Libcloud team is pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.6.1!

This release represents a big milestone for us and includes many improvements and new drivers, but the most important thing is a brand new DNS API.

DNS API allows users to manage DNS service provided by many different providers. This release includes a driver for Linode DNS ( http://www.linode.com/features.cfm), Zerigo DNS (http://www.zerigo.com/) and Rackspace Cloud DNS ( http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/dns/). In the future we also plan to expand it (hopefully with your help) and add new drivers for providers such as Amazon and others.

Other notable changes, bug-fixes and improvements:

Documentation

  • New documentation which is available at http://libcloud.apache.org/docs/

General

  • SSL certificate validation is now enabled by default. If no CA certificate files are found on startup, an exception is thrown.

Compute

  • New driver for Ninefold.com (also a first driver for public Australian cloud provider in Libcloud)
  • Support for OpenStack 1.1 API and many other improvements in the OpenStack driver
  • Linode driver now support a new Japan location
  • Support for deployment using an SSH key
  • Amazon EC2 driver now supports deploy functionality using an SSH key

Storage

  • New driver for Google storage (http://code.google.com/apis/storage/)
  • New driver for Ninefold.com storage (http://ninefold.com/cloud-storage/)

Load Balancer:

  • New driver for ninefold.com ( https://ninefold.com/support/display/SPT/Load+Balancing)
  • Rackspace driver now also supports UK location

Any many other improvements and bug fixes!

For a full list of changes, please see the CHANGES file https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/trunk/CHANGES?revision=1198753&view=markup.

Download

Libcloud 0.6.1 can be downloaded from http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html or installed using pip:

pip install apache-libcloud

It is possible that the file hasn’t been synced to all the mirrors yet. If this is the case, please use the main Apache mirror - http://www.apache.org/dist/libcloud

Upgrading

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

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud

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 http://libcloud.apache.org/upgrade-notes-0-6.html.

Documentation

API documentation can be found at http://libcloud.apache.org/apidocs/0.6.1/.

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 https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/trunk/CHANGES?revision=1198753&view=markup.

Source: release announcement.