Release date: 23 September 2021
Overview
ggRock v1.1 is our latest release bringing in Debian 11 support, Quick Actions across the board and improved sorting and filtering capabilities of grids, bulk power actions control. The patch also includes a set of under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes that should improve responsiveness and consistency of the data displayed.
As for ggRock going paid - we have pushed back the date for versions prior to 1.1 being discontinued to November 1st. There will be a 1.2 release with a Subscription system in October (look forward to the middle of the month) allowing all centers to configure their subscription, and a 30 days trial will be issued to all centers to facilitate the payment configuration.
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UPDATE NOTE. This update requires manual actions to update from Debian 10 to Debian 11. Please run: apt-get install -y screen && screen ggrock-upgrade-debian to update. Update can take upwards of an hour, please be patient and let the OS finish the process
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Hotfix 1.1.001
This patch fixes issues with Arrays misreporting drives, Images not importing fully as well as PCs changing images during reboots.
ggRock Interface Improvements
We have added Quick Actions to all available grids: Arrays, Images, Writebacks, Snapshots and the rest. This should make it easier to navigate the system and allow you to achieve the same results with fewer clicks.
Above represented are some of the new Quick Action controls. There has been a lot of under-the-hood and technical debt updates necessary to bring us to the new features, as well as extended research to support Debian 11.
Gateway customization
Alongside some of the core improvements we have released a way to customize certain areas of ggRock, specifically Gateway Customization to make sure that ggRock can accommodate different network layouts and setups better and persist customization over version updates
Seamless Boot improvements
We have added a plethora of new drivers and motherboards support, improved the ggRock client and Toolchain dozens of times in the past month greatly improving the reliability and stability of the Seamless Boot experience.
Bug fixes
We have identified and fixed:
Issues with 72 hour offline countdown
Issues displaying Seamless Boot error messages on fail
Fixing permissions issues not being displayed
Improving item selection and bulk selection indication
Other stability and reliability issues
Updating ggRock to 1.1
ggRock 1.0.2
For users on ggRock 1.0.2 - only thing that should be done for 1.0.2 is following the usual update process.
ggRock 1.0.1
For all users running 1.0.1 this update will require manual actions to update from Debian 10 to Debian 11. Please run: apt-get install -y screen && screen ggrock-upgrade-debian to update. Update can take upwards of an hour, please be patient and let the OS finish the process
ggRock 1.0 and prior
You would need to first update to 1.0.1 and then refer to the paragraph above.
Plans for the next release - ggRock 1.2
With ggRock 1.2 we expect to roll out a new Subscription Management experience, as well as new sign-up flows and complete separation between ggLeap and ggRock for administration.