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SimPhoNy Remote CHANGELOG

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 2.1.0

  • Improve the quit and share application links: - Improve the rendering aspect when those links are disabled (#506) - Rename "Stop application" link to "Quit" (#519) - Rename "Share (copy url)" link to "Share session" (#519) - Move the share link above the quit link (#519) - Those links now opens modal dialogs, a confirmation dialog for the quit link

    and a dialog containing the application url and a share button for the share link (#519)

    • Disable the share link for web applications (#523)
  • Autofill available images in the new accounting dialog and let the admin choose the new application using a combo-box instead of typing the application name (#511)

  • Add rendering support for a big application list (#520)

  • Add SimPhoNy logo to the login page (#528)

  • Improve the admin home view by using an AdminLTE table instead of a basic Bootstrap table (#537)

  • Display AdminLTE loading spinner when starting and stopping applications (#539)

  • Add application logo to the start form on the user page (#541)

  • Report failure of unfound image when trying to grant access to unknown image to a user (#542)

  • Use deployment version of Vue instead of development version (#543)

  • Add column formatters for the datatable component (#530)

  • Fixes: - Changing the URL user id number in admin accounting panel now refresh the

    table (#509)

    • HTML input elements are not closed anymore (#524). They were not supposed to be closed (see HTML documentation).
    • Fix error when clicking twice on the stop button when stopping a container from the admin interface (#527)
    • Fix issue included in 2.0.0 with hard-coded username for server requests (#534)
  • Refactor: - Put all the Javascript and CSS dependencies in two bundles (#510) - Clear the selenium tests code so that it is now easier to write new tests

    (#515)

    • Remove Bower from the dependencies and use only NPM for package management (#517)
    • Remove Jinja and use Tornado templates (#521)
  • Other: - Fix TRAVIS build which was failing because of an update of the docker

    version (#529)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 2.0.0

  • Switch to Vue for both admin interface and user interface (#400, #402, #405, #407, #410, #411, #412, #413, #414, #420, #422, #423, #428, #431, #433, #434, #436, #437, #438, #440, #442, #443, #446, #447, #448, #450, #451, #456, #459, #465, #467, #468, #471, #472, #473, #480, #481, #482, #489, )

  • Added search. Now only applications matching will be shown (#417, #427)

  • Added share button to extract the URL of the container (#469)

  • First application is now automatically selected (#418)

  • Adapted backend for new Vue based interface:
    • Usage of new tornado-webapi interface (#403)
    • Added REST resource for statistics, needed by #395 (#406)
    • Server side admin support for new Admin interface (#425)
  • Renamed some entities to more appropriate names (#419) - The term Accounting now refers exclusively to the relationship table

    connecting users, applications and policies.

    • The config file accounting_class and accounting_kwargs are now database_class and database_kwargs.
    • AppAccounting is now ORMDatabase. Similarly, CSVAccounting is now CSVDatabase.
    • The above two break compatibility with the old configuration files. Old configuration files must be changed both in the options and the class they refer to.
    • Added alembic file to support the migration (#445)
  • Removed CDN usage for full intranetwork compatibility.

  • Upgraded configurable-http-proxy to 2.0.1 (#394)

  • Added statistics in the main (Home) Admin panel. (#395)

  • Pinned against pre-release version of Jupyterhub due to deprecation and incompatibility with authenticators (#396)

  • Extracted application name in the topbar (#462)

  • Fixes:
    • Compatibility with some adblockers for google analytics (#379)
    • Added random token to container name to prevent conflict during stop of containers (#381)
    • Documented behavior with uppercase-lowercase names with github authentication. (#386)
    • Performs re-registration of container when the jupyterhub service is stopped, to regain access to containers (#387)
    • Example jupyterhub configuration file allows now to work with no external interfaces (#409)
    • Using node 6 for the builds and prevent the use of node 4 from travis to workaround disrupting ECONNRESET issues (#488)
    • Upgraded astor to master to fix python 3.5 incompatibility during documentation build (#494)
    • Skip containers that are not found while checking container.items (#478)
  • Refactor:
    • Virtual docker has been cleaned up completely (#389)
    • Container manager deprecated find methods have been removed in favor of a different interface. (#391)
    • Use webpack to include javascript code (#452, #458)
    • Use of ES6 for the main development (#457)
    • Changed frontend file layout (#454, #460)
    • Removed underscore and moment from the javascript dependencies (#455)
    • Replaced jshint with eslint (#463)
  • Other:
    • Made tests less verbose with logging (#408)
    • Reduced verbosity at build (#424)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 1.1.0

