Release Notes Beta 8

Introduction

We resolved 23 issues in our jclouds 1.0-beta-8 release. While mostly a bugfix release we have a few notable features to discuss.

New Features

• Tested support for a peer1-storage
• jclouds can now persist credentials of started nodes across contexts, which allows you to run scripts without ever knowing the login credentials of nodes.
• Integration tests are stronger including os version match tests and running web services on launched nodes
• Stabalized terremark ecloud support

API Breaking Changes

• EC2Hardware object has been removed in favor of the base Hardware class.
• ScriptBuilder.build is now ScriptBuilder.render so that it can implement the Statement interface.

Known Issues

• trmk-ecloud
  • only the centos template work in ComputeService
• slicehost
  • note that soft followed by hard reboot ends often throws a server error saying wait.
• bluelock-vcdirector/vcloud
  • you have to copy vAppTemplates into your catalog from the public one before they can be used.
  • ComputeService has no hooks for changing the hardware yet
• eucalyptus tests skipped due to no resources on the test cloud
• the following providers are unstable
  • rimuhosting