Changelog

All the latest updates, improvements, and fixes to Parallel Works ACTIVATE

January 2026

Jan 16, 2026

v6.12.0

Jan 16, 2026v6.12.0

Enhancements and Features

Scheduler-agent now supports pbs and custom flags

The scheduler-agent workflow action now supports reserving nodes on PBS.

Bug Fixes

Loading FSx marketplace configs does not work for existing configurations
Pw operator not correctly updating deployment images

Jan 15, 2026

v6.11.2

Jan 15, 2026v6.11.2

Enhancements and Features

The application navigation has been refreshed with a more modern design. Fonts across the application have been updated for improved readability. The workflow list widget on the home page has been modernized.

Bug Fixes

Code-server settings are lost on workspace restart
Cost estimator don't show on Google Managed Lustre definition page
Users with MFA enabled can not login using OIDC
Certain workflows failing due to scp issue
Incorrect theme after login
Terminal not responding to OSC queries
Bucket credentials button not working on home screen widget
Cannot run workflow which prompts for session name
Existing clusters do not autoreconnect
Google managed lustre instances with same name show incorrect provision status and can't delete properly
Group by doesn't properly group resources by status
Hide back to login options if theres only one login option
Kubernetes only platforms still require user host to be set in platform settings
Workflows sometimes appear to be running even after they should be finished

Other Changes

pw CLI shell completions in user workspace
Remove java from user workspace
Tmux now available in user workspace

Jan 14, 2026

v6.10.1

Jan 14, 2026v6.10.1

Enhancements and Features

Organizations can now use feature preview interface for their users

Organizations can now toggle feature previews on and off for users within your organization from the user details page.

Show instance bootstrap steps in provision status

Instance bootstrap steps will be shown in provision status modal

Bug Fixes

Cluster name shown on cluster-specific jobs list
Scheduler jobs list empty for existing type clusters
Terminal loses which tab its on when you click off of Terminal page

Jan 13, 2026

v6.9.1

Jan 13, 2026v6.9.1

Enhancements and Features

Legacy Google Lustre and Azure Lustre now removed

Support for the legacy implementations of Google Lustre and Azure Lustre has been removed. New deployments must use the managed versions of these offerings.

Platform name setting

Administrators can now set a platform name from the admin panel. This will be shown on the login pages.

New platform onboarding

Customers that use self-service install can now create the first organization and user from a built-in setup page.

The SSO and authentication pages have been refreshed with a modern look and feel. Organization login pages now automatically derive their theme from the organization’s selected branding for a consistent experience.

Workflow bracket indexing support

Workflows now support numeric indexing with brackets while accessing input properties in expressions.

Bug Fixes

Workflows failing due to scp error
Workflows timing out after 6 hours
Auto retry SCPs in workflow execution up to 2 additional times
Azure ARM instances are marked as AMD64 in instance selector
Can type spaces in group creation form
Cluster warning tooltip behind power button and slider
Ephemeral and unprovisioned storage show up in attach storage modal
Fail to get cost estimator for us-gov-west-1 region
Google managed lustre doesn't return deleting or delete status
Google managed lustre provision status doesn't handle early deletion
Not able to delete failed bucket
Provision requested continuously spins for Google Managed Lustre
Unable to restart workspace if statefulset doesnt exist

Jan 8, 2026

v6.8.0

Jan 8, 2026v6.8.0

Enhancements and Features

Google Managed Lustre is now generally available

Users with access to Google Cloud Platform accounts can provision Google Managed Lustre directly within ACTIVATE. Once created, this storage can be attached to clusters in the same way as existing storage offerings.

Bug Fixes

Ignore not present in workflow schema, causing workflow builder to show invalid workflow
Workspace not starting due to large chown operation

Jan 7, 2026

v6.7.1

Jan 7, 2026v6.7.1

Bug Fixes

Cannot submit workflows because hidden/optional paremeters are being considered required
New images are automatically set as latest
Should not allow creating sshprivatekey with same key name

Documentation Changes

Remove legacy cluster docs

Jan 6, 2026

v6.6.0

Jan 6, 2026v6.6.0

Bug Fixes

Disk shows up in disk attach dropdown even if its already attached
Attaching filesystems list is empty on cluster page when cloud account is enabled
Azure managed lustre can't provision when selecting autozone
Cannot delete failed Google Managed Lustre instances
Cost table not showing 125 MBps/TiB and 250 MBps/TiB tiers on google managed lustre creation page
Google managed lustre instances fail on creation when auto zone is selected.
Links on login page uncolored
Shared cluster definition page can crash randomly
Userworkspace failed to run on AL2023
Workflow ignore field not working on flattened groups

Jan 2, 2026

v6.5.2

Jan 2, 2026v6.5.2

Bug Fixes

Refreshing on user workspace edit page causes unknown error
Workspaces list page can timeout if some user hosts are unreachable

Other Changes

Change minimum memory for user worksapces to 500M

Jan 1, 2026

v6.5.1

Jan 1, 2026v6.5.1

Bug Fixes

Ignored fields in workflows still being sent to API

December 2025

Dec 30, 2025

v6.5.0

Dec 30, 2025v6.5.0

Enhancements and Features

New `compute-resources` field for workflows

There is now a compute-resources field which will provide both cluster resources and kubernetes resources to a workflow in a single field.

Organization-level user host setting

When running docker workspaces, the default user host that users land on can now be configured by organization administrators.

PW CLI short term token provided when getting bucket credentials

Getting credentials for a provisioned bucket now provides a default option: using the PW CLI with a short-term token (12 hours) for bucket interaction. The previous method using cloud credentials directly is still available as option 2 on the credentials modal.

Bug Fixes

Arm instances showing as amd64 architecture
Cannot close temrinal if tab name is too long
Cannot disconnect from existing type cluster
Deleting marketplace workflow does not delete favorited workflow
Failed nodes prevent you from stopping controller
Large filesystems show undefined in user workspace storage info
Stoped clusters do not show on home page cluster list widget
Unable to update cluster while running
User workspace status banner doesn't show up if user workspace host unavailable

Other Changes

Refresh the copy-to-clipboard UI

Dec 29, 2025

v6.4.1

Dec 29, 2025v6.4.1

Bug Fixes

Workflow run page crashing on certain workflows

Dec 28, 2025

v6.4.0

Dec 28, 2025v6.4.0

Bug Fixes

New managed clusters cannot load nodes page

Dec 26, 2025

v6.3.0

Dec 26, 2025v6.3.0

Enhancements and Features

Pw ssh cluster name support

You can now use just the cluster name i.e. pw ssh mycluster instead of pw ssh pw://username/mycluster when connecting to clusters in your own account.

Bug Fixes

Cannot save cluster without tags
New API keys are not hidden
Clusters list doesn't load if user workspace is not available
pw ssh command not sizing the terminal correctly
pw ssh times out
__USER__ string not substituted for usernames in existing cluster connection string
Cannot creation manual sessions with empty remote host
Connection string not showing for private networks
Platform with multiple DNS records "continue to session" link incorrect
Windows pw ssh resize not detected

Dec 23, 2025

v6.2.0

Dec 23, 2025v6.2.0

Enhancements and Features

OS updates for Rocky 8.10 and 9.7 releases

Adds support for missing NVIDIA libraries and migrates to new OFED driver on Azure

Bug Fixes

Deleted buckets temporarily show up on attach filesystem dropdown
Cloud clusters not showing in terminal quick connect

Dec 21, 2025

v6.1.1

Dec 21, 2025v6.1.1

Bug Fixes

Unable to restore from snapshot for disks

Dec 20, 2025

v6.1.0

Dec 20, 2025v6.1.0

Bug Fixes

Recommended commands in storage credentials modal does not include FIPS variables
Incorrect "provisioning" state when bucket or Lustre provision scheduling fails
Mass updater does not use theme color for loader
Managed clusters access management toggle not showing
Slurm agent action using wrong log directory path

Dec 19, 2025

v6.0

Dec 19, 2025v6.0

Bug Fixes

Sparse checkout for remote workflows not working as expected
Explorer does not work with shared Azure bucket
Workspace mount fields are incorrectly editable when cluster is on

Dec 18, 2025

v5.205

Dec 18, 2025v5.205

Legacy Clusters

Legacy clusters will no longer work after this release. All users must migrate to the current generation of cloud clusters before updating.

For background, see our 2024 announcement: Next-Generation Cloud Clusters

Bug Fixes

Groups can incorrectly be created with spaces in names
User with no groups get error instead of empty list when going to kubernetes page
Start times showing NaN on active cloud nodes table
Typo in workflow logs when cancel command received
Workflows with no inputs show empty white panel
Can't use latest image for clusters in some environments
Workflow runs submitted via API that do not specify app info fail
Compute nodes cant use image larger than 100Gb
Checkout action not working remotely when trying to sparse checkout with multiple patterns
Unable to provision a cluster in environments where built-in waf is enabled

Documentation Changes

Add deployment guide

Dec 15, 2025

v5.203

Dec 15, 2025v5.203

Bug Fixes

Workflow configuration page crashes intermittently
pw workflows ls returning 404
Workflows fallback to GitHub CDN if API is throttled
Deleted users can cause marketplace not to load

Documentation Changes

Update restart workspace modal explaining workflows are canceled

Dec 13, 2025

v5.194

Dec 13, 2025v5.194

Enhancements and Features

New terminal page

There's a new page that is just a full screen version of the user workspace terminal, you can access it by turning it on in your sidebar settings.

Storage Explorer GA

Storage Explorer is now generally available across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You can browse buckets, upload and download files, and generate presigned URLs directly from the ACTIVATE web interface.

Buckets provisioned within the last six months should work automatically. For older buckets, a one-time action is required. When you open the Storage Explorer, click the button to add the required CORS rules.

The Storage Explorer is accessible from both the bucket details page and the sidebar.

Default terminal theme is now dark

The default terminal theme has been updated to the dark theme. You can try out other themes from your settings.

Bug Fixes

Workflow parser can fail to load if streaming fails
Unable to select built in workflow configurations
Cannot select a configuration on launcher modal
Agent logs can grow too large
New organizations cannot edit theme
Display name not used on organization page

Dec 12, 2025

v5.192

Dec 12, 2025v5.192

Enhancements and Features

Clarified workflow interactions with user workspace restarts

When the user workspace is restarted, all running workflows are immediately canceled. This has always been the case, since workflows run inside the workspace, but the UI did not previously reflect this correctly. Workflows could show a canceled status while individual steps appeared to still be running.

