The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Alpha Release of oVirt 4.3.0, as of November 26th, 2018

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 alpha release of the 4.3.0 version.

This release brings more than 80 enhancements and more than 280 bug fixes on top of oVirt 4.2 series.

What's new in oVirt 4.3.0?

* Q35: Support booting virtual machines via UEFI

* Skylake-server and AMD EPYC support

* New smbus driver in windows guest tools

* Improved support for v2v

* Tech preview for oVirt on Fedora 28

* Hundreds of bug fixes on top of oVirt 4.2 series

* New VM portal (see a preview here: https://imgur.com/a/ExINpci)

* New Cluster upgrade UI

This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later

* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.5 or later (7.6 recommended, enable CR repo for getting it since it's not yet officially released)

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

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later

* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.5 or later (7.6 recommended, enable CR repo for getting it since it's not yet officially released)

* oVirt Node 4.3 (available for x86_64 only)

Experimental tech preview for x86_64 and s390x architectures for Fedora 28 is also included.

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 for both CentOS 7 and Fedora 28 (tech preview).

- oVirt Node NG is already available for both CentOS 7 and Fedora 28 (tech preview).

Additional Resources:

* Read more about the oVirt 4.3.0 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.0/

* 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/

SANDRO BONAZZOLA

MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV