[one-users] OpenNebula 4.2 Flame is Out!

[Tino Vazquez]

Dear Community,

This is a pre-announcement for OpenNebula 4.2, codename Flame,
intended for the community. The official release is due this Monday
29th, but meanwhile the packages are available and the documentation
in the web page has been updated. The principal aim is to strengthen
the most demanded and useful features, reducing the complexity in
order to better support the most used functionality.

OpenNebula 4.2 Flame includes a more polished Sunstone interface,
after its redesign in 4.0; with important usability enhancements, like
the inclusion of a new view for cloud users, designed to offer a
minimal portal for virtual resource consumption. Datastore capacity is
now monitored and used to limit the amount of storage size used by
images. This is a first step to also control the runtime storage used
by the VMs. The VMware backend has been completely redesigned with a
more comprehensive storage scheme, more functionality and less
dependencies. We have upgraded as well the Xen backend to support the
new interfaces introduced in Xen 4.0. And, last but no least, OneFlow,
the multi-tier application (a.k.a. service) manager, it is included
and fully integrated in the distribution, with new features related to
service management and elasticity/auto-scaling. Check the full release
notes for details.

This is a stable release and so a recommended update, since it
incorporates several bug fixes since 4.2 Beta. We’ve done our best to
keep compatibility with OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle, so any application
developed for previous versions should work without effort. Be sure to
check the compatibility and upgrade guides.

As usual OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The Flame
Nebula (catalogued as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277) is an emission nebula in
the constellation Orion. It is located about 900 to 1,500 light-years
away from Earth.

And last, but not least, we want to give a huge THANKS to our
community, without whom OpenNebula wouldn't be anywhere nearly as good
as it is today.

Keep the mist at bay with Flame ;)

LINKS
  * Complete Release Notes: http://www.opennebula.org/software:rnotes:rn-rel4.2
  * Download: http://downloads.opennebula.org/
  * Documentation: http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2
  * Compatibility guide:
http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:compatibility
  * Upgrade guide: http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:upgrade

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco, PhD, MSc
Senior Infrastructure Architect at C12G Labs
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