Hi Sandro,

we’ve identified one more blocker for HE installations[1]. We plan getting it in today if everything goes well, would be great if we can update the RC with new vdsm soon after.

Thanks,

michal

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524119

On 12 Dec 2017, at 16:45, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com> wrote:

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Second Candidate Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of December 12th, 2017

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 second candidate release of the 4.2.0 version. This release brings more than 280 enhancements and more than one thousand bug fixes, including more than 500 high or urgent severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series.

What's new in oVirt 4.2.0?

• The Administration Portal has been completely redesigned using Patternfly, a widely adopted standard in web application design. It now features a cleaner, more intuitive design, for an improved user experience.
• There is an all-new VM Portal for non-admin users.
• A new High Performance virtual machine type has been added to the New VM dialog box in the Administration Portal.
• Open Virtual Network (OVN) adds support for Open vSwitch software defined networking (SDN).
• oVirt now supports Nvidia vGPU.
• The ovirt-ansible-roles package helps users with common administration tasks.
• Virt-v2v now supports Debian/Ubuntu based VMs.

For more information about these and other features, check out the oVirt 4.2.0 blog post.

This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later

* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later

This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later

* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later

* oVirt Node 4.2 (available for x86_64 only)

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 Node is already available [4]

Additional Resources:

* Read more about the oVirt 4.2.0 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/

* 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/4.2.0/

[4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/

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SANDRO BONAZZOLA

ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D

Red Hat EMEA

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