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+    <h2>Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2 released</h2>
+  
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+  
+  <span class="post-date-author">By Anthony Shaw on Apr 11, 2016</span>
+
+  <div class="post-content">
+    <p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2.</p>
+
+<p>This the second pre-release in the 1.0.0 series which means it brings many new
+features, improvements, bug-fixes, and DNS drivers.</p>
+
+<h3>Release highlights</h3>
+
+<p>This includes:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Deprecated drivers that were no longer available such as Ninefold, IBM SCE <a href="http://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/02/16/new-drivers-deprecated-drivers.html">more details</a></li>
+<li>The Amazon EC2 driver has been changed to use</li>
+<li>Introduce new <code>list_regions</code>` class method on the base driver class</li>
+<li>Support for Dimension Data backup</li>
+<li>Added NSOne, LuaDNS, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET DNS drivers</li>
+<li>Added Aliyun compute, load balancer and storage drivers</li>
+<li>Added Outscale storage driver</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Full change log can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">here</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>Important breaking change-  Amazon EC2 driver changes</h3>
+
+<p>The Amazon EC2 API was updated to consolidate the regional-based drivers into a single driver with a region argument in the constructor.</p>
+
+<p>Amazon Instances should now be instantiated using the following syntax:</p>
+<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="python language-python" data-lang="python"><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.types</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Provider</span>
+<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.providers</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span>
+
+<span class="n">cls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Provider</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">EC2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">region</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;us-east-i1&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
+<span class="n">driver</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">cls</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;access key&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;secret key&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
+</code></pre></div>
+<p>This brings the Amazon API inline with the other drivers, makes it easier to maintain and switch between regions.</p>
+
+<h3>Bug fixes</h3>
+
+<h4>General</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Fix a bug with consuming stdout and stderr in the paramiko SSH client which
+would manifest itself under very rare condition when a consumed chunk only
+contained a single byte or part of a multi byte UTF-8 character.
+[Lakshmi Kannan, Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Increase default chunk size from <code>1024</code> to <code>4096</code> bytes in the paramiko
+SSH client. This results in smaller number of receive calls on the average.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix to Dimension Data API address for Middle-East and Africa
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>Addition of Dimension Data Australia federal government region to dimension data
+drivers.
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>Throw a more user-friendly exception on &quot;No address associated with hostname&quot;.
+(GITHUB-711, GITHUB-714, LIBCLOUD-803)
+[Tomaz Muraus, Scott Crunkleton]</p></li>
+<li><p>Remove deprecated provider constants with the region in the name and related
+driver classes (e.g. <code>EC2_US_EAST</code>, etc.).</p>
+
+<p>Those drivers have moved to single provider constant + <code>region</code> constructor
+argument model.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Introduce new <code>list_regions</code><code>class method on the base driver class. This
+method is to be used with provider drivers which support multiple regions and
+</code><code>region</code>` constructor argument. It allows users to enumerate available /
+supported regions.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>New or deprecated drivers</h3>
+
+<h4>Compute</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Deprecated IBM SCE, HP Helion, OpSource, Ninefold and CloudFrames drivers, removed
+driver code and tests.
+(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>Introduced error messages (<code>libcloud.compute.deprecated</code>) for deprecated drivers
+(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>New Compute drivers- BSNL, Indosat, Med-1, NTT-America, Internet Solutions
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>New driver for Aliyun Elastic Compute Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Storage</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Added Outscale storage driver
+(GITHUB-730)
+[Javier M. Mellid]</p></li>
+<li><p>New driver for Aliyun OSS Storage Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Loadbalancer</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li>New driver for Aliyun SLB Loadbalancer Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>DNS</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Added NearlyFreeSpeech.net (NSFN) driver
+<a href="GITHUB-733">Ken Drayer</a></p></li>
+<li><p>Added Lua DNS driver
+<a href="GITHUB-732">Oltjano Terpollari</a></p></li>
+<li><p>Added NSOne driver
+<a href="GITHUB-710">Oltjano Terpollari</a></p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Fix a bug in the GoDaddy driver - make sure <code>host</code> attribute on the
+connection class is correctly set to the hostname.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix handling of <code>MX</code> records in the Gandi driver.
