[ovirt-announce] [ANN] Schedule for oVirt 4.5.0

The oVirt development team leads are pleased to inform that the schedule for oVirt 4.5.0 has been finalized. The key dates follows: * Feature Freeze - String Freeze - Alpha release: 2022-03-15 * Alpha release test day: 2022-03-17 * Code freeze - Beta release: 2022-03-29 * Beta release test day: 2022-03-31 * General Availability release: 2022-04-12 A release management draft page has been created at: https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.5.0/ If you're willing to help testing the release during the test days please join the oVirt development mailing list at https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/devel@ovirt.org/ and report your feedback there. Instructions for installing oVirt 4.5.0 Alpha and oVirt 4.5.0 Beta for testing will be added to the release page https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.5.0/ when the corresponding version will be released. Professional Services, Integrators and Backup vendors: please plan a test session against your additional services, integrated solutions, downstream rebuilds, backup solution accordingly. If you're not listed here: https://ovirt.org/community/user-stories/users-and-providers.html consider adding your company there. If you're willing to help updating the localization for oVirt 4.5.0 please follow https://ovirt.org/develop/localization.html If you're willing to help promoting the oVirt 4.5.0 release you can submit your banner proposals for the oVirt home page and for the social media advertising at https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues As an alternative please consider submitting a case study as in https://ovirt.org/community/user-stories/user-stories.html Feature owners: please start planning a presentation of your feature for oVirt Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ovirtproject Do you want to contribute to getting ready for this release? Read more about oVirt community at https://ovirt.org/community/ and join the oVirt developers https://ovirt.org/develop/ Thanks, -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA sbonazzo(a)redhat.com Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.