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| What's New in |release| |
| ======================= |
| |
| Apache CloudStack |release| is a 4.14 LTS minor release with over 100 fixes and |
| improvements since the 4.14.0.0 release. |
| |
| What's New in 4.14.0.0 |
| ====================== |
| |
| 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 |
| |
| .. important:: |
| This version of CloudStack allows control over the visibility of the DNS services provided |
| by the Virtual Router in Shared networks. By default CloudStack allows DNS queries via the |
| Guest interface from any IP address. This allows for the DNS resolution of guest VMs on the |
| Shared network by services outside of the shared network. While this can be useful, it can |
| also be an issue on Shared Networks which are using Internet routable/public (i.e. non-RFC1918) |
| IP addresses, as the DNS service is then queriable from the public internet at large. A new |
| global setting "expose.dns.externally" has been added (with a default value of "true" in |
| order to keep backward compatibility) which controls whether the source of DNS queries |
| should be limited to only hosts on the Shared Network guest subnet or not. If you wish |
| to disable 'outside' access to the DNS services running on Virtual Routers; 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 |
| =========================================== |
| |
| 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 |
| ======================================================= |
| |
| 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. |