+(GITHUB-718)
+[Ryan Lee]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Improvements</h2>
+
+<h3>Compute</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>[dimension data] added support for VMWare tools VM information inside list_nodes responses
+(GITHUB-734)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>[ec2] added ex<em>encrypted and ex</em>kms<em>key</em>id optional parameters to the create volume method
+(GITHUB-729)
+[Viktor Ognev]</p></li>
+<li><p>[dimension data] added support for managing host anti-affinity rules, added paging support to
+all supported calls and added support for requesting priority ordering when creating ACL rules
+(GITHUB-726)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>[openstack] when creating floating IPs, added pool_id as an optional argument
+(GITHUB-725)
+[marko-p]</p></li>
+<li><p>[google compute] Added setMachineType method to allow for changing sizes of instances
+(GITHUB-721)
+[Eric Johnson]</p></li>
+<li><p>[google compute] allow bypassing image search in standard project list
+(GITHUB-713)
+[Max Illfelder]</p></li>
+<li><p>Add support for requesting a MKS token for accessing the remote console in VMware
+vCloud driver
+(GITHUB-706)
+[Juan Font Alonso]</p></li>
+<li><p>Add support in VMware vCloud driver for v5.5 API, with snapshot support
+(GITHUB-658)
+[Juan Font Alonso]</p></li>
+<li><p>Added support for adding a family to an image on Google Compute Driver
+(GITHUB-704)
+[Max Illfelder]</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix to set default signature version for AWS Seoul region to v4, removed
+non-supported size (hs1.xlarge)
+(GITHUB-684)
+[Geunwoo Shin]</p></li>
+<li><p>Support filtering by location in list_nodes for dimension data compute driver
+fix lack of paging support
+(GITHUB-691)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>Support for filtering by IPv4, IPv6, network, network domain, VLAN in Dimension
+data driver.
+(GITHUB-694)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>Added <code>Node.created_at</code> which, on supported drivers, contains the datetime the
+node was first started.
+(GITHUB-698)
+[Allard Hoeve] [Rick van de Loo]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Storage</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Improvements to Google Auth for Storage and Compute and MIME bug fix
+(LIBCLOUD-800, GITHUB-689)
+[Scott Crunkleton]</p></li>
+<li><p>Implement <code>get_container</code>, <code>get_object</code> and <code>upload_object_via_stream</code>
+methods in the Backblaze B2 storage driver.</p>
+
+<p>Note: Backblaze API doesn&#39;t upload streaming uploads so when using
+<code>upload_object_via_stream</code> whole file is read and buffered in memory.
+(GITHUB-696)
+[Jay jshridha]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Backup</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Dimension Data - added additional testing, fixed bug on client response naming,
+added support for adding backup clients to a backup enabled node.
+(GITHUB-692, GITHUB-693, GITHUB-695)
+[Jeff Dunham]</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Download</h3>
+
+<p>The release can can be downloaded from
+<a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html">https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html</a> or installed using pip:</p>
+
+<pre>
+pip install apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Upgrading</h3>
+
+<p>If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:</p>
+
+<pre>
+pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
+
+<p>A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
+changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
+can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html</a></p>
+
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+
+<p>Regular and API documentation is available at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a></p>
+
+<h3>Bugs / Issues</h3>
+
+<p>If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
+<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD</a>.
