What's new in IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry version 3.1.1

Get a quick overview of what was added, changed, improved, or deprecated in this release.

Feature enhancements

• IBM® Cloud Private Cloud Foundry version 3.1.1 introduces IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry console version 2. Use the IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry console to create and manage your Cloud Foundry applications and services. You can also manage multiple Cloud Foundry platforms, including IBM Cloud Public.
• Installation console for managing and monitoring IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry deployments.
• Moved from BOSH releases to Cloud Foundry BOSH deployments (see versions).
• BOSH Backup and Restore is available. For more details, see BOSH Backup and Restore .
• Backups of the UAADB, CCDB, Director, and the deployments are available. See Configuring backups for IBM® Cloud Private Cloud Foundry for more information.
• HA Proxy is no longer supported as part of Cloud Foundry deployment. Instead, Go Router instances will be configured to host wildcard system and application domain certificates.
• IBM® Cloud Private Cloud Foundry now provides a Helm chart called ibm-osb-database which can be deployed as a cluster service broker into IBM Cloud Private and is built to the Open Service Broker API specification. See Implementing Open Service Broker (OSB) database in IBM® Cloud Private Cloud Foundry.
• IBM® Cloud Private Cloud Foundry allows you to configure forwarding of local syslog events with an embedded extension. See Configuring forwarding of platform system logs.
• You can now manage all deployment parameters from the IBM® Cloud Private Cloud Foundry user interface. See Installing IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry with the user interface.
• IBM® Cloud Private Cloud Foundry now supports AWS. See Specifying AWS parameters to set the parameters for your AWS infrastructure.

Other enhancements

• Cloud Foundry was upgraded to version 4.5.0
• All Cloud Foundry deployments are precompiled with Stemcell version 3586.42, which includes many enhancements and security fixes. Ubuntu Xenial Stemcell 97.16 is used for the BOSH director deployment.

New components

• bosh-aws-cpi: 72
• silk: 2.16.0
• credhub: 1.9.5

What changed

With the introduction of IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry version 3.1.1, the following package versions changed:

• CloudFoundry cf-deployment upgraded to 4.5.0
• Stemcell upgraded to 3586.42
• bosh upgraded to 268.0.1
• bosh-vsphere-cpi upgraded to 50
• bosh-openstack-cpi upgraded to 39
• capi upgraded to 1.69.0
• cf-networking upgraded to 2.16.0
• cf-syslog-drain upgraded to 7.1
• cflinuxfs2 upgraded to 1.238.0
• consul upgraded to 196
• diego upgraded to 2.17.0
• garden-runc upgraded to 1.16.4
• loggregator upgraded to 103.2
• nats upgraded to 26
• routing upgraded to 0.182.0
• uaa upgraded to 61.0

There is a change to the upgrade procedure when you move from version IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry 3.1.0 to version 3.1.1. For more information, see Upgrading IBM® Cloud Private Cloud Foundry.

IBM Buildpacks

• Application Management utilities are now deprecated in the SDK for Node.js and are eligible for removal in a future release. For more information, see Deprecation of Separate Application Management in IBM SDK for Node.js Buildpack .

• DotNet is upgraded from version v1.0.26 to v2.0-20180918-1356. For more information on community contents in this buildpack, see Latest updates to the ASP.NET Core buildpack .

Community Buildpacks

• Binary buildpack is upgraded from version 1.0.18 to version 1.0.25.
• Go buildpack is upgrade from version 1.8.21 to version 1.8.26.
• PHP buildpack is upgrade from version 4.3.53 to version 4.3.59.
• Java buildpack is upgrade from version 4.10 to version 4.15.
• Ruby buildpack is upgrade from version 1.7.16 to version 1.7.22.
• Python buildpack is upgrade from version 1.6.14 to version 1.6.20.
• Staticfile buildpack is upgrade from version 1.4.27 to version 1.4.31.