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     <h2 class="post-title">Libcloud 1.0.0 released</h2>

   <span class="post-date-author">By Anthony Shaw on Jun 22, 2016</span>

   <div class="post-content">
     <p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.0.0.</p>

 <p>This first release in the 1.0 series which means it brings many new
 features, improvements, bug-fixes, and drivers. The 1.0 series includes 2 new driver types, <a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/container/index.html">container-as-a-service</a> and <a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backup/index.html">backup-as-a-service</a>.</p>

 <h3 id="release-highlights">Release highlights</h3>

 <p>This includes:</p>

 <ul>
   <li>New backup-as-a-service and container-as-a-service driver types</li>
   <li>Deprecated drivers that were no longer available such as Ninefold, IBM SCE <a href="http://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/02/16/new-drivers-deprecated-drivers.html">more details</a></li>
   <li>Add support for authenticating against Keystone and OpenStack based clouds
 using OpenID Connect tokens.</li>
   <li>GCE nodes can be launched in a subnetwork and support for subnetworks</li>
   <li>Add Image Family support for GCE</li>
   <li>Add new <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Perth, Australia</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Manila, Philippines</code> region to the CloudSigma
 v2 driver.</li>
   <li>Add new S3 RGW storage driver.</li>
   <li>The Amazon EC2 driver has been changed to use region codes instead of separate drivers for each region.</li>
   <li>Introduce new <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">list_regions</code> class method on the base driver class</li>
   <li>Support for Dimension Data backup</li>
   <li>Added NSOne, LuaDNS, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, BuddyNS, DNSPod DNS drivers</li>
   <li>Added Aliyun compute, load balancer and storage drivers</li>
   <li>Added Outscale storage driver</li>
 </ul>

 <p>Full change log can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">here</a>.</p>

 <h3 id="special-thank-you">Special thank you</h3>

 <p>I would like to wish a special thank you to all of our community contributors for their ongoing support to the project.</p>

 <p><a href="https://github.com/Kami">Tomaz Muraus</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pquerna">Paul Querna</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/jcsalterego">Jerry Chen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jadunham1">Jeff Dunham</a>, <a href="https://github.com/erjohnso">Eric Johnson</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/jedsmith">Jed Smith</a>, <a href="https://github.com/wrigri">Rick Wright</a>, <a href="https://github.com/novel">Roman Bogorodskiy</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/baldwinmathew">Mathew Baldwin</a>, <a href="https://github.com/davidcrossland">David Crossland</a>, <a href="https://github.com/alex">Alex Gaynor</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/allardhoeve">Allard Hoeve</a>, <a href="https://github.com/runseb">Sebastien Goasguen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/franckcuny">Franck Cuny</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/ktdreyer">Ken Dreyer</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jcastillo2nd">Javier Castillo II</a>, <a href="https://github.com/wido">Wido den Hollander</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/bennettaur">Michael Bennett</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ZuluPro">Anthony Monthe</a>, <a href="https://github.com/zerthimon">Lior Goikhburg</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/encyphered">Geunwoo Shin</a>, <a href="https://github.com/juanfont">Juan Font</a>, <a href="https://github.com/schaubl">“schaubl”</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/mbrukman">Misha Brukman</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jetbird">Oltjano Terpollari</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pzrq">Peter Schmidt</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/mingsheng36">Ming Sheng</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gertjanol">Gertjan Oude Lohuis</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/mgogoulos">Markos Gogoulos</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bernard357">Bernard Paques</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/Phreedom">Evgeny Egorochkin</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gigimon">Oleg</a>, <a href="https://github.com/atsaki">Atsushi Sasaki</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/micafer">Miguel Caballer</a>, <a href="https://github.com/kumarappanc">Kumar</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gmcdonald">Gavin McDonald</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/boul">Roeland Kuipers</a>, <a href="https://github.com/briancurtin">Brian Curtin</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ikusalic">Ivan Kusalic</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/ferewuz">Vanč Levstik</a>, <a href="https://github.com/davidwilson2038">None</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Smotko">Anže Pečar</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/MrBasset">“MrBasset”</a>, <a href="https://github.com/crunkleton">None</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jmunhoz">Javier M. Mellid</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/jimbobhickville">Greg Hill</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Jc2k">None</a>, <a href="https://github.com/sfriesel">Stefan Friesel</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/relaxdiego">Mark Maglana</a>, <a href="https://github.com/aleGpereira">Alejandro Gabriel Pereira</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/kyle-long">Kyle Long</a>, <a href="https://github.com/teemuvesala">Teemu Vesala</a>, <a href="https://github.com/LordShion">Filipe Silva</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/jshridha">Jay</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bernieke">Bernard Kerckenaere</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jobelenus">John Obelenus</a>,
 <a href="https://github.com/bsdlp">Jon Chen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/lawrencellui-dd">Larry Lui</a>,</p>

