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Dear Libcloud users, developers and team members,

2013 is slowly coming to an end, and we would like to wish everyone a happy and successful new year!

Now it’s also the time to look back at the things which have been accomplished, important events which have happened and some statistics for 2013.

Important Events and Milestones

• Two new committers have joined our team - John Carr, Brian Curtin
• In June we held a Libcloud Design Day at the Rackspace San Francisco office. See Libcloud Design Day Recap blog post for a recap.
• We have finally migrated from SVN to Git.
• We have started to work on new and improved documentation which is now available on ReadTheDocs.
• In addition to the Apache Buildbot instance, our tests now also run on Travis CI.
• Key pair management methods have been promoted to be part of the base compute API. See Libcloud update - Key pair management methods are now part of the base API blog post for more information.

Statistics

• 197 new JIRA issues have been opened (total of 472). Out of those 197 issues, 138 are now marked as ‘resolved’.
• Github mirror stars: 331 (+65 YTD)
• Twitter followers: 449 (+149 YTD)
• Google+ page +1’s: 1591
• We had a total of 5 releases (0.12.1, 0.12.3, 0.12.4, 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.13.2, 0.14.0-beta3)
• Combination of SVN and Git repository has had a total of 963 commits.

Sources

Numbers listed above have been retrieved on 26th of December, 2013 from the sources listed bellow:

• Libcloud website - http://libcloud.apache.org/
• Twitter account - https://twitter.com/libcloud
• Google+ page - Apache Libcloud
• Github mirror - https://github.com/apache/libcloud
• JIRA - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD
• PyPi - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-libcloud/
• Ohloh - https://www.ohloh.net/p/libcloud/

Those numbers and numbers for the past years are also available in a semi machine readable format in a Google Spreadsheet.

Old retrospect blog posts

• 2012 in retrospect and a Happy New Year from the Libcloud team
• 2011 in retrospect and a Happy New Year from the Libcloud team

Thanks again to everyone for their contributions and lets make 2014 even better and more successful :)

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Brian Curtin to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted.

We are glad to have him as a committer. Everyone, please help us welcome him to the team :)

Source: mailing list.

We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.14.0-beta3, a first (beta) release in the 0.14.0 series.

The reason this is a beta and not a final release is that it includes some pretty big changes (most notably the “region” argument change). I would like those changes to get some more real-life testing before doing a final release.

Being a first release in the 0.14.0 series means it brings many (and I mean many!) new features, changes and improvements.

Release highlights

• To make working with providers which support multiple regions easier and more user-friendly, some of the drivers have moved away from the “one class per region” to a single class plus “region” argument model. Those drivers include: EC2, Rackspace, ElasticHosts, Joyent, CloudFiles.
• Addition of a programmatic way of updating the pricing file and ability to use a custom pricing file. For more information, please see the documentation
• Addition of block storage management methods to the following drivers: OpenNebula, OpenStack, EC2
• Unification of the extension arguments for handling security groups in the EC2 and OpenStack driver
• Many new features and improvements in the CloudStack driver
• New compute and loadbalancer driver for Google Compute Engine (GCE)
• Ability to export Libcloud’s DNS zone to BIND zone format
• and much more!

Some of the changes noted above are also backward incompatible. For more information on what has changed and how to update your code to work with a new release, please visit the Upgrade Notes section in our documentation.

Other non-code changes worth a mention

• Tests now also run on travis-ci - https://travis-ci.org/apache/libcloud
• New documentation is now also available on RTD - https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Full change log can be found here.

Download

Libcloud 0.14.0-beta3 can be downloaded from http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html or installed using pip:

pip install apache-libcloud==0.14.0-beta3

It is possible that the file hasn’t been synced to all the mirrors yet. If this is the case, please use the main Apache mirror - http://www.apache.org/dist/libcloud.

Upgrading

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

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==0.14.0-beta3

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#libcloud-0-14-0 .

Documentation

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

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.

Source: release announcement.

We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.13.1!

This is a bug-fix only release. Among some smaller bugs it also fixes Content-Length regression which broke create and update operations in the Bluebox Compute and Azure Storage driver (LIBCLOUD-362, LIBCLOUD-3901).

Full change log can be found at here.

Download

Libcloud 0.13.0 can be downloaded from http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html or installed using pip:

pip install apache-libcloud

It is possible that the file hasn’t been synced to all the mirrors yet. If this is the case, please use the main Apache mirror - http://www.apache.org/dist/libcloud.

Upgrading

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

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud

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 http://libcloud.apache.org/upgrade-notes.html.

Documentation

API documentation can be found at http://libcloud.apache.org/apidocs/0.13.1/ .

We also have a new Sphinx documentation which can be found at https://libcloud.apache.org/docs/. Keep in mind though, that this documentation reflects state in trunk which includes some backward incompatible changes which aren’t present in 0.13.1. All the examples in the documentation which only work with trunk are clearly marked with a note.

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.

Source: release announcement.

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked John Carr to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted.

We are glad to have him as a committer and a PMC member. Everyone, please help me welcome him to the team :)

Source: mailing list thread.