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| What's New in |version| |
| ======================= |
| |
| Version |release| includes 180 pull requests and fixes more than 80 bugs since |
| the 4.9.0 release. |
| |
| The 4.9.2.0 is part of the LTS 4.9.x releases. The 4.9 LTS branch is supported |
| for 20 months, and will receives updates for first 14 months and only |
| security updates in its last 6 months. The 4.9 LTS branch is supported till 1 |
| June 2018. |
| |
| A LOT changed in this release, so this is not a complete list, but here is a |
| quick summary of some of the changes. |
| |
| |
| Networking |
| ---------- |
| |
| * Fixes to ACLs, S2S VPN, Private Gateways, Redundant VRs and other optimizations |
| * Nuage VSP SDN Plugin got a lot of improvements and some new features |
| |
| |
| Database |
| -------- |
| |
| * MySQL connector changed |
| * DB optimizations and improvements |
| |
| |
| Storage |
| ------- |
| |
| * Enabled fast snapshots for managed storage using XenServer |
| * Fixes for some RBD issues |
| * Fixes multiple Swift object store issues |
| * Improved VMware disk implementation |
| |
| |
| Hypervisor |
| ---------- |
| |
| * Support for XenServer 7 |
| * Support for VMware vSphere 6.0, 6.5 |
| * Support for Ubuntu 16.04 as KVM host |
| |
| |
| Usability |
| --------- |
| |
| * Added user defined roles |
| * Added configurable root volume size for KVM |
| * Lots of localization improvements |
| * Added CentOS 6.x guest OS mappings for VMware |
| |
| |
| Operations |
| ---------- |
| |
| * Added Out-of-band power management for hosts (EG: IPMI, iLO, DRAC, etc.) |
| |
| |
| Miscellaneous |
| ------------- |
| |
| * Use non-blocking SSL handshake in NioConnection/Link |
| * Added memory utilization to ``listVirtualMachines`` |
| * Multiple fixes related to usage |
| |
| |
| QA |
| -- |
| |
| * Higher quality releases due to better QA automation, testing and code reviewing |
| |
| Build dependency |
| ---------------- |
| |
| When building Apache CloudStack with ``noredist``, it now require the file |
| ``deps/vim25_60.jar`` available from vSphere SDK 6.0, |
| VMware-vSphere-SDK-6.0.0-3634981.zip. |
| |
