# Announcing Open OnDemand 1.7

**URL:** <https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/announcing-open-ondemand-1-7/862>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [April 23, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/announcing-open-ondemand-1-7/862 "2020-04-23T17:20:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![efranz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/efranz/32/27_2.png) [@efranz](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/efranz)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/announcing-open-ondemand-1-7/862/1 "2020-04-23T17:20:02Z")

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We are pleased to announce the release of Open OnDemand 1.7.

Highlights of Open OnDemand 1.7 include:

- Support running OnDemand with SELinux
- Update project dependencies
- Drop EL6 and add EL8 support
- Added the Linux Host Adapter
- Show account balance warnings
- Job Composer and Active Jobs match Dashboard Branding
- Titles for Files menu entries
- Documentation for Keycloak as identity broker with CILogon and Keycloak with Duo 2FA
- Add Grafana support for ActiveJobs app
- Improvements to ood-portal-generator
- Add an ssh wrapper to the shell app
- Regenerate ood-portal.conf with every apache restart
- Support sanitizing job names
- nginx\_clean support for a specific user
- Dashboard now alerts on malformed cluster configs
- Job composer now shows suggested scripts
- Add ability to disable SSH to compute node link in batch connect session card
- Reduced installation size by 30 percent
- New shared OnDemand gem sets

Release notes and upgrade information can be found here:

[https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/release-1.7/release-notes/v1.7-release-notes.html](https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/release-1.7/release-notes/v1.7-release-notes.html)

We also started sharing links to OnDemand apps published on GitHub by other institutions besides OSC at [https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/master/install-ihpc-apps.html](https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/master/install-ihpc-apps.html). If you have apps available on GitHub please share them with us on this topic [Share your custom OnDemand apps](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/share-your-custom-ondemand-apps/689) or as a [GitHub issue here](https://github.com/osc/ood-documentation/issues).

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**Author:** ![charles8ronson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/charles8ronson/32/446_2.png) [@charles8ronson](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/charles8ronson)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/announcing-open-ondemand-1-7/862/2 "2020-04-23T17:23:08Z")

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Exciting and fortuitous timing! Can’t wait to get my hands on that Grafana for ActiveJobs!

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**Author:** ![efranz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/efranz/32/27_2.png) [@efranz](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/efranz)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/announcing-open-ondemand-1-7/862/3 "2020-04-23T17:23:59Z")

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**Author:** ![efranz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/efranz/32/27_2.png) [@efranz](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/efranz)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/announcing-open-ondemand-1-7/862/4 "2020-04-23T17:24:03Z")

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