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     <h2 class="post-title"><a href="/blog/2016/09/23/libcloud-1-2-1-released.html">Libcloud 1.2.1 released</a></h2>

   <span class="post-date-author">By Anthony Shaw on Sep 23, 2016</span>

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     <p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.2.1.</p>

 <p>This release brings many new features, improvements, bug-fixes, and drivers.</p>

 <h2 id="release-highlights">Release highlights</h2>

 <h3 id="changes-in-apache-libcloud-121">Changes in Apache Libcloud 1.2.1</h3>

 <ul>
   <li>Fix issue enabling backups on Dimension Data driver</li>
 </ul>

 <h3 id="changes-in-apache-libcloud-120">Changes in Apache Libcloud 1.2.0</h3>

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

 <ul>
   <li>Fix caching of auth tokens in the Google Compute Engine drivers. Now we make
 sure that the file is truncated before writing a new token. Not truncating the
 file would cause issues if the new token is shorted then the existing one
 which is cached in the file.</li>
 </ul>

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

 <ul>
   <li>Fix image undeprecation in GCE</li>
   <li>Added Managed Instance Groups in GCE</li>
   <li>Allow undeprecation of an image in GCE</li>
   <li>BUGFIX Values with wildcards failed signature validation in cloudstack</li>
   <li>Added StorageState-Migrating to the cloudstack driver.</li>
   <li>Update copy image logic to match create image in GCE driver.</li>
   <li>Removed HD attribute from the Abiquo compute driver to support the 3.4 API</li>
   <li>Add image and size details to list_nodes response in Dimension Data driver</li>
   <li>Add support for changing VM admin password in VMware driver</li>
   <li>Add Barcelona (Spain) region to the Aurora Compute driver.</li>
   <li>Various improvements in the libvirt driver.</li>
 </ul>

 <h4 id="load-balancer">Load balancer</h4>

 <ul>
   <li>Add support for temporary IAM role credentials (token) to the AWS ELB driver.</li>
 </ul>

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

 <ul>
   <li>Updated the ‘extra’ parameter in update_record() to be optional in aurora driver</li>
   <li>Support for iterating over records and zones in the Aurora DNS driver</li>
   <li>Add support for DS, PTR, SSFHFP and TLSA record type to the Aurora DNS driver.</li>
 </ul>

 <h4 id="container">Container</h4>

 <ul>
   <li>Add network mode and labels when creating containers within docker driver</li>
 </ul>

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

 <ul>
   <li>Fix authentication issue in S3/China region, disabled multipart uploads as
 not supported by region.</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>

 <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==1.2.1
 </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==1.2.1
 </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"><a href="/blog/2016/09/23/libcloud-1-2-1-released.html">Libcloud 1.2.1 released</a></h2>

	<span class="post-date-author">By Anthony Shaw on Sep 23, 2016</span>

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	<p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.2.1.</p>

	<p>This release brings many new features, improvements, bug-fixes, and drivers.</p>

	<h2 id="release-highlights">Release highlights</h2>

	<h3 id="changes-in-apache-libcloud-121">Changes in Apache Libcloud 1.2.1</h3>

	<ul>
	<li>Fix issue enabling backups on Dimension Data driver</li>
	</ul>

	<h3 id="changes-in-apache-libcloud-120">Changes in Apache Libcloud 1.2.0</h3>

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

	<ul>
	<li>Fix caching of auth tokens in the Google Compute Engine drivers. Now we make
	sure that the file is truncated before writing a new token. Not truncating the
	file would cause issues if the new token is shorted then the existing one
	which is cached in the file.</li>
	</ul>

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

	<ul>
	<li>Fix image undeprecation in GCE</li>
	<li>Added Managed Instance Groups in GCE</li>
	<li>Allow undeprecation of an image in GCE</li>
	<li>BUGFIX Values with wildcards failed signature validation in cloudstack</li>
	<li>Added StorageState-Migrating to the cloudstack driver.</li>
	<li>Update copy image logic to match create image in GCE driver.</li>
	<li>Removed HD attribute from the Abiquo compute driver to support the 3.4 API</li>
	<li>Add image and size details to list_nodes response in Dimension Data driver</li>
	<li>Add support for changing VM admin password in VMware driver</li>
	<li>Add Barcelona (Spain) region to the Aurora Compute driver.</li>
	<li>Various improvements in the libvirt driver.</li>
	</ul>

	<h4 id="load-balancer">Load balancer</h4>

	<ul>
	<li>Add support for temporary IAM role credentials (token) to the AWS ELB driver.</li>
	</ul>

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

	<ul>
	<li>Updated the ‘extra’ parameter in update_record() to be optional in aurora driver</li>
	<li>Support for iterating over records and zones in the Aurora DNS driver</li>
	<li>Add support for DS, PTR, SSFHFP and TLSA record type to the Aurora DNS driver.</li>
	</ul>

	<h4 id="container">Container</h4>

	<ul>
	<li>Add network mode and labels when creating containers within docker driver</li>
	</ul>

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

	<ul>
	<li>Fix authentication issue in S3/China region, disabled multipart uploads as
	not supported by region.</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>

	<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==1.2.1
	</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==1.2.1
	</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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