We are happy to announce Libcloud v3.0.0.

This is the first release in the v3.x.x series. It includes many changes and improvements, the biggest one being dropping support for Python 2.7 and Python 3 < 3.5.

If you still need to use Python 2.7 or Python 3 < 3.5 you can use Libcloud v2.8.x release series which still supports those Python versions - keep in mind though that this release series only includes bug fixes. All the new features and improvements will land in the v3.x.x series.

Other highlights include:

  • Type annotations for the base storage API
  • Various improvements in the Azure Blobs driver
  • New standard “prefix” keyword argument in the {list,iterate}_container_objects methods
  • 4 new compute drivers (KubeVirt, LXD, Kamatera, GiG G8)
  • Various improvements to the deploy_node() functionality
  • and much more

A list of all the changes can be found at https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-in-apache-libcloud-3-0-0 and https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-in-apache-libcloud-3-0-0-rc1.

Download

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

pip install "apache-libcloud==3.0.0"

Upgrading

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

pip install --upgrade "apache-libcloud==3.0.0"

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/v3.0.0/

Bugs / Issues

If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker https://github.com/apache/libcloud/issues.

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.