 <h3 id="important-breaking-change---amazon-ec2-driver-changes">Important breaking change-  Amazon EC2 driver changes</h3>

 <p>The Amazon EC2 API was updated to consolidate the regional-based drivers into a single driver with a region argument in the constructor.</p>

 <p>Amazon Instances should now be instantiated using the following syntax:</p>

 <div class="language-python highlighter-rouge">
   <div class="highlight">
     <pre class="highlight"><code><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.types</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Provider</span>
 <span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.providers</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span>

 <span class="n">cls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Provider</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">EC2</span><span class="p">)</span>
 <span class="n">driver</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">cls</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'access key'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">'secret key'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">region</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'us-east-1'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 </code></pre>
   </div>
 </div>

 <p>This brings the Amazon API inline with the other drivers, makes it easier to maintain and switch between regions.</p>

 <h3 id="bug-fixes">Bug fixes</h3>

 <h4 id="general">General</h4>

 <ul>
   <li>
     <p>Fix a bug with consuming stdout and stderr in the paramiko SSH client which
 would manifest itself under very rare condition when a consumed chunk only
 contained a single byte or part of a multi byte UTF-8 character.
 [Lakshmi Kannan, Tomaz Muraus]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Increase default chunk size from <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">1024</code> to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">4096</code> bytes in the paramiko
 SSH client. This results in smaller number of receive calls on the average.
 [Tomaz Muraus]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Fix to Dimension Data API address for Middle-East and Africa
 (GITHUB-700)
 [Anthony Shaw]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Throw a more user-friendly exception on “No address associated with hostname”.
 (GITHUB-711, GITHUB-714, LIBCLOUD-803)
 [Tomaz Muraus, Scott Crunkleton]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Remove deprecated provider constants with the region in the name and related
 driver classes (e.g. <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">EC2_US_EAST</code>, etc.).</p>

     <p>Those drivers have moved to single provider constant + <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">region</code> constructor
 argument model.
 [Tomaz Muraus]</p>
   </li>
 </ul>

 <h3 id="new-or-deprecated-drivers">New or deprecated drivers</h3>

 <h4 id="compute">Compute</h4>

 <ul>
   <li>
     <p>Deprecated IBM SCE, HP Helion, OpSource, Ninefold and CloudFrames drivers, removed
 driver code and tests.
 (GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
 [Anthony Shaw]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Introduced error messages (<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.deprecated</code>) for deprecated drivers
 (GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
 [Anthony Shaw]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>New Compute drivers- BSNL, Indosat, Med-1, NTT-America, Internet Solutions
 (GITHUB-700)
 [Anthony Shaw]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>New driver for Aliyun Elastic Compute Service.
 (LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
 [Sam Song]</p>
   </li>
 </ul>

 <h4 id="storage">Storage</h4>

 <ul>
   <li>
     <p>Added Outscale storage driver
 (GITHUB-730)
 [Javier M. Mellid]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>New driver for Aliyun OSS Storage Service.
 (LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
 [Sam Song]</p>
   </li>
 </ul>

 <h4 id="loadbalancer">Loadbalancer</h4>

 <ul>
   <li>New driver for Aliyun SLB Loadbalancer Service.
 (LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
 [Sam Song]</li>
 </ul>

 <h4 id="dns">DNS</h4>

 <ul>
   <li>
     <p>Added NearlyFreeSpeech.net (NSFN) driver
 [Ken Drayer]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Added Lua DNS driver
 [Oltjano Terpollari]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Added NSOne driver
 [Oltjano Terpollari]</p>
   </li>
 </ul>

