Congratulation to the team for the effort. I will be nice to see this product evolve.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM Jean-Louis Dupond via Announce <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > It's been a while since something was announced. But in the background, a lot > of work has been done! > Since RedHat fully stepped down from the oVirt development, my team did an > awesome job to take the development into our hands and continue building a > strong product. > > A lot of steps were taken to just make everything working again. From CI > pipelines to build processes to fixing deprecated components etc. > > Next to that, we dropped all support for CentOS 8, as this OS is EOL. > > CentOS Stream 10 / EL 10 > > But next to just the house keeping, we also did a lot of effort to make the > project fully building on CentOS Stream 10 (and also on EL 10). > The ovirt-engine (and all other java codebases) now build on OpenJDK 21 > instead of OpenJDK 11. > This because OpenJDK 21 is available on both CentOS 9 as CentOS 10. This way > the code can be built on the same version for both OS'es. > Still the code is built with release target 11, so you can run it on OpenJDK > 11+. > > Next to the Java code, all the python code was reviewed and > python-six/python-nose was removed and replaced with native Python 3 code and > PyTest. > This to make the code more future proof. > > Also all the needed dependencies were added to the oVirt VIRT SIG to have all > oVirt dependencies available on CentOS 10. > > Testing > > As everything builds on CentOS 9 and CentOS 10 now, everyone that wants can > easily test the current master version of oVirt. > You can find the fresh builds on COPR: > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ovirt/ovirt-master-snapshot/ > Please note that you need EPEL enabled on CentOS/RHEL 10 builds. As we don't > build all our dependencies ourselves when they are available in EPEL. > > The CentOS 9 builds should work smoothly. > The CentOS 10 builds should work ... :) But bugs are expected. > > Therefor it's very helpful if you spend some time testing the new builds, and > if you hit any issue, please report it with the needed > logs/errors/reproducing steps. > This will help us resolving those issues! > > Deprecated? > > Some things are most likely going to be deprecated or are already removed in > CentOS 10 builds: > > Cinderlib > > Cinderlib is not maintained anymore, and not available anymore on CentOS 10. > Therefor we decided to drop the support for cinderlib in CentOS 10. > You will still be able to use it on CentOS 9. > We are looking for some alternative, more updates on this when available :) > > GlusterFS > > As we all know, GlusterFS is also (quite) in maintenance mode. > Packages for GlusterFS are not available on CentOS 10 anymore. So GlusterFS > support is dropped on CentOS 10! > > CollectD > > CollectD was used in oVirt to gather metrics of the hosts etc. > As this is neither available on CentOS 10, this has also been removed as a > requirement on CentOS 10. > > ovirt-node-ng > > The oVirt node ISO images are currently only partially tested and build not > very frequently. > This because the technology used to build those images might need a refresh. > But next to that, we feel like the advantages of having an oVirt node ISO is > fairly small. And it even has some major disadvantages, like the fact you > need to wait for a new ISO to receive a security update. > Therefor we are thinking of just deprecating ovirt-node-ng ISO's. > You can just install a fresh RHEL/CentOS/Alma/Rocky/... and install the ovirt > packages on it. > > Chat > > Some months ago we also introduced a new way of communication, Matrix! > You can find us and other users on https://matrix.to/#/#ovirt:ovirt.tech > Feel free to join, and have a discussion or help each other out with issues! > > Next? > > Currently we try to focus on some testing of the current builds and fix the > issues that arise. > Once we feel comfortable, we will create a new release for testing. > Without any major issue, that will be our next oVirt 4.5 release. > > Help > > There are still a lot of things that need love, can get improved, etc. > if you want to help, feel free to reach out. Or just send in some PR's :) > There are easy things (like the website itself > https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site) that can use some attention. > > Or you can help adding translations via our new Weblate setup on > https://translate.ovirt.tech/. > > THANKS! > > Next to that I also want to thank Sandro from RedHat to assist us with > questions or with reaching the right people! > And of course all the other people that send in PR's, helped us in the > background, upgraded the mailinglist, etc :) > > If there are questions, comments, whatever. Feel free to join us on Matrix, > and open the discussion. > > Let's have a great future ahead! > > Jean-Louis > > _______________________________________________ > Announce mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/73ZFF255MU2CUSL2U2VUGP3DUCB2T3HE/ -- Jorge Luis Andrade Escobar [email protected] [email protected] Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) Red Hat Certified Instructor/Examiner (RHCX) # 100-000-967 gpg: 685C 68E8 9F55 771B ED7C 3CC7 5E65 8385 88D3 09A5 Phone: +502 2305-0800 ext. 4005 http://www.i-t-m.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XHKU7XW4XHPMGPGEW63XRW2VW6XQZUUX/
