ONOS GUI - Release Notes

This section provides a reverse-chronological summary of changes to the GUI for each release.

Toucan - 2.3.0

Build system for GUI2 moved to Angular-Bazel Convergence, replacing Angular CLI

Moved GUI2 to Angular 9

Added Pipeconf view to GUI2

Added Yang GUI to GUI2

Upgraded the Alarm View on GUI2

Sparrow 2.2.0

Moved GUI2 to Angular 8

Roadm GUI added to GUI2

Added GUI2 documentation

Raven - 2.1.0

Moved GUI2 to Angular 7

GUI2 Topology view completed

Quail - 2.0.0

Made GUI and GUI2 in to OSGi applications - can be unloaded completely or either one

GUI2 was made the default GUI. Legacy GUI loadable through "app activate"

Junco – 1.9.0

• Region-Aware Topology View:
  • Region transition animation added
  • Sprite layers added
• Partitions View added
• Table View Details Panel refactoring
• Support for Intent Viewing handled by currently active Topology view overlay

Ibis – 1.8.0

• Region-Aware Topology View:
  • Configurations added for Regions and TopoLayers
• "Resubmit Intent" action added to Intents View
• Topology view icons updated
• Cluster View details panel added
• Local filtering added to Flow, Port, Group, and Meter views

Hummingbird – 1.7.0

• Region-Aware Topology View:
  • Server-side modeling done
• "Brief" mode introduced to Intent, Group, and Flow views
• Continued work on re-theming UI

Goldeneye – 1.6.0

• Overhaul of the "Look-n-Feel" (re-skinned).
• Applications View:
  • Drag-n-drop of .oar files to install and activate, now supported.
  • Auto-prompt user to refresh the UI when components are added/removed
• Topology View:
  • "Cluster node ready" checkmark indicator added.
  • Geo-map selection dialog ('G' keystroke) added.
  • Support for topology overlays to provide custom link data.
• Dialog Service
  • Support for chained dialog operations added.
• Chart Service added.
• User preferences now persisted server side.
• Logged-in user name displayed in masthead.

Falcon – 1.5.0

• Topology View:
  • "Reset Node Locations" command ('X' keystroke) added.
  • Topology Overlay selection with F1, F2, F3... keystrokes added.
• Applications View
  • Confirmation dialog added for application activate/deactivate/uninstall.
  • Application model enhancements supported:
    • columns added for additional application attributes
    • details panel displayed when application row selected
  • Note: applications can now define custom icon and custom URL (link to documentation).
• Dialog Service:
  • Enter and Escape keys bound to OK and Cancel buttons.

Emu – 1.4.0

• Device View:
  
  • Friendly name can be set on a device from the device detail panel.
• Intent View:
  • Button added to navigate to Topology View and display the selected intent.
• Topology View:
  • Traffic Overlay now selected as default.
  • Topology overlays can now highlight devices and hosts with badges (small number/text/glyph).
  • Topology overlays can invoke a dialog box to interact with the user.
• ONOS-Branded "Loading..." animation.
• Sample application (org.onosproject.uiref) featuring UI content injection techniques.
• GUI Archetypes (ui, uitab, uitopo) facilitating rapid development of applications with custom UI content.

Drake – 1.3.0

• Authentication Enabled by default (Login screen; logout action)
• More tabular views added:
  • Settings
  • Tunnels
• Changes to Topology View:
  • Traffic re-implemented as an "overlay"
  • Overlay mechanism now programmable from ONOS Apps
    • highlighting/labeling topology links
    • full control over summary panel content
    • full control over details panel content

Cardinal – 1.2.0

• Websocket mechanism promoted to be framework-wide; a shared resource amongst the views.
• More tabular views added:
  • Links
  • Hosts
  • Intents
  • Applications
  • Cluster Nodes
  • Device Flows (hidden view)
  • Device Ports (hidden view)
  • Device Groups (hidden view)
• Changes to the Topology View:
  • links are now selectable.
  • toolbar added (note, keystroke commands still available)
    • node layer buttons moved from masthead to toolbar
  • sprite layer added
  • user selection choices persisted across sessions
  • summary and detail panels adjust size to window height
• Changes to the Device View:
  • slide out details panel appears when a device is clicked on
• Navigation Menu changes:
  • glyphs next to links for navigation
  • views organized into categories
• Note that the legacy (Avocet) GUI has been deprecated, and that the (Angular-based) GUI loads by default.

Blackbird – 1.1.0

• GUI Framework migrated to use AngularJS.
  • View-agnostic features refactored as Angular Services.
• Topology View refactored to be an Angular module.
  • Topology source code broken out into multiple source files.
  • Port Highlighting on links added.
• Device View added.
  • Implemented as a simple table for now; one device per row, sortable by column header clicks.
• Sample View added.
  • Skeletal example code.
• Light and Dark themes fully implemented.
  • Press the 'T' key to toggle theme.
• Beginnings of UIExtension mechanism implemented
  • Over future releases, this will facilitate the ability of Apps to inject their own content into the GUI.
    
    
• Note that the new (Angular-based) GUI currently co-exists with the old (Avocet) GUI.
  • By default, the Avocet GUI is launched; the base URL http://localhost:8181/onos/ui is mapped to http://localhost:8181/onos/ui/legacy/index.html#topo.
  • The new Angular-based GUI can be launched by manually adjusting the URL to be:  http://localhost:8181/onos/ui/index.html#topo, (that is, remove "legacy/"). 

Avocet – 1.0.0

• GUI implemented using a home-grown framework. 
• Single view (Topology View) implemented, displaying network topology and providing a certain level of interaction to show traffic & flow information.
• Although the 'T' key-binding (toggle theme) is present, the "dark" theme has not been implemented.