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Stay up-to-date with the new features and services that are available in {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix}}, so that you get the most out of your {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} experience. The updates are organized into these categories: {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} platform, {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} Local and {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} Dedicated, Compute, and Services. {:shortdesc}
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New as of: 27 July 2017
Expanding on the last console update to manage your public regions from a single location in the console, {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} now has a global catalog making the process of selecting and deploying items you select from the catalog a more streamlined process. Regardless of the region you have selected in the console, you can now see all services that are available across all public regions from your catalog. Once you select a tile from the catalog, you can see which regions the service is available in, and select where you want to deploy it.
For more information about the latest updates to the catalog, see A global {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} catalog makes building things easier{: new_window} 
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New as of: 23 May 2017
You can now manage your public regions from a single location through the updated {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} console. The region selector offers you streamlined access to your resources, and other enhancements include higher availability and improved performance.
For more information about this update, check out New Global Bluemix UI for Higher Availability and More{: new_window} .
New as of: 01 May 2017
With the latest updates and improvements, {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} account owners or administrators can now use a new unified access control UI to take advantage of the following capabilities:
- Manage users' fine-grained access to Kubernetes services and other services as they adopt the new access control features
- Assign service policies and Cloud Foundry roles to users within their organizations
Additionally, {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} platform users can create, delete, and list API keys associated with their user IDs. And platform users can use those API keys to authenticate when using APIs or CLIs.
Lastly, we’ve enhanced our unified user management capability to ensure that in a linked IaaS-PaaS account, users are managed in a unified way with no need to add users separately in the SoftLayer Customer Portal or the {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} console.
For more information about the recent update, check out the Introducing Identity & Access Management{: new_window} blog post.
New as of: 13 April 2017
With this navigation update, we think you'll understand how content is organized throughout our docs better, and will be able to find relevant content more efficiently. With fewer nested layers of content, you won't have to dig around to find the documentation you need to be successful with {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}.
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{: #mayadminconsole} New as of: 26 June 2017
With the latest updates and improvements from June, you can use the following new features:
- System resources
- The History view for memory and disk has been updated to display data over 48 hours, 30 days, and 5 hours
- A Learn More link is provided, showing how the administration console metrics api is used to generate the History views
- Applications
- Provides usage information for all applications in the environment
- Sort by application name, physical memory, reserved memory, physical disk, reserved disk, physical CPU, or Organization name
- Search is provided to filter results by application name and Organization name
- A Learn More link is provided, showing how the administration console metrics api is used to generate the Applications view
See Resource usage for more information.
- Environment statistics have been added, providing averages by day or month for memory and disk consumption
See API for Metrics for more information.
{: #mayadminconsole} New as of: 30 May 2017
With the latest updates and improvements from May, you can use the following new features:
- Improvements on the Status page including more granular diagnostics on incidents affecting the Bluemix platform and runtimes.
- Improvements to the security Reports and Logs page:
- Reports are now displayed in a table format, simplyfying the browsing and searching of reports, including the ability to sort by report category, file name, or creation date.
- Enhanced filtering including simultaneous filtering of multiple categories
- Full screen mode for displaying the contents of a report
- Capability to delete reports for admin users with "report write" permission
- Faster display of report lists, progressively loading on-demand through continuous scrolling, resulting in better overall performance.
- Security reports can be requested on-demand within a time range spanning up to one week and starting a maximum of 3 months back from the time of the request. Note that some environment specific configuration is required before this capability is available to admin users. Admin users will require "report write" permission for this capability.
{: #apriladminconsole} New as of: 2 May 2017
With the latest updates and improvements from April, you can use the following new features:
- Newly designed status app for {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} Dedicated and Local environments. You can quickly search by component name or date of posting. You can also switch between the component status posts view and the notifications specific to your environment. See the New {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} Status Page{: new_window}
blog post for more information. - Service usage data for select services from the Resource Usage tile. See Service usage details for more information about what services are supported and what you can expect from the new view.
