As a draft announcement and discussion item the text for an announcement mail below. Note that the features list is far from complete and any suggestions on that will be incorporated.
*The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache**®** CloudStack**®** v4.15* The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of Apache CloudStack v4.15. Apache CloudStack 4.15 is a 4.15 LTS release which contains over 250 new features, enhancements and fixes since 4.14, such as - advanced capabilities for Vmware, - a UI overhaul, - DB engine support for mysql 8. Highlights include: - Supporting advanced storage configuration for VMware - VMware 7 support - New UI # Documentation The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html The CloudStack documentation includes upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be found at: http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.0.0/upgrading/index.html The official installation, administration and API documentation for each of the releases are available on our documentation page: http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/ # Downloads The official source code for the 4.15.0.0 release can be downloaded from our downloads page: http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download page, and can be found at: http://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/ http://download.cloudstack.org/centos/7/ http://www.shapeblue.com/packages/ Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services, including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders. Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source Cloud Adoption report, Apache CloudStack "sits beneath hundreds of service provider clouds", including Fortune 5 multinational corporations. A list of known Apache CloudStack users are available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html -- Daan
