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Github and DigitalOcean are organizing Hacktoberfest again this year.

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software where people are encouraged to contribute to different open source projects. Each user who submits four pull requests to any Github hosted open source project of their choice will receive a free t-shirt.

This year we are also happy to announce that we have been selected as one of the highlighted Python projects which users are invited to check, play with it and contribute to.

We think this is a great opportunity for both, long time users and contributors, but especially people who are new to open source to learn how open source works and participate.

Having said that, we would like to invite anyone who is interested to participate and contribute to our project. You can find more information on contributing to Libcloud in our contribution guide.

For more information about the Hacktoberfest project itself and information on how to sign up, please visit the official website and announcement blog post from Github and DigitalOcean.

We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.18.0.

This is a first release in the 0.18 series which means it brings many new features, improvements and bug-fixes.

Release highlights

• New compute driver for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines service
• New compute driver for RunAbove compute service
• New compute driver for Cloudwatt compute service
• New compute driver for Packet.net
• New compute driver for OnApp Cloud service
• New compute driver for Dimension Data compute service
• New storage driver for AuroraObjects service
• New load balancer driver for Softlayer loadbalancing service
• New DNS driver for DigitalOcean DNS service
• Support for DigitalOcean API v2 which is not used by default.
• Support for AWS Signature version 4 and new AWS Frankfurt, Germany region
• Support for retrying failed HTTP requests (disabled by default, to enable it, set LIBCLOUD_RETRY_FAILED_HTTP_REQUESTS environment variable to True)
• Many improvements in the HostVirtual compute driver
• and much more!

Full change log can be found at here.

Download

The release can can be downloaded from https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html or installed using pip:

pip install apache-libcloud==0.18.0

Upgrading

If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==0.18.0

Upgrade notes

A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible can be found at https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html

Documentation

Regular and API documentation is available at https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v0.18.0/

Bugs / Issues

If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD. Don’t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your problem.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the CHANGES file.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Allard Hoeve!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Allard Hoeve to join us as a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Allard has joined the community just recently, but he has already contributed some high quality changes and proposals.

We are happy to have him on our team and we are looking forward to his future contributions.

We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.17.0.

This is a first release in the 0.17 series which means it brings many new features, improvements and bug-fixes.

Release highlights

• New driver for Softlayer DNS service
• New driver for Google Compute Engine load balancing service
• Many improvements and new features in the Google Compute Engine Driver
• Support for new us-east-2 and us-east-3 region in the Joyent compute driver
• Additional functionality in the CloudStack compute driver
• Support for new regions in the CloudSigma compute driver

Full change log can be found at here.

Download

The release can can be downloaded from https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html or installed using pip:

pip install apache-libcloud==0.17.0

Upgrading

If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==0.17.0

Upgrade notes

A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible can be found at https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html

Documentation

Regular and API documentation is available at https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v0.17.0/

Bugs / Issues

If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD. Don’t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your problem.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the CHANGES file.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Eric Johnson!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Eric Johnson to join us as a committer and a PMC member and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Eric has been involved in the Libcloud community for a while now. He has made many substantial contributions to the Google Compute Engine drivers. On top of that, he also contributed to other projects which utilize Libcloud.

We are happy to have him on our team and we are looking forward to even better and more complete Google Compute Engine drivers.