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class="sidebarItem"><a class="sidebarItemLink" href="/blog/tags/community">Meet the Community</a></li></ul></nav></aside><main class="col col--7" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog"><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="This week, a vote on updating the project bylaws, fixing the "Tomcat situation" after 4.1, and discussions around the support lifecycle. Some respectable progress in knocking out major and blocker bugs for 4.1.0 as well. The project also welcomes two new PPMC members and three new committers."><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_41">Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 4 March 2013</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2013-03-05T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">March 5, 2013</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p><a href="/img/imported/3b5a1e4e-90cb-469e-a58a-512bdcc28007"><img loading="lazy" src="/img/imported/3b5a1e4e-90cb-469e-a58a-512bdcc28007?t=true" alt="acwn-icon.png" align="left" class="img_ev3q"></a>This week, a vote on updating the project bylaws, fixing the "Tomcat situation" after 4.1, and discussions around the support lifecycle. Some respectable progress in knocking out major and blocker bugs for 4.1.0 as well. The project also welcomes two new PPMC members and three new committers.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-MajorDiscussions"></a>Major Discussions</h3><p>Some of the major discussions and issues that have taken place on cloudstack-dev and cloudstack-users in the past week. This is by no means exhaustive, if you need to be up-to-date on all development issues in the project, you'll definitely want to be subscribed to the mailing lists!</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-SummaryofWhyWhereandHowDevelopmentHappensMatters"></a>Summary of Why Where and How Development Happens Matters</h5><p>Chip Childers kicked off a thread about <a href="http://markmail.org/message/ydbkugl5sqpnz6m5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">why it matters where and how development happens</a>, based on a discussion that had taken place on cloudstack-private:</p><blockquote><p>It's largely a re-hash of things that have already been discussed, but we wanted to get this summary moved into the dev list so that the points are available for reference. We should probably distill this into a wiki page somewhere, but that's not done quite yet (volunteer?). Keep in mind<br>that I've tried to pull the important parts of the conversation into this email... it was a fairly long thread of discussion and debate.<br>I'd suggest reading it all the way to the end to form your own understanding of why we have to be careful about how we work as a community.</p><p>The TL;DR version:</p><p>The issue that we ran into with several features being developed "outside the community" for 4.1 was a major deal, and it had several<br>implications. First, doing that effectively hurts our community. The other issue is related to the legal right of the project to accept the<br>code developed elsewhere.</p></blockquote><p>Rather than summarizing it here, I'd recommend that readers spend the time to read Chip's initial email and the replies in the thread.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-UsingDIYSystemVMs"></a>Using DIY System VMs</h5><p>Rohit Yadav <a href="http://markmail.org/message/josnaa7tgvnmruva" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">shared "that the do-it-yourself systemvm appliance feature works for me, for Xen,"</a>:</p><blockquote><p>There is one catch though, VirtualBox exports VHD appliance which is said to be compliant with HyperV. I thought we may need to do something for Xen separately, so I followed and <a href="http://rohityadav.in/logs/building-systemvms/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">found a way</a>. The "way" is to export a raw disk image and convert it to a VHD <a class="createlink" href="/confluence/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=CLOUDSTACK&title=1&linkCreation=true&fromPageId=30755264">1</a> but the problem is the VHD created from that "way" fails when vhd-util tries to scan for any dependent VHDs (parents etc.), I don't know what's the reason.</p></blockquote><p>Read the rest of the thread if you have an interest in creating custom system VMs for CloudStack.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-FixingtheTomcatSituation%2CPost4.1"></a>Fixing the Tomcat Situation, Post 4.1</h5><p>Noa Resare has <a href="http://markmail.org/message/l63bhfmzbdmh37oa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">admitted being intensely frustrate</a> with "the current tomcat situation" when working on packaging CloudStack. The current setup, says Noa, has many problems. In response, Noa has started a proof-of-concept "of a replacement for this whole mess yesterday, a few tens of lines of code setting up an embedded jetty web container. A few lines of code to parse a config file, set up logging and spawn an embedded servlet container."</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-ChangingProjectBylawstoModifyPMCChairVotingProcessandTerm"></a>Changing Project Bylaws to Modify PMC Chair Voting Process and Term</h5><p>Chip kicked off a VOTE thread last week <a href="http://markmail.org/message/w6fn62vqsphyqd6q" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">to modify the project bylaws slightly</a>:</p><blockquote><p>As <a href="http://markmail.org/message/ifwwce657u36yuwz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">previously discussed</a>, we'd like to make a <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Apache+CloudStack+Project+Bylaws" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">change to our bylaws</a> to modify the method of selecting a PMC chair. We also want to add a term for the chair.</p></blockquote><p>The <a href="http://markmail.org/message/sgqllgaogduwybhr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">text was clarified slightly</a> during the vote. The vote remains open until March 5.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-SupportLifetime"></a>Support Lifetime</h5><p>With the 4.1 release getting closer, David Nalley <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/a327j3vqw6pklhho" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">raised the topic of the support lifetime for releases</a>. Chip <a href="http://markmail.org/message/xvvudgauegit3j4t" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">proposed a model</a> that would consist of only bug fix releases for:</p><blockquote><ul class="alternate" type="square"><li>The latest feature release of our active major version number (i.e.: 4.x)</li><li>The latest feature release of our last major version number (doesn't exist today, but will be 4.x when / if we bump to 5.0)</li></ul></blockquote><p>Joe Brockmeier replied with a +1, saying that with the current level of participation in the bug-fix releases "this is the most realistic approach that's good for the community."</p><p>David asked whether an end of support means an end to bug fixes and security fixes at the same time. "Wearing your enterprise software consumer hat - does a supportlifetime of approximately 12 months make sense?" Instead, David proposed "we should add a month (so that EOL is one month after 4.n+2 releases, with the understanding that 4.n is likely to only receive security fixes if any during that extra one month window.)"</p><p>The discussion continues, so developers and users that have a vested interest in the support lifetime for ACS releases would do well to follow and respond to the discussion.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-APIThrottling"></a>API Throttling</h5><p>Parth Jagirdar has <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/nj75xlemzxcy5qr2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">started a discuss thread</a> about API throttling. "API throttling number can be set to anything at this point. Suggestions here is to have this number set to a value that is 'greater than' number of API that can be fired by any potential action on UI." (Note, Parth then sent out a follow-up email to correct the initial subject line from [DISCUSS} to <a class="createlink" href="/confluence/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=CLOUDSTACK&title=DISCUSS&linkCreation=true&fromPageId=30755264">DISCUSS</a>, but all relevant discussion has happened in the original thread. It's probably not necessary to send a follow-up in those situations and may fragment the conversation.)</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-BranchStabilityStatus"></a>Branch Stability Status</h5><p>Sudha Ponnaganti posted a report to the -dev mailing list about <a href="http://markmail.org/message/tpxixcsatkduodq4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">branch stability for QA testing</a>:</p><blockquote><p>4.1 Branch:<br>*Xen and VMWare are blocked with the following two issues. KVM is working fine (agent issue-1469 has been fixed by Hugo).<br>CLOUDSTACK-1252<br>Failed to download default template in VMware<br>CLOUDSTACK-1470<br>Xen - unhandled exception executing api command: deployVirtualMachine</p><p>Master:<br>There are no blockers now on Master / 4.2. Below are the only blockers and you<br>can continue to use older templates to make progress on master till new one gets<br>hardened.<br>CLOUDSTACK-1462<br>Used Master Branch System VM Template: Volume of System VM Failed to Create on<br>the XenServer due to IOError</p></blockquote><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-SummaryofIRCMeetingfor27February2013"></a>Summary of IRC Meeting for 27 February 2013</h5><p>The ASFBot <a href="http://markmail.org/message/7nsbfzhtbs3krbb4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">shot a summary of the weekly IRC meeting</a> to the -dev mailing list. If you missed it or need a reminder of what happened, check it out.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-ReportfromtheDocSprintonFriday"></a>Report from the Doc Sprint on Friday</h5><p>Joe sent out a <a href="http://markmail.org/message/sy3bkyq7mgs2wqaq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">short report</a> about the doc sprint that took place on Friday, March 1st. Another is planned for Friday, March 8th.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-CloudStackPlanetPostsfromtheCloudStackCommunity"></a>CloudStack Planet - Posts from the CloudStack Community</h3><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-ProvisionrAutomatedDeploymentofMassiveInfraintheClouds"></a>Provisionr - Automated Deployment of Massive Infra in the Clouds</h5><p>David <a href="http://buildacloud.org/blog/229-provisionr-automated-deployment-of-massive-infra-in-the-clouds.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">reported on a talk at ApacheCon North America</a> about Andrei Savu's demo of "software that Axemblr had been working on around deploying pools of interrelated virtual machines called <a href="https://github.com/axemblr/axemblr-provisionr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Provisionr</a>."</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-ApacheConNorthAmericaReport%3ATroubleshootingCloudStack"></a>ApacheCon North America Report: Troubleshooting CloudStack</h5><p>Joe Brockmeier <a href="http://buildacloud.org/blog/230-apachecon-north-america-report-troubleshooting-cloudstack.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">wrote a report</a> on two talks at ApacheCon North America by Kirk Kosinski on troubleshooting CloudStack. The talks covered common networking issues and how to use log files to troubleshoot CloudStack.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-CloudTalksfromApacheConNorthAmerica"></a>Cloud Talks from ApacheCon North America</h5><p>Mark Hinkle <a href="http://buildacloud.org/blog/232-cloud-talks-from-apachecon-na-2013.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has put up a post about Cloud talks at ApacheCon North America</a> with links to presentations.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-UpcomingEvents"></a>Upcoming Events</h3><ul><li><b>CloudStack India, Bangalore Chapter</b>: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-Bangalore-Group/events/103142162/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">March Meetup - Cloud Storage & Monitoring</a> - Koramangala, Bangalore, Thursday March 7, 2013.