[ovirt-announce] [ovirt-users] [ANN] oVirt 4.2.0 First Candidate Release is now available for testing

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
wrote:

> The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First
> Candidate Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of December 5th, 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 candidate release of the 4.2.0 version. This
> release brings more than 280 enhancements and more than one thousand bug
> fixes, including more than 500 high or urgent severity fixes, on top of
> oVirt 4.1 series.
>
> What's new in oVirt 4.2.0?
>
>
>    -
>
>    The Administration Portal has been completely redesigned using
>    Patternfly, a widely adopted standard in web application design. It now
>    features a cleaner, more intuitive design, for an improved user experience.
>    -
>
>    There is an all-new VM Portal for non-admin users.
>    -
>
>    A new High Performance virtual machine type has been added to the New
>    VM dialog box in the Administration Portal.
>    -
>
>    Open Virtual Network (OVN) adds support for Open vSwitch software
>    defined networking (SDN).
>    -
>
>    oVirt now supports Nvidia vGPU.
>    -
>
>    The ovirt-ansible-roles set of packages help users with common
>    administration tasks.
>    -
>
>    Virt-v2v now supports Debian/Ubuntu based VMs.
>
>
> For more information about these and other features, check out the oVirt
> 4.2.0 blog post
> <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/11/introducing-ovirt-4.2.0-beta/> and stay
> tuned for further 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.
>
> - oVirt Node is already available [4]
>
> 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/
>

A new build of oVirt Windows Guest Tools is now available as well.
The ISO image can be downloaded from [1], and a wrapper RPM package
'ovirt-guest-tools-iso' is in the existing 4.2-pre repository.

Best regards,

[1] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/oVirt-
toolsSetup/4.2-1.el7.centos/


>
> [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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>
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Didi
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