What is the definition of a 'major release'? What do you expect from it?
In the beginning of the year, a new 4.5.7 release was pushed, with a lot
of fixes and support for CentOS 10/Alma 10.
Since then, a lot of changes/fixes were merged, and we plan to release a
4.5.8 in the coming months.
A new 'major' release is also on the roadmap, and we are working on that.
The main change for the major release will be a upgraded Wildfly, which
we need to migrate the whole codebase away from javax -> jakarta.
So from a feature perspective, this is nothing important, but it's very
important to be able to keep oVirt as a whole compatible with newer Java
(libs) and keep it up-to-date in the future.
Your question about the hosted engine:
Since 4.5.7, the hosted engine template is rewritten, and we build Alma
9 & 10 and CentOS 9 & 10 as the base for hosted-engine VM.
So you can choose which OS you use for your hosted-engine.
'oVirt Node NG' is deprecated, and won't likely see new releases anymore.
The whole system that created those ISO's is out-of-date, and would need
a lot of changes to get it working again + to support CentOS 10/Alma 10.
And as there is almost no advantage on those 'oVirt Node NG' ISO's above
a basic CentOS or Alma install, we decided to deprecate the whole thing.
Hope this answers all your questions :)
Jean-Louis
On 4/06/2026 21:50, Diggy Mc wrote:
Is there an ETA for the next major release of oVirt? Has it entered beta
testing yet? Any hint as to what OS and version will be used for the
hosted-engine? Will there be Node ISOs released? Just wondering so I can plan
ahead. We are planning on deploying a brand new infrastructure and then phase
out our legacy infrastructure.
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