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Doc Sprint (IRC)</b>: The doc team is running another sprint on Friday, March 8th from 16:00 to 23:00 UTC (that's 08:00 to 15:00 Pacific time, 11:00 to 18:00 Eastern in the USA) in #cloudstack-dev. All CloudStack contributors who have an interest in making the docs awesome are encouraged to attend and help out. See <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/4.1+Doc+Sprints+every+Friday" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">the wiki</a> for more info.</li></ul><ul><li><b>New York City Cloud Computing Group</b>: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/nyccloudcomputing/events/104771232/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Deploying Apache CloudStack from API to UI</a> - New York City, Wednesday March 13, 2013.</li></ul><ul><li><b>NYLUG Meetup</b>: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/82181872/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link"><em>Open Source Private Clouds with CloudStack, Eucalyptus and OpenStack</em></a> - New York City, Thursday March 14, 2013. RSVPs open on February 28th at 6:15 p.m. Eastern.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-Jira"></a>Jira</h3><p>Big bug-fixing week for Apache CloudStack! The community knocked out 5 blocker bugs, 3 critical bugs, 9 major bugs, and 3 minor bugs. Still plenty of work left to do before 4.1.0 is ready for prime-time, though.</p><ul><li>Last week: 9 blocker bugs. This week: 4 <a href="http://is.gd/blockers41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">blocker bugs</a></li><li>Last week: 21 critical bugs. This week: 18 <a href="http://is.gd/critical41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">critical bugs</a></li><li>Last week: 200 major bugs. This week: 191 <a href="http://is.gd/major41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">major bugs</a></li><li>Last week: 33 minor bugs. This week: 30 <a href="http://is.gd/minor41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">minor bugs</a></li></ul><p>It's worth noting that the doc sprint helped quite a bit, bringing the total number of docs bugs for 4.1.0 to 44 (down from 64 just two weeks ago). Of the remaining bugs for 4.1.0, 80 are <a href="http://is.gd/unassigned41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">currently unassigned</a>, down from 99 last week.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-NewCommittersandPPMCMembers"></a>New Committers and PPMC Members</h3><p>A big week for new committers and PPMC members.</p><ul><li>Marcus Sorenson <a href="http://markmail.org/message/dpt6eczdsokaealm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has been invited to join the PPMC and has accepted</a>.</li><li>Sebastien Goasguen <a href="http://markmail.org/message/xjk4beb6rtupsuj7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has been invited to join the PPMC and has accepted</a>.</li><li>Radhika Puthiyetath <a href="http://markmail.org/message/dkrzj6eo66umqamj" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has been invited to become a committer and has accepted</a></li><li>Sateesh Chodapuneedi <a href="http://markmail.org/message/7epxyg6s5kmiebcb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has been invited to become a committer and has accepted</a></li><li>Noa Resare <a href="http://markmail.org/message/uqhbwwhhfrgfu67g" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has been invited to become a committer and has accepted</a>.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4March2013-ContributingtotheApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews"></a>Contributing to the Apache CloudStack Weekly News</h3><p>If you have an event, discussion, or other item to contribute to the <em>Weekly News</em>, you can add it directly to the <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Weekly+News" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">wiki</a> by editing the issue you want your item to appear in. (The next week's issue is created before the current issue is published - so at any time there should be at least one issue ready to edit.) Alternatively, you can send to the cloudstack-dev mailing list with a subject including <a href="" title="News">News</a>: <em>description of topic</em> or email the newsletter editor directly (jzb at apache.org), again with the subject <a href="" title="News">News</a>: <em>description of topic</em>. <b>Please include a link to the discussion in the mailing list archive or Web page with details of the event, etc.</b></p></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="This week, interesting discussions on the Java version(s) to be supported by CloudStack, updates on translation, and database changes. Also discussion on the next CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and more. Work on 4.1.0 continues, and there's much to be done before it's ready to ship."><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_25">Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 25 February 2013</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2013-02-26T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">February 26, 2013</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>This week, interesting discussions on the Java version(s) to be supported by CloudStack, updates on translation, and database changes. Also discussion on the next CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and more. Work on 4.1.0 continues, and there's much to be done before it's ready to ship.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-MajorDiscussionsandIssues"></a>Major Discussions and Issues</h3><p>Some of the major discussions and issues that have taken place on cloudstack-dev and cloudstack-users in the past week. This is by no means exhaustive, if you need to be up-to-date on all development issues in the project, you'll definitely want to be subscribed to the mailing lists!</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-ScheduleReminder"></a>Schedule Reminder</h5><p>Chip Childers has sent out a <a href="http://markmail.org/message/z37xsunbtikzukzl" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">friendly reminder</a> about the schedule: </p><blockquote><p> Thursday is the last day of this<br>phase of QA / bug-fix work. We defined it as:</p><p>2013-02-28<br>Docs Completion Target (except release notes and translations) (Docs<br>may be included in the release after this date, after consensus on<br>each addition that the inclusion does not reduce release quality).</p><p> Release Branch moves to limited updates only (only commits allowed<br>in would be release blockers fixes, translation updates, etc...)</p><p>I'd like to get as many bugs resolved as possible (as well as ensure<br>that the blockers that Sudha has shared this morning are addressed as<br>quickly as possible).</p><p>After Thursday, we're going to want to move to a very limited amount of<br>change within the 4.1 branch. Given that, now's the time to knock down<br>the blockers... but also as many of the other priority bugs as<br>possible.</p></blockquote><p>If you have 4.1 bugs on your plate, please be sure to try to either resolve them or at least triage/report status. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-CloudStackCollaborationSummit"></a>CloudStack Collaboration Summit</h5><p>Mark Hinkle <a href="http://markmail.org/message/flbkomj6mvgvfsdx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">started a discussion about the next CloudStack Collaboration Conference</a>, offering to work on a proposal for an event in the spring and fall. Lots of folks have expressed interest, and suggested holding the spring event in Europe rather than North America. The discussion hasn't been resolved yet, so no dates or location have been announced as of yet. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-QAScrumMeetingMinutes"></a>QA Scrum Meeting Minutes</h5><p><a title="Minutes 18th Feb 2013" href="/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Minutes+18th+Feb+2013">The QA Scrum meeting minutes for 18 February 2013</a> sent to the mailing list.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-WeeklyIRCMeetingMinutes"></a>Weekly IRC Meeting Minutes</h5><p>The <a href="http://markmail.org/message/s5dg4bwzlpk7rt4z" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">minutes for the weekly CloudStack meeting</a> have been posted to the list. Note that the community has a weekly meeting every Wednesday at 17:00 UTC in #cloudstack-meeting on Freenode.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-SupportedJavaVersion%3F"></a>Supported Java Version?</h5><p>Wido den Hollander noted that <a href="http://markmail.org/message/sryxuq6ks7ukpkp6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">the master branch wouldn't build on his systems</a> over the last few days. The culprit? Seems to be that some changes have snuck in that want a later version of Java than is in Ubuntu 12.04.</p><p>No decision has been reached so far, but there is a case to be made that changing the Java version is a significant disruption to users.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-TranslationUpdate"></a>Translation Update</h5><p>Sebastien Goasguen has sent out an <a href="http://markmail.org/message/wnkzas5bnd4t3fn6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">update</a></p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-DiscussiononDatabaseChanges"></a>Discussion on Database Changes</h5><p>Last week Rohit Yadav <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp2AGii1szQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">had a Google+ hangout with Alex and Abhi</a> to discuss future of database deployment and upcoming work on creating a new tool called DatabaseCreator that will make database deployments easier. It was decided and enforced on 4.1 and master branch that:</p><ul><li>create-schema.sql ought not be changed from the version 4.0 schema</li><li>Any new additions should go into their correct upgrade paths, for 4.2 that would mean schema-410to420.sql and schema-410to420-cleanup.sql</li><li>It would do rolling upgrade from 4.0, this was enforced in DatabaseUpgradeChecker</li></ul><p>Once DatabaseCreator is implemented correctly for 4.2 release, a sysadmin will have power to work on their own upgrade strategies. The workflow would be:</p><ul><li>System admin uses the tool to take a db dump, upgrade the database, at this stage the new database should be backward compatible with old db.</li><li>Next all CloudStack management servers are upgraded.</li><li>The tool is called again to do sanity checks and cleanup any db schema.</li></ul><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-DevelopmentonDIYSystemVMtemplates"></a>Development on DIY SystemVM templates</h5><p>This week <a href="http://markmail.org/message/znflttrdsv3gtoh4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Rohit Yadav and Chiradeep</a> were finally able to configure a veewee project so systemvm template can be built on one's own box using veewee and VirtualBox, Rohit also created a systemvm building jenkins job. The source code exists in tools/appliance and has a README for folks to get started. The default template is based on Debian Wheezy but anyone can change the definition.rb, preseed.cfg and postinstall.sh script to fork their own systemvm templates based on Ubuntu, Fedora etc.</p><p>Rohit shared a <a href="http://rohityadav.in/logs/building-systemvms/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">post</a> with the issues and challenges of setting an <a href="http://jenkins.cloudstack.org/view/master/job/build-systemvm-master/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">automated jenkins build job</a> that would create systemvm appliances and export them to various virtual disk image formats. Using his approach anyone should be able to replicate an automated appliance build job.