Release Notes

The following release notes cover the most recent changes over the last 1 year. For a comprehensive list of product-specific release notes, see the individual product release note pages.

2024

Oct. 14

Elastic Compute

Added support for next hop vNIC in custom route configuration;
Added support for first-order discount;

Cloud Networking

Added support for Cross Connect. View Create a Cross Connect for details;

Virtual Machine

Added support for pricing model change from subscription to pay-as-you-go.

Sep. 23

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Upgraded Pricing Calculator by adding Elastic Compute services;

Bare Metal

Upgraded creation procedures of Bare Metal instance, making it more clear and simplified.

Sep. 09

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Zenlayer Status site to display and maintain the service status;
Upgraded pay-as-you-go pricing display by adding monthly estimate;
Added support for details of usage bills;

Elastic Compute

Added support for Zenlayer Elastic Compute, designed to support large-scale distributed computing and complex business scenarios.

Cloud Networking

Added support for VLAN tag/untag mode for data center port;
Upgraded bandwidth adjustment of public clouds for Layer 2 private connect and Layer 3 cloud router.

Aug. 26

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for the price inquiry of IP Transit in Pricing Calculator.

Aug. 12

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for the API references of billing center;

Bare Metal

Upgraded public IPv6 enablement while creating an instance. You can enable or disable the public IPv6 as you need.

Jul. 29

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for theme of System Default that follows your system settings;

Virtual Machine

Deprecated DSA SSH keys to improve security;

Cloud Networking

Added support for Custom Burst Capacity based on your commitment in Burstable 95th network billing model of Layer 2 Private Connect;

IP Transit

Added support for Custom Burst Capacity based on your commitment in Burstable 95th network billing model.

Jul. 15

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Referral in Team Management. You can refer friends and get incentives;

Cloud Networking

Added support for Health Check of Virtual Edge to monitor additional metrics, including network delay, packet loss rate etc.

Jul. 01

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Upgraded Team Access Control by supporting Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Requirement enabled or disabled. If MFA requirement is enabled, all team members need to sign in with an MFA protected account;

Bare Metal

Added support for pricing model change from pay-as-you-go to subscription of instance and elastic IP. The network pricing model of the instance to change should be burstable 95th.

Jun 17

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Add support for Pricing Calculator to estimate the monthly cost of all your desired Cloud Networking services;
Upgraded limitation of raising tickets. You can raise up to 5 tickets in one hour.

Jun 03

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for CSV file export of member permissions;
Upgraded trigger details page of the Layer 3 Cloud Router;

Bare Metal

Added support for custom OS installation via netboot.xyz;

Cloud Networking

Added supported for alert log access via details pages of Layer 2 Private Connect and Layer 3 Cloud Router.

May 20

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Layer 3 Cloud Router trigger. You can create trigger rules for router lines and access points.

April 28

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for message subscription and Bots management in Notification Center;
Added support for Global BGP and BYOIP in Products > Global BGP;

Bare Metal

Added support for random password generation when setting customized login password in bare metal instance creation;

Virtual Machine

Added support for random password generation when setting customized login password in virtual machine instance creation;

Cloud Networking

Upgraded basic information display in Details of Layer 2 Private Connect and Layer 3 Cloud Router.

April 15

Bare Metal

Added support for display of network interface and port speed in Details;

Cloud Networking

Added support for Burstable 95th pricing of Layer 2 Private Connect bandwidth;
Upgraded static routing configuration of Layer 3 Cloud Router with the Destination IP as an optional item.

April 01

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for bot management in Notification Center. By adding a bot and configured a related trigger, you can receive notifications in your Instant Messaging (IM) groups via Webhook;

Bare Metal

Access via system-generated password is not supported. Choose custom password or SSH key pair to access your bare metal instance;

Virtual Machine

Access via system-generated password is not supported. Choose custom password or SSH key pair to access your virtual machine instance.

March 18

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for channel of DingTalk alert notification. You can receive alerts in a DingTalk group if you add a robot to the group;
Added support for Port display on Dashboard and Resource Map;
Added support for AuditLogFullAccess by providing full access to all audit log services and resources；

Bare Metal

Upgraded CPU details display of Configuration, including Core, Threads, Base Frequency, and so on;
Upgraded IPMI password length within 16 characters.

March 04

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Route Explorer in Looking Glass, offering BGP Route, Ping, and MTR testing services for IPv4;

Bare Metal

Upgraded Configuration display on instance list page by adding Turbo description;

Cloud Networking

Added support for more public cloud connection into Layer 2 private connect and Layer 3 cloud router, including Alibaba Cloud and Microsoft Azure Cloud. See Add Public Cloud Access Point for more details.

February 02

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Upgraded the performance of Resource Map on Dashboard;
Added support for online generation and management of Contracts.

