The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Libcloud Project are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of version 0.4.2 of Apache Libcloud (“libcloud”).

Apache Libcloud is a pure python client library for interacting with many of the popular cloud server providers. It was created to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services that it supports.

Apache Libcloud is available for download from: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/downloads.html.

Major changes since the previous release:

• New drivers for CloudSigma, Brightbox, Rackspace UK
• Improvements to deployment capabilities
• libcloud.security module for SSL certificate verification, see http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/LibcloudSSL