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Visit the following pages for a cumulative list of the latest updates:
- Latest Updates to the SDK for Nodejs buildpack
- Latest Updates to the Liberty buildpack
- Latest Updates to the ASP.NET Core buildpack
- Latest updates to the IBM XPages for {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} buildpack
New as of: 17 July 2017
The Liberty buildpack v3.11 provides new monthly Liberty runtime version and contains other improvements. The monthly Liberty runtime version was updated to the 2017.7.0.0 release. The IBM JDK has been updated to the 8.0.4.7 and 7.1.4.5 versions. The buildpack also provides updated versions of the App Management utility and Auto-Scaling agent. The default Cloudant Library is now the official java-cloudant, the Ektorp library is still available as an option, for details on this change see the blog post. The default heap size ratio is now 50% when your application has less than 512mb of memory, if it has more than 512mb it will still be 75%. A new staging task log is now generated, which allows for easier debugging of staging errors.See the latest updates documentation for additional information.
New as of: 12 June 2017
The Liberty buildpack v3.10 provides new quarterly and monthly Liberty runtime versions and contains other improvements. The default Liberty runtime version was updated to 17.0.0.2. The monthly Liberty runtime version was updated to the 2017.5.0.0{: new_window} release. The buildpack also provides updated versions of the App Management utility and Extreme Scale Client. See the latest updates documentation for additional information.
New as of: 16 May 2017
The SDK for Node.js buildpack v3.12 provides IBM SDK for Node.js versions 0.12.17, 0.12.18, 4.8.0, 4.8.2, 6.10.0 and 6.10.2. The default is now changed from the latest 4.x to the latest 6.x, so it is currently 6.10.2. Being a major version change, this could affect apps that are relying on the default. See Node.js version long-term support and the SDK for Node.js buildpack{: new_window} for more information about how to avoid any problems.
In addition to the new runtimes, this release contains a buildpack bug fix an issue with the App Management Health Center handler and Node.js versions 6.9.5 and 6.10.0.
New as of: 27 April 2017
The Liberty buildpack v3.9 provides new monthly Liberty runtime version and contains other improvements. The default Liberty runtime version was updated to include the PI77770, PI77605, IFPI77438 and IFPI79275 iFixes. The monthly Liberty runtime version was updated to the 2017.3.0.0{: new_window} release. Memory Calculation was moved from staging to the start process, allowing for easier heap memory changes with the restart of an application. The buildpack also provides updated versions of the Auto-Scaling service agent, and Extreme Scale Client. See the latest updates documentation for additional information.
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New as of: 31 July 2017
The {{site.data.keyword.loganalysisfull}} service provides log collection and log search services for the {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} platform, automatically collecting application and {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} services’ data from select {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} services. Use the {{site.data.keyword.loganalysisshort}} service to:
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Retain logs as long as you require.
Logs are stored on IBM Cloud storage. You can download logs when you need them.
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Manage your retained logs, and send log data from outside the {{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} Cloud by using the new API.
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Choose the amount of logs that you can search per day.
Different plans are available that you can use to search up to 500MB, 2GB, 5GB, and 10GB of logs per day.
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Build reusable dashboards and make them interactive.
{{site.data.keyword.loganalysisshort}}’s hosted Kibana provides support for building custom dashboards.
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Access your service through the Bluemix catalog.
For the {{site.data.keyword.loganalysisshort}} service with single and group containers, and {{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} Cloud Foundry services, you can access the service from the {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} UI.
For more information about the {{site.data.keyword.loganalysisshort}} service, refer to the Getting started with {{site.data.keyword.loganalysisfull}} and the {{site.data.keyword.loganalysisshort}} overview.
New as of: 18 July 2017
The following table summarizes the new name:
| Previous name | New name | Effective date |
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| IBM dashDB for Analytics | IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud | July 18, 2017 |
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For a cumulative list of updates for Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and Db2 on Cloud, see: What's New in Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and Db2 on Cloud{: new_window} .
New as of: 17 July 2017
Use the {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}} service to expand your collection, retention, and analysis capabilities in {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} when working with metrics.
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Alert into action! {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}} offers an API that you can use to set performance thresholds, and to be notified when those thresholds are breached. Define alert rules for a single service instance or app instance, and alert rules that report on a set of instances. When an alert is triggered, get a notification through an e-mail, a PagerDuty event, a webhook notification, or any combination of the three.
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Add custom metrics. {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}} premium plan offers APIs that you can use to add relevant application and business metrics to your Cloud Monitoring data. You can also use them to send metric data from outside the {{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} Cloud into the {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}} service.