All steps are now correctly marked as skipped, and a clear cancellation reason is available by hovering over the workflow status. In addition, sessions created by a workflow will no longer be automatically re-established after a workspace restart, as this was not intended behavior.

CLI transfers now show progress bar

Transfers to cloud buckets using the PW CLI will now show a progress bar for each file.

User workspace status indicators

When the user workspace is starting, there will now be a dismissible banner present on the top of every page. Additionally, you will not be able to navigate to tunnel sessions or click execute on workflows until your workspace is up.

Bug Fixes

Prevent executing workflows while workspace is down
Home page widgets don't drop exactly where they are dropped
Groups should not be required for mass import
Cost page doesn't auto select a group
Buckets not creating
Snapshotting a cluster's root disk fails but shows provisioned
Cloud node metrics still show even after node is deleted
Instance type list not using cached list
Workflows don't have scheduler type for cloud clusters
Workflow logs can grow too large
Updating marketplace items not working
Node metrics chart tooltip overflows if there's a lot of nodes

Documentation Changes

Update windows CLI install instructions

Dec 9, 2025

v5.189

Dec 9, 2025v5.189

Bug Fixes

Cluster list can fail if it does not have slurm login nodes defined
Instance monitor does not always list all clusters

Dec 8, 2025

v5.187

Dec 8, 2025v5.187

Bug Fixes

Cluster list can fail if it does not have slurm login nodes defined
Checkout in marketplace remote workflows not working
Non-snapshot storages appear as options in the snapshot dropdown

Dec 6, 2025

v5.182

Dec 6, 2025v5.182

Enhancements and Features

Workflow action bar shortcuts

The workflow action bar now includes quick-access shortcuts to fork, duplicate, favorite, and when applicable, a direct link to the Marketplace for Marketplace workflows.

Able to publish/unpublish images from admin panel

Platform administrators can now change the published status of images from the admin panel images page.

`pw ssh` support for Windows

PW CLI ssh command now works on Windows.

Bug Fixes

Favorite button on workflow list not working
Sessions are not showing workflow thumbnails
Cannot copy snapshots
OpenAI field in workflow yaml ignored
Marketplace favorite items are not fetching remote details from marketplace
Fork and duplicate working inconsistently for workflows
Running recently favorited marketplace workflows not working when workflow feature preview enabled

Dec 5, 2025

v5.180

Dec 5, 2025v5.180

Enhancements and Features

Dark themes generally available

Introduced full dark-theme support. Use "Change Theme" in the top-right user menu to switch between light and dark modes.

Allow disabling rate limiting by setting `RATE_LIMIT_PER_SECOND` to -1

Self-hosted deployments of ACTIVATE can disable rate limiting by settings the RATE_LIMIT_PER_SECOND env variable to -1

Bug Fixes

Snapshot provision status not showing up and shortcuts incorrectly disabled
Storage widget does not let users w/ shared access to navigate to details/edit page

Dec 4, 2025

v5.178

Dec 4, 2025v5.178

Bug Fixes

Recreating a shared bucket with the same name does not show the newly created bucket to shared users
Unable to set images to latest in admin panel
Form slider styling
Saving cluster config while running wipe out some cluster variables
Favorite marketplace workflows have out of order inputs
Can't update cluster partition config on private network deployment
Kubernetes secret/configmap widget not showing results
Session slug is not populated properly
Session text unreadable on dark mode
Unknown Error when opening see all instances page while node box is empty
Cannot attach or detach workspace mount while cluster is running
Kubernetes user workspaces created with wrong configmap name
Snapshots not finding group is causing page to reload

Dec 3, 2025

v5.175

Dec 3, 2025v5.175

Enhancements and Features

Workflow `parallelworks/checkout` action

You can now checkout git repositories inside of a workflow using the parallelworks/checkout action.

Add none scheduler type to existing cluster

existing type clusters can now specify a Batch Scheduler of "None", which is useful for workflows that have special logic based on the type of scheduler used on a cluster. The value of this in a workflow will be an empty string.

Bug Fixes

Session names always remove underscores
Error page doesn't automatically clear when fixing remote workflow details
Provision status is not showing from list pages
Snapshot page not automatically refreshing
Remote workflows cached for a time

Documentation Changes

Actions and workflow updates

Dec 2, 2025

v5.168

Dec 2, 2025v5.168

Enhancements and Features

Markdown table support

You can now use extended markdown such as tables anywhere you could previously use markdown.

Google Assured Workloads support for Cloud Networks

Cloud account networks now work with Google Cloud Assured Workloads

Refreshed workflow pages design

We've refreshed the workflow pages, making them more similar to the design of the compute resource and storage pages.

Workflows can access scheduler type on input form

Workflows can now access scheduler type via expressions:

jobs:
  echo_on_remote:
    steps:
      - name: Print scheduler type
        run: |
          echo ${{ inputs.cluster.schedulerType }}
'on':
  execute:
    inputs:
      cluster:
        type: compute-clusters
      slurmPartition:
        type: slurm-partitions
        hidden: ${{ inputs.cluster.schedulerType !== 'slurm' }}
        optional: true

Install `nvidia-container-toolkit` in cluster images

New base images for clusters will have nvidia-container-toolkit pre-installed.

Support storage type on workflow form

The storage type on the workflow builder now exists.

Bug Fixes

Os-login not disabled on GCP instances
User login times not localized
Add org fields wrong color
Sessions widget doesn't auto refresh
Clicking reset to default theme not working
Unable to select image on new partition
Storage permission "View & Edit" incorrectly named
Errors on snapshot page not showing error message
Spaces in remote workflow properties break the workflow
Sparse checkout not saving
Kubernetes home page widget always shows error
Instance dropdown not showing "all sizes" link
Stop button should be disabled if cluster is provisioning
Placeholder not allowed on dropdown type
Restore snapshot on disk page not working
Localize helm updated at times
Sessions page has unthemed text
Workflow slider type always says it must be false
Tooltips go under table headers
Blank message pops up when deleting cluster
Existing clusters without sftp disconnect during healthcheck
Kubernetes config data overlaps parent panel

Other Changes

Localize run canceled message

November 2025

Nov 20, 2025

v5.167

Nov 20, 2025v5.167

Bug Fixes

Os-login not disabled on GCP instances

Nov 19, 2025

v5.165

Nov 19, 2025v5.165

Enhancements and Features

Add partition level slurm suspend timeout setting

Cluster partition now includes Suspend Time. Setting the value to -1 will disable node suspension.

Kubernetes execute shell now allows selecting container

If a pod has more than a single container, a modal will pop up when clicking on execute shell allowing you to choose which container to exec into.

Bug Fixes

Built-in configurations table has wrong number of columns
Tooltip in wrong place for sparse checkout list
Explorer sidebar theme blends into app sidebar on dark mode
Explorer view empty if only a single bucket is shared
Unable to restart workspace if its not already running
Workflow inputs with defaults shows required and fields without explicit label have no label

Documentation Changes

Examples unreadable on dark mode

Nov 18, 2025

v5.163

Nov 18, 2025v5.163

Enhancements and Features

Admins and organization administrators can now revoke user login sessions from the organization user page. When revoking sessions, there is an option to also immediately revoke login sessions on cloud resources. This will log the user out of all cloud systems managed by the platform, and kill any processes that they are running..

GitHub input fields now load repo/branch options

Bug Fixes

Sessioned google bucket deletion failing
Missing fields not being highlighted on workflow execute
Kubernetes workload creation times not localized
Log viewer uses light color scheme on dark mode
Text on IPs table hard to read on dark mode
Customized sidebar lost when changing languages
Home page table headers overlap tooltips
High levels of zoom cause cluster widget to scroll
Lustre and github icons dark mode theming
Sessions widget requires scrolling at high zoom
Org admin role cannot see allocations
Tooltip in wrong place for sparse checkout list

Nov 12, 2025

v5.162

Nov 12, 2025v5.162

Bug Fixes

Resize the terminal via the maximize/restore button doesn't properly redraw text
Can't click "here" to config workload widget if not in customizing mode
Session open in new tab doesnt use slug

Nov 11, 2025

v5.157

Nov 11, 2025v5.157

Bug Fixes

Theme can enable "use org logo" even if organization does not have logo
Cost estimate shows NaN with unknown costs
Marketplace edit page has duplicate item overview
Azure controller-nat unable to start compute nodes if cluster was started without partition
Inconsistent theming on password inputs
Publish and share icons are not the same everywhere
Link based sessions do not open

Nov 6, 2025

v5.155

Nov 6, 2025v5.155

Bug Fixes

User workspaces not mounting correct home dir path

Nov 5, 2025

v5.154

Nov 5, 2025v5.154

Bug Fixes

Canceled workflows continue counting runtime
Api key text box dark mode theme
Unable to edit new google filestore
Forgot password not working when specifying email
Organizations without themes don't get defaults applied
Ai provider page cannot scroll when list is long
Ai provider page dark theme fixes
Remote workflow icon not shown on workflow list
Unable to see shared sessions
Cluster widget not showing correct clusters based on filter

October 2025

Oct 31, 2025

v5.152

Oct 31, 2025v5.152

Enhancements and Features

Marketplace item page enhancements

Marketplace item pages now include a details pane that provides key information before you fork or favorite an item.

Clusters and storage resources: Display provisioning details.
Remote workflows: Show links to files in the connected repository.

Additionally, workflows in the marketplace now include new tabs for YAML preview and run graph visualization.

Bug Fixes

Pw CLI permissions on cluster nodes too open
Temporary workflow directory permissions too open
Incorrect validation error if session field is empty
Unable to use ai chats shared by other users
Forking remote workflow from marketplace has wrong type
Workflow configs not deleting
Able to provision aws base infras without selecting a networking mode
Fsx logs never get past collecting variables
Workflow runs that fail validation create invalid runs

Documentation Changes

Document workflow named steps
Document writing outputs

Oct 26, 2025

v5.147

Oct 26, 2025v5.147

Enhancements and Features

Manually delete workflow runs

Users can now delete workflow runs from the platform. This will also clean up any files associated with the workflow. Note jobs cannot be deleted while they are running - they must be cancelled first.

Organization admins can reset MFA from user edit page

Organization administrators can now reset the MFA for a specific user from the user edit page.

