OpenNebula 3.2 Beta 1 (3.1.80)
December 16th, 2011. The OpenNebula project announces the general availability of the first beta release of OpenNebula 3.2. This is the second release of the OpenNebula's new development cycle. Note that the pre-release series are not suitable for production environments, although packages have gone through the standard testing procedure made for final releases.
With this Beta release, the master branch of the OpenNebula repository is in a feature-freeze mode and the OpenNebula developers concentrate on fixing bugs and smoothing rough edges in the software.
These are incremental release notes, please check the release notes of the first pre-release of OpenNebula 3.2 for a complete set of new features.
In the following list you can check the highlights of 3.2 by component, a detailed list of changes can be found here:
Most of the changes in the new release have been done in the OpenNebula core (oned) and libraries to support the following new features:
We've further improved the usability of SunStone, and extend it to catch up with OpenNebula core's new features. Also some of the dialogs has been simplified and polished. In this new release the dependencies with third party libraries has been updated to the latest versions.
This release includes some improvements in the web ui of the Zones component, as well as minor bug fixes.
The OCCI API has been extended to include:
OpenNebula 3.2 is API compatible with OpenNebula 3.0, so you should expect that applications, and drivers developed for 3.0 to work with this release, with the exception of custom authentication drivers. A detailed upgrade process upgrade can be found in the documentation.
For a complete set of changes to migrate from a 3.0 installation please refer to the Compatibility Guide. You should also read this document if you are an OpenNebula 3.0 user.
OpenNebula is released under the Apache 2.0 open source license. The complete source tree and binary packages for OpenNebula can be downloaded here.
Please report any bug or send feedback at the development portal or at the mailing list.
The documentation of OpenNebula 3.2 can be found here. The documents are in a development state so watch out, and do not hesitate to ask in the mailing list.
More information about the project can be found at the project web page. You may be also interested in checking the OpenNebula Ecosystem that includes many interesting projects contributed by the community to enhance or add new features to OpenNebula.