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We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.18.0.

This is a first release in the 0.18 series which means it brings many new features, improvements and bug-fixes.

Release highlights

• New compute driver for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines service
• New compute driver for RunAbove compute service
• New compute driver for Cloudwatt compute service
• New compute driver for Packet.net
• New compute driver for OnApp Cloud service
• New compute driver for Dimension Data compute service
• New storage driver for AuroraObjects service
• New load balancer driver for Softlayer loadbalancing service
• New DNS driver for DigitalOcean DNS service
• Support for DigitalOcean API v2 which is not used by default.
• Support for AWS Signature version 4 and new AWS Frankfurt, Germany region
• Support for retrying failed HTTP requests (disabled by default, to enable it, set LIBCLOUD_RETRY_FAILED_HTTP_REQUESTS environment variable to True)
• Many improvements in the HostVirtual compute driver
• and much more!

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==0.18.0

Upgrading

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

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==0.18.0

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/v0.18.0/

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.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Allard Hoeve!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Allard Hoeve to join us as a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Allard has joined the community just recently, but he has already contributed some high quality changes and proposals.

We are happy to have him on our team and we are looking forward to his future contributions.

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.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Eric Johnson!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Eric Johnson to join us as a committer and a PMC member and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Eric has been involved in the Libcloud community for a while now. He has made many substantial contributions to the Google Compute Engine drivers. On top of that, he also contributed to other projects which utilize Libcloud.

We are happy to have him on our team and we are looking forward to even better and more complete Google Compute Engine drivers.

We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.16.0!

This is a first release in the 0.16 series which means it brings many new features, improvements and bug-fixes.

Release highlights

• Support for OpenStack Identity API v3.0. For more information and examples, see the following blog post - Libcloud now supports OpenStack Identity (Keystone) API v3.
• Support for HTTP proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. For information on how to use this new feature, please refer to the Using an HTTP proxy section in the documentation.
• New driver for VMware vSphere based clouds. For documentation, please see this page.
• Support for Amazon GovCloud.
• New driver for the ProfitBricks provider.
• Support for authentication with the internal metadata service in the Google Compute Engine driver. For more information, please refer to the Internal Authentication section in the documentation.
• Easier debugging with LIBCLOUD_DEBUG by pretty-formatting JSON and XML responses. For information on how to use this feature, see Making JSON / XML response human friendly example in the documentation.
• and more

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==0.16.0

Upgrading

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

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==0.16.0

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#libcloud-0-16-0

Documentation

Regular and API documentation is available at https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v0.16.0/

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.