Bug Fixes

Buckets fail to provision with empty bucket name
Google bucket credentials fail to return consistently
Multi select dropdown missing background
Unable to create organization groups
Permission manager second column title not centered
Dates with no data should show zero in MTD view

Oct 24, 2025

v5.146

Oct 24, 2025v5.146

Bug Fixes

Storage provision status breaks out of modal

Oct 23, 2025

v5.145

Oct 23, 2025v5.145

Bug Fixes

Cost dashboard intermittently doesn't load
Groups with no cost data should not be in filters
AWS snapshots that had buckets attached do not boot

Oct 22, 2025

v5.144

Oct 22, 2025v5.144

Bug Fixes

Add delete confirmation to workflow variables
Deleting buckets gives no UI feedback
API responds with id in incorrect field for reservations
CLI version command always prints development
AWS GovCloud buckets fail to provision
Custom subdomain sessions not working
Cannot scroll horizontally on homepage sessions widget

Oct 21, 2025

v5.142

Oct 21, 2025v5.142

Enhancements and Features

Workflow builder nested workflows suggestions

Smarter Nested Workflow Suggestions

You can now easily discover and insert nested workflows directly while editing your workflow YAML:

Typing uses: marketplace/ or uses: workflow/ automatically suggests all available nested workflow names and slugs.
Typing deeper, like uses: marketplace/someworkflow/, shows all version options for that nested workflow.
After adding with: (note the space), suggestions appear for four input options:
- inputs and inputs only – insert all nested inputs grouped by category.
- simplified inputs – insert only top-level input expressions.

Once selected, the inputs are automatically filled in, and if applicable, a dynamic input form is generated in a section labeled after the nested workflow name.
If the YAML doesn’t already contain on.execute.inputs, it is automatically created.

Existing inputs in the YAML remain unchanged.

YAML ↔ JSON Editor Toggle

You can now seamlessly switch between YAML and JSON views in the editor:

The editor defaults to JSON, but you can switch to YAML using the new button in the top-right corner.
Switch back to JSON at any time.
Both views are fully synced — valid edits in one view are reflected in the other.

Bug Fixes

My workflows hidden incorrectly
Impersonate option hides incorrectly
Oidc edit page never stops loading
Bucket delete modal file name transparent background
Manage access drawer for storages say cluster access

Oct 18, 2025

v5.140

Oct 18, 2025v5.140

Enhancements and Features

Customizable top banner

Organizations can add a line of text at the very top of all pages. The color and message can be customized in the organization theme settings.

Bug Fixes

Storage group settings don't save correctly
Dark mode theme issues
Nested workflows do not have tokens
Prevent deleted buckets from blocking new buckets with same name

Oct 15, 2025

v5.138

Oct 15, 2025v5.138

Enhancements and Features

Organization User Edit Page Redesign

Redesigned the organization user edit page to consolidate all user settings in one place. The platform-level user edit page has been removed, everything is now managed directly from the organization user page for a streamlined experience.

Allow any image for single instances

You can now select any image you want when creating an instance, when typing in the dropdown there is an option to Use {image id}

Bug Fixes

Admin images page dark mode fixes
Favorited and featured items only show up in featured on add page
Hide values by default on workflow variables

Oct 10, 2025

v5.135

Oct 10, 2025v5.135

Enhancements and Features

Allow list of public buckets

The Parallel Works CLI can now be used to list public buckets on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

PW CLI cluster filtering

When using the Parallel Works CLI, you can now filter clusters returned with the new --owned and --status flags.

Examples

# List clusters owned by the user "Jake.Thayne" 
pw cluster ls pw://Jake.Thayne

# List only clusters you own
pw cluster ls --owned

# List only provisioned clusters
pw cluster ls --status=on

Workspace storage usage shown on settings page

You can now see the storage for your user workspace from your account page.

Bug Fixes

LDAP edit page never loads
Open in new tab shows up on breadcrumbs incorrectly
Pw ssh cannot connect to cloud cluster with private ips

Documentation Changes

Add pw ssh proxy command examples for port forward

Oct 7, 2025

v5.134

Oct 7, 2025v5.134

Enhancements and Features

Pw ssh proxy command

Now can use pw ssh --proxy-command as the ProxyCommand option for both SSH and SCP Examples: Run as a ProxyCommand for SSH

ssh -o ProxyCommand="pw ssh --proxy-command %h" user@pw://Jake.Thayne/my-resource
ssh -o ProxyCommand="pw ssh --proxy-command %h" user@workspace

Run as a ProxyCommand for SCP

scp -O -o ProxyCommand="pw ssh --proxy-command %h" file.txt user@pw://Jake.Thayne/my-resource:/home/user/file.txt
scp -O -o ProxyCommand="pw ssh --proxy-command %h" file.txt user@workspace:/home/user/file.txt

Note: only scp -O works at the moment (forcing scp to use sftp protocol)

Allow pw CLI to pull from public buckets

The Parallel Works CLI can now copy files from public buckets even if those buckets are not managed by the ACTIVATE platform. This works on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Bug Fixes

Cloud account group permissions manager always shows own organization's groups
Allow organization theme to override legacy theme
Show error when app target not defined in remote apps
Cannot create instances on cloud networks shared with organization only
Empty google bucket on deletion

Oct 6, 2025

v5.132

Oct 6, 2025v5.132

Enhancements and Features

Pw ssh command

Users can now initiate ssh connection to resources using pw cli

Examples

pw ssh workspace to connect to user workspace
pw ssh pw://namespace/cluster to connect to cluster in a namespace (username)
pw ssh pw://namespace/cluster echo hello to execute a remote command over ssh

Bug Fixes

Can not update or delete workflow configurations
Sessions widget shows an error if there are any OpenAI sessions
Should not show copyable public ip and snapshot button when instance is not ready
Deleted buckets aren't automatically removed from attached storages configuration

Documentation Changes

Pw ssh cli docs

Oct 3, 2025

v5.130

Oct 3, 2025v5.130

Bug Fixes

Can't tell which resource type is selected
Breadcrumbs on editor page do not show

Oct 2, 2025

v5.127

Oct 2, 2025v5.127

Bug Fixes

Alphabetize tags on docs
Sessions list doesn't refresh automatically
Organization new user defaults not saving
Show all buckets on buckets list page
AI Chat links open in a new window
Should not show disk size (GB) field when attaching a disk to AWS cluster

Oct 1, 2025

v5.122

Oct 1, 2025v5.122

Enhancements and Features

Allow selecting workspace for sessions

You can now target your workspace when creating sessions. Example using update-session in a workflow:

      - name: Expose port
        uses: parallelworks/update-session
        with:
          remotePort: ${{ inputs.port }}
          name: ${{ sessions.sessionname }}
          status: 'running'
          target: 'user-workspace'

Bug Fixes

Ip address page provision status doesn't automatically refresh
Powered by Parallel Works always shows

September 2025

Sep 29, 2025

v5.119

Sep 29, 2025v5.119

Enhancements and Features

Auto summarize and archive cost data

Billing now auto summarizes and archives old cost data based on platform or organization policy Archive Cost Data

Recursive support for pw bucket commands

pw bucket commands now support recursive copies with the -r flag.

Sessionless AWS and Azure buckets

New AWS and Azure buckets are now sessionless, meaning after provisioning a bucket, destroying it will also delete the configuration of it. AWS bucket provision statuses are also improved.

Slurm job monitor dashboard generally available

The multi-cluster job monitor is now generally available, and can be found on the sidebar.

Bug Fixes

Global/job workflow env variables not being set correctly
Workflow cancellations marked as error if cancelled during file sync
Notifications in inbox have different heights
Cost dashboard crashes when filters are reset
ML workspaces does not show correct groups
Existing clusters agent stop reporting after token expired
Existing clusters intermittently fail to copy pw cli
Compute nodes can't mount nfs exported disk when using root snapshot as image
Unable to remove tags from storage configuration
Theme issues in HPC Connect
Notifications menu not themed correctly
Remove edit page from buckets

Documentation Changes

Improve workflow docs
Add workspace example

Sep 10, 2025

v5.113

Sep 10, 2025v5.113

Enhancements and Features

Inline disks costs are included in partition costs

Inline disks on partitions are now visible in the Estimate Cost section when configuring a cluster.

Sep 5, 2025

v5.111

Sep 5, 2025v5.111

Enhancements and Features

Customize language settings

By default, we use the language you have set in your browser to display the Parallel Works ACTIVATE application. Now, you can override the browser settings in your account to a specific language. We will then prefer this setting in all cases when displaying localized interfaces.

Localized cluster page

The cluster details page will now be available in supported languages.

Bug Fixes

No hover color on add resource page
Cannot destroy cluster when starting using power button

Sep 4, 2025

v5.107

Sep 4, 2025v5.107

Enhancements and Features

Support google compute node disk attachment

Users can now attach inline disks to google cluster partitions; each node within the partition will receive the same set of disks

Home page localization

We recently added localization into four languages:

Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Spanish

Initially, only the navigation components, the sidebar and the command palette, were localized. Now we've additionally added localization for the home page. We will be continuing these efforts, focusing on the highest touch areas of the ACTIVATE platform first.

Bug Fixes

Incorrect values shown for region on storage pages
Organization variables should not be required to run workflows
Cannot save clusters while running
Versioning shows on bucket details page for providers that do not support versioning
Inline config appearing when attaching disk to running cluster
Style of cost estimator on storage pages is inconsistent with clusters

Sep 3, 2025

v5.102

Sep 3, 2025v5.102

Enhancements and Features

Organizations can now share AI Chat Providers across their members. This allows a single provisioned provider to be reused by multiple users, reducing redundancy and cutting infrastructure costs. Once shared, team members can send messages through the same provider without needing to set up their own.

Show runtime while running

The runtime column on the home page and workflows page will now show information while the workflow is still running. The start times are now shown in relative time, i.e. "5 minutes ago." You can hover over the time to see the date and time. It will also show this information the correct language based on your browser preferences.

Workflow icons will now show on the home page workflow run widget.

Marketplace UI improvements

We've made changes to the marketplace. The item and edit page now have an action bar, with all of the familiar actions being moved onto that bar. Additionally, the marketplace item you're editing can always be seen from the top of the page now.

The marketplace had multiple terms for the concept of favoriting. All of these have been unified under the term "favoriting." For workflows, favoriting an item will make it show up on your workflows list, under "Marketplace Workflows," so you can run it directly from that list. For other items, favoriting the item makes it available in the "Load from Marketplace" dropdowns.

