Any release notes?

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ovirt-users]Re: Next major release of oVirt

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Dear all,

I want to give my support to the new developer team, since the job done is 
fantastic.

We upgraded all our out to date releases to 4.5.7 and the platform is still 
rock solid, we rely on ovirt for our production environment and up until now we 
do not regret the decision.

Things changed since redhat abadoned the project, but this does not mean we 
have to run away from ovirt.

Adopt ovirt, you won't regret it.

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Andrea
On 6/8/2026 9:24 AM, Jean-Louis Dupond via Users wrote:
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The whole system that created those ISO's is out-of-date, and would need a lot 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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