[ANNOUNCE] Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 Release
*The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache**®** CloudStack**®** v4.16* "In the past years, CloudStack has been proving a mature and easy-to-use platform. The released 4.16.0.0 LTS adds new features, enhancements, and bug fixes that will help tech-savy companies stay up to date." said Gabriel Brascher, Vice President of Apache CloudStack. "I'm pleased to see another innovative release of Apache CloudStack from the community. CloudStack continues to evolve both in terms of functionality, integrations and also ease of management and stability. It is great to see new integrations to major storage vendors and so many other features developed by community members from a broad range of organisations, reflecting CloudStack's increasing adoption across both service provider and enterprise organisations.”, said Giles Sirett, Chairman, CloudStack European User Group and Apache CloudStack PMC Member. Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 is a 4.16 LTS release with 22 major new features, and 244 enhancements and fixes since 4.15. Some of the highlights include: Additional OS Support for Management Servers and hypervisor hosts: - Support for OpenSuse - Support for Rocky Linux New vendor integrations to allow CloudStack to leverage advanced storage capabilities: - Dell EMC PowerFlex storage plugin integration - LINSTOR storage plugin integration UI Improvements: - Structured comments on objects in the UI - Custom Resource Icons to allow visual representation of most object types - The ability to perform bulk actions through the UI Enhancements to CloudStack Kubernetes Service: - Support for Kubernetes Autoscaling through the CloudStack Kubernetes provider - Kubernetes Clusters now based on System VM, giving simplified ongoing management Improved tools & management: - Granular control of dynamic scaling of VM’s CPU/RAM - Import and export of VMware virtual machines through the UI - CloudStack-setup-databases script improvement to give more stable upgrades - L2 Networks Persistent modern - mac learning mode added to network offerings - HA improvements allow a host to be marked as Degraded - New API endpoint to update pod management network IP range - New API endpoint to update VLAN IP range # Documentation The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html The CloudStack documentation includes upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be found at: https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/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 4.16.0.0 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/ubuntu/dists/ https://download.cloudstack.org/centos/7/ https://download.cloudstack.org/centos/8/ https://download.cloudstack.org/suse/15 https://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 https://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html
Re: 4.16.0.0 release
Hi All, These are the last outstanding items on the 4.16.0 milestone: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/milestone/16. I would like to propose/announce a code freeze date for October 10th. After this time, we are starting the stabilisation phase and no more features and general fixes will be allowed, and only critical and blocker issues will be fixed after the freeze date. Please let me know if there are any questions or concerns. Regards, Nicolas Vazquez From: Nicolas Vazquez Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 4:44 PM To: users ; d...@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: 4.16.0.0 release Hi All, We are looking forward to cutting RC1 soon. Kindly share or ping me this week if there are any issues or pull requests that we should include in 4.16.0.0. Regards, Nicolas Vazquez
Re: 4.16.0.0 release
Hi Ahmed, Our 4.16 RM Nicolas is simply reminding (mainly devs) about the possibility of cutting a RC soon (as he has previously shared his tentative/soft plan of cutting RC around the end of Sept) and asking if there are any specific issues/pull requests that should be included towards the 4.16.0.0 milestone. Here the "issues" are generally interpreted as something blocker/critical/essential towards the release, rather than a new feature/idea that someone in the community wants. The process of requesting new features/ideas with the project is to raise a ticket here: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/new and hope it will be picked by somebody in the future if you're not going to work on it yourself. Any pull requests or discussions are also welcome on dev@ ML. Regards. From: Andrija Panic Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 14:04 To: users Cc: dev Subject: Re: 4.16.0.0 release Hi Ahmed, please do not take me wrong - you can not "order" things - this is a community project - people will implement new features when they need it (or if somebody pays for it) - so it's "developed when needed". I do understand your concerns, some improvements are possible - but you should also know that your NETWORK infrastructure should be the one blocking DDOS and other network attacks - NOT the end-point servers/software, this is what every serious company/provider will do. Best, Andrija On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 23:42, ahmed jabbar wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > It will be better if you add 2FA function in this version due cyber > security issues, > And reCapcha connector also. > CVM & SSVM need to be secured from DDOS attack with auto block ip sources > configuration , > One of our CVM faced many times DDOS attacks with no configuration > possibilities to auto block sources ip of attacker, > Management UI can be secured by Cloudflare also ip table of management can > be configured for various types of actions but CVM can’t secured by > Cloudflare proxy. > BR > Ahmed. > > > On 13 Sep 2021, at 10:44 PM, Nicolas Vazquez < > nicolas.vazq...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > We are looking forward to cutting RC1 soon. Kindly share or ping me this > week if there are any issues or pull requests that we should include in > 4.16.0.0. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Nicolas Vazquez > > > > > > > -- Andrija Panić
Re: 4.16.0.0 release
Hi Ahmed, please do not take me wrong - you can not "order" things - this is a community project - people will implement new features when they need it (or if somebody pays for it) - so it's "developed when needed". I do understand your concerns, some improvements are possible - but you should also know that your NETWORK infrastructure should be the one blocking DDOS and other network attacks - NOT the end-point servers/software, this is what every serious company/provider will do. Best, Andrija On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 23:42, ahmed jabbar wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > It will be better if you add 2FA function in this version due cyber > security issues, > And reCapcha connector also. > CVM & SSVM need to be secured from DDOS attack with auto block ip sources > configuration , > One of our CVM faced many times DDOS attacks with no configuration > possibilities to auto block sources ip of attacker, > Management UI can be secured by Cloudflare also ip table of management can > be configured for various types of actions but CVM can’t secured by > Cloudflare proxy. > BR > Ahmed. > > > On 13 Sep 2021, at 10:44 PM, Nicolas Vazquez < > nicolas.vazq...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > We are looking forward to cutting RC1 soon. Kindly share or ping me this > week if there are any issues or pull requests that we should include in > 4.16.0.0. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Nicolas Vazquez > > > > > > > -- Andrija Panić
Re: 4.16.0.0 release
Hi Nicolas, It will be better if you add 2FA function in this version due cyber security issues, And reCapcha connector also. CVM & SSVM need to be secured from DDOS attack with auto block ip sources configuration , One of our CVM faced many times DDOS attacks with no configuration possibilities to auto block sources ip of attacker, Management UI can be secured by Cloudflare also ip table of management can be configured for various types of actions but CVM can’t secured by Cloudflare proxy. BR Ahmed. > On 13 Sep 2021, at 10:44 PM, Nicolas Vazquez > wrote: > > Hi All, > > We are looking forward to cutting RC1 soon. Kindly share or ping me this week > if there are any issues or pull requests that we should include in 4.16.0.0. > > > Regards, > > Nicolas Vazquez > > >
4.16.0.0 release
Hi All, We are looking forward to cutting RC1 soon. Kindly share or ping me this week if there are any issues or pull requests that we should include in 4.16.0.0. Regards, Nicolas Vazquez
