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On July 23nd of this year it will be exactly 5 years from the initial project announcement on the Cloudkick blog.

We are going to celebrate this great milestone with a cake and drinks and we would like to invite you to join us. The celebration will take place in a nice bar during the EuroPython week in Berlin, Germany.

The cake is not a lie!

Celebration will be attended by Libcloud developers so this is also a great opportunity for you to meet and hang with us in real-life and ask any questions you might have about the project.

For more information visit the eventbrite page.

For more information, exact location and RSVP, please refer to the Eventbrite page. Keep in mind that RSVP is mandatory if you want to attend the celebration.

We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.15.0.

This is a first release in the 0.15 series which means it brings many new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Release highlights

• New compute driver for Outscale SAS and Outscale INC cloud
• New compute driver for HP Public Cloud (Helion)
• New compute driver for Kili public cloud
• Extension methods for the VPC Internet gateway management in the EC2 driver
• Lower memory usage and faster parsing of large XML responses when lxml library is installed.
• and much more!

Full change log can be found here.

Download

Libcloud 0.15.0 can be downloaded from https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html

or installed using pip:

pip install apache-libcloud==0.15.0

Upgrading

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

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==0.15.0

Documentation

Regular and API documentation is available at https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v0.15.0/.

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 Changelog.

This is just a quick announcement that we have been granted one slot under the Apache Softare Foundation umbrella in Google Summer of Code 2014.

Student Rahul Ranjan will work on a CLI interface for Libcloud.

If you are interested in other projects, students and organization which have been accepted, please visit this page.

Last week ApacheCon North America and CloudStack Collaboration Conference took place in Denver, Colorado.

During that week multiple presentations about Libcloud took place. In this post I'm including links to the slides of some of those presentations:

• Apache Libcloud by Sebastien Goasguen - Sebastien had a great introductory presentation about Libcloud. His presentation also included a great demo of using Libcloud's deploy_node functionality to deploy a Worpdress blog on Exoscale.
• Mobile, multi-cloud management on top of libcloud by Dimitris Moraitis - Dimitris presented how they utilize Libcloud at mist.io.

Sebastien delivering his talk.

I was also supposed to deliver a presentation about Libcloud's history, evolution and lessons learned, but due to severe tonsillitis which has been strecthing for over 3 weeks, I sadly had to cancel my talk.

Libcloud 0.14.0 was released last month. Among many improvements and new features, this release also includes a brand new driver for Ikoula public cloud which is based on the generic CloudStack driver.

Folks over at Ikoula wrote a short introductory post about this new driver. The post is in French, so if you speak French and are interested in using Ikoula driver, you should check it out - Utilisation d'Apache-Libcloud au sein du Cloud Ikoula.