CloudStack 4.0 Release is the first ASL 2.0 compliant release. The source code and libraries it relies on have been scrubbed to check for ASL 2.0 compliance. It also contains new features and updates. This page gives a list of the new features and work done on licensing.
4.0 release is currently scheduled to be submitted for approval to release by the PMC on 10/5. QA Test Metrics can be found here.
4.0 release is not ready to open for voting.
Bug |
Feature |
Description |
Contributed |
Design |
Made |
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VPC |
Inter-VLAN Routing |
Citrix |
|
Y |
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S2S |
Site-to-Site VPN |
Citrix |
|
Y |
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Tagging |
AWS style tagging for CloudStack Resources |
Citrix |
|
Y |
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Local Storage |
Local Storage Support for Data Volumes |
Citrix |
|
Y |
|
Auto-Scaling |
Automatically scaling of user VMs using NetScaler |
Citrix |
|
N |
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NVP |
Nicira NVP Support |
Hugo |
|
Y |
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Ceph/RBD |
Ceph/RBD Support for KVM |
Wido |
|
Y |
14435 |
EC2 |
EC2 support integrated into CloudStack |
Citrix |
1) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/EC2+API+support+in+CloudStack |
Y |
|
Brocade |
Brocade Load Balancer support |
Brocade |
|
N |
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Caringo S3 |
Support for Caringo as S3 provider |
Caringo |
|
Y |
9915 |
Nexus 1000v |
Support for Nexus 1000v |
Citrix |
|
Y |
6061 |
Secure VNC |
Provide secure VNC access to XenServer |
Citrix |
|
Y |
10808 |
Upload Volume |
Upload Volume to CloudStack |
Citrix |
|
Y |
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Create but not deploy VM |
API to create the VM but not start it |
Citrix |
|
Y |
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Dedicated hosts |
Support for host dedication and dedicate hosts for HA purpose |
Citrix |
|
Y |
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VMWare DRS |
Better support for VMWare DRS |
Citrix |
|
Y |
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SDN |
Open VSwitch implementation on XenServer |
Citrix |
|
Y |
|
S3 |
S3 API support |
Citrix |
|
Y |
License |
Reason |
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Removed Hibernate specific code |
Hibernate uses GPL |
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Removed MySQL specific code |
MySQL uses GPL |
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Changed all source code headers to ASL 2.0 |
Source code was GPL previously |
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Removed binaries from source tree |
To comply with ASL 2.0 |
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Removed third-party jars from depo |
To comply with ASL 2.0 |
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Switched to Maven |
To auto download third party libraries during build |
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The QA Test Plan for 4.0 is here.
Release |
Targeted |
Actual |
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RC-1 |
10/1 |
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RC-2 |
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GA |
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