Apache CloudStack 4.1.0 emerges from incubation
June 4, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Ted Samson.
The Apache CloudStack project today announced Version 4.1.0 of the CloudStack, signaling that the cloud orchestration platform continues to thrive since emerging from the Apache Incubator in mid-March. The 4.1.0 release includes news features such as an events framework, API-request throttling, and Amazon Web Services-style regions. It also includes major changes in the codebase, aimed at making the platform easier for developers, along with a new structure for creating RPM/Debian packages and the full adoption of Maven as a build tool.
This new release of CloudStack should be heartening to supporters of the platform, which has been down a long and winding road since being acquired by Citrix in 2011 — then handed it off to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) last year. In March of this year, the ASF approved CloudStack as a TLP (top-level project), helping the open source cloud software effort further establish its independence from Citrix…
When Citrix submitted CloudStack, most of the contributors to the code base were the company’s own engineers. Since then the project has garnered more help — much from users of the software. At the end of March, 164 contributors had made 16,795 commits to the code base, representing 1,161,748 lines of code; it now has had 17,933 commits made by 184 contributors, representing 1,668,112 lines of code, according to the Black Duck Ohloh repository of statistics about open source projects…
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