 <h2 id="bug-fixes-1">Bug fixes</h2>

 <ul>
   <li>
     <p>Fix a bug in the GoDaddy driver - make sure <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">host</code> attribute on the
 connection class is correctly set to the hostname.
 [Tomaz Muraus]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Fix handling of <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">MX</code> records in the Gandi driver.
 (GITHUB-718)
 [Ryan Lee]</p>
   </li>
 </ul>

 <h2 id="improvements">Improvements</h2>

 <h3 id="compute-1">Compute</h3>

 <ul>
   <li>
     <p>Introduce new <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">list_regions</code> class method on the base driver class. This
 method is to be used with provider drivers which support multiple regions and
 <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">region</code> constructor argument. It allows users to enumerate available /
 supported regions.
 [Tomaz Muraus]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>[dimension data] added support for VMWare tools VM information inside list_nodes responses
 (GITHUB-734)
 [Jeff Dunham]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>[ec2] added ex_encrypted and ex_kms_key_id optional parameters to the create volume method
 (GITHUB-729)
 [Viktor Ognev]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>[dimension data] added support for managing host anti-affinity rules, added paging support to
 all supported calls and added support for requesting priority ordering when creating ACL rules
 (GITHUB-726)
 [Jeff Dunham]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Addition of Dimension Data Australia federal government region to dimension data
 drivers.
 (GITHUB-700)
 [Anthony Shaw]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>[openstack] when creating floating IPs, added pool_id as an optional argument
 (GITHUB-725)
 [marko-p]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>[google compute] Added setMachineType method to allow for changing sizes of instances
 (GITHUB-721)
 [Eric Johnson]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>[google compute] allow bypassing image search in standard project list
 (GITHUB-713)
 [Max Illfelder]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Add support for requesting a MKS token for accessing the remote console in VMware
 vCloud driver
 (GITHUB-706)
 [Juan Font Alonso]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Add support in VMware vCloud driver for v5.5 API, with snapshot support
 (GITHUB-658)
 [Juan Font Alonso]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Added support for adding a family to an image on Google Compute Driver
 (GITHUB-704)
 [Max Illfelder]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Fix to set default signature version for AWS Seoul region to v4, removed
 non-supported size (hs1.xlarge)
 (GITHUB-684)
 [Geunwoo Shin]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Support filtering by location in list_nodes for dimension data compute driver
 fix lack of paging support
 (GITHUB-691)
 [Jeff Dunham]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Support for filtering by IPv4, IPv6, network, network domain, VLAN in Dimension
 data driver.
 (GITHUB-694)
 [Jeff Dunham]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Added <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Node.created_at</code> which, on supported drivers, contains the datetime the
 node was first started.
 (GITHUB-698)
 [Allard Hoeve] [Rick van de Loo]</p>
   </li>
 </ul>

 <h3 id="storage-1">Storage</h3>

 <ul>
   <li>
     <p>Improvements to Google Auth for Storage and Compute and MIME bug fix
 (LIBCLOUD-800, GITHUB-689)
 [Scott Crunkleton]</p>
   </li>
   <li>
     <p>Implement <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">get_container</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">get_object</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">upload_object_via_stream</code>
 methods in the Backblaze B2 storage driver.</p>

     <p>Note: Backblaze API doesn’t upload streaming uploads so when using
 <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">upload_object_via_stream</code> whole file is read and buffered in memory.
 (GITHUB-696)
 [Jay jshridha]</p>
   </li>
 </ul>

 <h3 id="backup">Backup</h3>

 <ul>
   <li>Dimension Data - added additional testing, fixed bug on client response naming,
 added support for adding backup clients to a backup enabled node.
 (GITHUB-692, GITHUB-693, GITHUB-695)
 [Jeff Dunham]</li>
 </ul>

 <h3 id="download">Download</h3>

 <p>The release can can be downloaded from
 <a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html">https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html</a> or installed using pip:</p>

 <pre>
 pip install apache-libcloud==1.0.0
 </pre>

 <h3 id="upgrading">Upgrading</h3>

 <p>If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:</p>

 <pre>
 pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==1.0.0
 </pre>

 <h3 id="upgrade-notes">Upgrade notes</h3>

 <p>A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
 changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
 can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html</a></p>

