Changelog

21st September 2022

• Added new CreateDatabaseSnapshot API call to create snapshots from the database server ID.
• Deprecated SnapshotDatabaseServer API call replaced by above.
• Added X-JWT-Expiry header to response where applicable.
• Fixed issue with out of sync JSON Web Token/cookie expiry times reducing sessions times.
• Fixed typo in brightbox-two-factor cookie name. This may trigger another two factor authentication request.
• Fixed issue when requesting missing *.js files returned a server error.

16th September 2022

• Deprecated the Debian 9 official image. Debian 9 reached EOL on 30th June 2022.

14th September 2022

• Added Control Panel support for resizing cloud servers with local storage
• Added My IP Address convenience option to Control Panel firewall rule editor (as per Cloud SQL access control rules)

5th September 2022

• Added Control Panel support for attaching Volumes to Cloud Servers with local storage server types
• Added Control Panel support for editing firewall rule descriptions

1st September 2022

• Promotional free pricing for Block Storage Volumes ends. Standard pricing is £0.10 per GB/month

31st August 2022

• Added API support for resizing servers with local storage.
• Added a more specific host_volume_support_failure API error returned when attaching a volume fails due to the capabilities of an existing server’s host. Also corrected a typo in the human readable error message.
• Updated API docs to v1.26.0
  • Fixed incorrectly specified nested associations which previously reported multiple levels deep by referencing top level collections. The API behaviour did not change but the API docs described them inaccurately.
  • Standardised on “compact” subschema to replace “nested” named versions.
  • Renamed “SQL snapshots” to “Database Snapshots” to match other resources.
• Released brightbox-cli v4.1.0
  • Add volume-size to servers create to allow passing of arbitary sizes for network based storage types.
  • Full Changelog.
• Released fog-brightbox v1.8.0 to add support for passing volume_size during server creation. Full Changelog.

17th August 2022

• Released fog-brightbox v1.7.3 to fix generation of storage public URLs. Full Changelog.

16th August 2022

• Added API support for attaching Volumes to Cloud Servers with local SSD storage server types
  • Servers created before 22nd June 2022 may need to be shutdown and started to gain support
• API call to mapCloudIp can now accept a Server identifier directly rather than requiring an Interface ID.
• Fixed rewrite issue preventing viewing API docs without file extension.

10 August 2022

• Added an additional 10Gbps capacity to BSO IP Transit interconnect

8 August 2022

• Add DatabaseEngine resources to Brightbox REST API
  • Includes expose available engines: (MySQL and PostgreSQL).
  • Includes details of available versions.
• Fixed API docs to use “Database Servers” instead of “Cloud SQL” or “SQL instances” to standardised terms. This changed some API operation names.
• Added meta.databaseEngine field to our GraphQL API to expose available engines and versions without authentication.

1 August 2022

• Released brightbox-cli v4.0.0
  • Improved support for two factor authentcation (2FA), automatically prompting without any configuration requirements.
    • brightbox login will work correctly if 2FA is enabled for your user.
  • Added support to specify Image --min-ram when creating or updating. This can be used to prevent creating a server without the required amount of RAM to boot successfully.
  • Improved release process including Rubygems Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
  • Added support for Ruby 3.1 and 3.2 to automated testing.
  • Support for older Rubies have been dropped. Ruby 2.5 is the earliest supported version.
  • Using fog-brightbox v1.7.0 with improved 2FA behaviour and fixed missing attributes.
  • Removed hypenated versions of sub-commands left for backward compatibility with earlier gems. Use brightbox servers instead of brightbox-servers.
  • Updates to several gems to fix deprecation warnings seen on supported Ruby versions.
  • Dozens of other tweaks and fixes.
  • Full Changelog.
• Corrected API specification to remove some documented but non-existant attributes, firewall_rule.name and account.description.
• Fixed a possible issue sending a support message.

28 July 2022

• Released fog-brightbox v1.7.0 with support for ConfigMaps and all current API attributes. Full Changelog.

27 July 2022

• Load balancers now support elliptic curve private keys.
• Fixed a problem formatting extremely long names on invoices.
• Added meta.serverTypes field to our GraphQL API to expose available server types and specs without authentication.

22 July 2022

• New My IP Address convenience option for Cloud SQL access control rules in Control Panel

15 July 2022

• New official AlmaLinux 8 and 9 images now available as a 100% RHEL compatible alternative to CentOS.

13 July 2022

• Our main phone number has changed to +44(0)113 347 4977.

6 July 2022

• Cloud SQL backend infrastructure improvements which greatly increase Cloud SQL instance builds and future database engine version releases
• Database engine version updates:
  • MySQL 5.6 removed
  • PostgreSQL 9.5 and 9.6 removed
  • PostgreSQL 13 and 14 added

27 June 2022

• OpenStack Swift v3 keystone authentication API support for Orbit which opens up a number of new integration options.

22 June 2022

• Block Storage Volumes available in Beta providing super flexible and highly available storage for Cloud Servers.

20 April 2022

• Added glue records to brightbox.com domain, reducing latency of all uncached DNS lookups.

5 April 2022

• All our DNS servers now have IPv6 AAAA records.

1 December 2021

• Previously advised changes to IPv6 Cloud IPs now in effect.

22 October 2021

• New Windows Server 2019 official image now available in the cloud server image library.

7 October 2021

• Announced forthcoming changes to IPv6 Cloud IP address NAT.