OpenNebula 4.0 RC (3.9.90) - Incremental Release Notes
April 18th, 2013. The last 3 weeks the team has concentrated on bug fixing and adding the last features that did not make in the Beta release.
The main areas that have been stabilized during this cycle are:
The complete list of new features of OpenNebula 4.0 can be checked in the Beta release notes, and the incremental list of changes and bug fixes from 4.0 Beta are shown here.
Although this release is considered stable, we are still fixing some bugs and it is aimed at testers and developers to try the new features. Your feedback is more than welcomed for the final release.
There are no special upgrade or compatibility issue if you are running 4.0 beta. Just upgrade the database version with the onedb upgrade command. You may be interested in configuring your views.
There have been minor changes in the OpenNebula DB schema to accomodate the new features in 4.0. These changes are automatically managed by the migration process, but if you have developed any customization you may need to update it.
A detailed upgrade process can be found in the documentation. For a complete set of changes to migrate from a 3.x installation please refer to the Compatibility Guide. You should also read this document if you are an OpenNebula 3.x 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 4.0 can be found here.
Find here the list of known issues in the RC, to be corrected for the final release.
vmfs drivers are known to be broken, please wait for the final release for them to be fixed
The OpenNebula project would like to thank the community members and users who have contributed to this software release by being active with the discussions, answering user questions, or providing patches for bugfixes, features and documentation.
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.