April 2025 Patch 2 Release

This patch improves system reliability, enhances security, and fixes critical issues that affect Private Cloud Director operations.

If you recently upgraded to the April 2025 release, it is strongly recommended that you apply this patch. It resolves critical upgrade blockers and includes key security fixes.

Security

• Addressed vulnerabilities CVE-2021-34141 and CVE-2021-41495 (NumPy) to strengthen platform security.

• Passwords used in storage backend configurations are now encrypted and securely stored.

• UI no longer displays passwords for sensitive storage configurations.

Key fixes and improvements

• Replaced Gnocchi and Ceilometer-related components with the more scalable Prometheus stack for better performance.

• Fixed an issue with Windows VM boot failure on AMD hypervisors due to the unsupported hv-evmcs feature.

• Fixed an issue causing airctl configure failure due to a missing default value for the cluster provider in the interactive mode.

• Fixed an issue where newly created domain SSU and read-only users were unable to log in to the PCD UI.

• Fixed service stability issues for watcher, placement-api, and keystone-api pods in large-scale deployments.

• Updated NetApp Cinder driver to enable https transport using a self-signed certificate.