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

[Alexander Wels]

On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:14:14 AM EDT FERNANDO FREDIANI wrote:
> Great. Much better Admin Portal than the usual one. Congratulations.
> Hope it  keeps getting improvements as itś very much welcome and needed.
> 
> Fernando
> 

We are always working on improvements. Also check out the new user portal if 
that is something you are interested in. Its also much faster and better than 
before. 

> On 31/10/2017 10:13, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> > The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First
> > Beta Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of October 31st, 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 beta release of the 4.2.0 version. This
> > release brings more than 230 enhancements and more than one thousand
> > bug fixes, including more than 380 high or urgent severity fixes, on
> > top of oVirt 4.1 series.
> > 
> > 
> > What's new in oVirt 4.2.0?
> > 
> >  *
> >  
> >     The Administration Portalhas 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 Portalfor non-admin users.
> >  
> >  *
> >  
> >     A new High Performance virtual machinetype 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-rolespackage helps users with common
> >     administration tasks.
> >  
> >  *
> >  
> >     Virt-v2vnow 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/2017/09/introducing-ovirt-4.2.0/>.
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > - An async release of oVirt Node will follow soon.
> > 
> > 
> > Additional Resources:
> > 
> > * Read more about the oVirt 4.2.0 release highlights:
> > http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ <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/
> > 
> > 
> > [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ <https://www.ovirt.org/community/>
> > 
> > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt
> > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt>
> > 
> > [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/
> > <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/>
> > 
> > [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/
> > <http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/>
> > 
> > 
> > SANDRO BONAZZOLA
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> > 
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