Bug Fixes

Azure controller disk options are wrong
Remove commas from durations in Chinese
Clicking power button destroys instead of resumes stopped clusters
Unable to create an os snapshot when cloud accounts feature is enabled
Light theme terminal has incorrect color for sidebar and menu
Disk dropdowns cannot be seen behind panel
Ldap form inputs are light theme while on dark mode
Admin users edit page not themed correctly
Outline cut off on favorite workflows widget
Failure during AWS Sagemaker initialization is not shown on provision status
Workflow compute-clusters fields do not validate required fields
Text editors did not match theme
Fields on admin settings page incorrect color
Cannot see callouts on dark themes
Add resource page too dark on dark theme, dark icons not always used

Sep 2, 2025

v5.93

Sep 2, 2025v5.93

Enhancements and Features

Archive cost data policy

Added new policy to set how long high-resolution cost data will be stored before being summarized

Bug Fixes

Slurm jobs table not themed correctly
Localize times on instances monitor page
Nodes table on clusters page is missing corners
Filters are not the same size on resource list
Fork icon on market item page incorrect size
Dark theme styling on org users page
Workflow variables not manageable by org admins
Workflow outputs not working between jobs
Slurm job notifications are not sent

August 2025

Aug 27, 2025

v5.88

Aug 27, 2025v5.88

Enhancements and Features

Workflow ssh block will now use ssh config file if available

Aug 26, 2025

v5.87

Aug 26, 2025v5.87

Enhancements and Features

Internationalized and themed terminal

The terminal interface is now internationalized based on your language preferences. Additionally font size and theme is customizable. The themes "light", "dark", "rose pine", and "dracula" are available.

Allow changing workspace mounts while cluster is on

You can now update workspace mounts while a cluster is running.

Manage helm charts

Users can now manage helm charts in kubernetes namespaces they have access to.

Control/command s support for saving yaml in workflow builder

You can now use cmd+s or ctrl+s to save changes on the build tab when building workflows.

Users can choose application theme

Users can set now set their own application theme from the account settings page.

Bug Fixes

Cannot type into terminal font size box
Homepage widget loaders not centered
Cluster slider does not use element text color
Some sessions don't open in a new tab correctly
Tunnel does not redirect to the correct platform domain
Unable to snapshot azure cluster when zone is not specified
Can create OpenAI sessions from update-session workflow step

Documentation Changes

Fix broken images on bucket pages

Aug 19, 2025

v5.78

Aug 19, 2025v5.78

Enhancements and Features

Support aws inline disk definition for cluster partitions

Users can now attach inline disks to cluster partitions; each node within the partition will receive the same set of disks

Bug Fixes

Improve error message for misconfigured marketplace remote workflows
Sliders are unstyled when theme element is unset
Cannot list machine learning workspaces that use base infrastructure
Terminal tabs panel overlaps SSH connection menu

Aug 14, 2025

v5.66

Aug 14, 2025v5.66

Enhancements and Features

Make terminal tab sidebar resizable

You can now resize the sidebar where the terminal tabs are located.

Bug Fixes

Unable to edit Kubernetes cluster thumbnail

Aug 13, 2025

v5.65

Aug 13, 2025v5.65

Enhancements and Features

Use platform bucket name as actual csp bucket name

Users can now customize the bucket name when provisioning a new bucket on AWS and Google Cloud Platform. This was already available on Azure.

Add customize page

This adds a customize page to the organization settings. On this page, you can find overviews of new user defaults, sidebar settings, and the organization theme. Clicking on one of the cards on the page will let you customize the settings.

Bug Fixes

Titlecase is not applied when username is returned from OIDC
Double clicking on the terminal actions maximizes terminal

Aug 12, 2025

v5.64

Aug 12, 2025v5.64

Enhancements and Features

Prevent account creation option and TitleCase options for OIDC

Organizations with OIDC configured can now disable automatic account creation. We also added an option to automatically convert usernames to TitleCase.

Cluster agent push update

There is now a button on clusters allow you to initiate an agent update. This will update the PW Agent and CLI to the latest version.

Bug Fixes

Idle agent connections are never closed
Unable to delete machine learning workspaces that failed to provision
Resources creation fail with unknown errors
Header breaks with expression in text field
AZML storage capacities not showing up after save
Editing and discarding multiple times breaks form
Marketplace remote workflows now fetch description from remote markdown
Snapshots become unassociated when users are deleted

Aug 8, 2025

v5.61

Aug 8, 2025v5.61

Bug Fixes

Cannot use API key directly in Postman or similar tools due to trailing colon

Aug 6, 2025

v5.60

Aug 6, 2025v5.60

Bug Fixes

Unknown error on cluster access save

Aug 5, 2025

v5.59

Aug 5, 2025v5.59

Bug Fixes

Placement group visibility was based on the wrong input condition
Maximizing the terminal doesn't cover breadcrumbs

Aug 4, 2025

v5.53

Aug 4, 2025v5.53

Bug Fixes

Snapshot option being shown on cluster form when attaching existing disk
Terminal text sometimes gets squished together

July 2025

Jul 31, 2025

v5.51

Jul 31, 2025v5.51

Enhancements and Features

Add storage details page

There is now a details page on all storages which gives information about the configuration of the storage.

Jul 28, 2025

v5.48

Jul 28, 2025v5.48

Enhancements and Features

Support attaching inline disks to clusters with auto zone

You can now attach inline disks to google clusters which have an automatically-selected zone

Add email-based user search in admin panel

The search box on the admin panel user's page now supports filtering with email addresses in addition to usernames.

Platform and organization policies

Introduced platform (admin only) and organization policies, which are rules and configurations that are applied to all users and resources at either platform or organizations level. Platform policies take precedence over organization policies.

Bug Fixes

Snapshots list doesn't load if there are any unassociated snapshots
Custom subdomain session redirects to incorrect platform
Linked based sessions don't work without type being specified
Access drawer intermittently saves the wrong permissions
Organization theme not shown on first login

Jul 24, 2025

v5.47

Jul 24, 2025v5.47

Enhancements and Features

You can delete sessions from the home page now.

Vertical terminal tabs

We've changed the terminal tabs to a vertical view. This is in preparation for upcoming support for splitting a terminal tab into multiple terminals.

A menu bar was added to the terminal to open terminals in new tabs and to clear the terminal.

Bug Fixes

Favorite shortcut on resource list has wrong label and icon
Disable hyper threading whenever the aws instance type supports it
Ensure RStudio authentication works with subdomain routing
Clear field when options list is empty
Shared clusters can be stopped and resumed by users with login access
Double render terminal
App ui flashes before redirecting to login page
Cannot upload thumbnail for existing and legacy clusters
JSON field not removed when dependency is switched to false
Users with certain characters in their names cannot use sagemaker
Connecting through jumphost had incorrect ordering of ssh auth methods
Cluster ip address editable while cluster is running
Marketplace publish dropdown shows null as initial option
Fails to autoreconnect to servers with banner

Documentation Changes

Update API documentation layout
Add system/user-centric to API route descriptions

Jul 17, 2025

v5.45

Jul 17, 2025v5.45

Bug Fixes

Ldap login fails in some server setting combinations
Cannot select snapshot for inline disks attached to azure clusters
Organization theme not showing on initial login
No error logged when compute nodes fail due to insufficient capacity
Kubernetes clusters do not connect

Other Changes

Rename "Not Applied" to "Automatic" in Azure zone selection

Jul 15, 2025

v5.42

Jul 15, 2025v5.42

Enhancements and Features

Upload organization logos

Organizations can now upload their logo on the organization page.

Jul 14, 2025

v5.38

Jul 14, 2025v5.38

Enhancements and Features

Allow setting organization themes

Organization admins can now set themes for organizations. This will allow you to change the color of different UI elements for users in an organization.

Bug Fixes

Intermittent issue where users sometimes cannot get bucket credentials
Unable to select an AZ for a disk

Jul 9, 2025

v5.36

Jul 9, 2025v5.36

Enhancements and Features

Refreshed tabbed UI on storage pages

We've refreshed the layout slightly on the storage pages to align them with the rest of the interface throughout ACTIVATE.

Bug Fixes

prompt-for-name workflow session field does not trigger prompt

Jul 8, 2025

v5.33

Jul 8, 2025v5.33

Enhancements and Features

Copy azure snapshot to another region

Users can now copy Azure snapshots to another region from within ACTIVATE.

Autofill defaults when clicking add workspace mounts

We now autofill default values when adding a workspace mount to make it easier to understand what values to use for each input box.

Bug Fixes

Legacy cluster resource account dropdown not populating correctly
Add oidc icon to login providers
Incorrect zone shown when creating new Azure cluster
Workflow graph reset button is black
Forking a remote workflow does not fork the latest version
Workflow run page intermittently crashes
Using snapshots for azure compute nodes
Sparse checkout not showing
Connecting to multiple existing clusters with "autoreconnect" can take a long time
Daily scale down not running if set to more than 1 day

Documentation Changes

Sorted aws s3 policies
Add docs for multizone

Jul 3, 2025

v5.31

Jul 3, 2025v5.31

Bug Fixes

Can't select google capacity reservation

Jul 1, 2025

v5.30

Jul 1, 2025v5.30

Enhancements and Features

Can open terminal in new tab

You can now open the terminal in a new window that doesn't show the rest of the ACTIVATE UI frame.

Can navigate inbox with keyboard

You can now navigate the inbox page with your keyboard up and down arrows as well as use the backspace button for deleting messages.

Bug Fixes

Storages cannot be shared to all groups
Kubernetes target on home page sessions widget goes to 404
Tabs wrapping incorrectly on small window sizes
Snapshots filter does not work

June 2025

Jun 30, 2025

v5.28

Jun 30, 2025v5.28

Enhancements and Features

Apps are now determined based on YAML definition

Local Apps are now determined based on if the app property is found inside of the workflow YAML definition.

You can make a workflow show up on the apps list by simply adding the following to any workflow definition:

app:

Copy AWS snapshots to another region

Users can now copy AWS snapshots to another region from within ACTIVATE.

Retroactively assign reservation cost to groups

After capacity reservations are added or updated from the organization settings, the reservation's past cost data will also be assigned to the newly designated group.

Custom AI chat providers

You can now connect any OpenAI-compatible API directly to the ACTIVATE interface using your own authentication tokens.

This lets you chat with models from your chosen provider while keeping full control over your usage and data. Chat history is saved securely within our platform, so you can easily continue previous conversations or reference them later.

Support includes in strings

Workflows can now check if a value includes a string with the following syntax

 ${{ inputs.name includes 'foo' }}

Bug Fixes

Connecting to an existing cluster immediately after saving uses previous configuration
Potential deletion of incorrect route53 records
Shortcuts not centered
Some text fields don't have borders

Jun 24, 2025

v5.25

Jun 24, 2025v5.25

Enhancements and Features

Allow multizone on aws partitions

MultiZone option has been added to partition settings when configuring an AWS cluster. This will allow provisioning compute nodes in multiple zones in the case that there is not enough capacity in one zone.