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-UpcomingEvents"></a>Upcoming Events</h3><ul><li><b>ApacheCon North America</b>: ApacheCon NA is in Portland, Oregon from 26 February to 28 February. Cloud is a hot topic at ApacheCon North America and you'll find quite a bit of CloudStack content on the schedule:<ul><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/126/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Apache CloudStack's Plugin Model: Balancing the Cathedral with a Bazaar</a> - Donal Lafferty</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/127/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Top 10 Network Issues in Apache CloudStack</a> - Kirk Kosinski</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/128/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Advanced CloudStack Troubleshooting using Log Analysis</a> - Kirk Kosinski</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/129/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Scalable Object Storage with Apache CloudStack and Apache Hadoop</a> - Chiradeep Vittal</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/116/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Getting to Know Apache CloudStack</a> - Joe Brockmeier</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/145/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">DevCloud: A CloudStack Sandbox</a> - Sebastien Goasguen</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/146/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Powering CloudStack with Ceph RDB</a> - Patrick McGarry</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/147/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Software Defined Networking in Apache CloudStack</a> - Chiradeep Vittal</li></ul></li></ul><ul><li><b>New York City Cloud Computing Group</b>: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/nyccloudcomputing/events/104771232/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Deploying Apache CloudStack from API to UI</a> - New York City, Wednesday March 13, 2013.</li></ul><ul><li><b>NYLUG Meetup</b>: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/82181872/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link"><em>Open Source Private Clouds with CloudStack, Eucalyptus and OpenStack</em></a> - New York City, Thursday March 14, 2013. RSVPs open on February 28th at 6:15 p.m. Eastern.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-Jira"></a>Jira</h3><p>The count of bugs for 4.1.0 has actually increased since last week. The overall tally of blocker and critical bugs has increased, with two additional blocker bugs and four more critical bugs (though perhaps not the <b>same</b> bugs as last week). A lot of work is needed to get 4.1.0 into shape before we will be able to release.</p><ul><li>Last week: 7 blocker bugs. This week: 9 <a href="http://is.gd/blockers41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">blocker bugs</a></li><li>Last week: 17 critical bugs. This week: 21 <a href="http://is.gd/critical41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">critical bugs</a></li><li>Last week: 202 major bugs. This week: 200 <a href="http://is.gd/major41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">major bugs</a></li><li>Last week: 34 minor bugs. This week: 33 <a href="http://is.gd/minor41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">minor bugs</a></li></ul><p>Of the remaining bugs for 4.1.0, 99 are <a href="http://is.gd/unassigned41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">currently unassigned</a>.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-NewCommittersandPPMCMembers"></a>New Committers and PPMC Members</h3><p>No new committers or PPMC members announced this week.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-25February2013-ContributingtotheApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews"></a>Contributing to the Apache CloudStack Weekly News</h3><p>If you have an event, discussion, or other item to contribute to the <em>Weekly News</em>, you can add it directly to the <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Weekly+News" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">wiki</a> by editing the issue you want your item to appear in. (The next week's issue is created before the current issue is published - so at any time there should be at least one issue ready to edit.) Alternatively, you can send to the cloudstack-dev mailing list with a subject including <a href="" title="News">News</a>: <em>description of topic</em> or email the newsletter editor directly (jzb at apache.org), again with the subject <a href="" title="News">News</a>: <em>description of topic</em>. <b>Please include a link to the discussion in the mailing list archive or Web page with details of the event, etc.</b> </p></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="Another busy week on -dev. This week, discussions on whether to graduate to a TLP, the whens and hows of merging, database changes for 4.1 and master, and documentation."><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_18">Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 18 February 2013</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2013-02-19T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">February 19, 2013</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>Another busy week on -dev. This week, discussions on whether to graduate to a TLP, the whens and hows of merging, database changes for 4.1 and master, and documentation.</p><p>Also worth noting, we now have a <a href="http://markmail.org/message/iceroovnqptyi5lt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">marketing mailing list</a>. To sign up and participate in promoting Apache CloudStack, please subscribe to the mailing list (cloudstack-marketing-subscribe@incubator.apache.org) and help out!</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-MajorDiscussionsandIssues"></a>Major Discussions and Issues</h3><p>Some of the major discussions and issues that have taken place on cloudstack-dev and cloudstack-users in the past week. This is by no means exhaustive, if you need to be up-to-date on all development issues in the project, you'll definitely want to be subscribed to the mailing lists!</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-QAScrumMeetingMinutes"></a>QA Scrum Meeting Minutes </h5><p><a href="http://markmail.org/message/fcjpe4z5bezfodmx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">The QA Scrum meeting minutes for 12 February 2013</a> sent to the mailing list.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-IRCMeetingMinutes"></a>IRC Meeting Minutes </h5><p>Summary of the <a href="http://markmail.org/message/solu2opycgkqb63x" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">weekly IRC Meeting for 13 February 2013</a>. </p><p>Note that last week's meeting went in reverse alpha-order, but it was largely agreed during the meeting that we should have an agenda for the meeting. Please submit agenda items by Wednesday at 16:00 UTC.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-GraduationtoaTopLevelProject%28TLP%29%3F"></a>Graduation to a Top-Level Project (TLP)?</h5><p>Is Apache CloudStack ready to leave the incubator? <a href="http://markmail.org/message/3nluchj5q5waguws" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Chip Childers</a> raised the discussion on the -dev list on February 13th. </p><blockquote><p>My general impression is that we have come a long way as a community since CloudStack entered the incubator. While there are still rough edges for us to work through over time, we are dealing with our problems quite well as a community. The simple reason that I believe we are in a position to ask to graduate, is that we are no longer getting value from the incubation process! That's a good thing, because it means that we have managed to learn quite a bit about the ASF processes, rules, methods and preferences.</p></blockquote><p>Marcus Sorensen <a href="http://markmail.org/message/l2kqj2gppghm4f2q" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">agreed</a> that there are rough edges but, "the incubation process itself may not teach us anything further about these things, and they're just things we need to iron out over time."</p><p>David Nalley wrote:</p><blockquote><p>I don't see us actively receiving any benefit from continuing in incubation. We are far from perfect, but the project seems to be policing itself. So I am not seeing a huge incentive to staying.</p><p>There are also some downsides to remaining in incubation. First there's the label 'incubation' that follows almost everything we do, and is potentially off-putting to potential community members. Second as a community there are a number of things we can't do for ourselves, and thus have to ask permission or for help - this includes votes on releases, creating new user accounts, etc. I think of this as the overhead of being in the incubator.</p></blockquote><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-DiscussiononDatabaseChangesandMerges"></a>Discussion on Database Changes and Merges</h5><p>Rohit Yadav <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/z32xdbr2injgjrrp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">put out the word</a> that there were database changes ahead for the 4.1 branch and master. </p><p>Rohit also brought up a merge for <a href="http://markmail.org/message/2v3hqmanasol6okw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">database schemas for 4.1.0</a> and pointed to the <a href="http://people.apache.org/~bhaisaab/diff-create-schema-40-41.sql" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">current differences in the database schema for 4.1 over 4.0</a>.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-Documentationfor4.1"></a>Documentation for 4.1</h5><p>Sebastien Goasguen <a href="http://markmail.org/message/rjbctl6uu3qu2c7g" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">started a thread on documentation for 4.1</a>, which is a must-read for anyone working on docs. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-HowtoTreatBrokenBuilds"></a>How to Treat Broken Builds</h5><p>David Nalley expressed some <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/bb7qgl3esc25cdek" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">frustration with the community's reaction to broken builds</a>. </p><blockquote><p>In general it seems we don't care, and this makes it more difficult to fix problems. Jenkins reporting a broken build (be it a broken run of RAT, failure to compile, failure of a unit test, building docs, etc.) should be our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Andon cord</a>. We should all stop commits that aren't fixing the broken build. To illustrate why this is a problem, RAT failures started occurring recently, this keeps us from testing whether CloudStack builds, because each build is conditioned on the successful completion of the test before it. That in turn keeps apidocs from building, which keeps marvin from building, which keeps documentation from building. We essentially are blind until it gets fixed.</p></blockquote><p>Marcus Sorensen asked <a href="http://markmail.org/message/2kjhnje2zgocobbt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">if there was a Jenkins report committers could subscribe to</a> in order to avoid the problem. David <a href="http://markmail.org/message/wcksnc2xqndyxjz6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">replied</a>, "Yes there are - the commits mailing list receives the notifications from both jenkins.cs.o and builds.a.o. ... You can subscribe by sending an email to cloudstack-commits-subscribe@incubator.apache.org."</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-WaitBeforeyouMerge%21"></a>Wait Before you Merge!</h5><p>How long should you wait until you merge into master or a branch? <a href="http://markmail.org/message/f6obhtciavb22ybx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Chip Childers</a> brought this up in response to a merge that was announced on February 12th and then committed on February 13th. This discussion raised the fact that <a href="http://markmail.org/message/mw7vvasrofpr7k3k" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">there's not a formal merge process</a> documented. Chip volunteered to take a crack at the document and asked for help "in getting it in shape to reflect consensus on the topic."