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From Thierry Carrez…<\/p>\n

In a bit more than a week, we will hit FeatureFreeze<\/a> for OpenStack \u201cCactus\u201d cycle, so we start to have a good idea of what new features will make it. The Cactus cycle focus was on stability, so there are fewer new features compared to Bexar, but the developers still achieved a lot in a couple of months\u2026<\/p>\n

Swift (OpenStack object storage)<\/h3>\n

The Swift team really focused and stability and performance improvements this cycle. I will just single out \ufeffthe refactoring of the proxy to make backend requests concurrent<\/a>, and improvements on sqlite3 indexing<\/a> as good examples of this effort.<\/p>\n

Glance (OpenStack image registry and delivery service)<\/h3>\n

Bexar saw the first release of Glance, and in Cactus it was vastly improved to match standards we have for the rest of OpenStack: logging<\/a>, configuration<\/a> and options<\/a> parsing, use of paste.deploy<\/a> and non-static versioning<\/a>, database migrations<\/a>\u2026 New features include a CLI tool<\/a> and a new method for client to verify images<\/a>. Glance developers might also sneak in an authentication middleware<\/a> and support for HTTPS connections<\/a> !<\/p>\n

Nova (OpenStack compute)<\/h3>\n

A lot of the feature work in Nova for Cactus revolved around the OpenStack API 1.1<\/a> and exposing features through XenServer (migration<\/a>, resize<\/a>, rescue mode<\/a>, IPv6<\/a>, file<\/a> and network<\/a> injection\u2026). We should also have the long-awaited live migration<\/a> feature (for KVM), support for LXC containers<\/a>, VHD images<\/a>, multiple<\/a> NICs<\/a>, dynamically-configured instance flavors<\/a> or volume storage on HP\/Lefthand SANs<\/a>. XenAPI should get support for Vlan network manager<\/a> and network injection<\/a>. We hope support for VMWare\/vSphere hypervisor<\/a> will make it.<\/p>\n

The rest of the Nova team concentrated on testing, bugfixing (already 115 bugfixes committed to Cactus !) and producing a coherent release, as evidenced by the work on adding the missing Ipv6 support for FlatManager<\/a> network model. I should also mention that the groundwork for multi-tenant accounting<\/a> and multiple clusters in a region<\/a> also landed in Cactus.<\/p>\n

Over the three projects branches, last month we had more than 2500 commits<\/em> by more than 75 developers. Not too bad for a project less than one-year-old\u2026 We\u2019ll see the result of this work on Cactus release day, scheduled April 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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