Fill-in changelog with all important 2017.12 changes

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,8 +2,22 @@
 
 ## Version 2017.12
 
-* Status page for the administrator
+* New Docker Engine back-end, the Swarm back-end is now deprecated
+* Nodes and ZApps can be labelled for constraining execution placement, for example to run ZApps only on nodes with GPUs
+* Use non-reserved memory, cores, labels and image availability to take placement decisions
+* The elastic scheduler is considered stable, the simple scheduler is now deprecated
+* Expand the status page for the administrator
 * More information about authentications in the log output of zoe-api
+* Endpoint links in the web interface open in new windows
+* Distinguish between reserved, allocated and in-use resources
+* Allocate cores automatically, respecting the minimum configured in the ZApp
+* Small graphic updates to the execution inspect web page
+* Allow for more options and resource limits to be customized on the web interface (users or admins, not for guests), maximum limits are set in the zoe.conf file
+* Additional volumes can be mounted by specifying them in the zoe.conf file
+* Update unit and integration testing
+* Elastic services that die are rescheduled on a new node
+* Optional support for gathering usage metrics via KairosDB, for now these metrics are only used in the status page plots
+* Fix UTC and timezone bugs for execution timestamps 
 
 ## Version 2017.09
 

zoe_master/backends/swarm/backend.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-"""Zoe backend implementation for old-style stand-alone Docker Swarm."""
+"""Zoe back-end implementation for old-style stand-alone Docker Swarm."""
 
 import logging
 

zoe_master/scheduler/simple_scheduler.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class ZoeSimpleScheduler(ZoeBaseScheduler):
         self.loop_quit = False
         self.loop_th = threading.Thread(target=self.loop_start_th, name='scheduler')
         self.loop_th.start()
-        log.warning('This scheduler is deprecated and will me removed in version 2018.03, please switch to the elastic scheduler.')
+        log.warning('This scheduler class is deprecated and will be removed in version 2018.03, please switch to the elastic scheduler.')
 
     def trigger(self):
         """Trigger a scheduler run."""