Announcing oVirt 0.99
====================
We are pleased to announce the release of oVirt 0.99, a significant step
forward in stability and feature set for oVirt project users.
Some highlights from the change log:
* Improved installer, oVirt Server will now install with an existing
FreeIPA setup present rather than insisting on installing FreeIPA from
scratch
* Anyterm console support -- view a VM's serial console from the oVirt
UI
* Lots of UI cleanup, bug fixes, flex chart improvements, back end
stability improvements
* QMF API proof of concept
Please download and install the latest release following the
instructions at http://ovirt.org/install-instructions.html. We're
looking forward to your feedback!
Thanks,
--the oVirt team
Changelogs for the last 3 releases:
Release 0.99 (oVirt Server Suite)
- permission refactoring, now in seperated db tables
- added permission to cloud controller
- generic error handling w/ registered handlers for each exception
- finished service layer refactoring and controller integration (network,
storage volume, storage, task, quota, pool, vm controllers)
- anyterm web terminal / wui integration
- start of the cloud ui, web frontend to the cumulous project
- vnc proxy server to multiplex vnc connects on a single port and changes to
ovirt-viewer to use it
- start of new ovirt qmf api, updated to latest qmf spec, refresh pools
whenever used, etc
- added ovirt xml api spec
- installer updates, ipa install fails if mod_ssl present, dns clarification
- taskomatic changes, much more logging added, reconnect messages, bugfixes
- dbomatic changes, log connect / disconnect events
- host-browser permits nic-less nodes
- graph updates, new default view, increased dimensions, cleaned up/added
labels
- many ui improvements, flexigrid functionality/appearance, details pane,
icons and css, etc
- many test improvements and fixes
- many bugfixes
Release 0.98 (oVirt Server Suite)
- enable acpi / apic in vms
- on vm shutdown, vm state is now unchanged
- noreplace cobbler.yml in the spec
- installer updates, network and dns config cleanup, hostname verification
- updated and fixed server / node network configuration, managed_node_config,
ovirt-identify-node, host-browser, other fixes to
- delete nics if a node doesn't report them
- api to retrieve nic / bonding details
- autocreate default bridges for nics / bondings
- refactor how nic, bonding, bridges are defined and handle edge cases
- many tests fixes
- many bugfixes
Release 0.97 (oVirt Server Suite)
- added host / pool audit trail
- added task list to daskboard
- added plethora of missing model validations
- taskomatic / qpid integration
- changed ovirtbr -> breth
- removed ovirt-cfgdb
- update search index every 1/2 hr
- navigation tree interface and functionality improvements
- kerberos authentication for qpidd
- storage volumn api, rest interface, and other improvements
- allow vm vnc connections to be forwarded via server
- discontinued ovirt-recipe in favor of ovirt-server-installer
- lvm volumns scanning added to taskomatic
- use ruby-qpid as opposed to rubygem-qpid
- wired up logout button
- flexchart improvements
- add host chart
- allow data function selection (min, max, avg, etc)
- y-axis scale
- added qpid reconnect / logger to dbomatic, taskomatic
- add ssl to ovirt httpd conf
- use dns srv records in taskomatic / dbomatic
- installer updates, disable 2nd network interface, reworked selinux
- options, dnsmasq fixes, nat / forwarding for node, add node-image/pxe,
- update qpid config, many various bugfixes
- network configuration changes / improvements
* host may now only have one device or bonding on a network
* associate vms with a network
* store nic interface name on the server
* network wui cleanup and various bugfixes
- reset vm state on node reboot
- move vnc forwarding code from taskomatic to dbomatic
- persistently store vm / host history (for dbomatic vnc forwarding code)
- stats util improvements
- ssl now on both admin and guest interfaces
- proxy guest network virtual host to admin network virtual host
- deprecate old ovirt server installer
- dbomatic generatic exception handling
- added exception handling to dbomatic
- tests and validations fixes
- many bugfixes