Portal Release Notes¶

This page tracks notable changes to the Servala Portal: new features, improvements, and bugfixes, newest first.

2026.06.23¶

New features¶

Organization onboarding via invitation links. Partners can invite people through a signed invitation link. New users land on a branded welcome page (with the inviting partner's logo) where the organization name and billing are pre-filled, so they can create their organization in a single step. If an organization with that name already exists, they can instead request access from its owners, who are notified by email. Expired links show a clear "link expired" page.

Improvements¶

Organizations that share the same name are now distinguishable in the organization selector.
Several refinements to the staff area (instance billing card, Kubernetes and Odoo health cards, instance and organization lists).
Sign-in now uses PKCE for a more secure Keycloak authentication flow.
Behind the scenes: organization trial periods and decommission dates now sync to Odoo sale orders, with new trial and decommissioning marker checks in the staff "Check Odoo" tooling, and external billing fields are set on Exoscale sale orders.

2026.06.09¶

Improvements¶

Added a link to the documentation.

2026.06.01¶

New features¶

Deep links for service provisioning. Direct links now take you straight into the provisioning flow for a service.

Improvements¶

Submit buttons are disabled after clicking to prevent accidental double submissions.

Bugfixes¶

Fixed discovery of Kubernetes CRD plural names.
Fixed rendering of non-mandatory boolean fields in service configuration forms.

2026.05.29¶

New features¶

Staff administration views for organizations, service instances, and control planes, including instance details and a billing check directly in the staff organization detail view.

Improvements¶

The pricing breakdown in the detail view can now be toggled on and off.
Conditional additional CSP resources are now supported for billing.
User list now shows the account creation date and last login date.
Staff organization filter can now narrow down to organizations that have instances.
Organizations with missing Odoo records are now flagged as critical in the staff view.
Quick action card now stretches to align with the row above it.

Bugfixes¶

Fixed a CRD caching issue.

2026.05.21¶

Bugfixes¶

Prevent accidental creation of duplicate organizations.
Fixed handling of nested hardcoded parameters in ControlPlane CRDs.

2026.05.20¶

New features¶

International address support during organization creation and billing.
Per-organization currency selection when creating an organization.

Improvements¶

Credential information can now be shown per service definition.
Refined the display of connection credentials.
Streamlined Kubernetes API call timeouts for faster, more reliable responses.

Bugfixes¶

Fixed organization creation when reusing an existing address.

2026.05.06¶

Bugfixes¶

Fixed a crash in the instance update view when the SLA tier had no initial value.

2026.04.17¶

New features¶

New pricing model with a billing catalog synced from the Servala website.
User-facing invoice listings so you can review your invoices in the portal.

Improvements¶

Indicative pricing hint added to clarify estimated costs.
More robust Odoo and instance reconciliation tooling for staff.

Bugfixes¶

Restored the invoice listing that was lost in a bad merge.

2026.03.20¶

New features¶

Initial experience improvements to make getting started smoother.

Improvements¶

Enhanced import / export functionality.

2026.03.19¶

New features¶

Privacy-friendly web analytics (Plausible) integrated.
Mandatory acceptance of the General Terms and Conditions during organization creation.

Improvements¶

The price calculator now supports multiple storage fields.
Service instances now show a "Deploying" status during initial provisioning.
Ingress CNAME is now auto-generated from the wildcard DNS configuration.
Added a call to action to request a new service.
Copyright year in the footer now updates automatically.

2026.03.09¶

New features¶

User impersonation for support, with a restyled and clearly visible impersonation banner and more useful audit log entries.
Access to service logs directly from the portal.
Pause and decommission service instances.
Voucher system for credits and promotions.
Live service status on the service detail page, including CPU and memory usage metrics and disk (PVC) usage.
Organization limits, with a default limit profile configurable on the organization origin.
Optional logo and display name for organization origins.
Per-CRD wildcard domain support and hardcoded parameters at the CRD level.

Improvements¶

Service detail page now lists dependent services, shows zone information by default, and offers a copy-to-clipboard button.
The "open" button appears dynamically once an instance is ready.
FQDN field is restricted when wildcard DNS is configured, with a warning when changed.
Compute plan selection card improved with unit-consistent pricing and totals; plan descriptions are shown where available.
Clarified that billing is per hour and that backup storage is included; prices now show more decimal places consistently across views.
Import and export functionality for compute plans.
Raw JSON toggle for custom service configuration forms; support for CRD additionalProperties in form config and validation.
Quick button for creating a new service instance.
Archived organizations are now hidden from the switcher.
Control plane chooser is disabled when only one is available.
Faster Kubernetes access through connection pooling and improved static file caching.

Bugfixes¶

Fixed Django startup hang when Odoo is unreachable.
Automated emails now use the real URL.
Fixed dark mode rendering on the zone documentation card and role permissions info box.
Odoo sync no longer fails when a contact has no parent.
Instance edit now preserves the disk size.
Added expiration reminder emails (with a link to the support page).

2025.11.17¶

New features¶

Exoscale offboarding (MVP).

Improvements¶

Admins can now disable the expert mode form.
Support for single (non-array) FQDN values.

2025.11.13¶

New features¶

Custom form configuration for a curated, user-friendly service configuration experience.

Improvements¶

"View Availability" renamed to "Get It".
Added an "open" button to instances that have an FQDN.
Offering selection is skipped when only one option is available.
Clearer guidance on how to register an account.
Billing addresses are now hidden where not needed.

2025.10.27¶

Improvements¶

Restricted user input to more sensible ranges.
Inlined user info on the service offering page.
Smaller login button and updated title.

Bugfixes¶

Fixed generated FQDN not being submitted.

2025.10.22¶

New features¶

October feature set rollout.

Improvements¶

Added a beta banner.

Bugfixes¶

Fixed a misaligned dashboard table.

2025.10.03¶

New features¶

Exoscale onboarding API endpoint.

Improvements¶

Instance URLs now include the instance ID to support duplicate names.
Footer now displays the version or environment.
Slight dashboard title update; added a feedback widget.

2025.09.22¶

New features¶

Organization and global dashboards.
Support form for contacting the team from within the portal.
Billing entity management.
Service instance update and deletion.
Custom error pages.

Improvements¶

Consistent card layout and lists across pages.
CNAME information shown for control planes.
Redesigned login page and profile/account button; added a favicon.
Provider name shown in the instance filter dropdown.
URLs in descriptions are now clickable; alert messages auto-close after a few seconds.
Refined the support form and improved instance form error handling.
Empty values are pruned from instance payloads.

Bugfixes¶

Fixed instance creation breaking due to hidden fields.
Fixed mandatory field detection.
Fixed a ValueError and various form bugs.

2025.04.14¶

New features¶

Initial release of the Servala portal: Django-based multi-tenant SaaS portal with login and registration, organization tenancy, service instance details, and staging deployment.