Welcome back to another exciting issue of the Apache CloudStack Weekly News. This week, we take a look at the progress towards 4.2.0, major discussions on the Apache CloudStack mailing lists, and much more.

Major Discussions

4.2 Release Coding Starting to Wrap-up

With a less than a week left before code freeze for the 4.2 release on 7/29, there is a lot of work still to be done and a lot of bugs that need to be worked out. With this major release many new and existing features need the blocker and critical bugs cleared out as soon as possible. There's been great teamwork in the community. Animesh Chaturvedi points out the work that needs to be done:

...For the days remaining to code freeze, lets prioritize fixing blockers and critical over majors. As from last week in order to clear up our backlog I request you to help out on aggressively fixing the issues. The unassigned issue list is available at http://s.apache.org/BlH/. When you fix a bug in 4.2 please make sure it is also fixed in master.

The outstanding resolved issues now stand at 492 with 250 blockers and critical still to be verified. As with fixing issues now we need to focus on blockers and critical first.

The detailed bug status is captured below.

Bugs	This Week				Last Week
	Blocker	Critical	Major	Total	Blocker	Critical	Major	Total
Incoming	29	48	64	144	31	40	46	120
Outgoing	37	68	51	159	33	38	65	140
Open Unassigned	6	13	149	208	6	46	120	226
Open Total	24	68	239	392	30	84	213	388

The status for features or improvement is depicted in table below

New Features / Improvements	Today	Last Week
Closed	13	12
Resolved	60	59
In Progress	9	10
Reopened	2	2
Ready To Review	0	0
Open	18	19
Total	102	102

CloudStack Planet

Events

• O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) is being held July 22-26 at Oregon Convention Center, Portland Oregon. There will be several CloudStack talks.
• *Ceph Day NYC will feature David Nalley speaking on CloudStack. Come learn out CloudStack and Ceph on August 1.
• CloudStack Study Meeting Suzuki-san will be organizing a study meeting in Osaka on August 2.
• OSC Kyoto The Japanese CloudStack User Group (JCSUG) will be presenting at the Open Source Conference in Kyoto on August 2-3.
• CloudStack Meetup at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA on August 7th from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Be sure to RSVP on Meetup.com!
• *Build a Cloud Day - London being hosted by Sebastien Goasguen, being held on September 5.
• *Cloud Plug Fest offers a variety of Tutorials and sessions, including OpenStack and CloudStack, in Madrid, Spain September 16-20.
• *Build a Cloud Day - Switzerland has Sebastien Goasguen teaching you and helping you build clouds across Europe on September 26.
• *CloudStack Collaboration Conference planning is well underway for Amsterdam, Netherlands. Put i on your calendar now for November 20-22.

New Committers and PMC Members

No new committers or PMC members have been announced in the last newsletter period.