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 v3.9.0.
This release includes new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Highlights include:
- Improvements in the Azure ARM compute driver
- Improvements in the Equinix Metal compute driver
- Improvements in the Linode compute driver
- Improvements in the KubeVirt compute driver
- Improvements in the Amazon S3 storage driver
- Amazon EC2: Updated pricing and instance sizing data.
- Dropped support for Python 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9, as they are now EOL.
- Added support for Python 3.12 (stable) and 3.13.
A list of all the changes can be found at
<https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-in-apache-libcloud-3.9.0>.
Development-Related Changes (developers only)
In addition to the end-user visible changes, we have made various
changes to our
development process and practices to better follow and align with modern
Python development and packaging best practices.
- Removed the unused `setup.py` file to reduce confusion since the
project fully migrated to `pyproject.toml`.
- Made `libcloud.common.types.Type` hashable, allowing direct use in set
membership checks.
- Updated build and packaging tools to fix issues reported by downstream
users.
- Adopt uv tool for dependency management.
Download
The release can be downloaded from
<https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html> or installed using pip:
pip install "apache-libcloud==3.9.0"
Upgrading
If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:
pip install --upgrade "apache-libcloud==3.9.0"
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.io/en/v3.9.0/>
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 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/latest/changelog.html>.
