The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Fourth Release Candidate of oVirt 4.1.8, as of November 30th, 2017

This update is the eighth 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 4.1.8 release highlights:http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/
* 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/4.1.8/
[4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-pre/iso/
[5] http://staged-gluster-docs.readthedocs.io/en/release3.7.0beta1/Features/libgfapi/
[6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306562
[7] http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/glusterfs-storage-domain/