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On 03/25/2014 03:28 PM, Chip Childers wrote:
> Website issues should all be resolved now.  Thanks for noticing this.
>

I also fixed the Ubuntu packages. They were there, but not properly 
indexed by the mirror.

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Sumita Gorla <Sumita.Gorla@citrix.com> wrote:
>> Hi Chip
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>> Thank you for the announcement.
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>> The website still shows the latest release as 4.2.1
>> http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html
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>> "Apache CloudStack's most current release is 4.2.1."
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>> Thanks,
>> Sumita
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>> On 3/25/14 10:05 AM, "Chip Childers" <chipchilders@apache.org> wrote:
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>>> Announcing Apache CloudStack 4.3.0
>>>
>>> Tue Mar 25 2014 09:47:06 GMT-0400 (EDT)
>>>
>>> Flexible, scalable, Open Source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) used
>>> by organizations such as Zynga, Datapipe, and ISWest, among others, for
>>> creating, managing, and deploying public, private, and hybrid Cloud
>>> Computing environments
>>>
>>> Forest Hill, MD --25 March 2014-- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF),
>>> the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170
>>> Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache CloudStack
>>> v4.3, the latest feature release of the CloudStack cloud orchestration
>>> platform.
>>>
>>> Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
>>> software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public,
>>> private, and hybrid cloud environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive
>>> user interface and rich APIs for managing the compute, networking,
>>> software, and storage infrastructure resources. CloudStack became an
>>> Apache Top-level Project (TLP) in March 2013. "We are proud to announce
>>> CloudStack v4.3," said Hugo Trippaers, Vice President of Apache
>>> CloudStack. "This release represents over six months of work from the
>>> Apache CloudStack community with many new and improved features."
>>>
>>> Under The Hood
>>>
>>> CloudStack V4.3 is the next feature release of the 4.x line which first
>>> released on November 6, 2012. Some of the noteworthy new and improved
>>> features include:
>>>
>>> - Support for Microsoft Hyper-V - Apache CloudStack can now manage Hyper-V
>>>   hypervisors in addition to KVM, XenServer, VMware, LXC, and Bare Metal
>>> - Juniper OpenContrail integration - OpenContrail is a software defined
>>>   networking controller from Juniper that CloudStack now integrates with
>>>   to provide SDN services
>>> - SSL Termination support for guest VMs - Apache CloudStack can configure
>>>   and manage SSL termination in certain load balancer devices
>>> - Palo Alto Firewall integration - Apache CloudStack can now manage and
>>>   configure Palo Alto firewalls
>>> - Remote access VPN for VPC networks - CloudStack's remote access VPN is
>>>   now available for Virtual Private Cloud networks
>>> - Site to Site VPN between VRs - CloudStack now allows site-to-site VPN
>>>   connectivity to it's virtual routing devices. This permits your cloud
>>>   computing environment to appear as a natural extension of your local
>>>   network, or for you to easily interconnect multiple environments
>>> - VXLAN support expansion to include KVM - CloudStack's support for
>>>   integrating VXLAN, the network virtualization technology that attempts
>>>   to ameliorate scalability problems with traditional networking
>>> - SolidFire plugin extension to support KVM and hypervisor snapshots for
>>>   XenServer and ESX - SolidFire provides guaranteed Storage Quality of
>>>   Service at the Virtual Machine level
>>> - Dynamic Compute offering - CloudStack now has the ability to dynamically
>>>   scale the resources assigned to a running virtual machine instance for
>>>   those hypervisors which support it
>>>
>>> Downloads and Documentation
>>>
>>> The official source code for the v4.3 release, as well as individual
>>> contributors' convenience binaries, can be downloaded from the Apache
>>> CloudStack downloads page at http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html
>>>
>>> The CloudStack 4.2 release includes over 110 issues from 4.2.0 and
>>> 4.2.1, including fixes for object storage support, documentation, and
>>> more. A full list of corrected issues and upgrade instructions are
>>> available in the Release Notes
>>> http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes
>>>
>>> Official installation, administration, and API documentation for each
>>> release is available at http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/
>>> Apache CloudStack in Action
>>>
>>> Join members of the Apache CloudStack community at the CloudStack
>>> Collaboration Conference, taking place 9-11 April 2014 immediately
>>> following ApacheCon. For more information, visit
>>> http://cloudstackcollab.org
>>>
>>> Availability and Oversight
>>>
>>> As with all Apache products, Apache CloudStack v4.3 is released under
>>> the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of
>>> active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC)
>>> guides the Project�s day-to-day operations, including community
>>> development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become
>>> involved with Apache CloudStack, visit http://cloudstack.apache.org/
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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