[ANN] oVirt 4.3.0 First Alpha Release is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First
Alpha Release of oVirt 4.3.0, as of November 26th, 2018
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 alpha release of the 4.3.0 version.
This release brings more than 80 enhancements and more than 280 bug fixes
on top of oVirt 4.2 series.
What's new in oVirt 4.3.0?
* Q35: Support booting virtual machines via UEFI
* Skylake-server and AMD EPYC support
* New smbus driver in windows guest tools
* Improved support for v2v
* Tech preview for oVirt on Fedora 28
* Hundreds of bug fixes on top of oVirt 4.2 series
* New VM portal (see a preview here: https://imgur.com/a/ExINpci)
* New Cluster upgrade UI
This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.5 or later (7.6 recommended, enable CR repo
for getting it since it's not yet officially released)
This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures
for:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.5 or later (7.6 recommended, enable CR repo
for getting it since it's not yet officially released)
* oVirt Node 4.3 (available for x86_64 only)
Experimental tech preview for x86_64 and s390x architectures for Fedora 28
is also included.
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 for both CentOS 7 and Fedora 28
(tech preview).
- oVirt Node NG is already available for both CentOS 7 and Fedora 28 (tech
preview).
Additional Resources:
* Read more about the oVirt 4.3.0 release highlights:
http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.0/
* 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/4.3.0/
[4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.3-pre/iso/
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SANDRO BONAZZOLA
MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV
Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/>
sbonazzo(a)redhat.com
<https://red.ht/sig>
6 years
[ANN] oVirt 4.2.7 async update is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola
The oVirt Team has just released a new version of the following packages:
- ovirt-engine
- ovirt-hosted-engine-setup
- ovirt-release42
Corresponding oVirt Node is being built and will be released tomorrow.
The async release addresses the following bugs:
- Bug 1647032 - Update gluster volume options set on the volume
- Bug 1645757 - VMs running on the deployed host are removed from the
engine after backup/restore
- Bug 1620314 - SHE disaster recovery is broken in new 4.2 deployments as
hosted_storage is master
- Bug 1568841 - Can't restore hosted-engine backup at deployment
The following enhancements are also included:
- Bug 1469908 - [RFE] Support managed/automated restore
- Bug 1406067 - [RFE] have the option to install hosted engine on specific
datacenter and cluster.
Thanks,
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SANDRO BONAZZOLA
MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV
Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/>
sbonazzo(a)redhat.com
<https://red.ht/sig>
6 years, 1 month
[ANN] oVirt 4.2.7 is now generally available
by Sandro Bonazzola
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt
4.2.7, as of November 2nd, 2018.
This update is the seventh in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.2
series.
This release is available now for:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 or later (7.6 recommended)
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.5 or later
This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 or later (7.6 recommended)
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.5 or later
* oVirt Node 4.2
See the release notes [1] for installation / upgrade instructions and a
list of new features and bugs fixed.
Notes:
- oVirt Appliance is available
- oVirt Node update is available, ISO will be available soon [2]
- oVirt Tools Setup ISO is available[2]
oVirt Node has been updated including:
- oVirt 4.2.7: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.7/
- Ansible 2.7.0:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.7/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v...
- GlusterFS 3.12.15:
https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/3.12.15/
CentOS Errata included:
- CEBA-2018:3013 CentOS 7 tzdata BugFix Update
<https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-October/023074.html>
- centos-release-7-5.1804.5.el7.centos update
<https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-October/023050.html>
Updated packages:
+ansible-2.7.0-1.el7.noarch
+centos-release-7-5.1804.5.el7.centos.x86_64
+cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.11.37-1.el7.noarch
+glusterfs-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-api-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-cli-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-client-xlators-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-events-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-fuse-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-geo-replication-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-gnfs-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-libs-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-rdma-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+glusterfs-server-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+imgbased-1.0.29-1.el7.noarch
+ovirt-hosted-engine-ha-2.2.18-1.el7.noarch
+ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.2.30-1.el7.noarch
+ovirt-imageio-common-1.4.5-0.el7.x86_64
+ovirt-imageio-daemon-1.4.5-0.el7.noarch
+ovirt-node-ng-image-update-placeholder-4.2.7-1.el7.noarch
+ovirt-provider-ovn-driver-1.2.16-1.el7.noarch
+ovirt-release-host-node-4.2.7-1.el7.noarch
+ovirt-release42-4.2.7-1.el7.noarch
+pulp-rpm-handlers-2.13.4.9-1.el7.noarch
+python-imgbased-1.0.29-1.el7.noarch
+python-ovirt-engine-sdk4-4.2.9-2.el7.x86_64
+python-pulp-agent-lib-2.13.4.14-1.el7.noarch
+python-pulp-common-2.13.4.14-1.el7.noarch
+python-pulp-rpm-common-2.13.4.9-1.el7.noarch
+python2-gluster-3.12.15-1.el7.x86_64
+python2-pyOpenSSL-17.3.0-3.el7.noarch
+qemu-img-ev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.7.1.x86_64
+qemu-kvm-common-ev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.7.1.x86_64
+qemu-kvm-ev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.7.1.x86_64
+tzdata-2018f-2.el7.noarch
+vdsm-4.20.43-1.el7.x86_64
+vdsm-api-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-client-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-common-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-gluster-4.20.43-1.el7.x86_64
+vdsm-hook-ethtool-options-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-hook-fcoe-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-hook-openstacknet-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-hook-vhostmd-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-hook-vmfex-dev-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-http-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-jsonrpc-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-network-4.20.43-1.el7.x86_64
+vdsm-python-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
+vdsm-yajsonrpc-4.20.43-1.el7.noarch
Additional Resources:
* Read more about the oVirt 4.2.7 release highlights:
http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.7/
* 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] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.7/
[2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2/iso/
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SANDRO BONAZZOLA
MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV
Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/>
sbonazzo(a)redhat.com
<https://red.ht/sig>
6 years, 1 month
