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[ANN] oVirt 4.3.0 Fifth Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Fifth Release Candidate of oVirt 4.3.0, as of January 31th, 2019 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 release candidate of the 4.3.0 version. This release brings more than 130 enhancements and more than 450 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 * OVA export / import of Templates * Full support for live migration of High Performance VMs * Microsoft Failover clustering support (SCSI Persistent Reservation) for Direct LUN disks * 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) * Support of Neutron from RDO OpenStack 13 as external network provider * Support of using Skydive from RDO OpenStack 14 as Tech Preview * Support for 3.6 and 4.0 data centers, clusters and hosts were removed * Now using PostgreSQL 10 * New metrics support using rsyslog instead of fluentd 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 CentOS 7 - oVirt Appliance for Fedora 28 (tech preview) is being delayed due to build issues with the build system. 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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[ANN] oVirt 4.3.0 Fourth Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Fourth Release Candidate of oVirt 4.3.0, as of January 29th, 2019 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 release candidate of the 4.3.0 version. This release brings more than 130 enhancements and more than 450 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 * OVA export / import of Templates * Full support for live migration of High Performance VMs * Microsoft Failover clustering support (SCSI Persistent Reservation) for Direct LUN disks * 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) * Support of Neutron from RDO OpenStack 13 as external network provider * Support of using Skydive from RDO OpenStack 14 as Tech Preview * Support for 3.6 and 4.0 data centers, clusters and hosts were removed * Now using PostgreSQL 10 * New metrics support using rsyslog instead of fluentd 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 CentOS 7 - oVirt Node NG is already available for both CentOS 7 and Fedora 28 (tech preview). - oVirt Appliance for Fedora 28 (tech preview) is being delayed due to build issues with the build system. 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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[ANN] oVirt 4.2.8 async update is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

The oVirt Team has just released a new version of the following packages: - ovirt-engine-metrics-1.1.8.1 The async release addresses the following bugs: Bug 1631808 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1631808> - Ensure ovirt-engine-metrics in oVirt 4.2 doesn't have compatibility issues if fluentd doesn't exist on host This fix allows to have 4.3 nodes with 4.2 engine to ease upgrade. -- 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 Third Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Third Release Candidate of oVirt 4.3.0, as of January 24th, 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 release candidate of the 4.3.0 version. This release brings more than 130 enhancements and more than 450 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 * OVA export / import of Templates * Full support for live migration of High Performance VMs * Microsoft Failover clustering support (SCSI Persistent Reservation) for Direct LUN disks * 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) * Support of Neutron from RDO OpenStack 13 as external network provider * Support of using Skydive from RDO OpenStack 14 as Tech Preview * Support for 3.6 and 4.0 data centers, clusters and hosts were removed * Now using PostgreSQL 10 * New metrics support using rsyslog instead of fluentd 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 CentOS 7 - oVirt Node NG for Fedora 28 (tech preview) is being delayed due to build issues with the build system. 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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[ANN] oVirt 4.2.8 is now generally available
by Sandro Bonazzola 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.2.8, as of January 22nd, 2019. This update is the eighth and last in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.2 series. Please note that no further updates will be issued for the 4.2 series. We encourage users to upgrade to 4.3 series when generally available to receive new features and updates. 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 * oVirt Node 4.2 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 update is available, ISO will be available soon [2] - oVirt Tools Setup ISO is available[2] oVirt Node has been updated including: - oVirt 4.2.8: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.8/ - Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1810) ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023082.html ) - Ansible 2.7.5: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.7/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.… Relevant CentOS Errata included: - CEBA-2019:0037 CentOS 7 tzdata BugFix Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-January/023142.html ) - CESA-2019:0049 Important CentOS 7 systemd Security Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-January/023143.html ) - CESA-2018:3651 Moderate CentOS 7 kernel Security Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023132.html ) - CEBA-2018:3338 CentOS 7 sos BugFix Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023125.html ) - CEBA-2018:3664 CentOS 7 selinux-policy BugFix Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023124.html ) - CESA-2018:3738 Important CentOS 7 ruby Security Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023122.html ) - CESA-2018:3347 Critical CentOS 7 python-paramiko Security Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023119.html ) - CESA-2018:3665 Important CentOS 7 NetworkManager Security Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023116.html ) - CEBA-2018:3442 CentOS 7 lvm2 BugFix Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023112.html ) - CEBA-2018:3669 CentOS 7 libvirt BugFix Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023110.html ) - CEBA-2018:3659 CentOS 7 libguestfs BugFix Update ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-December/023108.html ) 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/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 Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Second Release Candidate of oVirt 4.3.0, as of January 16th, 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 release candidate of the 4.3.0 version. This release brings more than 130 enhancements and more than 440 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 * OVA export / import of Templates * Full support for live migration of High Performance VMs * Microsoft Failover clustering support (SCSI Persistent Reservation) for Direct LUN disks * 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) * Support of Neutron from RDO OpenStack 13 as external network provider * Support of using Skydive from RDO OpenStack 14 as Tech Preview * Support for 3.6 and 4.0 data centers, clusters and hosts were removed * Now using PostgreSQL 10 * New metrics support using rsyslog instead of fluentd 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 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/ [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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[ANN] oVirt 4.3.0 First Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Release Candidate of oVirt 4.3.0, as of January 10th, 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 release candidate of the 4.3.0 version. This release brings more than 120 enhancements and more than 420 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 * 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 of Neutron from RH OSP 13 as external network provider * Support of using Skydive from RH OSP 14 as Tech Preview * 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 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/ [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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[ANN] oVirt 4.2.8 Third Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the oVirt 4.2.8 Third Release Candidate, as of January 9th, 2019. 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 is available [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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