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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 […]
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 May 13th 2022 the oVirt project released an async update of oVirt Node (4.5.0.2) delivering important impact security fixes, several bug fixes and enhancements. The update is already available on resources.ovirt.org and should land on oVirt mirrors within 24 hours. Security fixes included in oVirt Node NG 4.5.0.2 Async compared to oVirt 4.5.0.1 Async: CVE-2022-1271 – important – gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability oVirt Node has been updated, including: CentOS Stream 8 latest updates Full list of changes compared to oVirt Node 4.5.0.1: ovirt-node-ng-image-4.5.0.1 ovirt-node-ng-image-4.5.0.2 NetworkManager […]
oVirt Node 4.5.0.1 Async update On April 26th 2022 the oVirt project released an async update of oVirt Node (4.5.0.1) delivering important impact security fixes, several bug fixes and enhancements. The update is already available on resources.ovirt.org and should land on oVirt mirrors within 24 hours. Security fixes included in oVirt Node NG 4.5.0 Async1 compared to latest oVirt 4.5.0 GA: CVE-2022-1015 – important – kernel: arbitrary code execution in linux/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c CVE-2022-0435 – important – kernel: remote stack overflow via kernel panic on systems using TIPC may lead to DoS CVE-2022-25636 – important – kernel: heap out of bounds […]
As usual, when a new oVirt release gets out, the previous one reaches the end of life. As of April 20th 2022 with oVirt 4.5.0 release, oVirt 4.4 reached End Of Life, last release being 4.4.10.2 async release shipped live on March 03, 2022. Please upgrade to 4.5 as soon as practical in order to get further security and bug fixes updates.
The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.5.0, as of April, 20th 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 4.5.0 require content that will be available in RHEL 8.6 and derivatives which are currently included in CentOS Stream 8. NOTE: If you’re going to install oVirt […]
Hi, 4.5.0 Beta was released yesterday! As for oVirt 4.5 Alpha test day we have a trello board at https://trello.com/b/3FZ7gdhM/ovirt-450-test-day . If you have troubles accessing the trello board please let me know. A release management draft page has been created at: https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.5.0/ If you’re willing to help testing the release during the test days please join the oVirt development mailing list at https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/devel@ovirt.org/ and report your feedback there. Please join the trello board for sharing what you’re going to test so others can focus on different areas not covered by your test. If you don’t want to register to trello, please share on […]
The oVirt project is excited to announce the availability of oVirt 4.5.0 Beta release for testing , as of April 6th, 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 try it Please note this is a Beta release. The oVirt Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. This pre-release must not be used in production, and it is not feature […]