Impersonate users from organization users list

Platform admins can now impersonate users from the organization users list, in addition to the platform users list.

Bug Fixes

Can not update user in another org as platform admin
Password field overlaps other fields on bulk import

Jun 17, 2025

v5.23

Jun 17, 2025v5.23

Bug Fixes

Token/apikey displayed vertically instead of horziontally

Jun 16, 2025

v5.22

Jun 16, 2025v5.22

Bug Fixes

Show message when home page widgets need to be configured
Long workflow names overlap other workflows
Cluster connection string not vertically centered
Cost dashboard dropdowns not showing value
Workflows on home page widget not all the same size
Storage cannot be saved from properties page
Can't change group on cost dashboard
Some whitelabeling styles are missing

Documentation Changes

Move ML Workspace docs to top level
Add note about ML Workspace availability

Jun 12, 2025

v5.18

Jun 12, 2025v5.18

Bug Fixes

Creating a workflow always adds one empty tag
Apps without saved configurations cannot be run

Jun 11, 2025

v5.15

Jun 11, 2025v5.15

Enhancements and Features

Home page cluster list enhancements

The cluster list home page widget has been enhanced to have four modes:

my
shared
all
single

Setting clusters to my mimics the old behavior where only your own clusters are shown in the list. shared is only other user's clusters which have been shared with a group you're in. all is every cluster you have access to (both my and shared). single always shows a single cluster.

Conditional workflow jobs

You can now use the if field at the job level to completely skip the job and all of its steps.

Jun 9, 2025

v5.12

Jun 9, 2025v5.12

Enhancements and Features

You can now add a kubernetes widget to your home page, listing all available kubernetes clusters.

Kubernetes workload widgets can now be added to the home page. This lets you see the workloads for a chosen cluster/namespace combination from the home page. Additionally, we've slightly adjusted the styles of the clusters widget so one cluster exactly fits a 2x1 widget.

Apps now shown in workflow list

Apps are really just workflows with some added features to make them easier to use. Before, if you wanted to see the workflow behind an app, you had to go to the apps page and look for the "Go to workflow" option. Now, we've made it easier. You can find the app's workflow right in the main workflow list, too.

Jun 4, 2025

v5.10

Jun 4, 2025v5.10

Bug Fixes

Cannot renew proxy certificates
Skip job if all of its steps are skipped
Clusters could be named with invalid characters in some cases

Jun 3, 2025

v5.7

Jun 3, 2025v5.7

Enhancements and Features

Kubernetes cost management plugin provisioning status UI

You can now track the deployment progress of the kubernetes cost management plugin via the UI.

Bug Fixes

AWS compute nodes mounting EFS filesystems were not mounting with same-zone mount points
Footer overlaps login panel on some screen sizes
Cli bucket ls command not working

Jun 2, 2025

v5.5

Jun 2, 2025v5.5

Enhancements and Features

Custom kubernetes icons

You can now specify an icon for kubernetes clusters

Bug Fixes

Widgets cannot be added to home page when it has empty layout
No link to org login page when platform only has password login
Cluster config page group field does not autoselect

May 2025

May 30, 2025

v5.4

May 30, 2025v5.4

Bug Fixes

Display name is unset when saving legacy cluster

May 29, 2025

v5.3

May 29, 2025v5.3

Enhancements and Features

Allow multizone partitions on Google clusters

MultiZone option has been added to partition settings when configuring a cluster. This will allow creation of compute nodes across multiple zones. This can be useful if trying to use an instance with high demand or low capacity in certain zones. Note that If nodes are created across zones there will be additional data charges when transferring data between nodes in different zones.

AWS Sagemaker integration

AWS Sagemaker is now available in feature preview under the machine learning section

Bug Fixes

Cannot update "Keep Container Alive" and "No seat" options on users
Workflow page shows undefined while loading
Using certain dropdowns on workflows caused page to crash
Workflows and apps show warning when user workspace is not running
Sessions widget scrollbar isn't at bottom of widget
Dropdowns with long text not shrinking correctly
Deleting a partition from json viewer causes page to fail
Dropdown autoselect not working when using categories
Legacy clusters without display names cannot be saved

May 28, 2025

v5.1

May 28, 2025v5.1

Bug Fixes

Unable to update admin flags on marketplace items

May 27, 2025

v5.0

May 27, 2025v5.0

Bug Fixes

Cluster definition not saving when tags, display name or description left empty

May 23, 2025

v4.344

May 23, 2025v4.344

Enhancements and Features

Add support for AWS region eu-west-3

Organizations can now create infrastructure in eu-west-3 (France).

Support env at job and global level

In workflows, environment variables can now be defined at the global, job, and step levels. Previously, they could only be set at the step level. Precedence is hierarchical: the closer the variable is defined to the step, the higher its priority.

AI Chat message streaming

AI Chat messages are now streamed to provide a more responsive experience.

Bug Fixes

Workflow list doesn't show loading workspace when workspace is down
Kubernetes clusters do not display MIG configuration
Clusters with deleted groups cannot be destroyed
No breadcrumbs on cluster sessions page
Clicking inside tooltip selects other checkbox on organization settings page
Cannot duplicate remote workflows

May 20, 2025

v4.343

May 20, 2025v4.343

Enhancements and Features

Savable app configurations

Now you can select a configuration from the app launcher to launch an app with a predefined set of inputs.

Target tags are a new concept which correspond to the tags on computing resources, marking a compute resource as compatible with a given app configuration.

Configurations can be saved by filling out the workflow form and saving it as a configuration, or can be provided by the workflow developer as built-in configuration. This is done in the "Build" tab of a workflow by editing the yaml. These built-in configurations can be selected from dropdown and are also shown in the configurations tab, just like manually saved configurations.

Allow org member to get group allocation used

Organization members can now user teams endpoint to get their group's allocation used

Display helm charts

Can now see the helm charts deployed into the selected namespace for the Kubernetes cluster

Helm chart details and rollback

You can now see the details for helm charts installed in your kubernetes clusters. Additionally, you can rollback helm revisions directly from the ACTIVATE interface.

Bug Fixes

Disconnected workspace message on terminal disappears too quickly
Attach session slug to subdomain
Underscores in subdomain cause problems for some workflows
Prevent trying to start existing cluster if user workspace is down
UseTLS not working in sessions with custom domains
Gray section is showed when clicking follow on log viewer
Unable to start cluster is user workspace is down
Sessions table has link to workflow on shared sessions
Pressing back after logging in brings you back to the login page
Missing zones on AWS eu-north-1 region
User workspace terminal intermittently disconnects

Documentation Changes

Update base infra docs for AWS explaining networking modes

May 7, 2025

v4.342

May 7, 2025v4.342

Bug Fixes

Unable to provision Azure OS snapshots

May 6, 2025

v4.341

May 6, 2025v4.341

Enhancements and Features

AI Chat conversation history

Conversations with AI Chat providers are now saved, so you can continue previous chats at a later time.

AWS public IP networking mode

This introduces a new networking mode when provisioning organizational base infrastructure. This provides compute nodes with their own public IP addresses. This is useful in cases where you want egress charges to be billed to the same group as a cluster instead of being absorbed as an organizational cost. The security group that is attached to compute nodes will block inbound access from internet but will allow traffic from other compute nodes.

Bug Fixes

No groups on kube or nfs commands, add alias for kube (k8s, kubernetes)
Cannot edit kubernetes cluster
Scrollbar missing on logs viewer, line numbers sometimes cut off

May 2, 2025

v4.340

May 2, 2025v4.340

Bug Fixes

Aws efs and fsx provision fails when there are no private subnets in base infrastructure

May 1, 2025

v4.339

May 1, 2025v4.339

Enhancements and Features

Add gpu filter to instance selector

Users can now filter instances by whether or not they have a GPU

Add billing alerts

Admin user can now subscribe to billing alerts

Support `nvidia.com/gpu` in kubernetes resource quotas

Organization administrators can now define resource quotas for GPU resources labeled with nvidia.com/gpu

List pods on workload details page

On the details page for a workload, there will be a list of all the pods associated to that workload with links to the individual pod details page.

Allow resources to be provisioned in eu-central-1 region on aws

Organization admins can now provision base infrastructure in the eu-central-1 region on AWS.

Ability to see the logs for pods

Users can now monitor and download logs for actively running Kubernetes pods

Bug Fixes

Tooltips are hidden under text box for kubernetes cluster creation page
Ephemeral storage has off status in attached storage panel
Extend Azure Managed Lustre timeout to 60 minutes
Cannot provision azure managed lustre before moving the size slider

Documentation Changes

Add instructions to create a manual session
Add blog post for Q1 of 2025

April 2025

Apr 23, 2025

v4.338

Apr 23, 2025v4.338

Enhancements and Features

Add architecture and networking feature filter to instance selector

You can now filter instances by architecture and networking feature on instances list when selecting an instance for a cluster.

We've found that the sharing feature had limited usefulness because previously you had to be a member of both groups to share a resource. Now, you will be able to share with any group inside of the same organization, regardless of your personal group membership.

Bug Fixes

Cannot create netapp ontap storages due to name validation failure

Apr 22, 2025

v4.337

Apr 22, 2025v4.337

Bug Fixes

Remove redundant line in usage alert template
Storages could not be started unless legacy and current providers are enabled

Apr 18, 2025

v4.336

Apr 18, 2025v4.336

Bug Fixes

Can't scroll quick connect when you have many clusters
Removed escape sequences showing up on terminals after using interactive program like vim
User notifications settings by default are misleading
Logs from older sessions of clusters that share the same name can appear in newer cluster sessions
Compute resource job monitor shows jobs no longer in the queue

Apr 17, 2025

v4.332

Apr 17, 2025v4.332

Bug Fixes

Log viewer expand does not work on provision status modal
Bootstrap can fail if link command fails
Remove inconsistent session number padding
Instance selector has double scrollbar
Marketplace descriptions can overflow their container
Existing cluster save while connected needs confirmation
Tooltips sometimes under textboxes and improve kubernetes error messages

Apr 14, 2025

v4.330

Apr 14, 2025v4.330

Enhancements and Features

Node detail page

A new Nodes tab has been added on a clusters information page. This tab will list all current pending, active, and failed nodes. Clicking on a node from the list will show details for that node.

Add windows support to CLI

You can now install the PW CLI on Windows.