</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-AndroidandiOSCloudStackClients"></a>Android and iOS CloudStack Clients</h5><p>Abhinandan Prateek <a href="http://markmail.org/message/m5tpje5wdgjzwuyn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">asked</a> about the utility of a Android and/or iOS client for CloudStack. David pointed out that <a href="https://github.com/creationline/cumulus" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">an Android client called Cumulus</a> exists that is "pretty useful as an end-user, but less so as an admin." </p><p>Pranav Saxena <a href="http://markmail.org/message/judciif4hwyxmypg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">replied that</a> there was already some work underway off-list on a client using PhoneGap, and it might be possible to collaborate. (Ed. Note: This is why you should bring ideas to the list sooner rather than later, so there's not a wasted effort when two or more community members have the same idea and try to implement it separately.)</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-NewDependencyonOWASPESAPIforJava"></a>New Dependency on OWASP ESAPI for Java</h5><p>Likitha Shetty <a href="http://markmail.org/message/w5qdogojgrbxgi7x" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">announced</a> a new dependency on the OWASP ESAPI for Java in master.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-UpcomingEvents"></a>Upcoming Events</h3><ul><li><a href="http://markmail.org/thread/frj26yjlgn7gty6x" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link"><b>CloudStack Meetup in San Jose</b></a> on February 20th.</li><li><b>PuppetCamp LA</b> on February 22nd. David Nalley is presenting [Automating your Apache CloudStack infrastructure with<br>Puppet|http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/puppet-camp-la].</li><li>* <b>SCALE 11x</b>: Meet with CloudStack folks at SCALE (23-24 February 2013). The CloudStack project will have a booth at the event, plus a number of talks on the schedule:<ul><li><a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/presentations/taking-open-cloud-11-cloudstack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Taking the Cloud to 11 with CloudStack</a> - Joe Brockmeier</li></ul></li><li><b>ApacheCon North America</b>: ApacheCon NA is in Portland, Oregon from 26 February to 28 February. Cloud is a hot topic at ApacheCon North America and you'll find quite a bit of CloudStack content on the schedule:<ul><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/126/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Apache CloudStack's Plugin Model: Balancing the Cathedral with a Bazaar</a> - Donal Lafferty</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/127/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Top 10 Network Issues in Apache CloudStack</a> - Kirk Kosinski</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/128/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Advanced CloudStack Troubleshooting using Log Analysis</a> - Kirk Kosinski</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/129/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Scalable Object Storage with Apache CloudStack and Apache Hadoop</a> - Chiradeep Vittal</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/116/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Getting to Know Apache CloudStack</a> - Joe Brockmeier</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/145/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">DevCloud: A CloudStack Sandbox</a> - Sebastien Goasguen</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/146/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Powering CloudStack with Ceph RDB</a> - Patrick McGarry</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/147/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Software Defined Networking in Apache CloudStack</a> - Chiradeep Vittal</li></ul></li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-Jira"></a>Jira</h3><p>Bug count for 4.1.0 hasn't significantly decreased since last week, though major bugs have dropped slightly while there's been an increase of blocker and critical bugs.</p><ul><li>Last week: 5 blocker bugs. This week: 7 <a href="http://is.gd/blockers41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">blocker bugs</a></li><li>Last week: 13 critical bugs. This week: 17 <a href="http://is.gd/critical41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">critical bugs</a></li><li>Last week: 212 major bugs. This week: 202 <a href="http://is.gd/major41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">major bugs</a></li><li>Last week: 35 minor bugs. This week: 34 <a href="http://is.gd/minor41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">minor bugs</a></li></ul><p>Of the remaining bugs for 4.1.0, 95 are <a href="http://is.gd/unassigned41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">currently unassigned</a>. Doc bugs are by far the largest component needing help, with 64 bugs remaining.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-NewCommittersandPPMCMembers"></a>New Committers and PPMC Members</h3><p>David Nalley <a href="http://markmail.org/message/73vkokunvgotzqdo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">announced</a> that Likitha Shetty has been asked to become a committer, and Likitha has accepted. Please join us in congratulating Likitha! </p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-18February2013-ContributingtotheApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews"></a>Contributing to the Apache CloudStack Weekly News</h3><p>If you have an event, discussion, or other item to contribute to the <em>Weekly News</em>, you can add it directly to the <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Weekly+News" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">wiki</a> by editing the issue you want your item to appear in. (The next week's issue is created before the current issue is published - so at any time there should be at least one issue ready to edit.) Alternatively, you can send to the cloudstack-dev mailing list with a subject including <a href="" title="News">News</a>: <em>description of topic</em> or email the newsletter editor directly (jzb at apache.org), again with the subject <a href="" title="News">News</a>: <em>description of topic</em>. <b>Please include a link to the discussion in the mailing list archive or Web page with details of the event, etc.</b> </p></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.0.1-incubating release of the CloudStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud orchestration platform. This is a minor release in the 4.0.0 branch, which contains fixes for more than 30 bugs."><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_4_0_11">Apache CloudStack 4.0.1-incubating Released</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2013-02-12T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">February 12, 2013</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.0.1-incubating release of the CloudStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud orchestration platform. This is a minor release in the 4.0.0 branch, which contains fixes for more than 30 bugs.</p><p>Apache CloudStack is an integrated software platform that allows users to build a feature-rich IaaS. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API for managing the compute, networking, accounting, and storage for private, hybrid, or public clouds. The project entered the Apache Incubator in April 2012.</p><p>The 4.0.1-incubating release includes fixes for a number of issues, including a minor security vulnerability (CVE-2012-5616), problems adding KVM hosts, fixes to documentation, and more. Please see the <a href="http://is.gd/acs401CHANGES" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CHANGES</a> file in the release for a full list of issues that are fixed in this release. As a bugfix release, no new features are included in 4.0.1-incubating, and it should be a simple upgrade from 4.0.0-incubating.</p><h2>Downloads</h2><p>The official source code release can be downloaded from:</p><p><a href="http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/downloads.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/downloads.html</a></p><p>In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download page.</p><h2>Incubating</h2><p>Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.</p></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="In the past week, the 4.0.1-incubating release passed its VOTE on the general@incubator.apache.org list, work continued on 4.1.0, and there were active discussions on using Gerrit, cloud-init, and whether memory usage has increased following the adoption of the Spring framework."><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_11">Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 11 February 2013</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2013-02-11T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">February 11, 2013</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>In the past week, the 4.0.1-incubating release passed its VOTE on the general@incubator.apache.org list, work continued on 4.1.0, and there were active discussions on using Gerrit, cloud-init, and whether memory usage has increased following the adoption of the Spring framework. </p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-MajorDiscussionsandIssues"></a>Major Discussions and Issues</h3><p>Some of the major discussions and issues that have taken place on cloudstack-dev and cloudstack-users in the past week. This is by no means exhaustive, if you need to be up-to-date on <b>all</b> development issues in the project, you'll definitely want to be subscribed to the mailing lists!</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-Gerritproposedasreviewmechanism"></a>Gerrit proposed as review mechanism</h5><p>Alex Huang <a href="http://markmail.org/message/inerurmjtc6v57ba" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">kicked off a discussion</a> about using <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Gerrit</a>. David Nalley pointed out that <a href="http://markmail.org/message/kitfyx5cqvyeopwl" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">many of the problems Alex looks to solve with Gerrit are "social/cultural problems"</a> that a technical solution alone won't fix. </p><p>Hugo Trippaers also voiced concerns about implementing Gerrit, saying that "a formal process like Gerrit" isn't necessary. </p><blockquote><p>The committer status is granted based on the trust we put in a certain individuals to take care of the CloudStack project, for me that included taking the responsibility that any contributions are up to spec. I want to trust my fellow committers that they know what they are doing and i don't feel the need to second guess that by wanting to look over their code before they can commit it.</p></blockquote><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-Cloudinitvs.homegrownscripts"></a>Cloud-init vs. homegrown scripts</h5><p>David Nalley <a href="http://markmail.org/message/qs7k4akccoh7slk5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">raised a question from the Ghent Build-a-Cloud-Day</a> about "whether or not to package the SSH key reset and password reset utilities, or whether we should focus our PW/SSH efforts on cloud-init." </p><p>Wido den Hollander voiced support for cloud-init, saying "We want CloudStack to be accepted by more and more users and they probably want to use cloud-init. cloud-init has cool Puppet and Chef plugins as well which make it very <br>easy to get it all up and running."</p><p>Chiradeep Vittal says he likes cloud-init, but worried that adopting cloud-init would be "hurting the investment of existing CloudStack users who have built hundreds of templates with the extant scripts." </p><p>Wido says that "the scripts should keep working" but preferred to avoid packaging the homegrown scripts and encouraging new users/new setups to go with cloud-init.</p><p>Chip <a href="http://markmail.org/message/y5z3c7fnpotyzdmb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">says that</a> "I'm in agreement that the existing scripts would need to remain as a supported option for quite some time. I consider things like that to actually be related to our semver version numbering, although it's not specifically our CS query API, it's a similar interface expectation."</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-ChangestoCPUandmemoryovercommitfeature"></a>Changes to CPU and memory overcommit feature</h5><p>Abhinandan Prateek forwarded a note from Bharat Kumar about changes to the way capacity is calculated in CloudStack. </p><blockquote><p>I have made changes to the way capacity is calculated in CloudStack ,<br>please review and comment.</p><p>I will illustrate this with an example.