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 easy-to-use platform. The released 4.16.0.0 LTS adds new features,
 enhancements, and bug fixes that will help tech-savy companies stay up
 to date.&quot; said Gabriel Brascher, Vice President of Apache CloudStack.</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m pleased to see another innovative release of Apache CloudStack
 from the community. CloudStack continues to evolve both in terms of
 functionality, integrations and also ease of management and stability.
 It is great to see new integrations to major storage vendors and so
 many other features developed by community members from a broad range
 of organisations, reflecting CloudStack&#x27;s increasing adoption across
 both service provider and enterprise organisations.”, said Giles
 Sirett, Chairman, CloudStack European User Group and Apache CloudStack
 PMC Member.</p><p>Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 is a 4.16 LTS release with 22 major new
 features, and 244 enhancements and fixes since 4.15. Some of the
 highlights include:</p><p>Additional OS Support for Management Servers and hypervisor hosts:</p><ul><li>Support for OpenSuse</li><li>Support for Rocky Linux</li></ul><p>New vendor integrations to allow CloudStack to leverage advanced
 storage capabilities:</p><ul><li>Dell EMC PowerFlex storage plugin integration</li><li>LINSTOR storage plugin integration</li></ul><p>UI Improvements:</p><ul><li>Structured comments on objects in the UI</li><li>Custom Resource Icons to allow visual representation of most object types</li><li>The ability to perform bulk actions through the UI</li></ul><p>Enhancements to CloudStack Kubernetes Service:</p><ul><li>Support for Kubernetes  Autoscaling through the CloudStack Kubernetes provider</li><li>Kubernetes Clusters now based on System VM, giving simplified
 ongoing management</li></ul><p>Improved tools &amp; management:</p><ul><li>Granular control of dynamic scaling of VM’s CPU/RAM</li><li>Import and export of VMware virtual machines through the UI</li><li>CloudStack-setup-databases script improvement to give more stable upgrades</li><li>L2 Networks Persistent modern</li><li>mac learning mode added to network offerings</li><li>HA improvements allow a host to be marked as Degraded</li><li>New API endpoint to update pod management network IP range</li><li>New API endpoint to update VLAN IP range</li></ul><h1>Documentation</h1><p>The full list of new features can be found in the project release
 notes at <a href="https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html</a></p><p>The CloudStack documentation includes upgrade instructions from
 previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be found at:
 <a href="https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/upgrading/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/upgrading/index.html</a></p><p>The official installation, administration and API documentation for
 each of the releases are available on our documentation page:
 <a href="https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/</a></p><h1>Downloads:</h1><p>The official source code for the 4.16.0.0 release can be downloaded
 from our downloads page: <a href="https://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://cloudstack.apache.org/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, and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/</a>
 <a href="https://download.cloudstack.org/centos/7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://download.cloudstack.org/centos/7/</a>
 <a href="https://download.cloudstack.org/centos/8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://download.cloudstack.org/centos/8/</a>
 <a href="https://download.cloudstack.org/suse/15" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://download.cloudstack.org/suse/15</a>
 <a href="https://www.shapeblue.com/packages/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.shapeblue.com/packages/</a></p><p>Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services,
 including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant
 leaders. Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source
 Cloud Adoption report, Apache CloudStack &quot;sits beneath hundreds of
 service provider clouds&quot;, including Fortune 5 multinational
 corporations. A list of known Apache CloudStack users are available at
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