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On 13/08/11 02:15, David Lutterkort wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just uploaded a release candidate for Deltacloud 0.4.0. The rc is
> available from http://people.apache.org/~lutter/deltacloud/0.4.0/rc1/
>
> Please vote on the release candidate by Tuesday, 2011-08-16 17:00 PDT
>
> Many thanks to all those who contributed patches, reported bugs, and
> asked for features. It's great to see that the list of committers and
> patch contributors is steadily increasing.
>
> Overview of the changes for this release:
>

I pasted this (awesome) list of changes into the end of the apache 
incubator report for August 
(http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2011). Needs to be signed off by 
a mentor

marios

> Server:
>    * deltacloudd: new option --drivers to list all drivers
>    * deltacloudd: new options --ssl, --ssl-key and --ssl-cert to
>      enable HTTPS support
>    * API entrypoint reports features in JSON
>    * unify response behavior: any operation returning a 201 Created also
>      sets the Location header to point to the new resource; ensure the
>      status for an operation is the same regardless of output format
>    * Add type to public addresses; type can be one of 'ipv4', 'mac', 'vnc',
>      and 'hostname'
>    * Complete overhaul of the HTML UI, now uses jquery-mobile
>    * Response status for attach/detach storage is now 202 (instead of 302)
>    * Response status for get/set blob metadata is 204 No Content
>    * Response status for (un)register with load balancer is 204 No Content
>    * The user_name feature now reports the permissible length of the name
>      as the 'max_length' constraint
>    * Add Date header to responses as per RFC 2616
>    * New collection 'firewalls' for managing sets of firewalling rules
>    * split server/config/drivers.yaml into individual files so each driver
>      can be packaged separately; gives deployers better choice of what
>      drivers they want enabled
>    * Numerous bug fixes and improvements to the test suite
>    * Drivers
>      + Condor
>        - new driver to run a simple cloud based on the Condor grid scheduler
>      + EC2
>        - Fix bug in reboot instance so that the details returned are those
>          of the stopped instance, not some random instance
>        - Support getting and updating blob metadata
>        - support destroying images
>        - support firewalls (security groups)
>        - do not support user_name anymore; instance tagging is too fragile
>          in EC2 to be used reliably for this
>        - do not support registering an instance with a load balancer upon
>          creation anymore
>        - stream blob PUT to backend (requires thin)
>        - support attaching EBS snapshot to instance upon creation (feature
>          'attach_snapshot')
>        - support elastic IP's
>      + Eucalyptus
>        - support firewalls (security groups)
>        - support elastic IP's
>      + Gogrid
>        - when retrieving single realm, make sure we return the right one
>        - correctly capture load_balancer params
>        - report a listener if load_balancer has no instances
>      + Mock
>        - support destroying images
>      + Rackspace
>        - support destroying images
>        - stream blob PUT to backend (requires thin)
>      + RHEV-M
>        - support creating and destroying images
>        - report VNC address of instances
>        - can use Audrey's confserver to fetch IP of an instance
>      + vSphere
>        - turns a VMWare vSphere installation into a cloud
>        - driver stateless, state is stored in vSphere's data store in
>          'deltacloud' folder
>        - images are template VM's
>        - single HWP, whose max_cpu and max_memory are based on available
>          cpus and memory across all vSphere hosts
>        - support data injection via user_data and user_iso (upload entire
>          ISO image) For both, instance gets virtual CD-ROM with injected
>          data
>
> Client:
>    * make authentication info for instances available
>    * retrieve type and address for public addresses of an instance
>    * deltacloudc: allow specifying bucket location when creating a bucket
>
> Site:
>    * Major rewrite of REST API docs, covers the entire API now
>    * Add libdeltacloud API docs
>
> I will update the website and docs to reflect those changes in time for
> the official release.
>
> David
>
>