+Don&#39;t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
+problem.</p>
+
+<h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
+list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
+<a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">CHANGES file</a>.</p>
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+    <h2><a href="/blog/2016/04/11/libcloud-1-0-0-rc2-released.html">Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2 released</a></h2>
+  
+
+  
+    
+  
+  <span class="post-date-author">By Anthony Shaw on Apr 11, 2016</span>
+
+  <div class="post-content">
+    <p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2.</p>
+
+<p>This the second pre-release in the 1.0.0 series which means it brings many new
+features, improvements, bug-fixes, and DNS drivers.</p>
+
+<h3>Release highlights</h3>
+
+<p>This includes:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Deprecated drivers that were no longer available such as Ninefold, IBM SCE <a href="http://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/02/16/new-drivers-deprecated-drivers.html">more details</a></li>
+<li>The Amazon EC2 driver has been changed to use</li>
+<li>Introduce new <code>list_regions</code>` class method on the base driver class</li>
+<li>Support for Dimension Data backup</li>
+<li>Added NSOne, LuaDNS, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET DNS drivers</li>
+<li>Added Aliyun compute, load balancer and storage drivers</li>
+<li>Added Outscale storage driver</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Full change log can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">here</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>Important breaking change-  Amazon EC2 driver changes</h3>
+
+<p>The Amazon EC2 API was updated to consolidate the regional-based drivers into a single driver with a region argument in the constructor.</p>
+
+<p>Amazon Instances should now be instantiated using the following syntax:</p>
+<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="python language-python" data-lang="python"><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.types</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Provider</span>
+<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.providers</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span>
+
+<span class="n">cls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Provider</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">EC2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">region</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;us-east-i1&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
+<span class="n">driver</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">cls</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;access key&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;secret key&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
+</code></pre></div>
+<p>This brings the Amazon API inline with the other drivers, makes it easier to maintain and switch between regions.</p>
+
+<h3>Bug fixes</h3>
+
+<h4>General</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Fix a bug with consuming stdout and stderr in the paramiko SSH client which
+would manifest itself under very rare condition when a consumed chunk only
+contained a single byte or part of a multi byte UTF-8 character.
+[Lakshmi Kannan, Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Increase default chunk size from <code>1024</code> to <code>4096</code> bytes in the paramiko
+SSH client. This results in smaller number of receive calls on the average.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix to Dimension Data API address for Middle-East and Africa
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>Addition of Dimension Data Australia federal government region to dimension data
+drivers.
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>Throw a more user-friendly exception on &quot;No address associated with hostname&quot;.
+(GITHUB-711, GITHUB-714, LIBCLOUD-803)
+[Tomaz Muraus, Scott Crunkleton]</p></li>
+<li><p>Remove deprecated provider constants with the region in the name and related
+driver classes (e.g. <code>EC2_US_EAST</code>, etc.).</p>
+
+<p>Those drivers have moved to single provider constant + <code>region</code> constructor
+argument model.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Introduce new <code>list_regions</code><code>class method on the base driver class. This
+method is to be used with provider drivers which support multiple regions and
+</code><code>region</code>` constructor argument. It allows users to enumerate available /
+supported regions.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>New or deprecated drivers</h3>
+
+<h4>Compute</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Deprecated IBM SCE, HP Helion, OpSource, Ninefold and CloudFrames drivers, removed
+driver code and tests.
+(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>Introduced error messages (<code>libcloud.compute.deprecated</code>) for deprecated drivers
+(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>New Compute drivers- BSNL, Indosat, Med-1, NTT-America, Internet Solutions
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>New driver for Aliyun Elastic Compute Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Storage</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Added Outscale storage driver
+(GITHUB-730)
+[Javier M. Mellid]</p></li>
+<li><p>New driver for Aliyun OSS Storage Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Loadbalancer</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li>New driver for Aliyun SLB Loadbalancer Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>DNS</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Added NearlyFreeSpeech.net (NSFN) driver
+<a href="GITHUB-733">Ken Drayer</a></p></li>
+<li><p>Added Lua DNS driver
+<a href="GITHUB-732">Oltjano Terpollari</a></p></li>
+<li><p>Added NSOne driver
+<a href="GITHUB-710">Oltjano Terpollari</a></p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Fix a bug in the GoDaddy driver - make sure <code>host</code> attribute on the
+connection class is correctly set to the hostname.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix handling of <code>MX</code> records in the Gandi driver.