January 22

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Upgraded the quota of bare metal CIDR block from the zone level to the team level. Therefore, now the quota refers to the maximum number of CIDR Block IPs per team;

Bare Metal

Added support for custom-iPXE instance provisioning;
Added support for free elastic IPv6.

January 08

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Traffic display of compute resources. You can view bandwidth usage of your Bandwidth Cluster;
Added support for URL link of product details page;

Bare Metal

Added support for new formats of public SSH keys, including ED25519, RSA and ECDSA;

Cloud Networking

Added support for modification of the public cloud label name in Cloud Router.

2023

December 25

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Third-party Access to your Console account. The third-party services supported for now are Github and Microsoft. More channels will be available soon;

Bare Metal

Added support for Server Replacement;
Added support for network interruption notification while assigning or unassigning CIDR block IP;

Cloud Networking

Added support for public cloud interconnection in the same data center.

December 11

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Upgraded Ticketing Service page. You can view all your tickets' status in My Tickets;

Bare Metal

Added support for CPU temperature and ambient temperature display in Hardware Health Check;

Cloud Networking

Added support for detailed data center address display when creating a data center port.

November 27

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Service Quotas to view quotas of your services. You can request a quota increase if you need;
Added icon hint for scheduled changes in bandwidth, data transfer, subscription terms and so on;

Bare Metal

Upgraded operating system selection while creating an instance by distinguishing custom OS and default OS;

Virtual Machine

Added restriction to port 25 access for email transmission for security reasons. If you require continued access to port 25, you may submit a request to remove the restriction.

November 13

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for MFA Authentication while signing in;
Upgraded unit of subscription terms from previous 30 days to a calendar month;
Upgraded current access policies;

Bare Metal

Added support for subscription term change while resubscribing recycled resources;
Upgraded remaining storage allocation in partitioning;

Virtual Machine

Added support for network pricing model change for subscription instances.

October 30

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Upgraded alert management with logs and triggers;
Upgraded order summary display;
Added support for CID display in Team Settings;

Bare Metal

Added support for auto-numbering of instances during creation;
Added support for entry of order and bill details on the instance list page;

Virtual Machine

Upgraded rules of default security group and added support for port descriptions;
Added support for entry of order and bill details on the instance list page;

October 16

Bare Metal

Added support for auto-numbering of instances during creation;

Virtual Machine

Added support for SSH Key Pair login and management;

Cloud Networking

Added support for Multi-cloud Connection solution.

September 25

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Upgraded Team Settings and Personal Profile pages;
Added support for network latency display of public IP backbone;
Added support for total network capacity display of cities;

Bare Metal

Added support for network pricing model change for subscription instances;
Added support for instance deletion and full refund if the first installation fails after you places an order for an instance;

Virtual Machine

Added support for custom image deletion if instances are already created with this custom image;
Added support for Admin lock of instances;
Upgraded password change. You can only change password of powered-on instances.

September 11

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Upgraded search bar explanation;

Bare Metal

Upgraded VPC network;

Virtual Machine

Upgraded VPC network;

Cloud Networking

Upgraded pricing of cloud router, including billing start time and billing object.

August 28

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Global VPN Provider Data Transfer Plan providing Zenlayer's global bare metal with data transfer package;
Upgraded Upgrade and Downgrade operations on public bandwidth and data transfer;
Upgraded Terms and Conditions confirmation upon placing the order.

Virtual Machine

Added support for instance specification upgrade and downgrade.

July 31st

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for a pop-up prompt for no financial permission;

Virtual Machine

Upgraded HDD disk type to Standard Disk;
Added support for Zone selection in instance creating;

Cloud Networking

Private Connect for Subnet and Public Cloud is unavailable;
Added support for Private Connect in the same data center;

Global Accelerator

Added support for SSL certificate upload, deployment and management.

July 17

Bare Metal

Upgraded location selection. The system can pick a zone randomly for you to show all available models in one city;
Upgraded tiered price display when setting up public network bandwidth or data transfer;

Virtual Machine

Added support for HDD and SSD storage disk types;
Added support for High-performance instance model;
Upgraded tiered price display when setting up public network bandwidth or data transfer.

July 3rd

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Global Acceleration Test in Looking Glass to experience the actual acceleration effect of global acceleration;
Upgraded payment process with new check-out interface;

Bare Metal

Added Default username display when setting up your own password of the instance;

Virtual Machine

Added support for pay-as-you-go data transfer network billing method;
Added Default username display when setting up your own password of the instance;

Global Accelerator

Added support for access control to filter request IPs by adding Accept or Deny strategies.

