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

Tue Oct 31 15:43:08 UTC 2017

On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 11:07:22 AM EDT Nathanaël Blanchet wrote:
> Le 31/10/2017 à 15:44, Alexander Wels a écrit :
> > 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
> Will the right click dialog be available in the final release? Because,
> currently in 4.2 we need to go at the up right corner to interact with
> object (migrate, maintenance...)
> 

Short answer: No, we removed it on purpose.

Long answer: No, here are the reasons why:
- We are attempting to get the UI more mobile friendly, and while its not 100% 
there yet, it is actually quite useable on a mobile device now. Mobile devices 
don't have a right click, so hiding functionality in there would make no 
sense.
- You can now right click and get the browsers menu instead of ours and you 
can do things like copy from the menu.
- We replicated all the functionality from the menu in the buttons/kebab menu 
available on the right. Our goal was to have all the commonly used actions as 
a button, and less often used actions in the kebab to declutter the interface. 
We traded an extra click for some mouse travel
- Lots of people didn't realize there even was a right click menu because its 
a web interface, and they couldn't find some functionality that was only 
available in the right click menu.

Now that being said, we are still debating if it was a good move or not. For 
now we want to see how it plays out, if a lot of people want it back, it is 
certainly possible we will put it back.

> > 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
> >>> 
> >>> ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D
> >>> 
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> >>> 
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