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Libcloud sprint will be held at EuroPython 2011 in Florence, Italy. For more information, please refer to the mailing list thread.

Hello all,

I would like to announce Libcloud 0.5.0. This version represents a big milestone, because it includes many new features, drivers, improvement and two totally new API's - storage and load-balancers.

Major changes and features since the last release

New Storage API

Storage API which allows you to manage cloud storage has been added to the core. Currently two provider drivers are available (Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3), but you can expect more drivers in the future releases.

New load-balancer API

Load-balancer API which allows you to manage load-balancers as a service (LBaaS) has been added to the core. Currently two provider drivers are available (Rackspace and GoGrid), but you can expect more drivers in the future releases.

New compute drivers

This release includes 5 new compute drivers. The compute API now supports a total of 24 different providers.

• Bluebox (contributed by Christian Paredes)
• Gandi.net (contributed by Aymeric Barantal)
• Nimbus (contributed by David LaBissoniere)
• OpenStack (contributed by Roman Bogorodskiy)
• Opsource.net cloud (contributed by Joe Miller)

API changes

To support new services, core Libcloud API had to be refactored. The library now consists of three top-level modules:

• libcloud.compute.* (everything related to the compute has been moved here)
• libcloud.storage.* (new place for the storage API)
• libcloud.loadbalancer.* (new place for the load-balancer API)

Importing stuff from the old location (e.g. from libcloud.providers import get_driver) should still work, but you will receive a deprecation warning.

You are encouraged to update your code to use the new module locations. The old paths will be fully deprecated and removed in version 0.6.0.

Other notable changes

All the pricing data has been moved to a separate JSON file. This should make updating pricing a lot easier.

For a full list of changes, please check the CHANGES file < https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/trunk/CHANGES>.

Download

Libcloud 0.5.0 can be downloaded from http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html or install it using pip - pip install apache-libcloud

Documentation

For the API documentation, please refer to https://libcloud.apache.org/apidocs/0.5.0/

For a real world example, check the example_{compute,storage,balancer}.py files which are located in the root directory.

We have been pretty busy with this release so we currently don't have any articles about the new APIs on the website yet, but we will try to add them this week.

Bugs / Issues

If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD).

Attaching an example or test which reproduces it would be ideal

Source: release announcement.

Libcloud sprint will be held at PyCon 2011 in Atlanta. For more information, please refer to the mailing list thread.

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Libcloud Project are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of version 0.4.2 of Apache Libcloud ("libcloud").

Apache Libcloud is a pure python client library for interacting with many of the popular cloud server providers. It was created to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services that it supports.

Apache Libcloud is available for download from: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/downloads.html.

Major changes since the previous release:

• New drivers for CloudSigma, Brightbox, Rackspace UK
• Improvements to deployment capabilities
• libcloud.security module for SSL certificate verification, see http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/LibcloudSSL

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Libcloud Project are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of version 0.4.0 of Apache Libcloud ("libcloud").

Apache Libcloud is a pure python client library for interacting with many of the popular cloud server providers. It was created to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services that it supports.

Apache Libcloud is available for download from: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/downloads.html.

Major changes since the previous release:

• Removed dependency on Zope.Interface.
• New driver for ElasticHosts.
• Bug fixes and improvements for GoGrid, EC2, Linode, Slicehost, and RimuHosting.

See the CHANGES file for more details: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/libcloud/tags/0.4.0/CHANGES.

Source: release announcement.