Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs. It allows users to manage cloud services
(servers, storage, load balancers, DNS, containers as a service) offered by
many different providers through a single, unified and easy to use API.
We are happy to announce Libcloud v3.0.0-rc1.
This is the first release candidate for Libcloud v3.0.0 which includes many
changes, the biggest one being dropping support for Python 2.7 and
Python 3 < 3.5.
Since this is a first release which drops support for those Python versions,
we want to give our users some time to opt-in and test it and verify
everything works as expected, before we produce a stable v3.0.0 release.
Other highlights include:
* Type annotations for the base storage API
* Various improvements in the Azure Blobs driver
* New standard "prefix" keyword argument in the
"{list,iterate}_container_objects"
methods
* 2 new compute drivers (KubeVirt, LXD)
If no major issues are found, this release candidate (with any other fixes
which accumulate in trunk until then) will become a stable v3.0.0 release
some time in the near future.
Keep in mind that this is a pre-release so it won't be installed by pip
by default when you run "pip install apache-libcloud".
To install it, you need to explicitly specify a version as shown in the
Download section below.
A list of all the changes can be found at
<
https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-in-apache-libcloud-3-0-0-rc1
>.
Download
The release can be downloaded from
<https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html> or installed using pip:
pip install "apache-libcloud==3.0.0rc-1"
Upgrading
If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:
pip install --upgrade "apache-libcloud==3.0.0rc-1"
Upgrade notes
A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
can be found at <
https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html>
Documentation
Regular and API documentation is available at <
https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v3.0.0-rc1/>
Bugs / Issues
If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
<https://github.com/apache/libcloud/issues>.
Don't forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
problem.
Thanks
Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
CHANGES file <https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v3.0.0-rc1/changelog.html
>.
