Hi Nicolas I’m suggesting a few changes: 1. Removed “over” for the number of features (sounds weird when you use such specific numbers) 2. I’ve changed the feature list and put them into categories and also added a little narrative on some of them to explain what advantages they give
What do you think ? *The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache**®** CloudStack**®** v4.16* Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 is a 4.16 LTS release with 22 major new features, and 244 enhancements and fixes since 4.15. Highlights include: Additional OS Support for Management Servers and hypervisor hosts * Support for OpenSuse * Support for Rocky Linux New vendor integrations to allow Cloudstack to leverage advanced storage capabilities * Dell EMC PowerFlex storage plugin integration * LINSTOR storage plugin integration UI Improvements * Structured comments on objects in the UI * Custom Resource Icons to allow visual representation of most object types * The ability to perform bulk actions through the UI Enhancements to CloudStack Kubernetes Service * Support for Kubernetes Autoscaling through the CloudStack Kubernetes provider * Kubernetes Clusters now based on System VM, giving simplified ongoing management Improved tools & management * Granular control of dynamic scaling of VM’s CPU/RAM * Import and export of VMware virtual machines through the UI * CloudStack-setup-databases script improvement to give more stable upgrades * L2 Networks Persistent modern * mac learning mode added to network offerings * HA improvements allow a host to be marked as Degraded * New API endpoint to update pod management network IP range * New API endpoint to update VLAN IP range # Documentation The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html The CloudStack documentation includes upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be found at: http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/upgrading/index.html The official installation, administration and API documentation for each of the releases are available on our documentation page: http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/ # Downloads The official source code for the 4.16.0.0 release can be downloaded from our downloads page: http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download page, and can be found at: http://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/ http://download.cloudstack.org/centos/7/ http://www.shapeblue.com/packages/ Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services, including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders. Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source Cloud Adoption report, Apache CloudStack "sits beneath hundreds of service provider clouds", including Fortune 5 multinational corporations. A list of known Apache CloudStack users are available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html Kind Regards Giles From: Suresh Anaparti <suresh.anapa...@shapeblue.com> Sent: 09 November 2021 08:01 To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [REVIEW] [DRAFT] [ANNOUNCE] Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 Release Hi Nicolas, Some text corrections for the features highlighted below. Please check and correct if these are relevant. * Dell EMC VxFlex integration => Dell EMC PowerFlex storage plugin integration * Linstor Volume Plugin integration => LINSTOR storage plugin integration * Resource Icons => Resource Icons in the UI * Add New API endpoint: UpdateVlanIpRange => New API endpoint to update VLAN IP range Let us know when links are up/accessible. Regards, Suresh From: Nicolas Vazquez <nicolas.vazq...@shapeblue.com<mailto:nicolas.vazq...@shapeblue.com>> Reply to: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:marketing@cloudstack.apache.org>" <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:marketing@cloudstack.apache.org>> Date: Monday, 8 November 2021 at 11:11 PM To: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:marketing@cloudstack.apache.org>" <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:marketing@cloudstack.apache.org>> Subject: [REVIEW] [DRAFT] [ANNOUNCE] Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 Release Hi All, Please find a draft below for the announcement of the 4.16.0.0 release. I am still working on getting the inks ready. Feel free to review the existing list/add missing items to the list of features. Any suggestions on that will be incorporated. ======================================================================= *The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache**®** CloudStack**®** v4.16* Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 is a 4.16 LTS release with over 22 major new features, and over 244 enhancements and fixes since 4.15. Highlights include: * System VM Template improvements * CKS Support for Cluster Autoscaling * Dell EMC VxFlex integration * Linstor Volume Plugin integration * Support for OpenSuse * Support for Rocky Linux * Granular control of dynamic scaling of VM’s CPU/RAM * Comments in the UI * Resource Icons * Bulk actions through the UI * UI for VM Ingestion * L2 Networks Persistent modern * cloudstack-setup-databases script improvement * Add mac learning mode in network offering * API-call to declare host as Degraded * New API endpoint to update pod management network IP range * Add New API endpoint: UpdateVlanIpRange # Documentation The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html The CloudStack documentation includes upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be found at: http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/upgrading/index.html The official installation, administration and API documentation for each of the releases are available on our documentation page: http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/ # Downloads The official source code for the 4.16.0.0 release can be downloaded from our downloads page: http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download page, and can be found at: http://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/ http://download.cloudstack.org/centos/7/ http://www.shapeblue.com/packages/ Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services, including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders. Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source Cloud Adoption report, Apache CloudStack "sits beneath hundreds of service provider clouds", including Fortune 5 multinational corporations. A list of known Apache CloudStack users are available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html ====================================================== Regards, Nicolas Vazquez
