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Version 1.1.5 has just now been released. Changes include:

• added CHANGELOG.md file
• modified notifications to include any error message when downloading a new image
• added accessibility attributes to semantic icons, providing a popup text when hovering over icon
• changed notification spinner to bootstrap border spinner from grow spinner, making it less obtrusive
• relocated notification area to the left side of top nav bar to help with various notification lengths
• added support for creating storage pools on hosts that belong to a cluster
• added Status to the table on the storage pools page

Version 1.1.4 is a minor update to the user interface on the web pages. There is now a drop down arrow to let users know they can change the host or project directly from the page they are using, without having to click the projects or host links on the left side navigation.

A new version the LXD dashboard has been released, version 1.1.3. This new version brings some improvements to user interaction, improved load time, and new features for clustered hosts.

Using the recursion option in the rest API, tables should load faster as fewer API calls are now made to populate data information. Pages can now load quicker and more often giving a real-time effect to page information.

The hosts page has been redesigned bring more information the page. Users can view a quick status of running instances and cluster members, among other features. Information regarding details of the LXD service are now also displayed, including the version of LXD, storage driver, and operating system of the LXD server.

New features such as copying instances and migrating instances have been added for instances on hosts that use LXD clustering. Instances can now move from one host to another, or may be copied on a host to create a duplicate instance.

Icons are now used for actions within the table data. This is a result of having quickly refreshing table data, making it easier for users to select the action.

With the release of version 1.1.1 comes a new logo for LXDWARE. There are both light and dark versions of the logo available. Check the out and let us know what you think.

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Version 1.0.0 of the LXDWARE dashboard has just been released under the GPL-3.0 License. This is the first public release of the software making it readily available to everyone.

Initially the software is packaged as a docker container allowing Linux, Mac OSX and Windows users the ability to run the software using docker. The docker image can be found at https://hub.docker.com/r/lxdware/dashboard.

The source code for the project has also been made public on GitHub. You can find it at https://github.com/lxdware/dashboard.

In addition to the docker container, an LXD container for the dashboard is planned to be released soon.