Bug Fixes

Rerunning a workflow run would not populate inputs
Workflow display name is not used in running notification

Documentation Changes

Add a page for Creating OS Snapshots

Apr 11, 2025

v4.329

Apr 11, 2025v4.329

Enhancements and Features

Add display name to storage creation page

User can now input display name in storage creation page

Added resize handle to JSON tab for v3 clusters

Bug Fixes

Cannot add/remove ssh private keys for existing clusters

Documentation Changes

Merge Buckets pages into one page

Apr 9, 2025

v4.328

Apr 9, 2025v4.328

Enhancements and Features

Cluster UI updates now generally available

Cluster pages have been refreshed to provide more useful information on a details page, and make editing more user-friendly.

Kubernetes quotas

The platform can now track resource allocation usage (currently supporting CPU and memory) and enforce resource quotas for Kubernetes

Support encrypted AWS disks

You can now create AWS Disks that will be encrypted with a AWS managed KMS Key. Any snapshots created from the disk will also be encrypted as well as any disks created from an encrypted snapshot.

Bug Fixes

Platform domain is not automatically set for new organizations
Number type parameters in env variables prevent workflow execution
Session links are not always automatically authenticated

Apr 7, 2025

v4.325

Apr 7, 2025v4.325

Bug Fixes

Typo on admin/groups page
Storage deletion time is missing
Kube/config file is not updated after making changes to the configuration on the platform
Clicking workflow runs ID does not navigate to the correct workflow run page

Apr 4, 2025

v4.323

Apr 4, 2025v4.323

Enhancements and Features

Allow adding storage from storage panel

You can now attach storages from the Storage panel on a compute resource's information page while the compute resource is running. Previously, you could only attach a storage from the configuration page.

Bug Fixes

Login successful message shows on mfa screen
When destroying cluster notification says "stopping"
Remove unused state column from admin groups list
Resolved minor issues with Kubernetes provider

March 2025

Mar 31, 2025

v4.322

Mar 31, 2025v4.322

Enhancements and Features

Integrate sessions with Kubernetes provider

Users can now create sessions with the Kubernetes provider, supporting pods, services, and deployments

View provision status from cluster list page

Cluster provision status can now be opened from cluster list page

Add autoselect option to workflow input forms

You can now add the autoselect property to a dropdown field when building a workflow. This will make it so the first option is automatically selected.

Bug Fixes

On-prem clusters intermittently fail to disconnect
Workflow with subdomain does not work for marketplace workflow
Storage deletion logs are missing for some types
Connecting to an existing cluster which shares home directory with another cluster causes disconnect
Workflows do not populate default values when running as app
Workspace mounts shown incorrectly on cluster details page
Existing cluster reconnect notification did not show correct error

Documentation Changes

Update Starting & Stopping Clusters

Mar 24, 2025

v4.320

Mar 24, 2025v4.320

Enhancements and Features

Add reason for cluster automated delete request

Cluster automated delete request now has reason displayed

Add impersonated by to provision status record

Admin users now can see Impersonated By on resource provision and destroy records

Bug Fixes

Add session button disappears
Responsive search bar on smaller resolutions
Attached storages panel doesn't include filesystems

Mar 21, 2025

v4.318

Mar 21, 2025v4.318

Enhancements and Features

Subdomains for sessions

Users can now use a custom subdomain when creating a session

Command to list kubernetes clusters available

The command pw kube ls is now available to list available kubernetes clusters. In addition to basic listing, it also supports output format flags -o json and -o table.

Manually create link type sessions

You can now manually create sessions of the "link" type. Link sessions are simply links to other applications or services from within the platform. In the past, a workflow would've created these in case a session is managed outside of the ACTIVATE platform.

Provision status enhancement for clusters

Added more details to cluster provision status records. You can now click on individual provision status lines to see more details.

Can now stop cluster controllers

When attempting to shut down a cluster you will now be given the option to stop the controller. While stopped, costs will be reduced to only the cluster's storage. When you try to start a stopped cluster, you will be prompted to restart the cluster.

Allow existing clusters to reconnect

Auto Reconnect option has been added to existing cluster options. If enabled we will try to automatically connect to the remote vm. You must first connect manually by pressing the power button.

Bug Fixes

Snapshot name not showing if name is too long
Unknown error when sharing manual sessions
Cost estimate table showing empty values
Cluster image dropdown doesn't filter out failed snapshots
Unable to update cluster definition when editing via json view
Can't update azure cluster with controller in NAT mode
Extra recipients in allocation thresholds are optional
Delete configuration tooltip says turn off instead of destroy

Documentation Changes

Additional updates for new cluster UI
Remove Dashboard page from the user guide
Aws ec2 permission is missing register image policy

Mar 12, 2025

v4.317

Mar 12, 2025v4.317

Enhancements and Features

Add password to workflow schema

Workflows now have a password field which can be used by workflow developers to hide text as its being entered.

Cluster provisioning failures will show a banner

If a cluster fails to provision, a red banner will be shown at the top of the page indicating that the cluster should be destroyed.

Workflow run page improvements

You can now cancel a workflow run and view running sessions from a workflow's Run page

Bug Fixes

Orphan alerts should not be sent for cross platforms
Auto close toasts, limit to 3 toasts on screen at once
Cannot select old sessions in provision status viewer
Tooltip hide under the toggle after recursive renders

Mar 11, 2025

v4.312

Mar 11, 2025v4.312

Enhancements and Features

We now show the required disk size you will need to use an image in the image selection dropdown.

Snapshot disks that were configured inline

You can now create snapshots from disks that were configured inline in the cluster configuration page. You may do so from the clusters "Sessions" page in the attached storages table.

Show workload metrics on kubernetes workload pages

You can now see CPU usage, Memory Usage, and Storage usage for kubernetes workloads (statefulsets, deployments, etc). These are viewable from the workload pages. These metrics show combined usage for all pods managed by that resource. We will have individual pod metrics in an upcoming release.

Platform administrators receive deletion failure alerts

Platform administrators will now receive an alert whenever the platform detects that a resource deletion might not have been processed correctly.

Ability to edit YAML directly from kubernetes definition

You can now edit Kubernetes resources by modifying them directly on the YAML editor.

Azure AI chat in public preview

You can now provision and chat with OpenAI models on Azure. To enable this feature preview, use the feature preview menu.

Cloud cluster observability

Cloud clusters will now have CPU, Memory, and Root Disk charts at the top of the cluster details page.

Bug Fixes

Load from market place clears out some fields
Disable snapshot button while request is pending
Snapshot names not showing on cluster details page
Publish from action bar does not work
Cannot snapshot disks provisioned on clusters using auto zone selection
Connect via ssh button not disabled while cluster starting
Not found if clicking edit from jobs page
Cost dashboard print not working
Cannot start shared cluster with admin/write access
Azure managed lustre is not marked as ready
Some secrets don't show eye icon
Search bar crashes with some special characters
Disabled menu items have incorrect styling
Broken link to docs on new workflow
Can't start google nodes of a3 family
Traffic light does not turn off when there is no requested nodes
Unable to make snapshot of snapshot
Intermittent google key creation failures
Use attempts for gaia delete jobs instead of expireTime to avoid context deadline exceed
Creation page now just says name instead of resource name
Provision status stucks at collecting variables and delete requested when rabbitmq connection fails
Various session bug fixes

Documentation Changes

Update user guide with new cluster configuration layout
Add information about user defaults
Add new Managing Orgs pages

February 2025

Feb 26, 2025

v4.308

Feb 26, 2025v4.308

Enhancements and Features

Existing provider now has password support

In addition to keyboard-interactive, the existing cluster provider can now support older password ssh connections

Improved information display for kubernetes

Kubernetes workload pages now use a more readable format to show relevant information.

Bug Fixes

Capacity reservation table moves around on refresh
Various marketplace/workflow bugs
Allow clicking outside the HPC Connect modal to close it after connection
Node runtime is incorrect when it has been more than 1 day

Feb 18, 2025

v4.306

Feb 18, 2025v4.306

Bug Fixes

Openstack doesn't have "Latest" image option
Cannot create azure ip address
Traffic light can crash compute module when debugging nodes provisioning
Recreating a cluster with the same name as a previously deleted one retained the configuration of the deleted cluster.
PW CLI not authenticated inside of workflows

Documentation Changes

Add video walkthrough to Navigating the Platform

Feb 12, 2025

v4.305

Feb 12, 2025v4.305

Enhancements and Features

Storage runtime alerts

You can now receive runtime alerts for storage. You may choose to turn on/off runtime alert in storage's properties tab. This will send you a notification after your storage has been running longer than the interval specified. You can configure if you receive the notifications via the platform inbox or via email through your account settings.

Bug Fixes

Prepend parallelworks: to groups prefix in kubernetes

Feb 11, 2025

v4.301

Feb 11, 2025v4.301

Bug Fixes

Ontap causes long openstack cluster page loading time
Cannot create new ai chats
Workflows can't use empty string as dropdown's first option
OS snapshots won't create or delete
Google key creation
Ssh client dying would cause workflow sessions to no longer work

Feb 7, 2025

v4.300

Feb 7, 2025v4.300

Enhancements and Features

Allow setting latest image

Admins can now set the latest image directly from the admin panel

Update bootstrap scripts while cluster is running

Users can now update cluster bootstrap script and its toggles (controller/compute) while cluster is running

Kubernetes available in feature preview

Organizations can now add kubernetes clusters and share them with specific groups. Users in those groups will be able to use the pw CLI to add a context to their local kubeconfig, allowing users to run kubectl commands. Kubernetes resources are now visible in the platform for users that have access to the cluster.

Bug Fixes

Fields not pre-populated when editing capacity reservations
/etc/profile.d/pw.sh variables are not quoted
Azure ML workspace fails to provision due to incorrect domain
Traffic light doesnt display correctly for next gen clusters

Feb 6, 2025

v4.299

Feb 6, 2025v4.299

Enhancements and Features

AWS OS Snapshots

You can now snapshot AWS root disks and then boot your cluster using that snapshot.

OS Snapshots generally available

OS Snapshots are now a generally available feature. You can create a snapshot by going to your cluster, and selecting create snapshot next to the root disk. After doing so, you can choose that snapshot as the image to use when starting a cluster. This is a direct replacement for the old scripted method of creating OS images via the account settings page. We will be removing that method of creating snapshots in an upcoming release.

Bug Fixes

Remove description placeholder for on demand capacity reservations
Failed to share message should be failed to publish
Marketplace apps not showing display name on apps page

Feb 5, 2025

v4.298

Feb 5, 2025v4.298

Enhancements and Features

Capacity Reservation description field

You can now set descriptions on Capacity Reservations

Ability to manually create sessions

You can now manually create sessions without having to start a workflow. Try this out by clicking the Add session button on the Sessions page.

