longview/clients/:id
  • Returns information on a single Longview client
• Added PUT /longview/clients/:id
  • Update a single Longview client
• Added DELETE /longview/clients/:id
  • Removes a longview client from your account
• Added GET /longview/subscriptions
  • Returns all available longview subscription tiers
• Added GET /longview/subscriptions/:id
  • Returns information one longview subscription tier
• Changed GET /account/settings
  • Added “longview_subscription” - the tier at which you are subscribed to longview
• Changed PUT /account/settings
  • Sending in “null” or an id to “longview_subscription” changes your longview subscription tier.
• Change POST /linode/instances
  • Now accepts image - the ID of an image to deploy the linode with
  • Only one source attribute may be provided
• Changed POST /linode/instances/:id/rebuild
  • Now accepts image - the ID of an image to rebuild the linode with
  • Only one source attribute may be provided
• Added events for enabling/disabling TFA
• Added Longview and Image grants to GET /users/:id/grants and GET /profile/grants
  • Response now includes “longview” attribute whose value is an array of grants your user has that relate to longview clients
  • Response now includes an “images” attribute whose value is an array of grants your user has that relate to images
  • Only applies to restricted users
• Event objects may now have Longview clients or Images as their entities

Changed

• EventType has changed from “blockstorage*” to “volume*”
• Changed POST linode/instances/:id/configs
  • Removed root_device_ro
  • Now accepts “helpers”, a dict accepting any/all of “updatedb_disabled”, “distro”, “modules_dep”, “network”, and “devtmpfs_automount”
  • Removed devtmpfs_automount (now in helpers envelope)
• Changed POST linode/instances/:id/disks
  • root_ssh_key changed to “authorized_keys”, now accepts a list of keys instead of a single string key
• Changed POST linode/instances
  • root_ssh_key changed to “authorized_keys”, now accepts a list of keys instead of a single string key
• Changed POST linode/instances/:id/rebuild
  • root_ssh_key changed to “authorized_keys”, now accepts a list of keys instead of a single string key
• Changed POST linode/instances/:id/rescue
  • disks changed to “devices”, now accepts device mappings in the same format as POST linode/instances/:id/configs
• Changed Linode object
  • Moved “disk”, “memory”, “storage”, “transfer_total”, and “vcpus” into a “specs” envelope
  • transfer_total => transfer in linode specs
  • transfer_in => network_in
  • transfer_out => network_out
• Changed LinodeConfig object
  • Removed root_device_ro
• Changed LinodeType object
  • Moved backups_option.price_hourly to addons.backups.price.hourly
  • Moved backups_option.price_monthly to addons.backups.price.monthly
  • Moved price_hourly to price.hourly
  • Moved price_monthly to price.monthly
• Changed OAuthToken
  • Removed client envelope
  • Removed type
• Changed account/tokens
  • Endpoint moved to profile/tokens
  • GET now only returns Personal Access Tokens
• Changed account/clients
  • Endpoint moved to account/oauth-clients
  • Collection now allows access to all clients for all users on your account if you are an unrestricted user
• Added profile/apps
  • Collection of authorized third-party applications
• OAuthClient now has a “public” attribute
  • “public” is an optional argument to POST account/clients that defaults to False
• Added POST account/credit-card
  • Updates current payment method on file
• Added GET account/payments
  • Returns a list of all payments made for your account
• Added GET account/payments/:id
  • Returns information about a single payment made for your account
• Added POST linode/volumes/:id/clone
• Changed Disk Status
  • Now always one of “ready”, “not ready”, or “deleting”