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We are into deep work The community is busy working on 4.2.0 and need your help in making the grade. There's a lot of , and there's much to be done before the release is ready. This week, we're taking a look at some of the interesting discussions going on into in the the community about the next generation of Apache CloudStack, and functionality we can provide, as well as some procedural adjustments changes that everyone should be aware of.

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Major Discussions

In this section we look at major discussions that have happened on the CloudStack mailing lists. This is by no means a full summary of all discussions on the lists, but we try to hit the highlights that are relevant to the larger CloudStack community.

4.2 Status Update

Animesh Chaturvedi the release manager for 4.2 and is tracking the current status of the release. Testing, bug fix work, and documentation should be targeted to complete by code freeze on 7/28. Release is still on schedule to release by 8/19.

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Since the cloudstack project has moved to ASF, the suggestion is to move
from com.cloud packages to org.apache java packages.(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-212)

As you might be realize, this is pretty big change. And merging this
changes with a continuously updating master is non-trivial. So, here is the
planned strategy after discussion over IRC. I am starting this thread to
inform and know everyone's opinions.

1. I will be pushing code with new packages on branch "namespacechanges"
and will notify on this thread as each refactored module is pushed.

2. There will be a freeze on master branch commits for some time in which
"namespacechanges" will be applied to master. I suggest the date to be 20th
July.

3. All the branch-owner updates their branch for reflect new packages. It
was suggested that branch owners can look into the "namespacechanges"
branch as it grows and start doing the package changes early, although it
depends on branch-owners.

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What's going on in the CloudStack community? While all the discussion happens on the mailing lists, we also encourage members of the CloudStack community to share what they're working on their blogs. In this section, you'll find posts by Apache CloudStack community members and interesting news that's relevant to Apache CloudStack.

SolidFire announces Announces Early Release CloudStack Storage Plug-in

Utilizing the new storage architecture in the 4.2 release, SolidFire the leader in all-solid-state (SSD) storage devices announced the early release of their storage plug-in that will be available in the 4.2 release.

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Read the Press Release

Midokura Announces Integration with ACS

Midokura has announced the integration of its flagship network virtualization product MidoNet with Apache CloudStack. Chip Childers commented:

"We are pleased to see Midokura's development of a CloudStack plugin for MidoNet, and look forward to their continued progress on the project."

Read the Press release.

CloudStack European User Group Summary

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