+(GITHUB-718)
+[Ryan Lee]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Improvements</h2>
+
+<h3>Compute</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>[dimension data] added support for VMWare tools VM information inside list_nodes responses
+(GITHUB-734)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>[ec2] added ex<em>encrypted and ex</em>kms<em>key</em>id optional parameters to the create volume method
+(GITHUB-729)
+[Viktor Ognev]</p></li>
+<li><p>[dimension data] added support for managing host anti-affinity rules, added paging support to
+all supported calls and added support for requesting priority ordering when creating ACL rules
+(GITHUB-726)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>[openstack] when creating floating IPs, added pool_id as an optional argument
+(GITHUB-725)
+[marko-p]</p></li>
+<li><p>[google compute] Added setMachineType method to allow for changing sizes of instances
+(GITHUB-721)
+[Eric Johnson]</p></li>
+<li><p>[google compute] allow bypassing image search in standard project list
+(GITHUB-713)
+[Max Illfelder]</p></li>
+<li><p>Add support for requesting a MKS token for accessing the remote console in VMware
+vCloud driver
+(GITHUB-706)
+[Juan Font Alonso]</p></li>
+<li><p>Add support in VMware vCloud driver for v5.5 API, with snapshot support
+(GITHUB-658)
+[Juan Font Alonso]</p></li>
+<li><p>Added support for adding a family to an image on Google Compute Driver
+(GITHUB-704)
+[Max Illfelder]</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix to set default signature version for AWS Seoul region to v4, removed
+non-supported size (hs1.xlarge)
+(GITHUB-684)
+[Geunwoo Shin]</p></li>
+<li><p>Support filtering by location in list_nodes for dimension data compute driver
+fix lack of paging support
+(GITHUB-691)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>Support for filtering by IPv4, IPv6, network, network domain, VLAN in Dimension
+data driver.
+(GITHUB-694)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>Added <code>Node.created_at</code> which, on supported drivers, contains the datetime the
+node was first started.
+(GITHUB-698)
+[Allard Hoeve] [Rick van de Loo]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Storage</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Improvements to Google Auth for Storage and Compute and MIME bug fix
+(LIBCLOUD-800, GITHUB-689)
+[Scott Crunkleton]</p></li>
+<li><p>Implement <code>get_container</code>, <code>get_object</code> and <code>upload_object_via_stream</code>
+methods in the Backblaze B2 storage driver.</p>
+
+<p>Note: Backblaze API doesn&#39;t upload streaming uploads so when using
+<code>upload_object_via_stream</code> whole file is read and buffered in memory.
+(GITHUB-696)
+[Jay jshridha]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Backup</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Dimension Data - added additional testing, fixed bug on client response naming,
+added support for adding backup clients to a backup enabled node.
+(GITHUB-692, GITHUB-693, GITHUB-695)
+[Jeff Dunham]</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Download</h3>
+
+<p>The release can can be downloaded from
+<a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html">https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html</a> or installed using pip:</p>
+
+<pre>
+pip install apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Upgrading</h3>
+
+<p>If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:</p>
+
+<pre>
+pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
+
+<p>A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
+changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
+can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html</a></p>
+
+<h3>Documentation</h3>
+
+<p>Regular and API documentation is available at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a></p>
+
+<h3>Bugs / Issues</h3>
+
+<p>If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
+<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD</a>.
