Hi All,

Please review the below draft for the announcement of the 4.22.1.0 release.
I'm still working on getting the release notes links ready (all the links
will be made live before sending the announcement).

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# Apache CloudStack LTS Maintenance Release 4.22.1.0

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of
CloudStack 4.22.1.0.

The CloudStack 4.22.1.0 release is a maintenance release as part of its
4.22.x LTS branch and contains around 290 fixes and improvements since the
CloudStack 4.22.0.0 release. Some of the highlights include:

* VMware-to-KVM migration fixes and improvements, including VDDK support
and guest OS handling
* GPU domain parsing fixes and PCI display controller support
* Support configurable settings in the Proxmox Extension
* Improvements for host VM power reporting in Extensions
* B&R enhancements, including NAS backup support with Linstor, timeout
configuration support and other backup fixes
* KVM Host HA improvements and heartbeat enhancements for SharedMountPoint
storage
* Support for creating volumes directly on a specified storage pool
* Support KVM import and unmanage operations for SharedMountPoint pools
* Support to list and query async jobs by resource
* Better VM lifecycle handling, including reserved resource cleanup and
improved expunge error reporting
* Networking fixes and improvements for NSX, Routed VPCs, Load Balancer
rules, Static Routes, and VPN DH groups
* Incremental volume snapshot fixes and snapshot rollback reliability
improvements for KVM
* Storage plugins - Ceph, Linstor, PowerFlex related fixes and improvements
* Some CKS related fixes and improvements
* Several UI fixes and improvements

CloudStack LTS branches are supported for 24 months and will receive
updates for the first 18 months and only security updates in the last 6
months.

Apache CloudStack is an open-source software system designed to deploy and
manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly
scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API for managing
the compute nodes, networking software, and storage resources, that allows
users to build feature-rich public and private cloud environments. The
project became an Apache top-level project in March, 2013 and is currently
deployed in thousands of organizations globally.

More information about Apache CloudStack can be found at:
https://cloudstack.apache.org/

# Documentation

What's new in  CloudStack 4.22.1.0:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.22.1.0/releasenotes/about.html

The 4.22.1.0 release notes include a full list of issues fixed, as well as
upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can
be found at:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.22.1.0/releasenotes/
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.22.1.0/upgrading/index.html

The official installation, administration, and API documentation for each
of the releases are available on our documentation page:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/

# Downloads

The official source code for the 4.22.1.0 release can be downloaded from
our downloads page:
https://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:

https://download.cloudstack.org/el/8/
https://download.cloudstack.org/el/9/
https://download.cloudstack.org/el/10/
https://download.cloudstack.org/suse/15/
https://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/
https://www.shapeblue.com/packages/

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Regards,
Suresh

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