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Another busy week in Apache CloudStack land! Javelin has been merged with master, the 4.1 branch has been created, and the 4.0.1-incubating release has passed its second round vote to go on to the IPMC vote.

Major Discussions and Issues

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Committers taking these fixes should also consider applying them to master. If there are conflicts in master (which may happen, as there were a
couple of code-base refactoring activities, like switching packages from com.cloud to org.apache.cloudstack), apply the fix into 4.1 anyway, and inform the submitter that the patch has conflicts with master to get that sorted out (or you can fix it yourself).

4.0.1-incubating Vote

The 4.0.1-incubating release has passed the vote on cloudstack-dev, and is now in the 72-hour IPMC vote. Going into the vote on general@incubator.apache.org, the release artifacts already have 3 +1 mentor votes, so it should pass barring any -1 votes.

Preparing for Translation

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One of the side-effects of the new packaging plan is that CloudMonkey may not be installed with the RPMs, but instead require that admins use PIP to grab CloudMonkey.

Support VM Snapshot Held to 4.2

Mice Xia proposed merging the VM Snapshot branch to master ahead of the 4.1 branching/feature freeze on January 28th. However, there were a number of questions about the feature's implementation and consensus was not reached in time for the 4.1 branch's creation.

On the plus side, this is why we have time-based releases. While it will delay inclusion into CloudStack slightly, the feature will be well-poised to go into 4.2 and the additional attention that the discussion has raised will likely make it that much better a feature when merged to master. It also means that a single feature won't delay the 4.1 release, which already has quite a lot of improvements and new features that CloudStack users will want to have ready when it's scheduled for release.

Proposal to Deprecate the non-RESTful APIs and API Server

Rohit Yadav has proposed deprecating CloudStack's non-RESTful APIs and API server over a reasonable timeline. The reaction has been positive, and Min Chen has offered to share an architecture design that's in-progress, when it's ready.

Help Reviewing Runbook

David Nalley has sent out a request for help reviewing his runbook, which is an opinionated guide to setting up a simple CloudStack install on a single CentOS 6.3 server using KVM. Other CloudStack users and contributors have expressed interest in creating similar runbooks for Ubuntu-based systems.

Upcoming Events

• India User Group Meet-up: Citrix, ShapeBlue, and CloudByte are combinedly organizing a CloudStack India User Group Meetup in Bangalore (5 February, 2013).
• Build a Cloud Day (BACD): Full day BACD at SCALE on Friday (22 February 2013).
• CloudStack Booth at SCALE: Meet with CloudStack folks at SCALE (23-24 February 2013), also Joe Brockmeier is speaking about CloudStack at SCALE.

Jira

Be sure to check the list of 4.1.0 bugs to see if there are any open issues assigned to you, or any unassigned issues that you could take on.

New Committers and PPMC Members

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to welcome Koushik Das as a committer this week. Well done, Koushik!