Michael McQuade

Bug Fixes​

• Storage provision status breaks out of modal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bug Fixes​

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enhancements and Features​

Share AI Chat Providers​

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.

Icons show on workflow run widget​

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bug Fixes​

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

Bug Fixes​

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

Bug Fixes​

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

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.

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

Enhancements and Features​

Add delete session button to sessions home page widget​

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.

Menu bar for terminal​

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

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

Enhancements and Features​

Upload organization logos​

Organizations can now upload their logo on the organization page.

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

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

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

Bug Fixes​

• Can't select google capacity reservation

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

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

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

Bug Fixes​

• Token/apikey displayed vertically instead of horziontally

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

Bug Fixes​

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

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.

Enhancements and Features​

Add kubernetes clusters widget to homepage​

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

Kubernetes workloads widget​

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.

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

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

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

Bug Fixes​

• Display name is unset when saving legacy cluster

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

Bug Fixes​

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

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

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

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

Bug Fixes​

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

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

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.

Ability to share resource with any group within organization​

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

Bug Fixes​

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

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

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

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

Enhancements and Features​

Add display name to storage creation page​

User can now input display name in storage creation page

Add ability for popover drawers to be resized​

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enhancements and Features​

Image dropdown now shows required disk size​

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bug Fixes​

• Partitions dropdown not populating

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

Bug Fixes​

• Marketplace fork from add page redirects to incorrect page

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

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.