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The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.5.7, as of January 13, 2026. Important notes before you install / upgrade Due to CentOS Stream 8 having reached End-Of-Life as of May 31, 2024 oVirt is no longer supported on this version and its derivatives. If you are going to install oVirt 4.5.7 on RHEL or similar. Please read Installing on RHEL or derivatives first. Also do note that for installs on RHEL 10 and derivatives that version 10.0-4 (or newer) of centos-release45 is used. To everyone using the oVirt Node NG we urge you to […]
It’s been a while since something was announced. But in the background, a lot of work has been done! Since RedHat fully stepped down from the oVirt development, my team did an awesome job to take the development into our hands and continue building a strong product. A lot of steps were taken to just make everything working again. From CI pipelines to build processes to fixing deprecated components etc. Next to that, we dropped all support for CentOS 8, as this OS is EOL. CentOS Stream 10 / EL 10 But next to just the house keeping, we also […]
On behalf of the oVirt Board I’m thrilled to announce an exciting new addition: Jean-Louis Dupond. Jean-Louis brings a wealth of experience, expertise, and passion for open-source virtualization, making him an exceptional fit for the oVirt community. About Jean-Louis Dupond Jean-Louis Dupond is a recognized top contributor in the oVirt community over the last four years and has been an active participant in the oVirt ecosystem, advocating for its adoption and contributing valuable insights to its growth. He built a team within the team.blue company dedicated to contributing to the oVirt project and committed to provide infrastructure for oVirt localization […]
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 .