 <h3 id="documentation">Documentation</h3>

 <p>Regular and API documentation is available at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a></p>

 <h3 id="bugs--issues">Bugs / Issues</h3>

 <p>If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
 <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD</a>.
 Don’t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
 problem.</p>

 <h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>

 <p>Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
 list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
 <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">CHANGES file</a>.</p>


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	<h2 class="post-title">Libcloud 1.0.0 released</h2>

	<span class="post-date-author">By Anthony Shaw on Jun 22, 2016</span>

	<div class="post-content">
	<p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.0.0.</p>

	<p>This first release in the 1.0 series which means it brings many new
	features, improvements, bug-fixes, and drivers. The 1.0 series includes 2 new driver types, <a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/container/index.html">container-as-a-service</a> and <a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backup/index.html">backup-as-a-service</a>.</p>

	<h3 id="release-highlights">Release highlights</h3>

	<p>This includes:</p>

	<ul>
	<li>New backup-as-a-service and container-as-a-service driver types</li>
	<li>Deprecated drivers that were no longer available such as Ninefold, IBM SCE <a href="http://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/02/16/new-drivers-deprecated-drivers.html">more details</a></li>
	<li>Add support for authenticating against Keystone and OpenStack based clouds
	using OpenID Connect tokens.</li>
	<li>GCE nodes can be launched in a subnetwork and support for subnetworks</li>
	<li>Add Image Family support for GCE</li>
	<li>Add new <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Perth, Australia</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Manila, Philippines</code> region to the CloudSigma
	v2 driver.</li>
	<li>Add new S3 RGW storage driver.</li>
	<li>The Amazon EC2 driver has been changed to use region codes instead of separate drivers for each region.</li>
	<li>Introduce new <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">list_regions</code> class method on the base driver class</li>
	<li>Support for Dimension Data backup</li>
	<li>Added NSOne, LuaDNS, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, BuddyNS, DNSPod DNS drivers</li>
	<li>Added Aliyun compute, load balancer and storage drivers</li>
	<li>Added Outscale storage driver</li>
	</ul>

	<p>Full change log can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">here</a>.</p>

	<h3 id="special-thank-you">Special thank you</h3>

	<p>I would like to wish a special thank you to all of our community contributors for their ongoing support to the project.</p>

	<p><a href="https://github.com/Kami">Tomaz Muraus</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pquerna">Paul Querna</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/jcsalterego">Jerry Chen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jadunham1">Jeff Dunham</a>, <a href="https://github.com/erjohnso">Eric Johnson</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/jedsmith">Jed Smith</a>, <a href="https://github.com/wrigri">Rick Wright</a>, <a href="https://github.com/novel">Roman Bogorodskiy</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/baldwinmathew">Mathew Baldwin</a>, <a href="https://github.com/davidcrossland">David Crossland</a>, <a href="https://github.com/alex">Alex Gaynor</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/allardhoeve">Allard Hoeve</a>, <a href="https://github.com/runseb">Sebastien Goasguen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/franckcuny">Franck Cuny</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/ktdreyer">Ken Dreyer</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jcastillo2nd">Javier Castillo II</a>, <a href="https://github.com/wido">Wido den Hollander</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/bennettaur">Michael Bennett</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ZuluPro">Anthony Monthe</a>, <a href="https://github.com/zerthimon">Lior Goikhburg</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/encyphered">Geunwoo Shin</a>, <a href="https://github.com/juanfont">Juan Font</a>, <a href="https://github.com/schaubl">“schaubl”</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/mbrukman">Misha Brukman</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jetbird">Oltjano Terpollari</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pzrq">Peter Schmidt</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/mingsheng36">Ming Sheng</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gertjanol">Gertjan Oude Lohuis</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/mgogoulos">Markos Gogoulos</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bernard357">Bernard Paques</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/Phreedom">Evgeny Egorochkin</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gigimon">Oleg</a>, <a href="https://github.com/atsaki">Atsushi Sasaki</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/micafer">Miguel Caballer</a>, <a href="https://github.com/kumarappanc">Kumar</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gmcdonald">Gavin McDonald</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/boul">Roeland Kuipers</a>, <a href="https://github.com/briancurtin">Brian Curtin</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ikusalic">Ivan Kusalic</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/ferewuz">Vanč Levstik</a>, <a href="https://github.com/davidwilson2038">None</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Smotko">Anže Pečar</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/MrBasset">“MrBasset”</a>, <a href="https://github.com/crunkleton">None</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jmunhoz">Javier M. Mellid</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/jimbobhickville">Greg Hill</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Jc2k">None</a>, <a href="https://github.com/sfriesel">Stefan Friesel</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/relaxdiego">Mark Maglana</a>, <a href="https://github.com/aleGpereira">Alejandro Gabriel Pereira</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/kyle-long">Kyle Long</a>, <a href="https://github.com/teemuvesala">Teemu Vesala</a>, <a href="https://github.com/LordShion">Filipe Silva</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/jshridha">Jay</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bernieke">Bernard Kerckenaere</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jobelenus">John Obelenus</a>,
	<a href="https://github.com/bsdlp">Jon Chen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/lawrencellui-dd">Larry Lui</a>,</p>