June 19

zenConsole - Your Web Portal

Added support for Private Backbone Latency in Looking Glass to discover the power of our premium private backbone with full-mesh connectivity;

Bare Metal

Upgraded partitioning while instance creation and the remained space will be added to the root partition for operating systems except for Windows;
Upgraded pricing model display while resource creation and pay-as-you-go model will be displayed first if available;

Virtual Machine

Added support for location filtering for Private Connect while virtual machine instance creation;
Upgraded pricing model display while resource creation and pay-as-you-go model will be displayed first if available;

Cloud Networking

Upgraded Data Center Port list page display.

June 05

Bare Metal

Upgraded data transfer display in the instance list page, including purchased data transfer package and the overages;

Virtual Machine

Upgraded insufficient balance reminder in pay-as-you-go instance purchasing;
Added support for the default security group. An instance will be associated to the default security group by default;
Upgraded data transfer display in the instance list page, including purchased data transfer package and the overages;

Cloud Networking

Added support for virtual machine subnet Layer 2 connections in private connect;

Global Accelerator

Upgraded Advanced Settings for the acceleration rules, including FAQ doc links to TOA, Proxy Protocol, Gzip, WebSockets.

May 22

zenConsole – Your Web Portal

Added support for mobile terminal login and registration;
Upgraded Location display for all products to unify user experience;
Upgraded pay-as-you-go price display.

Bare Metal

Upgraded private network configuration details;

Virtual Machine

Added support for pay-as-you-go pricing model;
Upgraded private bandwidth limit for 1 Gbps.

Global Accelerator

Added support for origin health check.

April 17

zenConsole – Your Web Portal

Upgraded Resource Map by improving resource display and adding shortcuts to resource creation;

Virtual Machine

Upgraded security group creation procedures. You can apply the created security group to the instance later after creation；
Added supported for Temporary Hold in pay-as-you-go pricing model；

Cloud Networking

Upgraded Cloud Router creation page.

April 3rd

zenConsole – Your Web Portal

Upgraded API v2.0 references of Bare Metal products；
Upgraded Resource Map, including state display of full mesh network links.

Bare Metal

Upgraded default network pricing model to data transfer pricing.

Virtual Machine

Upgraded default network pricing model to data transfer pricing.
Added support for selecting custom images and setting the password in OS reset.

Global Accelerator

Added support for new subscription packages, including CN2 and non-CN2 acceleration.

March 20

zenConsole – Your Web Portal

Upgraded product selection in Contact Us;
Added What's this? and How to? links to Doc Center in corresponding product list pages and creation pages.

Bare Metal

Added support for promo code. The offer cannot be used in conjunction with discounts for long-term subscriptions；
Upgraded specification display. You can view the included bandwidth or data transfer；
Upgraded location filters in instance creation. You can filter zones available for cloud router connection.

Virtual Machine

Added support for promo code. The offer cannot be used in conjunction with discounts for long-term subscriptions；
Added support for Virtual Network Computing (VNC) access. You can remote control your virtual machine via VNC.

Cloud Networking

Upgraded cloud router list display by adding VLAN and bandwidth information.

March 6

zenConsole – Your Web Portal

Upgraded menu bar by increasing Dashboard icon, Products and Solutions buttons.
Upgraded search bar and increased shortcut to Docs.
Upgraded snapshot of Billing Center by displaying the current balance.

Bare Metal

Upgraded bare metal menu list.
Upgraded the product name of Public Virtual Interface to VLAN.

Virtual Machine

Added support for the custom image.
Added support for different billing cycles of instance subscription.

Cloud Networking

Added support for Google Cloud connection.
Added support for Virtual Edge - IPsec connection.
Upgraded Overview page layout of cloud router.

February 20

zenConsole – Your Web Portal

Updated product menu and personal settings.
Added onboarding support for new users.

Bare Metal

Added support for resource group change.
Updated column headers of instance list, adding Configuration.

Virtual Machine

You can filter specifications of instances while creating one.

Cloud Networking

Upgraded private connect creation procedures without distinguishing between data center interconnect and cloud connect.

2022

October 16

zenConsole – Your Web Portal

Themes, including dark and light, are now available for all users.
Added support for multi-languages. Simplified Chinese is first added.
Added support for IPT (IP Transit) bandwidth monitoring.

Bare Metal

You can now change the public virtual interface bandwidth of your bare metal cloud instance.
Upgraded agent architecture of bare metal cloud instances to further enhance security.
Upgraded IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) access control of bare metal cloud instances to further enhance security.

Virtual Machine

Bandwidth upgrade and downgrade are now available.
You can now reinstall the operating system of your virtual machine instance.

Cloud Networking

Added new access point type – VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

Global Accelerator

Added support for custom and standard routing types. Custom routing accelerates specific region(s); standard routing provides an anycast IP to accelerate all regions.
Updated global acceleration test tool.

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