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The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Ilgiz Islamgulov to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted.

Ilgiz worked on the Libcloud REST GSoC project (http://libcloud.apache.org/gsoc-2012.html) this summer and he has made a great progress on it.

Giving him commit access will allow him to more directly contribute to the project and work on integrating Libcloud REST into main line.

Everyone, please help me welcome him to the team :)

Source: mailing list.

We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.11.3!

Release highlights

Compute

• Add new Rackspace Nova driver for Chicago (ORD) location
• Add new methods for managing storage volumes and other extenstion methods to the IBM SCE driver.
• Allow user to pass ‘timeout’ argument to the ‘deploy_node’ method

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug with the Libcloud SSL verification code. Code was too strict and didn’t allow “-“ character in the sub-domain when using a wildcard certificate.

Full change log can be found at https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/tags/0.11.3/CHANGES?revision=r1388947&view=markup.

Download

Libcloud 0.11.3 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.html.

Documentation

API documentation can be found at http://libcloud.apache.org/apidocs/0.11.3/.

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 / ortest 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/tags/0.11.3/CHANGES?revision=r1388947&view=markup.

Source: release announcement.

This release fixes a possible SSL man-in-the-middle vulnerability inside the code which performs the SSL certificate validation. For more information about the vulnerability, please see the “Security” page - http://libcloud.apache.org/security.html.

Everyone using an older version is strongly encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Download

Libcloud 0.11.1 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.html.

Documentation

API documentation can be found at http://libcloud.apache.org/apidocs/0.11.1/.

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 the researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (Martin Georgiev, Suman Jana and Vitaly Shmatikov) who discovered this vulnerability.

Source: release announcement.

The Apache Libcloud team is pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.11.0!

Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple cloud provider APIs. It allows users to manage cloud services (servers, storage, load balancers, DNS) offered by many different providers through a single, unified and easy to use API.

Release highlights

General

• Install test files when installing the library. Tests module can now be imported by doing something like this: “from libcloud import test”

Compute

• New standard API and methods for managing storage volumes. Base API consists of the following methods: create_volume, destroy_volume, attach_volume, detach_volume.
• New driver for KT UCloud (http://home.ucloud.olleh.com/main.kt) based on the CloudStack driver.
• New Gridspot driver with a basic list and destroy functionality.

Bug fixes

• Plenty of them, please see the CHANGES file.

For a full list of changes, please see the CHANGES file https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/tags/0.11.0/CHANGES?revision=r1364892&view=markup.

Download

Libcloud 0.10.1 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.html.

Documentation

API documentation can be found at http://libcloud.apache.org/apidocs/0.11.1/

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/tags/0.11.0/CHANGES?revision=r1364892&view=markup.

Source: release announcement.

Libcloud team is pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.10.1!

Release highlights

General

• Allow user to specify which IP to use when calling deploy_node (defaults to ‘public_ips’). Previously it only worked with public IP, now user can pass ‘private_ips’ as an argument and SSH client will try to connect to the node first private IP address.

Compute

• New driver for Joyent cloud (http://www.joyentcloud.com/)
• New driver for VCL cloud ( http://www.educause.edu/blog/hes8/CloudComputingandtheVirtualCom/167931)
• A lot of improvements and new features in the Brightbox driver
• Support for Vmware vCloud version 1.5
• Modify ParamikoSSHClient to connect to the SSH agent and automatically look for private keys in ~/.ssh if the ‘auth’ and ‘ssh_key’ argument is not specified when calling deploy_node.
• Modify IBM driver so it works with IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise

Storage

• Support for uploading large files in the CloudFiles driver
• New driver for OpenStack Swift installations based on the CloudFiles driver

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug in the CloudSigma Las Vegas compute driver

For a full list of changes, please see the CHANGES file https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/libcloud/tags/0.10.1/CHANGES?revision=r1340892&view=markup.

Download

Libcloud 0.10.1 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.html.

Documentation

API documentation can be found at http://libcloud.apache.org/apidocs/0.10.1/

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/tags/0.10.1/CHANGES?revision=r1340892&view=markup.

Source: release announcement.