[ovirt-announce] [ANN] oVirt 4.3.0 is now generally available

The oVirt Project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.3.0, as of February 4th, 2019 This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses over four hundreds individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics on top of oVirt 4.2 series. What's new in oVirt 4.3.0? * Q35 chipset, support booting using UEFI and Secure Boot * Skylake-server and AMD EPYC support * New smbus driver in windows guest tools * Improved support for v2v * OVA export / import of Templates * Full support for live migration of High Performance VMs * Microsoft Failover clustering support (SCSI Persistent Reservation) for Direct LUN disks * Hundreds of bug fixes on top of oVirt 4.2 series * New VM portal details page (see a preview here: https://imgur.com/a/ExINpci) * New Cluster upgrade UI * OVN security groups * IPv6 (static host addresses) * Support of Neutron from RDO OpenStack 13 as external network provider * Support of using Skydive from RDO OpenStack 14 as Tech Preview * Support for 3.6 and 4.0 data centers, clusters and hosts were removed * Now using PostgreSQL 10 * New metrics support using rsyslog instead of fluentd This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.6 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.6 or later * 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 [1] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. If you’re managing more than one oVirt instance, OpenShift Origin or RDO we also recommend to try ManageIQ <http://manageiq.org/>;. In such case, please ensure to take the qc2 image and not the ova image. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available for CentOS 7 and Fedora 28 - oVirt Node NG is already available for CentOS 7 and Fedora 28 [2] - oVirt Windows Guest Tools iso is already available [2] 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] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.0/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.3/iso/ -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://red.ht/sig>