We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.0.0-pre1.

This is a first pre-release in the 1.0.0 series which means it brings many new features, improvements, bug-fixes, and DNS drivers.

Release highlights

A full blog post on the new features in 1.0.0 can be found here

This includes:

• Introduction of Container-as-a-Service API drivers for Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon ECS and Joyent Triton
• Introduction of Backup-as-a-Service API
• Addition of South Korea region for Amazon EC2

Full change log can be found at here.

Download

The release can can be downloaded from https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html or installed using pip:

pip install apache-libcloud==1.0.0-pre1

Upgrading

If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==1.0.0-pre1

Upgrade notes

A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible can be found at https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html

Documentation

Regular and API documentation is available at https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Bugs / Issues

If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD. Don’t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your problem.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the CHANGES file.