  • Use container provenance information to prevent access to unrelated containers or simphony-remote instances (#361)
  • Upgraded tornado WebAPI to 0.5.0 (#335, #365, #340)
  • Interface overhaul. Introduced Admin-LTE frontend (#346)
  • Upgraded against jupyterhub 0.8.0.dev0 (#355, #358)
  • Introduced "realms" to hold container provenance in case of shared docker server (#361)
  • Added dynamic whitelist for GitHub login (#351, #359, #364)
  • Fixes:
    • forever stuck spinner in case of docker internal failure (#336)
    • Documented unexpected behavior reported in #305: containers not visible if the per-user server is already running (#342)
    • Incorrect username in admin panel has been fixed (#353)
    • Removed selenium_test from deployment (#356)
    • Establish correct keyboard focus when canvas is made visible (#362)
  • Refactor:
    • Extracted macro in jinja template to a separate file (#337)
    • Cleaned up javascript utils module into separate files (#339)
    • Use of table macro to reduce template duplication (#341)
    • Use setup.py to generate the version.py file (#357)
    • Made async docker client instance in ContainerManager private (#360)
  • Other:
    • Fixed changes in ubuntu dependency builds (#352)
    • Added some basic example configuration files (#363)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.9.0/1.0.0

Summary

  • Administrative Web interface (#284)
  • Introduced runtime label namespace to differentiate labels added by the docker build process from those added at startup (#292)
  • The associated absolute URL path is now attached to the running container in a runtime label (#311)
  • Remoteappdb now accepts the database path as a mandatory argument, instead of an option entry (#291)
  • Accounting interface change: User can now be obtained by user name or id. (#308)
  • Accounting interface change: Extended accounting to perform administrative actions (#304)
  • Docker container object now provides the user that started the container (#302)
  • Web API resources are now under webapi, instead of restresources (#317)
  • Upgraded dependency to tornado WebAPI 0.4.0 (#328)
  • Cleanup of WebAPI testing (#324) JavaScript (#320), stale code (#319)
  • Moved JupyterHub support classes to specific subpackage (#298)
  • Introduced authenticated decorator for resources that does not perform redirection like web.authenticated (#294)
  • Pinned requirements to specific versions (#289)
  • UI: - Added fading in effect when applications are shown
  • Refactoring: - Extracted volume string parsing routine (#303) - Extracted base application object (#301) - Extracted base spawner (#300) - remoteappmanager entry point is now part of the CLI package (#299) - Removed test setting of PROXY_API_TOKEN (#288)
  • Security Fix:
    • Prevent another user to stop another user's container through its url_id (#310)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.8.0

Summary

  • Introduced Google Analytics support for start of Applications (#274).
  • Support for passing configurable data at application startup (#255, #257, #260, #263, #264, #266) Documentation of the resulting docker image protocol (#278)
  • Virtual user workspace is now created once and preserved, with a identifiable name (#270)
  • Launching or viewing application now opens a new window (#269)
  • Makefile rule and documentation for docker upgrade on Ubuntu 14.04 host (#249)
  • Introduced npm/bower package management. Removed now irrelevant files. (#272, #273, #275)
  • UI:
    • Added spinner during loading of applications. Added message in case of no applications available (#252)
    • beautification (#265)
  • CI:
    • Removed Paraview image retrieval (#256)
    • Better Travis output using before_script to perform devdeps installation. (#267)
    • Added test coverage for JavaScript code with Blanket (#276)
  • Refactor:
    • Major overhaul of JavaScript layer (#250)
    • Finalized porting of WebAPI to tornadowebapi (#254)
  • Fix:
    • Reporting error in case of double start/stop request, removing a potential race condition (#279)
    • Documented command line start request behavior for already started container (#280)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.7.0

