# Draft EaaSI Platform Release Notes for v2024.1
**URL:** https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/draft-eaasi-platform-release-notes-for-v2024-1/588
**Category:** EAASI Announcements
**Created:** [March 12, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/draft-eaasi-platform-release-notes-for-v2024-1/588 "2024-03-12T16:12:32Z")
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### Author:  [@ethan.gates](https://forum.eaasi.cloud/u/ethan.gates)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/draft-eaasi-platform-release-notes-for-v2024-1/588/1 "2024-03-12T16:12:32Z")
In conjunction with the recent updates to the [EaaSI Product Roadmap](https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/eaasi-product-roadmap/291), the team would like to clarify for benefit of the user community the work identified for the next, upcoming release of the EaaSI platform - tentatively referred to as **“v2024.1”** , as in _ **the first release of 2024** _ - versus the other areas of work identified in the roadmap for further work in 2024.
Specifically, these release notes are meant to set user expectations and elaborate on:
> Mint new release of EaaSI in first half of 2024, which will include the following:
>
> ```
> Emulation Project “Advanced Workflow” (dynamic object to drive assignment)
> Map all resource permissions in S3-compatible storage to Keycloak user management
> Updated resource type icons and labels for consistency
> Bug fixes
> Stability and dependency updates
>
> ```
Please be aware that we still do not have a concrete date for release and this post _ **will change** _ with updates as they become available - e.g. setting the version number to v2024.03 or v2024.04; or possibly editing, clarifying or adding further information to the bullet points below. These release notes remain a living document intended for public transparency and we will loudly indicate when they are “frozen”.
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**Environments:**
- EaaSI v2024.x1 deployment is being tested in the following environments:
- Compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 may be tested post-release and updates pushed if necessary to the eaasi-installer, but RHEL support is not considered essential to public release
**Dependency upgrades + changes:**
- Upgrade of (optional) MinIO module (exact version info to come)
- Converted default image- and object-archive implementation from block to object/S3-based storage using MinIO
- Reduced dependency on Java WildFly for file server storage and handling
- Opens path ( **in a future update** ) to allow for using external S3-based storage services for image- and object-archives and allowing for shopping/decreasing storage costs depending on cloud services used
- Keycloak module version upgrade (exact version info to come)
- Ansible upgrades for eaasi-installer (exact version info to come)
- GStreamer 1.x Java Core upgraded from 1.0.0 to 1.4.0
- Java Native Access upgraded from 4.2.2 to 5.13.0
- Various command syntax changes to account for need in recent QEMU + qemu-img versions for Ubuntu to explicitly declare drive image format
**Fixes:**
- All resource ownership information consistently moved from EaaSI UI’s postgres database to Keycloak
- Both back-end EaaS server and front-end applications (EaaSI UI, Demo UI) properly track and enforce individual user account’s private image and object archives
- Improved EaaSI UI caching behavior for greater consistency of resource metadata requests and display while navigating between different menus/pages of the interface
- (Specifically resolves [known issue](https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/known-issues-with-the-eaasi-hosted-service/215) where EaaSI UI appears to “revert” changes saved as a derivative or Content Environment when running the derivative Environment immediately after saving it)
- Removed various redundant EaaSI UI API calls and code paths to improve web app performance
- Generalized EaaS emulator, environment, object and ROM API endpoints to resolve file storage locations based on relative rather than absolute file paths
- Created migration paths for eaasi-installer to convert existing file/block storage archives to S3-based object storage
- Created migrations for eaasi-installer to convert METS files for existing environment and object resources from absolute file paths to relative paths
- Improved storage and cleanup of temp data in cases of resource import or replication failure
- Fixes to experimental environment-proposer API (the “UVI” API) to account for storage changes
- Disabled redundant/unnecessary emulated network components and services
- Fixed proper shutdown sequence for those emulated network components that are necessary to enable Internet Access on Environments
- Improved handling of newlines, custom line-breaks, and spaces in free-text user-input fields (e.g. emulator native-config, file names in resource import)
- Various label and navigation text improvements in EaaSI UI for clarity and consistency
- Resource icons and labels made consistent to distinguish between:
- Environments
- Content Environments
- Software objects
- Content objects
- Computer Images
- History tab on Environment details pages now displays date and time info for individual revisions
- Fixed issues with paginating through more than 50 Users on an Organization’s Manage Users overview
- Running Task descriptions are more consistently descriptive rather than displaying task IDs
**Features:**
- “Basic” vs. “Advanced” Emulation Project workflow
- Back-end server can now define and launch “ephemeral” Environments based on provided emulator details + resource configuration (no Environment resource is saved, not even a temporary one, until/unless user consciously decides to save the running “ephemeral” Environment)
- “Advanced” workflow added to Emulation Project menu to allow imported Computer Image resources to be properly matched with Software and/or Content objects to create new Environments via EaaSI UI
- Previous Emulation Project functionality for quick matching of existing Environments to Software and Content resources using EaaSI’s best-guess defaults remains available as default “Basic” workflow
- “Refresh Storage Index” action added to Troubleshooting
- Users can trigger (via EaaSI UI) a refresh of the index for configured S3-like storage archives. Generally useful for troubleshooting unexpected front-end behavior but also may specifically assist with keeping EaaSI application in sync with imported resources in the case of distributed cloud deployments and/or ( **in a future update** ) directly importing large resources to storage via S3 tooling rather than via web UI
- “Add Software” option removed from Action menu for Environment resources
- UX improvement intended to clarify Emulation Project as the primary destination for creating new Environment resources
- eaasi-installer tweaks for EaaSI server deployment and configuration:
- added support for externally-terminated SSL connections
- added support for using an external Keycloak instance
- made deployment of Demo UI optional
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### Author:  [@ethan.gates](https://forum.eaasi.cloud/u/ethan.gates)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/draft-eaasi-platform-release-notes-for-v2024-1/588/2 "2024-03-12T16:12:59Z")