Bug Fixes

Netapp ontap cannot be deleted
Move optional session options to advanced
Start ssh connection button is not full width
Workflow executing message shows even if theres a validation error
Azure ML studio is only soft deleted
No confirmation on marketplace item deletion
Space in reservation id causes node provision failure
Remote workflows cannot be forked from marketplace

January 2025

Jan 31, 2025

v4.295

Jan 31, 2025v4.295

Enhancements and Features

Azure on-demand capacity reservations billing

Azure on-demand capacity reservations reservations are now billed to the group added in the organization settings page

Bug Fixes

Remove session tags for sessionless cloud infrastructure
Path being removed from shells

Jan 30, 2025

v4.294

Jan 30, 2025v4.294

Bug Fixes

Cli version not set on mac os
Marketplace search hides headers with no results
Automatically stop user workspace when user deleted
Provisioned snapshot names are longer than necessary
AI Chat is returned from API with storages
Show error if AI Chat API credentials are not working

Jan 29, 2025

v4.292

Jan 29, 2025v4.292

Bug Fixes

Partitions dropdown not populating

Jan 24, 2025

v4.290

Jan 24, 2025v4.290

Enhancements and Features

Add custom nfs configuration to cluster attached storages

You can now specify custom NFS mounts via the cluster configuration form. This applies to cloud clusters and OpenStack clusters.

Bug Fixes

Ai chat does not skip searching buckets when no bucket attached
Provisioned snapshot never marked ready
Detach custom nfs fails on validation
Cluster definition shows inline disk options when selecting persistent disk
Validate ontap name is provided and flatten API structure
Ebs and efs cost estimation does not reflect throughput and provisioned iops
Group shutdown fails

Jan 23, 2025

v4.285

Jan 23, 2025v4.285

Bug Fixes

Marketplace fork from add page redirects to incorrect page

Jan 22, 2025

v4.284

Jan 22, 2025v4.284

Enhancements and Features

Allow tracking of compute node egress cost on azure

Use Load Balancer as Nat Gateway option has been added to azure infrastructures. This will make it so a load balancer is created with each cluster and all egress traffic from partitions will go through the load balancer allowing tracking of egress cost.

Azure ML Workspace feature preview publicly available

The Azure ML Workspace feature preview has been made publicly available. To try this feature out, enable it from the feature preview section.

Add Support for Azure and Google capacity reservations

Capacity reservations are now supported on Azure and Google Cloud. Organization administrators can now specify which CSP the capacity reservation is for when adding the capacity reservation. On the cluster edit form, the input field for capacity reservations has been changed to a dropdown.

Bug Fixes

Search bar doesn't show on 404 page
Prevent search from opening by hotkey when in a text box

Jan 21, 2025

v4.281

Jan 21, 2025v4.281

Enhancements and Features

NetApp ONTAP support

We now support managing NetApp ONTAP volumes directly from the ACTIVATE platform. These volumes can also be mounted to OpenStack clusters which have network access to the NFS exports provided by the ONTAP service.

Show which cluster a session is targeting

You can now see which cluster a session is targeting from the Sessions widget and from the Sessions page.

Search bar supports storage

Storage items now appear in the platform search

Show csp id on image list

The admin panel platform image list now shows the CSP's unique identifier for the image.

Bug Fixes

Deleting organization does not properly delete users
Uppercase workflow fields were not allowed

Jan 16, 2025

v4.278

Jan 16, 2025v4.278

Enhancements and Features

OpenStack generally available

OpenStack clusters are now generally available to create via the Parallel Works ACTIVATE platform.

Bug Fixes

Storage list not updating after deleting a storage

Jan 15, 2025

v4.276

Jan 15, 2025v4.276

Enhancements and Features

Organizations can reset custom sidebar settings to platform defaults

Organizations can now reset the organization-wide default sidebar settings to the platform defaults by using the radio button available on the user defaults page.

Bug Fixes

Search bar links to cli docs are incorrect

Jan 14, 2025

v4.274

Jan 14, 2025v4.274

Enhancements and Features

Search bar

You can now search the platform and documentation via a new search bar at the top of the UI. Open this with cmd + k on Mac OS or ctrl + k on Windows.

Allow using AWS and Google cluster controllers as nat instances

Use Controllers as NAT Gateways option has been added on AWS/Google infrastructure configurations. Enabling this option will make it so all traffic from compute nodes are proxied through the controller. All compute nodes will share the same IP as the controller node. This will enable tracking egress costs from compute nodes.

Provision public IP addresses on Azure

You can now provision public IP addresses on Azure independently of other compute resources. After provisioning a public IP it can then be assigned to a compute cluster controller node.

Ai chat provision status

Improved provisioning status logs shown when creating an AI Chat resource

Bug Fixes

Crashes when extra email is not found as platform user
Aws snapshots show provisioned before actually ready
Platform image with space and parenthesis could not be deleted
Better error messages on aws disk provisioning error
Page crashes if feature previews not loaded in time
Able to save google and azure lustre without selecting instance type

Jan 7, 2025

v4.272

Jan 7, 2025v4.272

Enhancements and Features

Organization specified default sidebars

Organizations can now define a default sidebar for new users. Users that have not customized their sidebar will automatically use the organization's default settings. If the organization does not specify a customized sidebar then all sidebar items will be visible by default.

Optional dns server

Adds an optional DNS service to platform deployments which can resolve slurm cluster hostnames if needed

Add cli list for cluster, app, workflow, and session

Add Email and Notify Allocation Alerts options to organization settings

Added Cost Alert notification type and user preferences.

OpenStack clusters can assign floating ip to compute nodes

Bug Fixes

Snapshots show provisioned earlier than expected

Documentation Changes

Merge apps and workflows pages

Jan 2, 2025

v4.271

Jan 2, 2025v4.271

Enhancements and Features

Update openstack cluster definition page

Added cluster cost estimation for openstack

Admin-only debug mode for cloud clusters

Platform administrators can now toggle Debug Mode in cluster Advanced Settings section.

When turned on, users can ssh into the node without waiting for it to be ready using ssh root@<nodeip>. Can be done from the user workspace or user's personal computer (if public key is added in the platform). Node clean up will not happen if there is any error in provisioning.

Bug Fixes

Sidebar not always highlighting active item
Apps shared to marketplace were not labeled as apps

Documentation Changes

Customizing the platform
Improved API docs

December 2024

Dec 12, 2024

v4.270

Dec 12, 2024v4.270

Enhancements and Features

Support capacity block type for aws reservation

Supports aws capacity block reservation type on next gen clusters

Dec 11, 2024

v4.269

Dec 11, 2024v4.269

Enhancements and Features

Add flavor pricing table to openstack infra page

Add flavor pricing table to openstack infra page. This page will display the synced flavors from openstack project.

Add openstack to realtime

Realtime now processes openstack data.

Bug Fixes

Able to to start a workflow without selecting required field while using app.target as the default value
Environment variables not available on workflow cleanup steps
New ssh key not showing after creation
Starting a session on existing clusters would fail under certain cases

Documentation Changes

Add page for managing static IP addresses
IP page corrections/improvements
SSH key update

Dec 4, 2024

v4.268

Dec 4, 2024v4.268

Bug Fixes

Updated workflow yaml not reflected with page navigation
Alphabetize IP address options
Sessions started on shared clusters not working
Icon not showing for sessions started from github workflow
Root snapshots not in image list

Dec 3, 2024

v4.265

Dec 3, 2024v4.265

Enhancements and Features

You can now edit widget names on home page. Click Customize and you will now see an edit icon next to the widgets name.

Bug Fixes

Creating a session with the same name as previous session results in wrong ports
Sessions print wrong json field names to log

Dec 2, 2024

v4.263

Dec 2, 2024v4.263

Enhancements and Features

Added icons to sessions list

Sessions that were created by workflows will now show the workflow icon next to the session

The resource monitor module has been removed from the front page. In order to not disturb saved layouts you will need to manually remove the module where the resource monitor was previously.

Add apps panel to home page

You can now edit the workflow home page widget to change which workflow type to show. The default home page widgets have been updated to include the Favorite Apps and the Sessions widgets. Users that have modified their home page will not receive the new layout, and can instead add these widgets by choosing "Customize" from the top right of the home page.

Bug Fixes

Real time usage not counted for determining if cost dashboard should show
Workflow sessions with slug have extra slash appended
Cannot choose group when creating storage

November 2024

Nov 27, 2024

v4.258

Nov 27, 2024v4.258

Enhancements and Features

Nfs list, attach-storage commands

Adds pw nfs ls command to the cli
- This lists all of the nfs storages on a user's account
Adds pw cluster attach-storage command to the cli
- Required Flags: --cluster-uri, --storage-uri, --mount-point
- This will attach the given storage to the given cluster at the given mountpoint
- Does the same action as attaching the storage on the cluster definition page
- The user will be able to see the attached storage on the cluster definition page after running the command sucessfully

`nfs ls` and `cluster attach-storage` commands

You can now use the new pw nfs ls and pw cluster attach-storage commands from an authenticated cluster session.

Sessions home page module

Sessions are now available as a home page module which can be added using the customize button on the home page.

Bug Fixes

Justify sidebar settings to the right

Nov 26, 2024

v4.256

Nov 26, 2024v4.256

Enhancements and Features

Add customizable sidebar

Users can now customize the items that appear on their sidebar. In a future update, organizations will also be able to customize the default sidebars for users in their organization.

Azure OpenAI service available in feature preview

Can now provision Azure OpenAI resources from within the platform and directly chat via the UI.

Bug Fixes

Custom thumbnails not showing
Cannot expand logs
Text overlaps on add resource page

Nov 25, 2024

v4.253

Nov 25, 2024v4.253

Bug Fixes

Elastic image dropdown is empty for legacy google clusters

Nov 22, 2024

v4.252

Nov 22, 2024v4.252

Bug Fixes

Marketplace workflows get stuck on loading
Uploaded thumbnails not showing
Workflow input substitution not working on session properties

Nov 16, 2024

v4.248

Nov 16, 2024v4.248

Enhancements and Features

Promote apps/sessions to GA

Apps and sessions are now generally available.

Apps provide a layer on top of workflows which make additional interfaces available for workflow developers to make interactive experiences easier. Sessions expose ports on compute resources to the browser so users can run interactive apps on their computing resources and access them directly via ACTIVATE.