</p><p>let us say we have a host with<br>Actual Total capacity=4GB ram,</p><p>and the overcommit ratio be 2.</p><p>Current way <br>Total capacity= 4*2= 8GB.<br>Values after deploying 4 VMs with 1GB in service offering.<br>Allocated per vm =1GB.<br>Used=4GB<br>Available=8-4=4GB</p><p>now if we decrease the overcommit ratio to 1<br>Total Capacity = 4*1=4GB.<br>used Capacity = 4GB.<br>Available = 4-4=0. (implies 100% usage. can also go to more than 100%)</p></blockquote><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-JVMMemoryusageincreasedwithlatestmaster"></a>JVM Memory usage increased with latest master</h5><p>The latest master is <a href="http://markmail.org/message/ye35yeey6ooxyegb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">consuming nearly 900MB of memory</a>, according to Koushik Das. </p><p>There's some discussion as to the cause of this, and <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1169" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">CLOUDSTACK-1168</a> ("Memory usage is very high") has been created. If you're testing master/4.1 and run into this problem, it'd be helpful to update the ticket with your experience and the environment you're seeeing the issue in. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-Blockerstorunautomatedtests"></a>Blockers to run automated tests</h5><p>Sudha Ponnaganti <a href="http://markmail.org/message/yn3eb7gqzzfzadqt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">brought up a couple of issues</a> on February 8th that are blocking automated testing. <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1216" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">CLOUDSTACK-1216</a> has been fixed, <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1200" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">CLOUDSTACK-1200</a> (Unknown column 'vm_instance.disk_offering_id' in table vm_instance, db exception shown in MS log) is still unresolved.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-CloudStack4.0.1incubatingpassesVOTE"></a>CloudStack 4.0.1-incubating passes VOTE</h5><p>Joe Brockmeier <a href="http://markmail.org/message/ef4exivtkmhekhxh" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">announced on Friday</a> that the first point release from the CloudStack 4.0 branch has passed its vote on general@incubator.apache.org with +1 votes from Jim Jagielski, Olivier Lamy, and Alex Karasulu. No -1 or +0 votes were cast. </p><p>The release has been pushed to the mirrors and will be announced on Tuesday, February 12. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-ACS4.1ReleaseScheduleReminder"></a>ACS 4.1 Release Schedule Reminder</h5><p>Chip Childers sent out a reminder <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/k7xf5jmznsf6gruo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">about the release schedule for CloudStack 4.1.0</a> on Monday. </p><blockquote><p>2013-02-28 is the end of our test phase, and should be the end of the doc finalization for the release.</p><p>We'll shift into a mode where the 4.1 branch should only be updated by me after that date (after you ask for a cherry-pick for a critical bug or translation update).</p></blockquote><p>Chip also noted that there are 15 features/improvements listed as "open" for 4.1, and asked that the reporter/assignee update to "In Progress" or move the target release to 4.2 or Future, as appropriate.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-UpcomingEvents"></a>Upcoming Events</h3><p>John Kinsella has <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/frj26yjlgn7gty6x" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">announced the first Bay Area CloudStack Meetup to be held in San Jose</a> on February 20th. </p><ul><li><b>Build a Cloud Day (BACD)</b>: <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-diy-cloud-computing/cloud-events/viewevent/138-build-a-cloud-day-scale11x.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Full day BACD</a> at SCALE on Friday (22 February 2013).</li><li><b>SCALE 11x</b>: Meet with CloudStack folks at SCALE (23-24 February 2013). The CloudStack project will have a booth at the event, plus a number of talks on the schedule:<ul><li><a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/presentations/taking-open-cloud-11-cloudstack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Taking the Cloud to 11 with CloudStack</a> - Joe Brockmeier</li></ul></li><li><b>ApacheCon North America</b>: ApacheCon NA is in Portland, Oregon from 26 February to 28 February. Cloud is a hot topic at ApacheCon North America and you'll find quite a bit of CloudStack content on the schedule:<ul><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/126/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Apache CloudStack's Plugin Model: Balancing the Cathedral with a Bazaar</a> - Donal Lafferty</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/127/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Top 10 Network Issues in Apache CloudStack</a> - Kirk Kosinski</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/128/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Advanced CloudStack Troubleshooting using Log Analysis</a> - Kirk Kosinski</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/129/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Scalable Object Storage with Apache CloudStack and Apache Hadoop</a> - Chiradeep Vittal</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/116/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Getting to Know Apache CloudStack</a> - Joe Brockmeier</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/145/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">DevCloud: A CloudStack Sandbox</a> - Sebastien Goasguen</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/146/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Powering CloudStack with Ceph RDB</a> - Patrick McGarry</li><li><a href="http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/147/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Software Defined Networking in Apache CloudStack</a> - Chiradeep Vittal</li></ul></li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-Jira"></a>Jira</h3><p>Status for 4.1 as of Monday, 11 February - by priority:</p><ul><li>5 <a href="http://is.gd/blockers41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Blocker bugs</a></li><li>13 <a href="http://is.gd/critical41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Critical bugs</a></li><li>212 <a href="http://is.gd/major41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Major bugs</a></li><li>35 <a href="http://is.gd/minor41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Minor bugs</a></li></ul><p>Of the remaining bugs for 4.1.0, 103 are <a href="http://is.gd/unassigned41acs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">currently unassigned</a>.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-NewCommittersandPPMCMembers"></a>New Committers and PPMC Members</h3><p>No new committers or PPMC members were announced this week. </p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudstackWeeklyNews-11February2013-ContributingtotheApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews"></a>Contributing to the Apache CloudStack Weekly News</h3><p>If you have an event, discussion, or other item to contribute to the <em>Weekly News</em>, you can add it directly to the <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Weekly+News" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">wiki</a> by editing the issue you want your item to appear in. (The next week's issue is created before the current issue is published - so at any time there should be at least one issue ready to edit.) Alternatively, you can send to the cloudstack-dev mailing list with a subject including <a href="" title="News">News</a>: <em>description of topic</em> or email the newsletter editor directly (jzb at apache.org), again with the subject <a href="" title="News">News</a>: <em>description of topic</em>. <b>Please include a link to the discussion in the mailing list archive or Web page with details of the event, etc.</b> </p></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="Another busy week in Apache CloudStack land! Javelin has been merged with master, the 4.1 branch has been created, and the 4.0.1-incubating release has passed its second round vote to go on to the IPMC vote."><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_4">Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 4 February 2013</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2013-02-05T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">February 5, 2013</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>Another busy week in Apache CloudStack land! Javelin has been merged with master, the 4.1 branch has been created, and the 4.0.1-incubating release has passed its second round vote to go on to the IPMC vote.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-MajorDiscussionsandIssues"></a>Major Discussions and Issues</h3><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-JavelinMerged"></a>Javelin Merged</h5><p>The Javelin branch has been <a href="http://markmail.org/message/wl7it77lgrsllipu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">merged into master</a> by Kelven Yang. Kelven <a href="http://markmail.org/message/bpnxze6edj4bikvr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has noted that developers should increase the amount of memory available to the JVM</a> if running the management server under Maven:</p><blockquote><p>For linux/Mac users</p><p>MAVEN_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xmx2g"<br>export MAVEN_OPTS</p><p>For Windows users</p><p>Add similar settings to windows environment settings (via Windows control panel)</p></blockquote><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-4.1BranchCreated"></a>4.1 Branch Created</h5><p>Following the Javelin merge, Chip Childers has <a href="http://markmail.org/message/6wpcd5kg2bvdpufy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">created the 4.1 branch</a>, and has asked committers "to respect the feature and improvement freeze in that branch. Bug fixes, doc updates and other release stabilization activities are obviously expected." Chip also says that committers should continue committing directly to the 4.1 branch until code freeze. (Code freeze, excepting fixes for blocker bugs and so forth, is on February 28th.) </p><p>If you're a non-committer and wish to send in a patch against 4.1.0, send in a patch built against the 4.1 branch. Chip says:</p><blockquote><p>Committers taking these fixes should also consider applying them to master. If there are conflicts in master (which may happen, as there were a<br>couple of code-base refactoring activities, like switching packages from com.cloud to org.apache.cloudstack), apply the fix into 4.1 anyway, and inform the submitter that the patch has conflicts with master to get that sorted out (or you can fix it yourself).</p></blockquote><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-4.0.1incubatingVote"></a>4.0.1-incubating Vote</h5><p>The 4.0.1-incubating release has passed the <a href="http://markmail.org/message/zxvynd72xfansmho" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">vote</a> on cloudstack-dev, and is now in the 72-hour IPMC vote. Going into the vote on general@incubator.apache.org, the release artifacts already have 3 +1 mentor votes, so it should pass barring any -1 votes. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-PreparingforTranslation"></a>Preparing for Translation</h5><p>With the feature freeze in place, it's time to get docs into shape and start getting things ready for translations. Sebastien Goasguen <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/rq7pbo3tn4ur4lu5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has created a new /pot directory</a> with the .pot (portable object templates). </p><p>Sebastien notes that contributors <a href="http://markmail.org/message/ykxnxp3r5bffzqrg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">need to remember the 50-character limit for XML filenames</a>, as Transifex doesn't support longer file names. Contributors will also need to run <b><em>publican update_pot</em></b> when updating doc files and/or creating new files.