Announce October 2017

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[ANN] oVirt 4.2.0 First Beta Release is now available for testing

by Sandro Bonazzola

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Beta Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of October 31st, 2017 This is pre-release software. This pre-release should not to be used in production. Please take a look at our community page[1] to learn how to ask questions and interact with developers and users. All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2]. This update is the first beta release of the 4.2.0 version. This release brings more than 230 enhancements and more than one thousand bug fixes, including more than 380 high or urgent severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series. What's new in oVirt 4.2.0? - The Administration Portal has been completely redesigned using Patternfly, a widely adopted standard in web application design. It now features a cleaner, more intuitive design, for an improved user experience. - There is an all-new VM Portal for non-admin users. - A new High Performance virtual machine type has been added to the New VM dialog box in the Administration Portal. - Open Virtual Network (OVN) adds support for Open vSwitch software defined networking (SDN). - oVirt now supports Nvidia vGPU. - The ovirt-ansible-roles package helps users with common administration tasks. - Virt-v2v now supports Debian/Ubuntu based VMs. For more information about these and other features, check out the oVirt 4.2.0 blog post <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/09/introducing-ovirt-4.2.0/>. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.2 (available for x86_64 only) See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available. - An async release of oVirt Node will follow soon. Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.2.0 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ * Get more oVirt project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/ -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted> <http://www.teraplan.it/redhat-osd-2017/>

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[ANN] oVirt 4.1.7 Fourth Release Candidate is now available

by Lev Veyde

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Fourth Release Candidate of oVirt 4.1.7, as of October 18th, 2017 This update is the seventh in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.1 series. Starting from 4.1.5 oVirt supports libgfapi [5]. Using libgfapi provides a real performance boost for ovirt when using GlusterFS . Due to a known issue [6], using this will break live storage migration. This is expected to be fixed soon. If you do not use live storage migration you can give it a try. Use [7] for more details on how to enable it. This release is available now for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.1 See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available - oVirt Live is already available[4] - oVirt Node is already available[4] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.1.7 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1. <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.7/>7 <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.7/>/ <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.7/> * Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1. <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.7/>7 <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.7/>/ <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.7/> [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-pre/iso/ [5] http://staged-gluster-docs.readthedocs.io/en/release3.7.0beta1/Features/l... [6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306562 [7] http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/glusterf... Thanks in advance, -- Lev Veyde Software Engineer, RHCE | RHCVA | MCITP Red Hat Israel <https://www.redhat.com> lev(a)redhat.com | lveyde(a)redhat.com <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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[ANN] oVirt 4.1.7 Third Release Candidate is now available

by Sandro Bonazzola

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Third Release Candidate of oVirt 4.1.7, as of October 11th, 2017 This update is the seventh in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.1 series. Starting from 4.1.5 oVirt supports libgfapi [5]. Using libgfapi provides a real performance boost for ovirt when using GlusterFS . Due to a known issue [6], using this will break live storage migration. This is expected to be fixed soon. If you do not use live storage migration you can give it a try. Use [7] for more details on how to enable it. This release is available now for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.1 See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available - oVirt Live is already available[4] - oVirt Node is already available[4] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.1.7 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.7/ * Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.7/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-pre/iso/ [5] http://staged-gluster-docs.readthedocs.io/en/release3.7.0beta1/Features/l... [6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306562 [7] http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/glusterf... -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted> <http://www.teraplan.it/redhat-osd-2017/>

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