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Build reusable dashboards and make them interactive. {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}}’s hosted Grafana provides support for building custom dashboards with a large palate of visualization options. Make your dashboards dynamic with templating by using metric queries with variables.
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Access your service through the {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} catalog. {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}} is available as a service tile in the DevOps section of the {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} catalog. For the {{site.data.keyword.containershort}} service with single and group containers, you can access the service from the {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} UI.
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Choose the service plan that fits your needs. You may choose the Lite service plan or the Premium service plan to match your usage needs. The Lite plan offers metric collection at once per minute, retention for 15 days, and complementary alerting. Alternatively, you can select the Premium plan to enable greater consumption, longer metrics retention, and to gain access to the service APIs, for example, to send or retrieve metrics from the {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}} service. {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}} offers metric collection at once per minute. The Lite plan retains metrics at full resolution for 15 days. The Premium plan retains metrics at full resolution for 45 days.
The legacy {{site.data.keyword.monitoringshort}} service collected metrics at service defined frequencies starting at 30 seconds, and summarized to 1 hour frequencies over time. {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}} now offers full resolution collection at 1 minute. The Lite plan retains metrics for 15 days. The Premium plan retains metrics for 45 days.
For more information about the {{site.data.keyword.monitoringlong}} service, refer to the Getting started with Monitoring documentation or the IBM Cloud Monitoring – Service Refresh with New Features and Name blog post .
New as of: 11 July 2017
Benefits of the upgrade include bug fixes, performance improvements, and refinements to the user experience. Noteworthy enhancements, if not already present on your environment, include:
- Fixes and improvements to internationalization and accessibility.
- Toolchain access control, available from a toolchain's Manage tab.
- New tool integrations in the Continuous Delivery tool catalog.
- Improved grouping of multiple workspaces in the Orion Web IDE.
- Support for multiple editor tabs in the Orion Web IDE.
- Support for UI themes in the Orion Web IDE.
New as of: 23 June 2017
{{site.data.keyword.uccr_short}} is an enterprise-scale release management solution that supports both cloud-native and on-prem deployment tools.
The beta version of {{site.data.keyword.uccr_short}} provides the following key features:
- Use releases to manage multiple deployment plans and events, and collaborate on multi-team release efforts.
- Create events for any release-related activity and manage them with the calendar.
- Import your own events and releases.
- Customize calendar events to fit your organization.
- Use email and Slack type tasks for release notifications.
New as of: 14 June 2017
IBM {{site.data.keyword.DB2OnCloud_short}} is the new name for dashDB for Transactions. As part of this renaming the former self-managed IBM {{site.data.keyword.DB2OnCloud_short}} service will also be renamed to IBM Db2 Hosted. At this time only display names are updated, so any APIs or command line interfaces remain unchanged.
{{site.data.keyword.sparks}} updates: Stocator-S3 connector includes support for IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross Region service (Beta)
New as of: 05 June 2017
{{site.data.keyword.sparks}} users can now access and do analytics on data stored in the IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross Region service. This capability is offered as a Beta. IBM Cloud Object Storage offers high-capacity, cost-effective storage for analytics and other applications that is scalable, flexible and simple to use.
The Apache Spark accesses IBM Cloud Object Storage data through a storage connector based on Stocator technology, which is implicitly designed for object storage and thus faster than legacy object storage connectors. As a user, you do not need to change or recompile Apache Spark code.
Access and Analyze data in IBM Cross Region Cloud Object Storage{: new_window} blog post describes usage of IBM Cloud Object Storage data with {{site.data.keyword.sparks}} on {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} and the IBM Data Science Experience (DSx).
Please reach out to us at [email protected], if you have any questions or comments. Your input is greatly appreciated!
New as of: 31 May 2017
A new plan is available for {{site.data.keyword.dashdbshort}} for Transactions that can grow with your database needs. The new Flex plan allows you to start with a small system and grow the power and storage capacity of that system easily and quickly. {{site.data.keyword.dashdbshort}} for Transactions is 100% DB2-compatible and provides a 99.95% SLA on high availability plans.
