Changelog
15th May 2023
- Update Brightbox REST API to v1.34.0
- Adds
metdata
query parameter to showmetadata/labels
in the API output - Removed inaccurate
deleteLoadBalancer
example where a 409 Conflict was documented but could not be returned - API schema now enforced on
createDatabaseServer
andupdateDatabaseServer
- Adds
- The following features are reported as labels are added:
-
features.brightbox.com/cluster_ips
reports if an account should see cluster IPs directly -
features.brightbox.com/resize
reports if a database server can be resized -
features.brightbox.com/nbs
reports if a zone has network block storage available
-
- Various fixes when
updateDatabaseServer
was passednull
values where only strings should be allowed.
20th April 2023
- Fix
meta.images
field to GraphQL API to stabilise order by grouping by “available” and “deprecated” images.
9th March 2023
- Changed
createDatabaseServer
to randomise themaintenance_workday
andmaintenance_hour
if not specified. - Fixes to internal handling of ACME process to better support when upstream is unavailable.
27th February 2023
- Updated Brightbox REST API to v1.33.1
- Documents events API
limit
option as capped at 50 entries.
- Documents events API
23rd February 2023
- Updated Brightbox REST API docs to v1.33.0 removing support for FTP based Image registrations from API. This has been replaced by HTTP based registration.
-
createImage
not longer supports thesource
parameter -
Accounts resetFtpPassword
now returns 410 Gone as no FTP access is available. -
account
attributes related to FTP now show as blank strings ornull
.
-
16th February 2023
- Fixed an issue when unsupported characters in email address would raise a server error.
- Fixed issues handling invalid query parameters that could cause server errors.
8th February 2023
- Released
brightbox-cli
v4.5.0.- Added
sql instances reset
subcommand to restart DBMS when stuck or to pick up new resources. - Added
sql instances resize
subcommand to increase available resources available to database server. - Changelog
- Added
- Updated Brightbox REST API docs to v1.32.1
- Added
Databaseserver.resize
to request increasing resources available to a database server. - Added
DatabaseServer.reset
to allow resetting DBMS when stuck or to pick up increased resources. - Fixes to inconsistent ISO8601 time precision across different resources
- Added
- Fixed an issue in event stream API where a resource action was marked as affecting itself.
- Fixed an issue in event API where the same resource was reported as being affected multiple times.
- Fixed spelling of
occurred
across error messages and documentation.
26th January 2023
- Released
brightbox-cli
v4.4.0.- Added
configmaps
subcommand for managing config maps - Changelog
- Added
- Released
fog-brightbox
v1.11.0. Changelog
24th January 2023
- Released
fog-brightbox
v1.10.0. Changelog
12th January 2023
- Released
brightbox-cli
v4.3.2.- Declared top level help for
volumes
subcommand - Fix
volumes update --delete-with-server
switch - Fix
lbs update --sslv3
switch - Fix
servers update --compatibility-mode
switch - Workaround GLI issue where command switches are always present resulting in API requests on updates always using a default value even if nothing was passed in by user.
- Changelog
- Declared top level help for
11th January 2023
- Released
brightbox-cli
v4.3.1.- Fixes issue in locale file breaking help output
- Changelog
- Released
brightbox-cli
v4.3.0.- Adds
volume
subcommand for Volume management. - Update to used
fog-brightbox v.1.9.1
- Changelog
- Adds
10th January 2023
- Released
fog-brightbox
v1.9.1. Changelog
9th January 2023
- Released
fog-brightbox
v1.9.0. Changelog
15th December 2022
- Updated Brightbox REST API docs to v1.31.0
- Added
User.2fa
to output - Fixes to some
required
properties missed due to typos - Fixes to some nested schema where full rather than compact schema were used.
- Added
- Added
meta.images
field to GraphQL API to expose public image details.
13th December 2022
- Updated Brightbox REST API docs to v1.30.0
- Added
Volume.zone
to output - Added
createDatabaseSnapshot
operation - Added
DatabaseType.cores
to output
- Added
- Added
meta.databaseTypes
field to our GraphQL API to expose available database server types without authentication.
5th December 2022
- Fix extending timeouts for image registration when URL a slow HTTP source.
- Early release of Metrics API.
- Released
fog-brightbox
v1.8.1 to enable newer image registration API calls. Full Changelog.
23rd November 2022
- Increased load balancer reserved buffer size for request header processing to fix handing of
X-Forwarded-For
on large requests.
9th November 2022
- Relocate global search out of the top bar into a modal to avoid confusion with resource list filters. Invoke search by clicking search icon or keystroke
/
orcmd + k
- Expose Zone attribute on Volumes
- Display a reload button should a browser become disconnected from the event stream
3rd November 2022
- Added event records when server and database server snapshots are automatically cleaned up replacing a server event.
- Fix to push event notifications to a server or database server when a snapshot is cleaned up on schedule.
1st November 2022
- Updated
CreateImage
API call to allowhttp_url
as an alternative source. This may be used to request a new image from an existing file retrieved using HTTP or HTTPS. - Performance fix in
CreateServer
API call on certain hosts. - Released
brightbox-cli
v4.2.0- Added support for
images create
to use the newurl
,server
, andvolume
arguments.
- Added support for
23rd October 2022
- Added the Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) official image.
18th October 2022
- Added PostgreSQL 15 support to database server engines.
14th October 2022
- Kubernetes Cloud Controller 1.23.13, 1.24.6 and 1.25.3 released
- Kubernetes Cluster Terraform manifests default changed to 1.25.3
28th September 2022
- Added
X-JWT-Expires-In
header to API response, where applicable, to report expiry of JSON web token in number of seconds.
26th September 2022
21st September 2022
- Added new
CreateDatabaseSnapshot
API call to create snapshots from the database server ID. - Deprecated
SnapshotDatabaseServer
API call replaced by above. - 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 ÂŁ0.10 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
toservers create
to allow passing of arbitary sizes for network based storage types. - Full Changelog.
- Add
- Released
fog-brightbox
v1.8.0 to add support for passingvolume_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 ofbrightbox-servers
. - Updates to several gems to fix deprecation warnings seen on supported Ruby versions.
- Dozens of other tweaks and fixes.
- Full Changelog.
- Improved support for two factor authentcation (2FA), automatically prompting without any configuration requirements.
- Corrected API specification to remove some documented but non-existant attributes,
firewall_rule.name
andaccount.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.