Flight Solo Release Notes

It is recommended to use the latest version of Flight Solo listed here to ensure that the most up-to-date features, security patches and bug fixes are present in your environment.

2024.1

New Features:

• View the currently running configuration tasks along with durations in Flight Profile view
• Ability to migrate Silo software downloads to "archives" which can be re-applied to new instances of Flight Solo
• Rename and add descriptions to Silos

Improvements:

• Quicker Flight Profile configuration process with streamlined options
• General security & stability improvements
• Clear output from Flight Silo file list command
• Support for genders-style and regex node selection in Flight Hunter commands
• Flight Silo permissions checking and directory selection

Known Limitations:

• Azure: Kubernetes container DNS network does not resolve
• Flight Silo: Editing the details of a silo that's including in an archive may cause "Silo not found" errors
• Flight Silo: Removing a silo defined locally that is deleted upstream will result in an error
• Flight Hunter: Interactive parse text-box can scroll up the terminal window in sessions with few columns (low width)
• Flight Profile: Completed nodes show check tasks from subsequent runs in view output

2023.6

New Features:

• OS upgraded to EL9
• Multi-user support with IPA in SLURM Multinode cluster configurations
• Addition of auto-removal hooks for Flight Profile to allow compute nodes to

Improvements:

• General improvements to execution speed of Flight tools
• General security & stability improvements

Known Issues:

• Azure: Kubernetes container DNS network does not resolve
• Flight Hunter: Interactive parse text-box can scroll up the terminal window in sessions with few columns (low width)

2023.5

New Features:

• Added support for accepting comma-separated list of nodes in 'hunter remove-node'.
• Added apply restrictions/queues to profile.
• Added support for OpenStack to silo.
• Added support to trigger 'remove' command on head-node when a child node shuts down.
• Added support for timeout/retry service to hunter's 'send' command.

Improvements:

• Various stability and performance improvements in Profile, Silo and Console API.

2023.4

New Features:

• Added support for square bracket expansion in Flight Profile action commands.
• Flight Profile Configure can now accurately guess what the answers should be.
• Added new supported way to watch profile application progress.
• Silo has a new file type called 'software', with specific commands.
• Silo can now create and delete files and silos.
• Default node hostnames are now more similar and simpler.
• Choosing a cluster type now locks you into that type. Also added a new command to reset the cluster type.
• Flight Profile can now accept configure options from json data.
• Added new user data to pass configure data and automatically apply identities.

Improvements:

• Increased stability between EL7 and EL8 nodes.
• Improvements to environments stability.
• Improved and updated openflighthpc documentation.
• General stability and process improvements across Flight Solo.