OpenNebula 3.0 RC 1
23rd September 2011. The OpenNebula project announces the availability of OpenNebula 3.0 RC1(2.9.90), the first release candidate of OpenNebula 3 toolkit. This release is consider feature complete and will be further stabilized with fixes for important and critical bugs, the team continues in its bug fixing mode.
As noted early, this release cycle is being a bit larger than previous ones, the source tree is almost in release shape. There are some gaps in the documentation that will be filled by the final release. You should expect a final release at the end of the month. Please note that OpenNebula 3.0 RC is not suitable for production environments. We recommend those currently running 3.0 Beta1 or 3.0 Beta2 to upgrade.
The OpenNebula team wants also to thank all the feedback received for the previous beta releases. Keep testing!
OpenNebula 3.0 comes with a lot of new features: ACLs , Zones, Virtual Data Centers, new network models among others. Please take a look to OpenNebula 3.0 release notes for more information.
This RC release includes many bug fixes, and stabilizes the OpenNebula 3.0 code base. It also include some new features:
As for OpenNebula 3.0 the internal database uses versioning. Upgrading from OpenNebula 3.0 Beta1 or Beta2 needs to follow the standard upgrade procedure described in the documentation.
There has been a bump in the major version number of OpenNebula. There are three main areas that need attention when upgrading your installation (if you are an OpenNebula 2.x user):
onedb
tool to automatically upgrade your system.For a complete set of changes to migrate from a 2.x installation please refer to the new Compatibility Guide. You should also read this document if you are an OpenNebula 2.x user.