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This page was created for ACS 4.23.0.0 release. It contains information about the planned features and updates.
Release Manager: Unknown User (weizhou) Fabricio Duarte
Milestone: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/milestone/42
Design document: 4.23 Design Documents
Timeline:
- Until June 1st, 2026: accept new features, bug fixes and improvements.
- June 2nd, 2026: freeze the main branch. From this point, we only accept critical/blocker fixes will be accepted.
- June 3rd, 2026, or once all blocker/critical/security issues are resolved (whichever is later): cut RC1 and start the voting process (1-3 weeks to work on the next RCs if necessary).
1. New Features
| No. | Summary | Description (PR link, cwiki page, etc) | Current status (stage, assignee, date) | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | API key pair restructure | Allows users to have multiple key pairs with different permissions, and define valid intervals for key pairs. | Merged on 2026-03-09 | |
| 2 | Add support to clone existing offerings and update them | Merged on 2026-03-17 | ||
| 3 | Support Firewall for public IPs in VPC | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12706 | Dev in progress | Based on "Add conserve mode for VPC offerings" |
| 4 | Add conserve mode for VPC offerings | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12487 | Merged on 2026-03-16 | |
| 5 | In Testing | |||
| 6 | cwiki: DNS Framework and Plugins | In Testing | ||
| 7 | Guest OS rules | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/10098 | Needs review | |
| 8 | KVM Backup on Secondary Storage | Needs review and testing | ||
| 9 | Live scaling for VMs with fixed service offerings on KVM | Needs review and testing | ||
| 10 | NetApp storage plugin | Needs review | ||
| 11 | Network Extension: Orchestrate external Network devices | Needs review and testing |
2. Improvements
| No. | Summary | Description (PR link, cwiki page, etc) | Current status (stage, assignee, date) | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Multiple Quota improvements | PRs:
| Code is ready, but some PRs still need to be opened. Some of the open PRs need updating (conflict fixing). Others need testing from the community. Assignee: to be defined | Basic testing should be enough for most of the PRs, as the changes are isolated in the Quota plugin |
| moved out | |||
| 3 | CLVM enhancements and fixes | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12617 | In Testing | |
| 4 | CKS: Allow affinity group selection during cluster creation | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12386 | Merged on 2026-03-13 | |
| 5 | Add Guest OS mapping for windows server 2025 on VMware | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12358 | ||
| https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/11503 | moved out | ||
| 7 | In Testing | |||
| 8 | Isolated network with Dynamic Routing IPv6 | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12811 | Needs review and testing | |
| 9 | Incremental backup for NAS B&R | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/13074 | Needs review and testing | |
| 10 | Scheduled autoscaling | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/13148 | Needs review and testing | |
| 11 | Add keycloak OAuth provider | https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/13033 | Needs review and testing |
3. Updates
(bi-weekly / monthly update, meeting notes, etc)
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