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-Packagingin4.1"></a>Packaging in 4.1</h5><p>Hugo Trippaers <a href="http://markmail.org/message/jlvpt3dgefcwacxl" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">sent out an update</a> about the discussion on packaging for 4.1. Hugo says the main goal for redoing the current way of packaging CloudStack is to get "rid of ant and waf completely." The secondary goal "is to create a reference set of packages which in itself should be enough to get anyone going with CloudStack, but will hardly depend on the underlying distro. Real distro specific stuff should be handled by packagers from those distros. We just aim to provide a reference implementation."</p><p>Hugo also says that the plan is to rename the packages "to make it perfectly clear what somebody is installing." That's going to change the location of a number of files, but Hugo says "we intend to include symlinks for backwards compatibility." </p><blockquote><p>The planned packages for now are cloudstack-management, cloudstack-agent, cloudstack-common, cloudstack-cli, cloudstack-docs, cloudstack-awsapi and<br>cloudstack-usage. You might already have seen these names in some of the checkins.</p></blockquote><p>One of the side-effects of the new packaging plan is that <a href="http://markmail.org/message/47yguo5rfrszpie7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">CloudMonkey may not be installed with the RPMs</a>, but instead require that admins use PIP to grab CloudMonkey. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-SupportVMSnapshotHeldto4.2"></a>Support VM Snapshot Held to 4.2</h5><p>Mice Xia <a href="http://markmail.org/message/tctez5xpur2bzswe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">proposed merging the VM Snapshot branch</a> to master ahead of the 4.1 branching/feature freeze on January 28th. However, there were a <a href="http://markmail.org/message/bmwbjet5q7nlav6j" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">number of questions</a> <a href="http://markmail.org/message/nk525qhfdwqqil6n" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">about the feature's implementation</a> and <a href="http://markmail.org/message/yjaddguj67dqzbhe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">consensus was not reached</a> in time for the 4.1 branch's creation.</p><p>On the plus side, this is why we have time-based releases. While it will delay inclusion into CloudStack <b>slightly</b>, the feature will be well-poised to go into 4.2 and the additional attention that the discussion has raised will likely make it that much better a feature when merged to master. It also means that a single feature won't delay the 4.1 release, which already has quite a lot of improvements and new features that CloudStack users will want to have ready when it's scheduled for release.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-ProposaltoDeprecatethenonRESTfulAPIsandAPIServer"></a>Proposal to Deprecate the non-RESTful APIs and API Server</h5><p>Rohit Yadav has <a href="http://markmail.org/message/3nmgl5peuxeo4mvm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">proposed deprecating CloudStack's non-RESTful APIs and API server</a> over a reasonable timeline. The reaction has been positive, and Min Chen <a href="http://markmail.org/message/xnjf5ylpn55ddneb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has offered to share an architecture design that's in-progress</a>, when it's ready.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-HelpReviewingRunbook"></a>Help Reviewing Runbook</h5><p>David Nalley has <a href="http://markmail.org/message/jint25r5gwgnx6ju" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">sent out a request</a> for help reviewing his runbook, which is an opinionated guide to setting up a simple CloudStack install on a single CentOS 6.3 server using KVM. Other CloudStack users and contributors have expressed interest in creating similar runbooks for Ubuntu-based systems.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-UpcomingEvents"></a>Upcoming Events</h3><ul><li><b>India User Group Meet-up</b>: Citrix, ShapeBlue, and CloudByte are combinedly organizing a <a href="http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-Bangalore-Group/events/99690432/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">CloudStack India User Group Meetup</a> in Bangalore (5 February, 2013).</li><li><b>Build a Cloud Day (BACD)</b>: Full day <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/138-build-a-cloud-day-scale11x-.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">BACD</a> at SCALE on Friday (22 February 2013).</li><li><b>CloudStack Booth at SCALE</b>: Meet with CloudStack folks at SCALE (23-24 February 2013), also Joe Brockmeier is <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/presentations/taking-open-cloud-11-cloudstack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about CloudStack at SCALE</a>.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-Jira"></a>Jira </h3><p>Be sure to check the list of 4.1.0 <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%224.1.0%22%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">bugs</a> to see if there are any open issues assigned to you, or any unassigned issues that you could take on. </p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-4February2013-NewCommittersandPPMCMembers"></a>New Committers and PPMC Members</h3><p>The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to welcome <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/p5b76rrp5h3j4k2u" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Koushik Das</a> as a committer this week. Well done, Koushik!</p></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="As the 4.1.0 feature freeze approaches, the mailing list has been extremely active. The activity on -dev is off the charts, with (according to MarkMail) more than 4,400 messages sent to -dev in January - and the month isn't over yet! This eclipses the previous record set in October 2012 of 3,109 messages. Major discussions this week include the Javelin merge and IP clearance issues."><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_28">Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 28 January 2013</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2013-01-28T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">January 28, 2013</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>As the 4.1.0 feature freeze approaches, the mailing list has been extremely active. The activity on -dev is off the charts, with (according to MarkMail) more than 4,400 messages sent to -dev in January - and the month isn't over yet! This eclipses the previous record set in October 2012 of 3,109 messages. Major discussions this week include the Javelin merge and IP clearance issues.</p><p>The feature freeze is 31 January 2013. Testing and bugfixing will carry through from 1 February 2013 to 28 February 2013, then docs freeze is on 28 February (excepting release notes and translations). See the full schedule <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/cloudstack-41-release.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">on the wiki</a>.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-MajorDiscussionsandIssues"></a>Major Discussions and Issues</h3><p>As usual, the -dev mailing list has been hopping for the past week. Here's a summary of some of the major issues and discussions that have taken place over the last week.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-Countingdowntofeaturefreezefor4.1.0incubating"></a>Counting down to feature freeze for 4.1.0-incubating</h5><p>Reminder on 21st January that there were <a href="http://markmail.org/message/jldbgu3g3e6iqqan" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link"><b>10 days left to feature freeze</b></a> on Apache CloudStack 4.1.0-incubating. Status at the time of the reminder:</p><blockquote><p>Out of 95 total proposed features / improvements, their status is:</p><p>3 Closed<br>12 Resolved<br>5 Reopened<br>21 In Progress<br>54 Open</p></blockquote><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-IPDonations"></a>IP Donations</h5><p>This week we had several VOTE results around IP donations from Citrix. </p><ul><li><a href="http://markmail.org/thread/uvxhsepmh6evjj7d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Accept a donation of "Documentation for various features" from Citrix</a> Result: passed.</li><li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/uvxhsepmh6evjj7d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Accept a donation of 'Documentation for various features' from Citrix</a> Result: passed.</li><li><a href="http://markmail.org/thread/h57bhg24edgc2gzm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">No IP Clearance Needed to accept a donation of 'support security group enabled network in advanced zone'</a> Result: passed.</li><li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/qgfqglqqyrutes2l" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Accept a donation of 'network service support in shared network' from Citrix</a> Result: passed.</li><li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/ywu5c7a3m3jdq345" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Accept a donation of 'providing support of optional Public IP assignment for EIP with Basic Zone' from Citrix</a> Result: passed.</li><li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/rkli5q5bkudnxmub" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Accept a donation of Enhanced Baremetal Provisioning support from Citrix</a> Result: passed.</li><li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/cilpefqcebbr3fub" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Accept a donation of Egress firewall rules feature for guest network for CloudStack from Citrix</a> Result: passed.</li><li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/vujv6lz2gqbrapmf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Accept a donation of reset SSH key to access a VM in CloudStack from Citrix</a> Result: passed.</li><li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/bzvirvppcufjhcty" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Accept a donation of SRX&F5 inline mode support in CloudStack from Citrix</a> Result: passed.</li></ul><p>Note that Chip Childers sent an <a href="http://is.gd/W8KUtQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">email about incoming IP Clearance VOTEs</a> to incubator-general@apache.org about the 7 IP clearance votes that would be sent to the incubator folks. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-JavelinMerge"></a>Javelin Merge</h5><p>Alex Huang started <a href="http://markmail.org/message/fjelvc3nrs2szsyq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">a discussion about merging the Javelin branch into master</a>. "The content of the merge is the storage framework refactoring and converting everything use Spring." There's <a href="http://markmail.org/message/2a2rxjwhlxnze2d3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">some decisions yet to be resolved around the storage piece of this</a> that needs to be resolved before the request to merge Javelin is decided.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-LICENSEandNOTICEfilesfor4.1.0"></a>LICENSE and NOTICE files for 4.1.0</h5><p>Chip Childers has <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/ebm2kwwkdtrtwg37" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">raised a question about changes to the LICENSE and NOTICE files for CloudStack</a>. This would remove all binary dependency notice info from the top level LICENSE and NOTICE files in the source tree, and create two copies of the <a href="http://creadur.apache.org/whisker/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Whisker</a> descriptor.xml files, one that generates the source distro's files and one that generates the files for packaged versions of Apache CloudStack. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-VOTEcalledfor4.0.1incubating"></a>VOTE called for 4.0.1-incubating</h5><p>The VOTE for 4.0.1-incubating <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/v22nhyasqs7e7gwl" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has been called</a> as of January 25 and will run for 72 hours or until it gets the required votes, or is -1'ed and restarted. Note that, if successful, the release still needs to be voted on by the IPMC and receive at least three +1 votes. The release could be out as early as next week, if all goes well. