We are happy to announce Libcloud v3.9.0.

This release includes new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

Highlights include:

  • Improvements in the Azure ARM compute driver
  • Improvements in the Equinix Metal compute driver
  • Improvements in the Linode compute driver
  • Improvements in the KubeVirt compute driver
  • Improvements in the Amazon S3 storage driver
  • Amazon EC2: Updated pricing and instance sizing data.
  • Dropped support for Python 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9, as they are now EOL.
  • Added support for Python 3.12 (stable) and 3.13.

A list of all the changes can be found at https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-in-apache-libcloud-9.0.

In addition to the end-user visible changes, we have made various changes to our development process and practices to better follow and align with modern Python development and packaging best practices.

  • Removed the unused setup.py file to reduce confusion since the project fully migrated to pyproject.toml.
  • Made libcloud.common.types.Type hashable, allowing direct use in set membership checks.
  • Updated build and packaging tools to fix issues reported by downstream users.
  • Adopt uv tool for dependency management.

Download

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

pip install "apache-libcloud==3.9.0"

Upgrading

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

pip install --upgrade "apache-libcloud==3.9.0"

Upgrade notes

A page that 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/v3.9.0/

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 that reproduces your problem.

Thanks

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