We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.17.0.

This is a first release in the 0.17 series which means it brings many new features, improvements and bug-fixes.

Release highlights

• New driver for Softlayer DNS service
• New driver for Google Compute Engine load balancing service
• Many improvements and new features in the Google Compute Engine Driver
• Support for new us-east-2 and us-east-3 region in the Joyent compute driver
• Additional functionality in the CloudStack compute driver
• Support for new regions in the CloudSigma compute driver

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==0.17.0

Upgrading

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

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==0.17.0

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/v0.17.0/

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.