New as of: 24 May 2017
The following are the new updates available for {{site.data.keyword.mobilepush}} service on {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}}
Lite Plan: We are introducing a new Lite Plan in addition to the existing Basic Plan for {{site.data.keyword.mobilepush}} Service. As per the new plan the users can send upto hundred thousand digital messages for free per month. While upgrading from Lite plan to basic plan the user will be charged post one million digital messages starting from the count where the Lite plan usage was clipped.
Monitoring: You can now get insights on notifications sent and devices registered in the {{site.data.keyword.mobilepush}} Service Console. You can also use REST API's for message level tracking. From message delivery to message dispatching to message receipt, the details can be obtained by configuring webhooks. See Monitoring for {{site.data.keyword.mobilepush}}.
Web Notifications: You can now send notifications to Safari Web browsers.
New as of: 24 May 2017
The latest Secure Gateway maintenance update includes minor bug fixes in the UI and API manager, updated documentation, and the client has been updated to version 1.7.1. The Secure Gateway client is now available on AIX 7.1+ and supports connecting outbound through a squid proxy.
{{site.data.keyword.streaminganalyticsfull}} service updates: Develop Streams applications in your Python development environment
New as of: 13 April 2017
In the past, you had to install a local version of IBM Streams to develop Python applications. That’s no longer the case. Now you can develop applications with Python in your favorite development environment or in a Jupyter interactive notebook.
You can use the STREAMING_ANALYTICS_SERVICE context to submit a Python application to the {{site.data.keyword.streaminganalyticsshort}} service. The {{site.data.keyword.streaminganalyticsshort}} service requires Python 3.5.
You can create sample Python applications using Jupyter notebooks in IBM Data Science Experience (DSX), and submit these applications to the {{site.data.keyword.streaminganalyticsshort}} instance directly from DSX. Check out the sample stream-processing Python applications in notebooks on the DSX community page{: new_window} .
For more information about the {{site.data.keyword.streaminganalyticsshort}} service updates, see {{site.data.keyword.streaminganalyticsshort}} updates: DSX integration and easier Python development{: new_window} .
New as of: 21 April 2017
{{site.data.keyword.sparkl}} is introducing the support for Apache Spark 2.1 to create algorithms that harness insights from complex data. Apache Spark 2.1 will help significantly around structured streaming with added support for event time watermarks and Kafka 0.10. Apache Spark 2.1 also focused on increasing stability and usability in Spark SQL, SparkR and the MLlib modules. For more details on Spark 2.1, see Spark Release 2.1.0.
We are happy to answer any questions related to {{site.data.keyword.sparkl}} or the newer version of Apache Spark 2.1 and are reachable at [email protected].
New as of: 18 April 2017
As of March 30th, 2017, {{site.data.keyword.macm_long}} service tile will be removed from the {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_notm}} Catalog and you will no longer be able to provision new MACM instances. However, existing instances will continue to be supported. The End of Support Date is 30 March 2018. Please delete your {{site.data.keyword.macm_short}} (MACM) service instances before the End of Support Date. We encourage users to migrate to the IBM Watson Content Hub. Watson Content Hub is available on IBM Marketplace and provides users with a 30-day free trial. IBM Watson Content Hub provides similar functionality to MACM with added new capabilities such as asset management, cognitive tagging using IBM Watson services, and included content delivery network (CDN) to ensure an optimal experience for your customers. IBM offers service engagments to migrate content from MACM to Watson Content Hub.
{{site.data.keyword.streaminganalyticsfull}} service updates: Develop Streams applications in your Python development environment
New as of: 13 April 2017
In the past, you had to install a local version of IBM Streams to develop Python applications. That’s no longer the case. Now you can develop applications with Python in your favorite development environment or in a Jupyter interactive notebook.
You can use the STREAMING_ANALYTICS_SERVICE context to submit a Python application to the {{site.data.keyword.streaminganalyticsshort}} service. The {{site.data.keyword.streaminganalyticsshort}} service requires Python 3.5.
Check out the sample stream-processing Python applications in notebooks on the community page of IBM Data Science Experience{: new_window} .
New as of: 11 April 2017
Your new platform to work with notebooks and Spark is Data Science Experience. Sign up to Data Science Experience, and start creating notebooks and sharing your expertise with other data scientists.
If you worked with notebooks in {{site.data.keyword.sparks}}, you can migrate your notebooks to Data Science Experience. For more information, see the Migrating notebooks documentation.