[ovirt-users] [ANN] oVirt 4.1.5 General Availability Release is now available

Lev Veyde lveyde at redhat.com
Tue Aug 29 10:35:19 UTC 2017


Hi Michal,

Take a look at i.e.
http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1/rpm/el7/noarch/

There are multiple versions of packages there.
Please note that yum by default will hide all but the most recent version.

Thanks in advance,

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Michal Skrivanek <
michal.skrivanek at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> On 29 Aug 2017, at 12:17, Lev Veyde <lveyde at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Michal,
>
> Actually you can manually install the packages from earlier (sub-)versions
> since these are still in the repo,
>
>
> Hi Lev,
> ah, ok. where did they go if they are not in the repos pulled in by the
> ovirt-release41.rpm?
>
> however I don't really see the reason to do so.
> Once the new stable version is released it's recommended to install that
> version.
>
>
> sure, but normally you do not remove things from repository, you just add
> new versions next to the old ones
>
>
> Do you think it can be usable to actually maintain separate repos for each
> sub-versions that we release? E.g. 4.1.1, 4.1.2, etc. etc. ?
> If so, for which practical use ?
>
>
> No, I just think that modifying history is not a good idea and the repo
> should be as any other repo with all files available during the intended
> life of the release, so in this case whole 4.1.z
>
> Thanks,
> michal
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Michal Skrivanek <
> michal.skrivanek at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 22 Aug 2017, at 16:45, Lev Veyde <lveyde at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the General
>> Availability
>> Release of oVirt 4.1.5, as of August 22nd, 2017
>>
>> This update is the fifth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.1
>> series.
>> 4.1.5 brings more than 20 enhancements and more than 90 bugfixes,
>> including more than 40 high or urgent
>> severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series
>>
>>
>> I was a bit surprised to find out that the repo content is always
>> replaced. There is no way how to install 4.1.4 anymore? Or any package from
>> 4.1.4.
>> This sounds quite unusual
>>
>>
>> Starting 4.1.5 oVirt supports libgfapi [5]. Using libgfapi provides a
>> real performance boost for ovirt when using GlusterFS .
>> Due  to a known issue [6], using this will break live storage migration.
>> This is expected to be fixed soon. If you do not use live storage
>> migration you can give it a try. Use [7] for more details on how to  enable
>> it.
>>
>> This release is available now for:
>> * Fedora 24 (tech preview)
>>
>>
>> do we still want to say that when F24 is EOL?
>>
>> * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or later
>>
>>
>> I know “or later” covers that, but it might make sense to explicitly
>> mention RHEL 7.4 is the tested baseline
>>
>> Thanks,
>> michal
>>
>> * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.3 or later
>>
>> This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running:
>> * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or later
>>
>> * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.3 or later
>> * oVirt Node 4.1
>> * Fedora 24 (tech preview)
>>
>> 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 Live is already available[4]
>> - oVirt Node is already available[4]
>>
>> Additional Resources:
>> * Read more about the oVirt 4.1.5 release highlights:
>> http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.5/
>> * 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/4.1.5/
>> [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-pre/iso/
>> [5] http://staged-gluster-docs.readthedocs.io/en/release3.7.0bet
>> a1/Features/libgfapi/
>> [6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306562
>> [7] http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/sto
>> rage/glusterfs-storage-domain/
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> --
>>
>> Lev Veyde
>>
>> Software Engineer, RHCE | RHCVA | MCITP
>> Red Hat Israel
>>
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>>
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>
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> Lev Veyde
>
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>
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