Not sure how it was in your part of the world, but by golly it sure was hot in North America. But the weather was no match for the global oVirt team, who followed up on the June launch of oVirt 4.0 with solid new releases, a new oVirt sub-project, and participation in the 2016 KVM Forum!

It's been a busy summer, so here's what happened in July and August 2016:

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Software Releases

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oVirt 4.0.3 Final Release is now available

New oVirt-Live (4.0.3) is available for download

oVirt 4.0.4 First Release Candidate is now available

Announcing the oVirt Engine DR Sub-project

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In the Community

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Up and Running with oVirt 4.0 and Gluster Storage

Monitoring Improvements in oVirt

Manage Your Hosted Engine Hosts Deployment Via Engine

oVirt Engine 4.0 Installation Issues on Fedora 24

Subclusters in oVirt 4.0 - Label-Based VM to Host Affinity

Editable Field Annotations Consolidation

Dependency Injection and Mockito

Application-Scoped Tests for oVirt with Arquillian

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Deep Dives and Technical Discussions

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Self-service portals and virtualization

Technical info on oVirt agent and SSO

How to handle security risks in Red Hat virtualization environments

oVirt 4.0 mit neuem Dashboard [German]

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KVM Forum 2016: Slides

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Kernel Protection Using Hardware-Based Virtualization

By Jun Nakajima

An Introduction to PCI Device Assignment with VFIO

By Alex Williamson

CPU hotplug support in QEMU

By Bharata B Rao

As time goes by, analysing where we spend our cycles during exits

By Christian Bornträger

Nesting KVM on s390x

By David Hildenbrand

Status update on KVM-COLO FT

By HailiangZhang

quo vadis virtio?

By Michael S. Tsirkin

atomic.h weapons: the C11 memory model and QEMU

By Paolo Bonzini

Vhost with Guest vIOMMU

By Peter Xu

QEMU community growth through open source internships

By Stefan Hajnoczi

AMD’s virtualization memory encryption technology

By Thomas Lendacky

Design of Vhost-pci

By Wei Wang

Real Time KVM

By Rik van Riel

Qemu as a USB-MTP responder

By Bandan Das

Light weight virtualization with QEMU/KVM

By Chao Peng

KVM on System z: The Good, the Bad and the Weird

By Cornelia Huck

Libvirt Admin API - a different kind of management for libvirt

By Erik Skultety

Backups with QEMU

By Max Reitz

TCG enhancements for PowerPC

By Nikunj Dadhania

I/O prefetch cache as QEMU block filter driver

By Pavel Butsykin

QEMU support for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture

By Sagar Karandikar

Performant Security Hardening of KVM

By Steve Rutherford

Microsoft Failover Clustering on KVM

By Vadim Rozenfeld

VMBus (Hyper-V) devices in QEMU/KVM

By Роман Каган