Read our documentation for apps and sessions to learn more.

Bug Fixes

Long logs line numbers overlap logs

Documentation Changes

Add apps and sessions

Nov 15, 2024

v4.246

Nov 15, 2024v4.246

Enhancements and Features

Show running workflow steps while session is pending

On a session's page, current running workflow steps will be shown while the session is pending.

Change default layout for home page

We've updated the default layout of the home page. If you have not customized your home page, you will automatically be moved to the new default layout which shows:

favorite workflows
recent workflow runs
favorite compute resources

To customize your layout, use the customize button at the top right of the home page. Note that users with a custom layout are not affected by this change.

Bug Fixes

Marketplace workflows with dots in name can now create sessions
External auth UI doesn't fit compactly
Saving cluster configuration gives an error if storage is attached
Controller ip substituted incorrectly in workflow inputs
Clusters can share one static ip address
Whitespace not showing correctly in changelogs
Ephemeral storage provision status does not update when persistent storage also attached
Api key and token generation has slightly different UI

Documentation Changes

Document unique naming system

Nov 14, 2024

v4.244

Nov 14, 2024v4.244

Enhancements and Features

Update controller configuration for Amazon Linux support

Support bootstrapping clusters that use the Amazon Linux 2 image

Bug Fixes

Unify border style
Button is invisible on cloud platform

Nov 13, 2024

v4.243

Nov 13, 2024v4.243

Enhancements and Features

Allow adding images through platform

Platform level slurm cluster images can be managed through the admin panel.

Allow setting default session names

You can now set default session names on workflows:

session:
  mySession:
    prompt-for-name:
      default: "defaultname"

Allow job environment variables on workflows

Allows setting environment variables on a job level. Environment variables set at a step level will override the environment variables set at a job level.

jobs:
  main:
    env:
      foo: "bar"
    steps:
      - run: echo ${foo} # bar
      - run: echo ${foo} # baz
         env: 
          foo: "baz" # will override env variable set on job level

Stop workflow run on session stop

Stopping a session will now also stop the workflow run that started the session and any sessions associated with the workflow run.

Improve workflow update-session logs

Logs and input validation for updating session has been improved.

Bug Fixes

Move health check below controller node configuration in provision status
Cannot delete some old storage sessions
Sessions not deleting after cancelling workflow run
Cleanup step running when step is skipped due to if being false
Show message about user workspace starting on workflows page

Nov 8, 2024

v4.241

Nov 8, 2024v4.241

Enhancements and Features

Support `client_secret_basic` token endpoint auth method

There is now a dropdown on the OIDC auth method to allow choosing either client_secret_basic or client_secret_post. These auth methods are used for the platform to authenticate to the token endpoint after a successful OIDC user authentication.

Organization admins now can specify scopes for oidc

Scopes can now be specified when adding or updating an OIDC auth method in organization settings.

Bug Fixes

Azure NetApp Files does not work on newly provisioned infrastructures
Root disk snapshots times out before finishing
Escape oidc redirect uris
Validate group names meet constraints
Random crash on home page
Workflow inputs.sh has wrong format when using objects
Workflow cleanup steps not running after canceling
Workflow sessions not found if contains url params

Other Changes

Add docs section to changelogs

Nov 6, 2024

v4.236

Nov 6, 2024v4.236

Enhancements and Features

Add health check and storage logs into provision status UI

Health check is now moved into provision status list.
Health check and ephemeral storage failure now also displays a View logs button to see the details of what happened.

Support manually providing oidc endpoints or using issuer to discover

OIDC endpoints can now be manually provided instead of using the issuer to discover them. This makes the OIDC authentication method more flexible for cases where applications do not have a proper well-known endpoint or the well-known endpoint is behind a firewall but the other endpoints are not.

This update also has slight visual enhancements to the auth method page, with the "configure" button being changed to a link.

Support new provision status UX for Azure NetApp Files

The new provisioning experience is live for Azure NetApp files.

Bug Fixes

Oidc edit page always clears userinfo endpoint
Incorrect authentication endpoint used in oidc authentication
Skip building libnss_cache and config nsswitch.conf when present in image

Other Changes

Add Sharing a Snapshot to Working With Disk Snapshots

Nov 5, 2024

v4.234

Nov 5, 2024v4.234

Enhancements and Features

Allow choosing export when hammerspace has multiple shares

Adds an input box when attaching filesystems only for Hammerspace. This input allows users to define the export path the cluster will use to mount the hammerspace file share from.

Additional workflow features

You can now specify remoteHost and slug when updating a session.

      - uses: parallelworks/update-session
        with:
          slug: 'string' // (optional) appends this slug to the session url
          remoteHost: 'string' // (optional) host to forward session to from the target, defaults to "localhost"
          ... other inputs

You can now also specify if the session will use TLS.

sessions:
  mySession: 
    useTLS: true // (optional) Will use https when connecting to session, should only be turned on if the app requires https.

Nov 4, 2024

v4.233

Nov 4, 2024v4.233

Enhancements and Features

Improve provision status UI for hammerspace

Changes the Hammerspace provision status UI to only show the main components getting created, Anvil, DSX, DataNodes. Also adds deletion statuses.

Bug Fixes

Cost page crashes
Remove extra padding on kubernetes pages
Resource names should not be automatically capitalized
Parallel workflow jobs not running
Cannot create oidc auth method in another organization

Other Changes

Add quick connect instructions to logging in to controller page

Nov 2, 2024

v4.232

Nov 2, 2024v4.232

Enhancements and Features

Add provision status support for hammerspace

Add Provision Status UI for Hammerspace
Fixes issue where the Hammerspace could not be deleted if it didn't have provision status

Bug Fixes

Double clicking add terminal maximizes terminal

Nov 1, 2024

v4.231

Nov 1, 2024v4.231

Enhancements and Features

Deletion records are now appended to provision records

When a resource supports the new provisioning experience, you will now see the deletion records directly below the provisioning records in the provisioning status panel.

When provisioning Azure storage accounts, if a name was unavailable the provisioning would silently fail. You will now receive an error that the name is already in use in these cases. This update also fixes other minor issues and typographical problems with the new provisioning UI.

Bug Fixes

Non-bash shells cannot run commands
Azure bucket "collecting variables" step spins forever

October 2024

Oct 30, 2024

v4.218

Oct 30, 2024v4.218

Enhancements and Features

Provision status ui enhancements

Provision status UI now displays details of ansible bootstrap task that failed
Ephemeral lustre filesystem and persistent disk attachment now also displayed, including error if any.

Add failed node to cluster data return endpoint

Failed nodes are now also returned in cluster data. This is useful for workflow that need to know nodes provision status to make decision instead of waiting for slurm to time out

New provisioning UX promoted to GA

The new provisioning experience is now generally available for our next-generation cloud clusters and most cloud storage options.

Promote next-gen cloud clusters to general availability

Next-generation cloud clusters are now generally available. With this update, previous generation clusters will be marked with the text "Legacy".

Workspace mount tooltips

Workspace mount points now have tooltips for substitutions

Bug Fixes

Org vars not populating on workflows

Oct 25, 2024

v4.217

Oct 25, 2024v4.217

Enhancements and Features

Ultra disk configuration for hammerspace

Added inputs on Hammerspace configuration form that show up when selecting UltraSSD_LRS disks. These options are for configuring the IOPS and Mbps Throughput for all disks within the Hammerspace deployment.

Apps feature preview is now available

All users can now enable the "apps" feature preview from the feature preview menu.

Bug Fixes

Run bootstrap when using azure os snapshot
Some azure instance types cannot start slurm
Unmount localdisk on hammerspace
Correct options in fstab for hammerspace

Oct 24, 2024

v4.216

Oct 24, 2024v4.216

Enhancements and Features

Dependency graph summary info

Adds a summary box above the workflow dependency graph

Cli can use tokens to authenticate with PW_API_KEY env variable

Can use PW_API_KEY environment variable with tokens to authenticate

Identify-platform command

Adds a command pw auth identify-platform to the CLI to help identify which platform host the CLI is configured to run commands against.

Make azure cluster nodes provisioning more stable

Make nodes provisioning more stable for azure

Improved changelogs

Introduced a new structure for the changelogs, where changes are categorized into three sections: Enhancements and Features, Bug Fixes, and Other Changes.

Bug Fixes

Cost page crashing
Compute nodes retry-provision always fails
Ansible packages installation sometimes fails
Azure regular image id doesnt work
Attached disk is not working properly in v2 clusters definition
Cannot type number that is less than minimum into input
Filesystem attachment form doesnt work properly when cluster is on

Changelog

January 2026

Enhancements and Features

Scheduler-agent now supports pbs and custom flags

Bug Fixes

Enhancements and Features

Refreshed navigation, typography, and workflow list widget

Bug Fixes

Other Changes

Enhancements and Features

Organizations can now use feature preview interface for their users

Show instance bootstrap steps in provision status

Bug Fixes

Enhancements and Features

Legacy Google Lustre and Azure Lustre now removed

Platform name setting

New platform onboarding

Refreshed login pages

Workflow bracket indexing support

Bug Fixes

Enhancements and Features

Google Managed Lustre is now generally available

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Documentation Changes

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Other Changes

Bug Fixes

December 2025

Enhancements and Features

New compute-resources field for workflows

Organization-level user host setting

PW CLI short term token provided when getting bucket credentials

Bug Fixes

Other Changes

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Enhancements and Features

Pw ssh cluster name support

Bug Fixes

Enhancements and Features

OS updates for Rocky 8.10 and 9.7 releases

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Legacy Clusters

Bug Fixes

Documentation Changes

Bug Fixes

Documentation Changes

Enhancements and Features

New terminal page

Storage Explorer GA

Default terminal theme is now dark

Bug Fixes

Enhancements and Features

Clarified workflow interactions with user workspace restarts

CLI transfers now show progress bar

User workspace status indicators

Bug Fixes

Documentation Changes

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Enhancements and Features

Workflow action bar shortcuts

Able to publish/unpublish images from admin panel

pw ssh support for Windows

Bug Fixes

Enhancements and Features

Dark themes generally available

Allow disabling rate limiting by setting RATE_LIMIT_PER_SECOND to -1

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Enhancements and Features

Workflow parallelworks/checkout action

Add none scheduler type to existing cluster

Bug Fixes

Documentation Changes

New `compute-resources` field for workflows

`pw ssh` support for Windows

Allow disabling rate limiting by setting `RATE_LIMIT_PER_SECOND` to -1

Workflow `parallelworks/checkout` action

Install `nvidia-container-toolkit` in cluster images