	<h3 id="important-breaking-change---amazon-ec2-driver-changes">Important breaking change- Amazon EC2 driver changes</h3>

	<p>The Amazon EC2 API was updated to consolidate the regional-based drivers into a single driver with a region argument in the constructor.</p>

	<p>Amazon Instances should now be instantiated using the following syntax:</p>

	<div class="language-python highlighter-rouge">
	<div class="highlight">
	<pre class="highlight"><code><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.types</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Provider</span>
	<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.providers</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span>

	<span class="n">cls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Provider</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">EC2</span><span class="p">)</span>
	<span class="n">driver</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">cls</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'access key'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">'secret key'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">region</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'us-east-1'</span><span class="p">)</span>
	</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>

	<p>This brings the Amazon API inline with the other drivers, makes it easier to maintain and switch between regions.</p>

	<h3 id="bug-fixes">Bug fixes</h3>

	<h4 id="general">General</h4>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Fix a bug with consuming stdout and stderr in the paramiko SSH client which
	would manifest itself under very rare condition when a consumed chunk only
	contained a single byte or part of a multi byte UTF-8 character.
	[Lakshmi Kannan, Tomaz Muraus]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Increase default chunk size from <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">1024</code> to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">4096</code> bytes in the paramiko
	SSH client. This results in smaller number of receive calls on the average.
	[Tomaz Muraus]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Fix to Dimension Data API address for Middle-East and Africa
	(GITHUB-700)
	[Anthony Shaw]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Throw a more user-friendly exception on “No address associated with hostname”.
	(GITHUB-711, GITHUB-714, LIBCLOUD-803)
	[Tomaz Muraus, Scott Crunkleton]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Remove deprecated provider constants with the region in the name and related
	driver classes (e.g. <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">EC2_US_EAST</code>, etc.).</p>

	<p>Those drivers have moved to single provider constant + <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">region</code> constructor
	argument model.
	[Tomaz Muraus]</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h3 id="new-or-deprecated-drivers">New or deprecated drivers</h3>

	<h4 id="compute">Compute</h4>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Deprecated IBM SCE, HP Helion, OpSource, Ninefold and CloudFrames drivers, removed
	driver code and tests.
	(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
	[Anthony Shaw]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Introduced error messages (<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">libcloud.compute.deprecated</code>) for deprecated drivers
	(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
	[Anthony Shaw]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>New Compute drivers- BSNL, Indosat, Med-1, NTT-America, Internet Solutions
	(GITHUB-700)
	[Anthony Shaw]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>New driver for Aliyun Elastic Compute Service.
	(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
	[Sam Song]</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h4 id="storage">Storage</h4>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Added Outscale storage driver
	(GITHUB-730)
	[Javier M. Mellid]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>New driver for Aliyun OSS Storage Service.
	(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
	[Sam Song]</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h4 id="loadbalancer">Loadbalancer</h4>

	<ul>
	<li>New driver for Aliyun SLB Loadbalancer Service.
	(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
	[Sam Song]</li>
	</ul>

