This is the 2nd voting thread for Libcloud 2.0.0rc2 The original VOTE failed, there were 2 issues raised, both of which have been fixed and are contained in this release. To ensure everyone is testing the correct version;
The md5 for apache-libcloud-2.0.0rc2.tar.gz is 826c352ee4cadbb06b8bb10329e616ca The git hash for the tag has been rewritten from 4e01d8c2 to a9ed9295 the issues were- https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/1025 https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/1026 --- This is a release candidate for 2.0 and contains major changes since the latest stable release, 1.5.0, http://libcloud.readthedocs. io/en/latest/other/changes_in_2_0.html The rc1 release did not pass, with issues on custom port propagation, logging/debug mode and certificate connection drivers. Those have independently been fixed and tested over the past couple of months. All of the issues raised both on the developer group and on the ASF issues log have been resolved related to the 2.0x changes. Specific bug fix changes since rc1 include - Fixing of Logging/debug connection - Fixing of Certificate connection (and azure and openstack drivers) A new -tentative tag is committed and can be found at https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=libcloud.git;a=tag ;h=refs/tags/v2.0.0rc2-tentative A full list of changes can be found at: *https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=libcloud.git;a=blob;f=CHANGES.rst;h=a996cb82f39895c0b3566907cd947027b674c725;hb=623fa89bedb1e37d1546936c78583867aed23057 <https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=libcloud.git;a=blob;f=CHANGES.rst;h=a996cb82f39895c0b3566907cd947027b674c725;hb=623fa89bedb1e37d1546936c78583867aed23057>* Major changes include - Replaced urllib with requests Minor changes include - Fix vSphere driver - Enabling HTTP redirects by default - Allowing both global and driver-specific HTTP proxy configuration - Consolidation of the LibcloudHTTPSConnection and LibcloudHTTPConnection into a single class, LibcloudConnection - Support for streaming responses - Support for mocking HTTP responses without having to mock the Connection class - 10% typical performance improvement with the use of persistent TCP connections for each driver instance - Access to the low-level TCP session is no longer available. Access to .read() on a raw connection will bind around requests body or iter_content methods. Release artifacts can be found at http://people.apache.org/~anthonyshaw/libcloud/2.0.0rc2-2/ Note that KEYS file can found at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/libcloud/KEYS Please test the release and post your votes. +/- 1 [ ] Release Apache Libcloud 2.0.0rc2 Vote will be open until April 10th, 2017. Thanks, Anthony
