Skip to end of metadata
Go to start of metadata

You are viewing an old version of this page. View the current version.

Compare with Current View Page History

« Previous Version 24 Next »

The seventh Open edX release.  Please add information here that will be useful when it comes time to package the release.  Please include your name when you add an item, so that we can get back to you with questions.

New Services & Major Upgrades Planned for This Release

What new products, applications, services, etc have we built since Ginkgo?

  • Catalog service
    • Django is in the process of being upgraded to 1.11.X
  • Credentials Service
    • Django has been upgraded to 1.11.X
  • E-Commerce Service
    • Django has been upgraded to 1.10.X
    • Django Oscar has been upgraded to 1.4. (See deployment issues note below.)
  • ElastichSearch 1.5 Upgrade is in progress will hopefully land soon(Contact:Feanil)
  • Webpack is now supported in edx-platform

Installation changes

Tickets you'd like to complete before Ginkgo

Deployment Issues to Keep in Mind

What has changed in the devops/configuration world? Are there manual steps needed to move from Ficus to Ginkgo?

  • ElasticSearch will be upgraded, probably to 1.5 which is what we use in production.  This will coincide with changes to the forums service to support the newer version.
    • Robert Raposa: In addition to migration documentation, we should remind about "rake search:initialize" and "rake search:validate_index".
  • Credentials Service
    • The service now requires Python 3.5
    • The service has been upgraded to Django 1.11.x
  • E-Commerce Service
    • The service has been upgraded to Django 1.10.x.
      • This change includes a migration that affects the user table. If your users table is large, consider faking migration core 0032.
    • Django Oscar has been upgraded to 1.4. (The steps below only apply to existing installations, and can be ignored for new installations.)
      • This upgrade requires faking migrations for the thumbnail app: ./manage.py migrate thumbnail --fake

      • Site maintainers should be aware that one of the migrations includes a change on the guest_email column in the orders table. If your orders table is large 1M+ rows, this migration may lock the table for an extended amount of time. The E-Commerce Service does not normally use the guest_email column. If you have not modified your system to use this column, and wish to avoid the table lock, it is recommended that you fake this migration:
        ./manage.py migrate orders 0012

        ./manage.py migrate orders 0013 --fake

  • Catalog Service
    • The service is in the process of been upgraded to Django 1.11.X
  • Waffle is used by many repositories to control feature rollout
  • Will devtack be docker based, or will we still need vagrant?
  • Will native/fullstack require docker?
  • Will catalog service be required?
  • Are there required upgrades for Django, pip, ...
  • Will there be a significant change to the asset pipeline in time for Ginkgo? (Probably not but something to keep an eye on) 
  • Upgrade to RabbitMQ https://github.com/edx/configuration/pull/3297
  • Insights

    • We're planning on upgrading Insights to Django 1.11.  As part of this upgrade, we need to follow a delicate procedure to update python-social-auth from the old version in Eucalyptus.  Essentially, what we think needs to be scripted in the upgrade is a sequence of migrations documented in python-social-auth/MIGRATING_TO_SOCIAL:

      • upgrade to python-social-auth==0.2.21
      • run migrations
      • upgrade edx-auth-backends, which in turn upgrades a bunch of social-auth-* packages
      • run migrations
    • In other words, upgrade Insights to version 0.33.0, run migrations, then upgrade Insights to the Ginkgo release, and run migrations again.

Monthly product notes

Any unusual things changed in the product that adopters or developers should know about?

Deprecated Features

  • Programs was deprecated in Ficus and will be replaced by the Catalog service in Ginkgo
  • Credentials API V1 is replaced by V2 (V1 has been removed)
  • The waffle flag "unified_course_view" is deprecated in Ginkgo, which can be used for the new view of the course outline on a separate page.  The old sidebar navigation and this waffle flag will be fully removed in the next release.
  • No labels