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Convox Newsletter April 2023: Releases and Updates, v2 Rack and v3 Racks, Rack and CLI

Hello Convox Community! It's time for our latest newsletter! We hope you're all doing well and that you're as excited as we are to hear about the latest updates and releases for our product.

In this edition, we'll be sharing all the new features, improvements, and reminders that we think you'll find interesting and important. So, let's dive in and explore what's new!

Product updates and notifications:

Releases and Updates:

  • AWS Govcloud Support: Users can now install racks in AWS GovCloud.
  • V3 Racks:
  • IMDSv1 to IMDSv2 on v3 racks: you now have the option to require session tokens when accessing metadata and can also choose to make this feature optional if you prefer. To test out this feature, you can install a rack with the new imds_http_tokens parameter, which allows you to control whether session tokens are required for metadata access.
  • Configure the TLS version in the rack: It allows for the configuration of the TLS version in the rack. With the ability to configure the TLS version in the rack, customers can have more control over the security of their applications and data.

Latest Releases:

To keep you updated on the latest releases, here is a summary of our recent work:

Version 3 (RSS or GitHub)

3.11.0

  • Fix e2e

3.11.1

  • Feat: Add support to specify nginx ingress controller ssl protocols #600
  • Replace the deprecated registry #601
  • Replicates a v2 paradigm where you can have a minimum number of on-demand instances for guaranteed service availability but utilize Spot for most of your scaling needs #592

3.11.2

  • Change rack name #589
  • Fix for aws gov cloud (#609)
  • Remove outdated code and unused lib (#611)

3.8.5

  • Add fix for route table and bucket acl not allowed error

3.9.4

  • Add fix for route table and bucket acl not allowed error

3.10.8

  • Add fix for route table and bucket acl not allowed error

Article: Understanding Rack and CLI Versioning

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible experience for our customers, we want to ensure that you have a clear understanding of our product versioning. We know that managing different versions of our CLI and Rack offerings can be a source of confusion, so we've put together this blog post to address some common misconceptions and provide guidance on how to handle versioning effectively. Whether you're a new user or a long-time customer, we hope that this information will help you get the most out of our products. Click here to read.

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