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[ANN] oVirt 4.2.8 Second Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the oVirt 4.2.8 Second Release Candidate, as of December 11th, 2018. This update is a release candidate of the eighth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.2 series. This is pre-release software. This pre-release should not to be used in production. This release is available now for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.6 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.6 or later See the release notes [1] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is available - oVirt Node will be available soon due to build issues causing a delay [2] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.2.8 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.8/ * 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] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.8/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/ -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://red.ht/sig>

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[ANN] oVirt 4.3.0 Second Alpha Release is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 06 Dec '18

06 Dec '18

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Second Alpha Release of oVirt 4.3.0, as of December 6th, 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 second alpha release of the 4.3.0 version. This release brings more than 80 enhancements and more than 330 bug fixes on top of oVirt 4.2 series. What's new in oVirt 4.3.0? * Q35 chipset, support booting using UEFI and Secure Boot * 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 details page (see a preview here: https://imgur.com/a/ExINpci) * New Cluster upgrade UI * OVN security groups * IPv6 (static host addresses) * LLDP Labeler * Support for 3.6 and 4.0 data centers, clusters and hosts were removed * Now using PostgreSQL 10 This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.6 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.6 or later * 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 - oVirt Node NG for Fedora 28 (tech preview) is facing build issues on Jenkins and will be released as soon as possible 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/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.0/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.3-pre/iso/ -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://red.ht/sig>

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