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-WritingunittestsafterJavelinismerged"></a>Writing unit tests after Javelin is merged</h5><p>Alex Huang has <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Unit+Testing+with+JUnit+and+Spring" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">written up a page on how to write unit tests</a> after the Spring injection framework is merged into Master. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-CloudStackSanFrancsicoBayAreaMeetupgroupcreated"></a>CloudStack San Francsico Bay Area Meetup group created</h5><p>A new meet group has been created for San Francsico Bay Area <a href="http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-SF-Bay-Area-Users-Group/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-SF-Bay-Area-Users-Group/</a>. First meetup is expected in February, so stay tuned.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-Bangupjobontranslations"></a>Bang-up job on translations</h5><p>According to <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/ylublriw57wtfwqc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Sebastien Goasguen</a> </p><blockquote><p>The mad race to CloudStack documentation translation has started.<br>Japan is leading the way with 52% of the translation complete.<br>China is close second with 40%<br>Brazil is third with 11%</p></blockquote><p>See more about <a href="http://buildacloud.org/blog/196-help-needed-to-translate-cloudstack-documentation.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">working on translations on the wiki</a>.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-HyperVPlugin"></a>Hyper-V Plugin</h5><p>Donal Lafferty has <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/ue5kc6gjcex2y6na" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">submitted a review request for a Hyper-V plugin</a> for CloudStack.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-UpcomingEvents"></a>Upcoming Events</h3><p>Speaking at events doesn't happen by accident, or without preparation. For example, if you want to speak at a major event like OSCON, you need to submit a talk <b>well</b> in advance. </p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-CFPstobeawareof"></a>CFPs to be aware of</h5><p><a href="http://markmail.org/thread/pgnfhkahhkvha62j" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Mark Hinkle sent a note to -dev</a> reminding that the CFP for OSCON 2013 will <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/cfp/251" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">close on 4 February</a>. If we want to see CloudStack talks at OSCON (and we do, yeah?) then get those proposals in!</p><p>The Linux Collaboration Summit CFP <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/cfp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">also closes on 4 February 2013</a> in case you were looking to get a CloudStack or related talk in.</p><h5><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-What%27sontapforthecomingweeks"></a>What's on tap for the coming weeks</h5><ul><li><b>Linux.conf.au</b>: Joe Brockmeier is <a href="https://lca2013.linux.org.au/schedule/30073/view_talk?day=monday" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about Apache CloudStack during the Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Storage and High Availability miniconf</a> on Monday (28 January, 2013).</li><li><b>Linux.conf.au</b>: <a href="http://meetu.ps/vgBVv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Open Cloud Meetup at LCA</a> organized by the OpenStack Meetup Group on Tuesday (29 January, 2013).</li><li><b>FOSDEM</b>: Sebastien Goasguen is <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/cloudstack/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about Apache CloudStack features and tools</a> during the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">cloud DevRoom</a> at FOSDEM on Sunday (3 February, 2013).</li><li><b>Build a Cloud Day (BACD)</b>: Full day <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/140-build-a-cloud-day-ghent-2013.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">workshop</a> on CloudStack co-located with Puppet Camp in Ghent, Belgium (1 February, 2013).</li><li><b>UK/European User Group Meet-up</b> : Shapeblue is organizing a <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/141-ukeuropean-user-group-meet-up.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">meet-up</a>. (January 16th, 2013)</li><li><b>Build a Cloud Day (BACD)</b>: Full day <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/138-build-a-cloud-day-scale11x-.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">BACD</a> at SCALE on Friday (22 February 2013).</li><li><b>CloudStack Booth at SCALE</b>: Meet with CloudStack folks at SCALE (23-24 February 2013), also Joe Brockmeier is <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/presentations/taking-open-cloud-11-cloudstack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about CloudStack at SCALE</a>.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-Jira"></a>Jira</h3><ul><li>All bugs have been cleared for 4.0.1-incubating. Please tag all bugs for the 4.0 branch for 4.0.2 going forward. (Excepting bugs discovered that should be blockers to 4.0.1-incubating, of course.)</li><li>4.1.0 currently has <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK/fixforversion/12323253#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Aversion-issues-panel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">4 blockers, 14 critical bugs, 279 major bugs, and 36 minor bugs</a> unresolved.</li><li>101 bugs are <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%224.1.0%22%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20assignee%20is%20EMPTY%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">currently unassigned</a>.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-28January2013-NewCommittersandPPMCMembers"></a>New Committers and PPMC Members</h3><ul><li>John Burwell <a href="http://markmail.org/message/hpqmlwdl7wnm6t5k" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">has been asked to become a committer, and has accepted</a>.</li></ul></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="As usual, a lot of activity on the -dev mailing list. Several VOTEs this week around features donated by Citrix, and quite a few upcoming events. Speaking of events, videos from the CloudStack Collaboration Conference are up on YouTube!"><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_21">Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 21 January 2013</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2013-01-22T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">January 22, 2013</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>As usual, a lot of activity on the -dev mailing list. Several VOTEs this week around features donated by Citrix, and quite a few upcoming events. Speaking of events, videos from the CloudStack Collaboration Conference are up on YouTube!</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-21January2013-MajorDiscussionsandIssues"></a>Major Discussions and Issues</h3><ul><li>Vote result: Donation of Marvin automated tests <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/vxwtwnhapmf7inw7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">accepted</a>.</li><li>Several continuing votes this week about accepting code donations from Citrix that were developed outside Apache CloudStack. <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/ybbpv3n5d4y4frb5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Egress firewall rules feature</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/vcmu6yagtxr5lvyn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">network services (PF, NAT, LB) in shared networks of advanced zone</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/message/ajvlvvruhttgvfe2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Reset SSH Key</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/message/5pgxkz3zd6n3pwtr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Documentation for various features</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/message/p3npjr3nxy56tdpu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Support Security Group enabled in Advanced Networking Zone</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/message/qw6iyweljzinsm63" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Optional Public IP assignment for EIP with Basic Zone</a></li><li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/diycloudcomputing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">CloudStack Collab 2012 videos</a> have been posted. Share and enjoy!</li><li><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Minutes+15th+Jan+2013" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">QA Scrum minutes for 1/15</a> are posted on the wiki.</li><li><a href="http://sebgoa.blogspot.ch/2013/01/social-network-analysis-of-apache.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Social Network Analysis of Apache CloudStack</a> - blog post by Sebastien Goasguen, he looks at activity and communication between members on the mailing list.</li><li><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Meeting+16+January+2013+Minutes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Minutes from Weekly IRC Meeting</a>. Meetings are every Wednesday at 17:00 UTC in #cloudstack-meeting on Freenode.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-21January2013-UpcomingEvents"></a>Upcoming Events</h3><ul><li><b>PuppetCamp Sydney</b>: Joe Brockmeier is <a href="http://puppetcampsydney2013.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about Apache CloudStack at PuppetCamp Sydney</a> on Thursday, 24 January 2013.</li><li><b>Linux.conf.au</b>: Joe Brockmeier is <a href="https://lca2013.linux.org.au/schedule/30073/view_talk?day=monday" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about Apache CloudStack during the Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Storage and High Availability miniconf</a> on Monday (28 January, 2013).</li><li><b>FOSDEM</b>: Sebastien Goasguen is <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/cloudstack/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about Apache CloudStack features and tools</a> during the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">cloud DevRoom</a> at FOSDEM on Sunday (3 February, 2013).</li><li><b>Build a Cloud Day (BACD)</b>: Full day <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/140-build-a-cloud-day-ghent-2013.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">workshop</a> on CloudStack co-located with Puppet Camp in Ghent, Belgium (1 February, 2013).</li><li><b>UK/European User Group Meet-up</b> : Shapeblue is organizing a <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/141-ukeuropean-user-group-meet-up.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">meet-up</a>. (January 16th, 2013)</li><li><b>Build a Cloud Day (BACD)</b>: Full day <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/138-build-a-cloud-day-scale11x-.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">BACD</a> at SCALE on Friday (22 February 2013).</li><li><b>CloudStack Booth at SCALE</b>: Meet with CloudStack folks at SCALE (23-24 February 2013), also Joe Brockmeier is <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/presentations/taking-open-cloud-11-cloudstack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about CloudStack at SCALE</a>.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-21January2013-Jira"></a>Jira</h3><ul><li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%20AND%20affectedVersion%20%3D%20%224.1.0%22%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20assignee%20in%20(EMPTY)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">48 Open and Unassigned Issues affecting 4.1.0</a></li><li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%20AND%20affectedVersion%20%3D%20%224.1.0%22%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">90 Open Issues affecting 4.1.0</a></li><li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">474 Open Issues in total against Apache CloudStack</a></li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-21January2013-NewCommittersandPPMCMembers"></a>New Committers and PPMC Members</h3><p>For this week's news only we're mentioning new committers and PPMC members for this month (Jan 2013);</p><ul><li>Sebastien Goasguen (committer)</li><li>Joe Brockmeier (PPMC)</li><li>Kelcey Damage (committer)</li></ul></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="Each week, we'll summarize the most important issues and developments in the Apache CloudStack (incubating) community. This week, the vote on accepting Marvin tests, Apache CloudStack bylaws, issues with features for 4.1.0, and upcoming events."