The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Beta Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of October 31st, 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 first beta release of the 4.2.0 version. This release brings more than 230 enhancements and more than one thousand bug fixes, including more than 380 high or urgent severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series.


What's new in oVirt 4.2.0?


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.

- An async release of oVirt Node will follow soon.


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