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The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.5.5, as of December 1st, 2023. Important notes before you install / upgrade If you’re going to install oVirt 4.5.5 on RHEL or similar, please read Installing on RHEL or derivatives first. Suggestion to use nightly As discussed in oVirt Users mailing list we suggest the user community to use oVirt master snapshot repositories ensuring that the latest fixes for the platform regressions will be promptly available. This oVirt 4.5.5 release is meant to provide what has been made available in nightly repositories as base for new installations. […]
The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.5.4, as of December 5th, 2022. This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses hundreds of individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics on top of oVirt 4.4. Important notes before you install / upgrade Some of the features included in oVirt 4.5.4 require content that is available in RHEL 8.7 (or newer) and derivatives. NOTE: If you’re going to install oVirt 4.5.4 on RHEL or similar, please read Installing on […]
The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.5.3, as of October 18th, 2022. This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses hundreds of individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics on top of oVirt 4.4. Important notes before you install / upgrade Some of the features included in oVirt 4.5.3 require content that is available in RHEL 8.6 (or newer) and derivatives. NOTE: If you’re going to install oVirt 4.5.3 on RHEL or similar, please read […]
If you’re using apache.commons.configuration to manage .properties files in your project, you’re probably facing the following problem: Apache.commons.configuration depends on apache.common.logging which is included in maven:3.5, but was removed from maven:3.6. Thus, if you want to upgrade you will need to find a different way to parse your properties. Java offers the java.util.Properties class (see https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/properties.html), which is a subclass of java.util.Hashtable. It maintains a list of keys and values, both are of type String, and provides methods for the following operations: Loading and saving the properties, getting a value by key, listing the keys and values, enumerating over the keys, and the methods inherited […]
The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.5.2, as of August 10th, 2022. This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses hundreds of individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics on top of oVirt 4.4. Important notes before you install / upgrade Some of the features included in oVirt 4.5.2 require content that is available in RHEL 8.6 (or newer) and derivatives. NOTE: If you’re going to install oVirt 4.5.2 on RHEL or similar, please read Installing on […]
Thanks to the 109 participants in the #oVirt Survey Summer 2022! The survey is now over and results are publicly available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eQcbSqC6JQ2mvbPUcD7S_0pZW8hy_De4PCwkBYrP6mY/viewanalytics Public discussion within oVirt forums on: – User mailing list https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/GEMIC7K36GHKBAF2CTMRZF3XUDNG7FHP/ – Devel mailing list https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/devel@ovirt.org/thread/GEMIC7K36GHKBAF2CTMRZF3XUDNG7FHP/
As we continue to develop oVirt 4.5, the oVirt community would value insights on your experience with the oVirt project. Please help us to hit the mark by completing this short survey: https://forms.gle/2LxoDKb7njEQwr4f7 . Survey will close on July 29th 2022. Please note the answers to this survey will be publicly accessible. This survey is under oVirt Privacy Policy available at https://ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html .
On June 23rd 2022 the oVirt project released an update of oVirt Node (4.5.1) delivering several security fixes, bug fixes and enhancements. The update is already available on resources.ovirt.org and should land on oVirt mirrors within 24 hours. With oVirt 4.5.1 oVirt Node based on CentOS Stream 9 is also available as a tech preview. Known issues: On oVirt Node based on CentOS Stream 9 with UEFI secure boot, vdsm fails to decode DMI data due to Bug 2081648 – python-dmidecode module fails to decode DMI data Updates on el8 based oVirt Node: Security fixes: Important – Bug 2082616 – […]
oVirt 4.5.1 is now generally available The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.5.1, as of June, 22nd 2022. This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses hundreds of individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics on top of oVirt 4.4. Important notes before you install / upgrade Some of the features included in oVirt 4.5.1 require content that is available in RHEL 8.6 (or newer) and derivatives. NOTE: If you’re going to install […]
oVirt Node 4.5.0.3 Async update On May 25th 2022 the oVirt project released an async update of oVirt Node (4.5.0.3) delivering several bug fixes and enhancements. The update is already available on resources.ovirt.org and should land on oVirt mirrors within 24 hours. Important fix: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-node-ng-image/issues/51 imgbased dependency causes upgrade issues Many thanks to Jean-Louis Dupond for his reports. Updates: GlusterFS 10.2: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-10/doc/release-notes/10.2.md Ceph 16.2.9: https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2022/v16-2-9-pacific-released/ Ansible Core 2.12.5: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.12/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.12.rst#v2-12-5 oVirt Node has been updated, including: CentOS Stream 8 latest updates Full list of changes compared to oVirt Node 4.5.0.2: ovirt-node-ng-image-4.5.0.2 ovirt-node-ng-image-4.5.0.3 NetworkManager […]