Summary

  • Addressed issues for general support for Docker containers holding Web applications (jupyter notebook, filemanager) available as simphony-remote-docker 0.3.0.
  • REST+ajax based retrieval of available applications (#209, #214)
  • Show application policy information in application list (#242)
  • Preparation for REST framework extraction:
    • factored out authenticator code from the BaseHandler (#215)
    • soft deprecation of subpackage (#236)
  • Upgraded dependencies to jupyterhub 0.7.0.dev0 (#217), configurable-http-proxy (#219) to fix forwarding bugs in jupyterhub.
  • Pinned request package dependency to 2.10.0 due to dockerpy constraints (#222)
  • Renamed Spawner to SystemUserSpawner (#205)
  • Added linting and testing infrastructure for javascript (#200)
  • Documentation fixes and refactorings:
    • General fixes (#179, #198, #199, #202, #232, #233)
    • Use of autosummary for API extraction (#194, #234)
    • Extracted traitlets documenter in a separate repository (#210)
  • Migrated tests under the appropriate paths in the package tree (#196)
  • Command remoteapprest prints out only essential (UI name) application information, instead of the whole content of the request. (#230)
  • Removed the need for sudo in configurable-http-proxy installation (#244). Installation is now local.
  • Support for Ubuntu 16.04 (#243)
    • Pinned dockerpy package dependency to 1.8.1
    • Update deployment docs for Ubuntu 16.04
  • Fix: Failing selenium tests due to unexpected client-side selenium behavior (#203)
  • Fix: Added missing jupyterhub_config.py from MANIFEST.in (#206), fixed other paths (#207)
  • Fix: Exclude applications in the REST item list when not available (#225)
  • Fix: Handle failure of ajax retrieval so that partial failure is tolerated (#223)
  • Refactor: removed start/stop_spawner (#208)
  • Refactor: cleaned up docker label namespacing (#212)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.6.0

Summary

  • Added error payload to REST api (#186)
  • Use dummy and virtual objects for testing (#172)
  • Fix remoteappmanager config file consistency with docker-py (#171)
  • Config file is made optional for remoteappmanager (#170)
  • Add license in documentation (#169)
  • Add REST Javascript client (#165)
  • Add traitlets documenter for documentation (#163)
  • Add troubleshoot page in documentation (#160)
  • Bug fix: Timeout issue in tests (#167)
  • Bug fix: Make sure remoteappdb closes the session on exit
  • Bug fix: Source distribution with requirement files (#155)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.5.0

Summary

  • Updated documentation (#147)
  • Parameters for setting up docker client are now optional (#126)
  • Formalise BadRequest error in the Rest API (#127)
  • Add description to remoteappdb (#129)
  • Supports parsing outputs from both docker inspect_container and containers (#133)
  • Simplify the ReverseProxy (#114)
  • Provide a set of dummy and virtual objects for better testing (#98)
  • Bug fix: Subhandlers on the home page should raise instead of finish when error occurs (#123)
  • Bug fix: Spawner's config_file_path should be configurable from jupyterhub config (#124)
  • Bug fix: Deprecation warning from Traitlets (#135)
  • Bug fix: Empty file created if target sqlite database does not exist (#139, 122)
  • Bug fix: SSL failure for auto ssl version (#144)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.4.0

Summary

  • Experimental REST API and CLI program to control containers from the command line (#7)
  • Support for arbitrary database implementations (#66)
  • Added remoteappdb --verify option to check against the docker repo for matching images (#58)
  • Enabled Foreign Key and on cascade delete for sqlite database (#56)
  • Introduced makefile for basic deployment tasks (#68)
  • User.orm_user is now User.account (#67)
  • Asynchronous user verification with the jupyter hub is now in place (#37)
  • Consistently differentiate between url and urlpath in parameters, where possible (#54)
  • Container.host_url now checks for None port (#63)
  • Isolated sqlalchemy sessions for the base handler (#71)
  • verify_token now returns a dictionary with user details. (#77)
  • Bug: ui_names no longer appearing (#64)
  • Bug: test error for sqlalchemy usage with multiple threads. (#99)
  • Bug: fixed test error message relative to unclosed files. (#60)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.3.0

Summary

  • Introduced a more generic configuration of available users and images through a CSV file (#33, #41)
  • Internally refactored configuration handling (#40)
  • Simplified database layout by removing Teams (#32)
  • Added functionality to remove users and applications from database via remoteappdb CLI application (#28)
  • Attaching of workspace (#4)
  • Added API autodoc documentation (#57)
  • Improved testing and coverage (#5)
  • Improved error message when unable to create temporary directory (#53)
  • Fixed regression with View button not working anymore (#43)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.2.0

Summary

  • Introduced access control for images and users by means of a database. Additionally, a CLI utility to modify the content of the database has been provided (#8)
  • Added readthedocs documentation (#12)
  • Container URL now contains a base32 encoded unique identifier, instead of the docker container id. (#18)
  • Introduced authentication of the user for the application (#24)
  • Improved handling of failures in starting containers (#6, #14, #15)

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.1.0

Summary

Initial release.

  • A jupyterhub application handling multiple docker containers per user (PAM authentication)
  • A specialized spawner to handle the correct initialization of the user app
  • Support attaching home volumes to containers
  • Support attaching common volumes to containers