	<h4 id="dns">DNS</h4>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Added NearlyFreeSpeech.net (NSFN) driver
	[Ken Drayer]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Added Lua DNS driver
	[Oltjano Terpollari]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Added NSOne driver
	[Oltjano Terpollari]</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h2 id="bug-fixes-1">Bug fixes</h2>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Fix a bug in the GoDaddy driver - make sure <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">host</code> attribute on the
	connection class is correctly set to the hostname.
	[Tomaz Muraus]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Fix handling of <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">MX</code> records in the Gandi driver.
	(GITHUB-718)
	[Ryan Lee]</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h2 id="improvements">Improvements</h2>

	<h3 id="compute-1">Compute</h3>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Introduce new <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">list_regions</code> class method on the base driver class. This
	method is to be used with provider drivers which support multiple regions and
	<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">region</code> constructor argument. It allows users to enumerate available /
	supported regions.
	[Tomaz Muraus]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>[dimension data] added support for VMWare tools VM information inside list_nodes responses
	(GITHUB-734)
	[Jeff Dunham]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>[ec2] added ex_encrypted and ex_kms_key_id optional parameters to the create volume method
	(GITHUB-729)
	[Viktor Ognev]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>[dimension data] added support for managing host anti-affinity rules, added paging support to
	all supported calls and added support for requesting priority ordering when creating ACL rules
	(GITHUB-726)
	[Jeff Dunham]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Addition of Dimension Data Australia federal government region to dimension data
	drivers.
	(GITHUB-700)
	[Anthony Shaw]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>[openstack] when creating floating IPs, added pool_id as an optional argument
	(GITHUB-725)
	[marko-p]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>[google compute] Added setMachineType method to allow for changing sizes of instances
	(GITHUB-721)
	[Eric Johnson]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>[google compute] allow bypassing image search in standard project list
	(GITHUB-713)
	[Max Illfelder]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Add support for requesting a MKS token for accessing the remote console in VMware
	vCloud driver
	(GITHUB-706)
	[Juan Font Alonso]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Add support in VMware vCloud driver for v5.5 API, with snapshot support
	(GITHUB-658)
	[Juan Font Alonso]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Added support for adding a family to an image on Google Compute Driver
	(GITHUB-704)
	[Max Illfelder]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Fix to set default signature version for AWS Seoul region to v4, removed
	non-supported size (hs1.xlarge)
	(GITHUB-684)
	[Geunwoo Shin]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Support filtering by location in list_nodes for dimension data compute driver
	fix lack of paging support
	(GITHUB-691)
	[Jeff Dunham]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Support for filtering by IPv4, IPv6, network, network domain, VLAN in Dimension
	data driver.
	(GITHUB-694)
	[Jeff Dunham]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Added <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Node.created_at</code> which, on supported drivers, contains the datetime the
	node was first started.
	(GITHUB-698)
	[Allard Hoeve] [Rick van de Loo]</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h3 id="storage-1">Storage</h3>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Improvements to Google Auth for Storage and Compute and MIME bug fix
	(LIBCLOUD-800, GITHUB-689)
	[Scott Crunkleton]</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Implement <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">get_container</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">get_object</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">upload_object_via_stream</code>
	methods in the Backblaze B2 storage driver.</p>

	<p>Note: Backblaze API doesn’t upload streaming uploads so when using
	<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">upload_object_via_stream</code> whole file is read and buffered in memory.
	(GITHUB-696)
	[Jay jshridha]</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h3 id="backup">Backup</h3>

	<ul>
	<li>Dimension Data - added additional testing, fixed bug on client response naming,
	added support for adding backup clients to a backup enabled node.
	(GITHUB-692, GITHUB-693, GITHUB-695)
	[Jeff Dunham]</li>
	</ul>

	<h3 id="download">Download</h3>

	<p>The release can can be downloaded from
	<a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html">https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html</a> or installed using pip:</p>

	<pre>
	pip install apache-libcloud==1.0.0
	</pre>

	<h3 id="upgrading">Upgrading</h3>

	<p>If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:</p>

	<pre>
	pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==1.0.0
	</pre>

	<h3 id="upgrade-notes">Upgrade notes</h3>

	<p>A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
	changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
	can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html</a></p>

	<h3 id="documentation">Documentation</h3>

	<p>Regular and API documentation is available at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a></p>

	<h3 id="bugs--issues">Bugs / Issues</h3>

	<p>If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
	<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD</a>.
	Don’t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
	problem.</p>

	<h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3>

	<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
	list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
	<a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">CHANGES file</a>.</p>


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