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Big news this week: Apache CloudStack has passed major milestones towards graduation! , major progress on bugs against 4.1.0, and much more.

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Stuck on a technical issue? Ask on the -dev list, and it's quite likely you'll not only get an answer – odds are someone's had the problem you've got before, and thought about a solution.

Cloudstack-announce mailing list

Noah started a discusion to establish new cloudstack-announce moderarted mailing list for release and security announcements.

CloudStack Planet - Posts from the CloudStack Community

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David Nalley blogged about getting an SELinux policy to work for CloudStack because, "I really dislike advocating for people to turn off a security mechanism to get software to work. Additionally I really want some of the advantages of sVirt."

HOWTO: Using CloudStack Resources with Puppet (Part 1)

David also started writing about using CloudStack resources with Puppet. David says he's written and talked about CloudStack resources previously, but "while cheerleading and telling people it is awesome should be enough - it really doesn't tell you how to actually use it."

LDAP Authentication in CloudStack (v4.0.1)

Kirt Jantzer wrote about LDAP Authentication in CloudStack (v4.0.1) this week.

PCExtreme Case Study

Posted to the wiki this week, a case study about PCExtreme's use of Apache CloudStack: "PCExtreme Achieves Business Agility with Apache CloudStack"

Upcoming Events

• Storage in Apache CloudStack being held by the CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group on March 28, 2013. Location TBD, sign up on the Meetup.com Website.
• Apache Hackathon at PES Institute of Technology being held by the Bangalore Chapter of CloudStack India on March 30, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. Sign up on the Meetup.com Website.
• Sebastien Goasguen will be at the Scotland JAVA User Group on March 27th, 2013 in Edinburgh, introducing CloudStack.
• Sebastien Goasguen will give a lightning talk at the CloudCamp Scotland on March 28th, 2013 in Edinburgh, talking about SDN in CloudStack.
• UK/European CloudStack user group meet-up will be April 11th in London.

Jira

Things are looking up this week, bug-wise. Bugs have dropped in all categories, and all of the blocker and critical bugs have been assigned.

• Last week: 11 blocker bugs. This week: 7 blocker bugs
• Last week: 29 critical bugs. This week: 10 critical bugs
• Last week: 159 major bugs. This week: 148 major bugs
• Last week: 33 minor bugs. This week: 28 minor bugs

New Committers and PPMC Members

No new committers or PPMC members were announced last week.