[Labs-announce] Horizon upgrade tomorrow (Tuesday), 16:00 UTC (DONE)

[Andrew Bogott]

This upgrade is now complete.  I see a few immediate clumsy spots in the 
GUI that I'm going to work on ironing out today, but everything should 
now be usable.  Let me know if you run into trouble!

-Andrew


On 2/13/17 11:58 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
>     Tomorrow I'm going to upgrade https://horizon.wikimedia.org/ from 
> version 'Liberty' to version 'Mitaka'.  I've scheduled an hour-long 
> window for the upgrade, although the actual switch-over should be much 
> shorter.  Downtime should be minimal; I'll be clearing caches as part 
> of the upgrade, so login sessions will be interrupted, and performance 
> may suffer a bit while the cache is cold.
>
>     The Mitaka version contains a lot of new Javascript front-end 
> code.  Some of the new interfaces (in particular the one for creating 
> new VMs) are a bit strange and will take some getting used to.  
> Overall, though, the Mitaka upgrade is an improvement, and I have high 
> hopes that it will considerably improve performance.
>
>     I've tested the new version extensively, but there may well be 
> breakages around the corners of some of our custom features, so don't 
> hesitate to notify me if you see new, bad behavior.
>
> -Andrew
>