Since the official release of Backend.AI 22.03 in April, additional improvements and bug fixes have been updated.
Backend.AI Core & UI (22.03)
- Fixed an issue where the current user's login session information was not passed when running an app in wsproxy v2.
- Provided additional information on exception types so that client-side errors caused by HTTP 404 errors due to incorrect URLs and requesting non-existent data can be distinguished when API exceptions occur.
- Fixed an issue where folders that should be automatically connected (e.g., folders with names starting with ".") were missing if the user folder was not explicitly connected when creating a computation session.
- Changed the default value to use the PostgreSQL advisory lock used in the previous version, as there is a multi-threading issue with the gRPC library used in the new etcd-based distributed lock implementation for manager high availability configuration.
- Fixed a bug where statistics collection for a specific computation session was intermittently not performed correctly due to a race condition between container creation time and lifecycle event handlers.
- Added a UI that makes it easy to distinguish between Arm and x86-64 architectures in environments that use both.
- Improved File browser session to work on read-only folders.
- Fixed many UI typos, translations, and bugs related to internal behavior and settings.
Computation environment support added and improved
- Added TensorFlow 2.9 environment
- Optimized JAX/Flax
Forklift (beta)
Forklift, which helps users build arbitrary container images for use in Backend.AI computation sessions, is under development and will be released in beta in mid-June. You can use the additional container image build feature not only through the web UI but also through the API.
- Forklift exclusive web UI support
- Monitoring of requested image build status for each user
- Function to automatically insert arbitrary package installation commands (apt, pip, conda, etc.)
- Provides automatic Dockerfile creation and preview after specifying build options through the UI.
- Provides detailed console logs for each build step.
- Option to download the built image or automatically push it to the specified registry (on/off).
More features are coming soon!