[Ovirt-devel] Announcing oVirt 0.99

[Hugh O. Brock]

Announcing oVirt 0.99
=====================

We are pleased to announce the release of oVirt 0.99, a significant step
forward in stability and feature set for oVirt project users.

Some highlights from the change log:

* Improved installer, oVirt Server will now install with an existing
  FreeIPA setup present rather than insisting on installing FreeIPA from
  scratch

* Anyterm console support -- view a VM's serial console from the oVirt
  UI

* Lots of UI cleanup, bug fixes, flex chart improvements, back end
  stability improvements

* QMF API proof of concept

Please download and install the latest release following the
instructions at http://ovirt.org/install-instructions.html. We're
looking forward to your feedback!

Thanks,
--the oVirt team

Changelogs for the last 3 releases:

Release 0.99 (oVirt Server Suite)
  - permission refactoring, now in seperated db tables
  - added permission to cloud controller
  - generic error handling w/ registered handlers for each exception
  - finished service layer refactoring and controller integration (network, storage volume, storage, task, quota, pool, vm controllers)
  - anyterm web terminal / wui integration
  - start of the cloud ui, web frontend to the cumulous project
  - vnc proxy server to multiplex vnc connects on a single port and changes to ovirt-viewer to use it
  - start of new ovirt qmf api, updated to latest qmf spec, refresh pools whenever used, etc
  - added ovirt xml api spec
  - installer updates, ipa install fails if mod_ssl present, dns clarification
  - taskomatic changes, much more logging added, reconnect messages, bugfixes
  - dbomatic changes, log connect / disconnect events 
  - host-browser permits nic-less nodes
  - graph updates, new default view, increased dimensions, cleaned up/added labels
  - many ui improvements, flexigrid functionality/appearance, details pane, icons and css, etc
  - many test improvements and fixes
  - many bugfixes

Release 0.98 (oVirt Server Suite)
  - enable acpi / apic in vms
  - on vm shutdown, vm state is now unchanged
  - noreplace cobbler.yml in the spec
  - installer updates, network and dns config cleanup, hostname verification
  - updated and fixed server / node network configuration, managed_node_config, ovirt-identify-node, host-browser, other fixes to
      - delete nics if a node doesn't report them
      - api to retrieve nic / bonding details
      - autocreate default bridges for nics / bondings
      - refactor how nic, bonding, bridges are defined and handle edge cases
  - many tests fixes
  - many bugfixes

Release 0.97 (oVirt Server Suite)
  - added host / pool audit trail
  - added task list to daskboard
  - added plethora of missing model validations
  - taskomatic / qpid integration
  - changed ovirtbr -> breth
  - removed ovirt-cfgdb
  - update search index every 1/2 hr
  - navigation tree interface and functionality improvements
  - kerberos authentication for qpidd
  - storage volumn api, rest interface, and other improvements
  - allow vm vnc connections to be forwarded via server
  - discontinued ovirt-recipe in favor of ovirt-server-installer
  - lvm volumns scanning added to taskomatic
  - use ruby-qpid as opposed to rubygem-qpid
  - wired up logout button
  - flexchart improvements
     - add host chart
     - allow data function selection (min, max, avg, etc)
     - y-axis scale
  - added qpid reconnect / logger to dbomatic, taskomatic
  - add ssl to ovirt httpd conf 
  - use dns srv records in taskomatic / dbomatic
  - installer updates, disable 2nd network interface, reworked selinux
  -  options, dnsmasq fixes, nat / forwarding for node, add node-image/pxe,
  -  update qpid config, many various bugfixes
  - network configuration changes / improvements
    * host may now only have one device or bonding on a network
    * associate vms with a network
    * store nic interface name on the server
    * network wui cleanup and various bugfixes
  - reset vm state on node reboot
  - move vnc forwarding code from taskomatic to dbomatic  
  - persistently store vm / host history (for dbomatic vnc forwarding code)
  - stats util improvements
  - ssl now on both admin and guest interfaces
  - proxy guest network virtual host to admin network virtual host
  - deprecate old ovirt server installer
  - dbomatic generatic exception handling
  - added exception handling to dbomatic
  - tests and validations fixes
  - many bugfixes