[ANN] oVirt 4.0.4 First Release Candidate is now available

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Release Candidate of oVirt 4.0.4 for testing, as of August 31st, 2016. This release is available now for: * Fedora 23 (tech preview) * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later * Fedora 23 (tech preview) * oVirt Next Generation Node 4.0 This is pre-release software. Please take a look at our community page[1] to know how to ask questions and interact with developers and users. All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2]. This pre-release should not to be used in production. This update is the first release candidate of the fourth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.0 series. 4.0.4 brings 7 enhancements and 93 bugfixes, including 33 high or urgent severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.0 series See the release notes [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: * A new oVirt Live ISO is available. [4] * A new oVirt Next Generation Node is available [4]. * A new oVirt Engine Appliance is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux (or similar) * Mirrors[5] might need up to one day to synchronize. Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.0.4 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.0.4/ * 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/4.0.4/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.0-pre/iso/ [5] http://www.ovirt.org/Repository_mirrors#Current_mirrors -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com> wrote:
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Release Candidate of oVirt 4.0.4 for testing, as of August 31st, 2016.
Hi Sandro, does this mean that 4.0.3 was final, 2 days ago? I indeed noticed a strange subject in that e-mail [ANN] oVirt 4.0.3 Final Release Candidate is now available There were both "Final" and "Candidate" words ... and I was a bit confused... Also if this is true, any particular reason to have a new release candidate right 2 days after the previous final? Is it not too fast for users to stay ahead? Or do we need to consider "Release Candidate" phrase in a different way than usual? Only my opinion... Gianluca

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com> wrote:
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Release Candidate of oVirt 4.0.4 for testing, as of August 31st, 2016.
Hi Sandro, does this mean that 4.0.3 was final, 2 days ago? I indeed noticed a strange subject in that e-mail
[ANN] oVirt 4.0.3 Final Release Candidate is now available
There were both "Final" and "Candidate" words ... and I was a bit confused...
Sorry, my copy / paste bad habit for announce emails... Yes, it was final.
Also if this is true, any particular reason to have a new release candidate right 2 days after the previous final? Is it not too fast for users to stay ahead? Or do we need to consider "Release Candidate" phrase in a different way than usual? Only my opinion...
4.0.3 has been a short cycle release to fix some urgent bugs / regression on top of 4.0.2. 4.0.4 will have probably a longer cycle and even if we just released 4.0.3 GA, having fixed more than 100 bugs comparing to 4.0.3 seemed a good idea to issue a RC allowing people afflicted by those bugs to have a fix to test as soon as possible.
Gianluca
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