The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.4.10 , as of January 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, as compared to oVirt 4.3.

Important notes before you install / upgrade

Please note that oVirt 4.4 only supports clusters and data centers with compatibility version 4.2 and above. If clusters or data centers are running with an older compatibility version, you need to upgrade them to at least 4.2 (4.3 is recommended).

Please note that in RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 several devices that worked on EL7 are no longer supported.

For example, the megaraid_sas driver is removed. If you use Enterprise Linux 8 hosts you can try to provide the necessary drivers for the deprecated hardware using the DUD method (See the users’ mailing list thread on this at https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/NDSVUZSESOXEFJNPHOXUH4HOOWRIRSB4/ )

Documentation

  • If you want to try oVirt as quickly as possible, follow the instructions on the Download page.
  • For complete installation, administration, and usage instructions, see the oVirt Documentation.
  • For upgrading from a previous version, see the oVirt Upgrade Guide.
  • For a general overview of oVirt, see About oVirt.

What’s new in oVirt 4.4.10 Release?

This update is the ninth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.4 series.

This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 (or similar)
  • CentOS Stream 8

This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 (or similar)
  • oVirt Node NG (based on CentOS Stream 8)
  • CentOS Stream 8

Some of the RFEs with high user impact are listed below:

  • Bug 2012135 – [RFE] Provide option to unmap multiple LUNs using ovirt_remove_stale_lun ansible role

Some of the Bugs with high user impact are listed below:

  • Bug 1710323 – Microsoft failover cluster is not working with FC direct LUN on Windows 2016 server and Windows 2019
  • Bug 2023224 – multipath -f fails with “map in use” error while removing the LUNs using “ovirt_remove_stale_lun”
  • Bug 2027260 – Cold backup fail in various ways – backup is reported ready before add_bitmap jobs complete
  • Bug 1897114 – Add additional logging information to be able to understand why host is stuck in Unassigned state
  • Bug 1978655 – ELK integration fails due to missing configuration parameters 
  • Bug 2032919 – Unable to add EL 7 host into oVirt Engine in clusters 4.2/4.3

oVirt Node has been updated, including:

Full list of changes:

--- ovirt-node-ng-image-4.4.9.3.manifest-rpm	2021-12-15 15:40:13.501764699 +0100
+++ ovirt-node-ng-image-4.4.10.manifest-rpm	2022-01-19 08:09:36.668868583 +0100
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+vdsm-gluster-4.40.100.2-1.el8.x86_64
+vdsm-http-4.40.100.2-1.el8.noarch
+vdsm-jsonrpc-4.40.100.2-1.el8.noarch
+vdsm-network-4.40.100.2-1.el8.x86_64
+vdsm-python-4.40.100.2-1.el8.noarch
+vdsm-yajsonrpc-4.40.100.2-1.el8.noarch
+vim-minimal-8.0.1763-16.el8_5.3.x86_64
@@ -1011 +1007 @@
-virt-what-1.18-12.el8.x86_64
+virt-what-1.18-13.el8.x86_64

See the release notes for installation instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed.

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