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What's New in |release|
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Apache CloudStack |release| is a |version| LTS release with over 15 major new features, and over 200 enhancements and fixes since 4.13.  Highlights include:

•	New modern UI (Project Primate, Technical preview)
•	Backup and Recovery framework
•	Backup and Recovery Provider for Veeam
•	VM ingestion
•	L2 network PVLAN enhancements
•	CloudStack Kubernetes Service
•	UEFI support
•	KVM rolling maintenance
•	Enable Direct Download for systemVM templates
•	VR health checks
•	Download logs and diagnostics data from SSVM/CPVM/VRs
•	Enable additional configuration metadata to virtual machines


The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.14.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html

.. note:: 
   This version of CloudStack allows control over the visibility of the DNS services provided
   by the Virtual Router. One can control whether the service on the routers be available to 
   networks outside the local network. This might be important on Shared Networks which are 
   using Internet routable/public (i.e. non-RFC 1918) IP addresses. The new global setting 
   "expose.dns.externally" has been added with a default value of "true" in order to keep backward compatibility
   with the previous installations. If you wish to disable public access to the DNS services
   running on Virtual Router, set the value to "false" and recreate the related Virtual Routers.

Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services, including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders. Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source Cloud Adoption report, Apache CloudStack "sits beneath hundreds of service provider clouds", including Fortune 5 multinational corporations. A list of known Apache CloudStack users are available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html

Libvirt Python Dependency on KVM and CentOS
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For CentOS users using the security groups feature on KVM it is needed to install the epel-release and python36-libvirt packages.

New User Interface & Depreciation notice of existing UI
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Cloudstack 4.14 ships with a Technical Preview of a new, modern User Interface (project Primate) . This technical preview can be used by users & operators of Cloudstack environments for evaluation & testing purposes. With version 4.14, the existing UI remains the supported UI for production environments.
However, with the 4.14 release, the Apache Cloudstack community will stop taking feature requests for new functionality in the existing UI. All new functionality will be developed against the new UI.


The next LTS release (likely to be version 4.15) of Apache Cloudstack will ship with the production release of the new UI. It will also be the last version of CloudStack to ship with the old UI. This release will also have the final deprecation notice for the old UI.

In the following release (likely to be 4.16), the old UI will be deprecated.

Please see `Primate install guide <../installguide/primate.html>`_