><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_14">Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 14 January 2013</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2013-01-14T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">January 14, 2013</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>Each week, we'll summarize the most important issues and developments in the Apache CloudStack (incubating) community. This week, the vote on accepting Marvin tests, Apache CloudStack bylaws, issues with features for 4.1.0, and upcoming events.</p><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-14January2013-MajorDiscussionsandIssues"></a>Major Discussions and Issues</h3><ul><li>Project Bylaws were <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/ma3g6hdgegu76g44" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">discussed previously</a> and after a substantial discussion on cloudstack-dev have <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/2q5b2y7oahgobqfg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">passed</a>. The bylaws are intended to go into effect once Apache CloudStack graduates from the Apache Incubator. (Note that a vote on graduation is not currently pending.)</li><li>Discussion about whether CloudStack should make a concerted effort to <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/moyctvlxmgrrorb5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">get into Linux distros</a>.</li><li>There are some <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/nu4f6tphsnsv7ls6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">concerns about where development is happening</a> for major features being targeted for CloudStack 4.1.0. A number of features have been developed outside of the community, and may need to go through IP clearance to be accepted into master for 4.1.0.</li><li>Discussion on how CloudMonkey should be released, whether it makes sense to <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/moyctvlxmgrrorb5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">release CloudMonkey out-of-band via pypi or stick with major releases</a>.</li><li>Reminder to developers to <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/pb3bmv44m6vwro4w" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">update status, risk, and issues in Jira items</a>.</li><li>Vote to accept Marvin automated tests from Citrix <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/cqkim6v5nk73tur7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">started on January 9th</a> the vote <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/vxwtwnhapmf7inw7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">passed</a> and now will begin going through IP clearance.</li><li><a href="http://markmail.org/thread/jhkqwujf23zegn5d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Minutes from QA Scrum on 8 January 2013</a>.</li><li><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Meeting+9+January+2013+Minutes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Minutes from CloudStack IRC Meeting 9 January 2013</a> and the <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Meeting+9+January+2013+Log" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">full log</a>.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-14January2013-UpcomingEvents"></a>Upcoming Events</h3><p>CloudStack will be represented at a number of events in the next few weeks:</p><ul><li><b>OSSI DHS Industry Day</b> David Nalley is on a panel and will talk about Apache CloudStack at the <a href="http://www.oss-institute.org/component/events/event/30" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">OSSI Industry Day</a> in Linthicum, Maryland on Monday, 14 January 2013.</li><li><b>DC Riak Users Group</b> David Nalley is speaking about CloudStack at the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Riak-DC/events/94513602/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">DC Riak Users Group</a> in Washington DC on Wednesday, 16 January 2013.</li><li><b>PuppetCamp Silicon Valley</b>: David Nalley is <a href="http://puppetcampsiliconvalley2013.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about CloudStack at PuppetCamp Silicon Valley</a> on Friday, 18 January 2013.</li><li><b>PuppetCamp Sydney</b>: Joe Brockmeier is <a href="http://puppetcampsydney2013.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about Apache CloudStack at PuppetCamp Sydney</a> on Thursday, 24 January 2013.</li><li><b>Linux.conf.au</b>: Joe Brockmeier is <a href="https://lca2013.linux.org.au/schedule/30073/view_talk?day=monday" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about Apache CloudStack during the Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Storage and High Availability miniconf</a> on Monday (28 January, 2013).</li><li><b>FOSDEM</b>: Sebastien Goasguen is <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/cloudstack/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">speaking about Apache CloudStack features and tools</a> during the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">cloud DevRoom</a> at FOSDEM on Sunday (3 February, 2013).</li><li><b>Build a Cloud Day (BACD)</b>: Full day <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/140-build-a-cloud-day-ghent-2013.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">workshop</a> on CloudStack co-located with Puppet Camp in Ghent, Belgium (1 February, 2013).</li><li><b>UK/European User Group Meet-up</b> : Shapeblue is organizing a <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/141-ukeuropean-user-group-meet-up.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">meet-up</a>. (January 16th, 2013)</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-14January2013-Jira"></a>Jira</h3><p>In the last 30 days (as of 11 January, 2013) 345 issues have been created in Jira, and 85 have been resolved.</p><ul><li>Unassigned Issues: 299 as of 11 January, 2013. <a href="http://is.gd/Nj4yuN" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Please see if any of the issues are something you can help with</a>.</li><li>There are <a href="http://is.gd/Nj4yuN" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">84 open issues affecting 4.1.0</a>.</li><li>75 issues are of <a href="http://is.gd/1eRl59" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">blocker, critical, or major status</a>.</li></ul><h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-14January2013-NewCommittersandPPMCMembers"></a>New Committers and PPMC Members</h3><ul><li>Sebastien Goasguen and Kelcey Damage were welcomed as new committers.</li></ul></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"></footer></article><article class="margin-bottom--xl" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"><meta itemprop="description" content="The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.0.0-incubating release of the CloudStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud orchestration platform. This is the first release from within the Apache Incubator, the entry path into the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)."><header><h2 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline"><a itemprop="url" href="/blog/apache_cloudstack_4_0_0">Apache CloudStack 4.0.0-incubating Released</a></h2><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2012-11-06T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">November 6, 2012</time></div></header><div class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><p>The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.0.0-incubating release of the CloudStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud orchestration platform. This is the first release from within the Apache Incubator, the entry path into the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).</p><p>Apache CloudStack is an integrated software platform that allows users to build a feature-rich IaaS. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API for managing the compute, networking, accounting, and storage for private, hybrid, or public clouds. The project entered the Apache Incubator in April 2012.</p><p>The 4.0.0-incubating release represents the culmination of more than six months work by the CloudStack community. The release includes more than a dozen new features, many bugfixes, security fixes, and a fully audited codebase that complies with ASF guidelines. </p><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="newfeatures:">New Features:<a href="#newfeatures:" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to New Features:" title="Direct link to New Features:"></a></h2><ul><li>Inter-VLAN Routing (VPC)</li><li>Site-to-Site VPN</li><li>Local Storage Support for Data Volumes</li><li>Virtual Resource Tagging</li><li>Secure Console Access on XenServer</li><li>Added the ability to create a VM without immediately starting it (via API)</li><li>Upload an Existing Volume to a Virtual Machine</li><li>Dedicated High-Availability Hosts</li><li>Support for Amazon Web Services API (formerly a separate package)</li><li>AWS API Extensions to include Tagging</li><li>Support for Nicira NVP (L2)</li><li>Ceph RBD Support for KVM</li><li>Support for Caringo as Secondary Storage</li><li>KVM Hypervisor support upgraded to work with Ubuntu 12.04 and RHEL 6.3</li></ul><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="downloads">Downloads<a href="#downloads" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Downloads" title="Direct link to Downloads"></a></h2><p>The official source code release can be downloaded from:</p><p><a href="http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/downloads.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/downloads.html</a></p><p>In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download page.</p><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="cloudstackcollaborationconference">CloudStack Collaboration Conference<a href="#cloudstackcollaborationconference" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to CloudStack Collaboration Conference" title="Direct link to CloudStack Collaboration Conference"></a></h2><p>The CloudStack project will have its first collaboration conference in Las Vegas, from November 30th through December 2nd at The Venetian. The conference will provide an opportunity for the community to learn more about CloudStack, share best practices for deploying CloudStack, and discuss ideas for upcoming releases. </p><p>Learn more about the CloudStack Collaboration Conference at:</p><p><a href="http://collab12.cloudstack.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://collab12.cloudstack.org/</a></p><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="incubating">Incubating<a href="#incubating" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Incubating" title="Direct link to Incubating"></a></h2><p>Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.</p></div><footer class="row docusaurus-mt-lg"><div class="col"><b>Tags:</b><ul class="tags_jXut padding--none margin-left--sm"><li class="tag_QGVx"><a class="tag_zVej tagRegular_sFm0" href="/blog/tags/announcement">announcement</a></li></ul></div></footer></article><nav class="pagination-nav" aria-label="Blog list page navigation"><a class="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--prev" href="/blog/page/13"><div class="pagination-nav__label">Newer Entries</div></a><a class="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--next" href="/blog/page/15"><div class="pagination-nav__label">Older Entries</div></a></nav></main></div></div></div><footer class="footer footer--dark"><div class="container container-fluid"><div class="footer__bottom text--center"><div class="margin-bottom--sm"><a href="https://cloudstack.apache.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="footerLogoLink_BH7S"><img src="/img/ACS_logo_slogan.svg" alt="Apache CloudStack logo" class="themedImage_ToTc themedImage--light_HNdA footer__logo"><img src="/img/ACS_logo_slogan.svg" alt="Apache CloudStack logo" class="themedImage_ToTc themedImage--dark_i4oU footer__logo"></a></div><div class="footer__copyright"> |