+Don&#39;t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
+problem.</p>
+
+<h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
+list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
+<a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">CHANGES file</a>.</p>
+
+  </div>
+
+  <div class="row section post-meta">
+    <div class="col-md-12 post-tags">
+      <p>Tags: <a href="/blog/tags/news.html" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="/blog/tags/release%20announcement.html" rel="tag">release announcement</a></p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+  <div class="post">
+  
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   <link href="https://libcloud.apache.org" />
   <id>https://libcloud.apache.org</id>
-  <updated>2016-04-06T15:34:11+10:00</updated>
+  <updated>2016-04-11T14:27:39+10:00</updated>
   <author>
     <name>The Apache Software Foundation</name>
   </author>
 
     
   <entry>
+    <title>Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2 released</title>
+    <link href="https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/04/11/libcloud-1-0-0-rc2-released.html" />
+    <id>https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/04/11/libcloud-1-0-0-rc2-released.html</id>
+    <updated>2016-04-11T00:00:00+10:00</updated>
+    <author>
+      <name>Anthony Shaw</name>
+    </author>
+    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This the second pre-release in the 1.0.0 series which means it brings many new
+features, improvements, bug-fixes, and DNS drivers.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Release highlights&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This includes:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Deprecated drivers that were no longer available such as Ninefold, IBM SCE &lt;a href=&quot;http://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/02/16/new-drivers-deprecated-drivers.html&quot;&gt;more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;The Amazon EC2 driver has been changed to use&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Introduce new &lt;code&gt;list_regions&lt;/code&gt;` class method on the base driver class&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Support for Dimension Data backup&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Added NSOne, LuaDNS, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET DNS drivers&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Added Aliyun compute, load balancer and storage drivers&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Added Outscale storage driver&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Full change log can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Important breaking change-  Amazon EC2 driver changes&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The Amazon EC2 API was updated to consolidate the regional-based drivers into a single driver with a region argument in the constructor.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Amazon Instances should now be instantiated using the following syntax:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;python language-python&quot; data-lang=&quot;python&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;kn&quot;&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;nn&quot;&gt;libcloud.compute.types&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;kn&quot;&gt;import&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;Provider&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;span class=&quot;kn&quot;&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;nn&quot;&gt;libcloud.compute.providers&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;kn&quot;&gt;import&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;get_driver&lt;/span&gt;
+
+&lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;cls&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;get_driver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;p&quot;&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;Provider&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;EC2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;p&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;region&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;us-east-i1&amp;#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;p&quot;&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;driver&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;cls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;p&quot;&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;access key&amp;#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;p&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;s&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;secret key&amp;#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;p&quot;&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This brings the Amazon API inline with the other drivers, makes it easier to maintain and switch between regions.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Bug fixes&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;h4&gt;General&lt;/h4&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fix a bug with consuming stdout and stderr in the paramiko SSH client which
+would manifest itself under very rare condition when a consumed chunk only
+contained a single byte or part of a multi byte UTF-8 character.
+[Lakshmi Kannan, Tomaz Muraus]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Increase default chunk size from &lt;code&gt;1024&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;4096&lt;/code&gt; bytes in the paramiko
+SSH client. This results in smaller number of receive calls on the average.
+[Tomaz Muraus]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fix to Dimension Data API address for Middle-East and Africa
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Addition of Dimension Data Australia federal government region to dimension data
+drivers.
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Throw a more user-friendly exception on &amp;quot;No address associated with hostname&amp;quot;.
+(GITHUB-711, GITHUB-714, LIBCLOUD-803)
+[Tomaz Muraus, Scott Crunkleton]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remove deprecated provider constants with the region in the name and related
+driver classes (e.g. &lt;code&gt;EC2_US_EAST&lt;/code&gt;, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Those drivers have moved to single provider constant + &lt;code&gt;region&lt;/code&gt; constructor
+argument model.
+[Tomaz Muraus]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Introduce new &lt;code&gt;list_regions&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code&gt;class method on the base driver class. This
+method is to be used with provider drivers which support multiple regions and
+&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code&gt;region&lt;/code&gt;` constructor argument. It allows users to enumerate available /
+supported regions.
+[Tomaz Muraus]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;New or deprecated drivers&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;h4&gt;Compute&lt;/h4&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deprecated IBM SCE, HP Helion, OpSource, Ninefold and CloudFrames drivers, removed
+driver code and tests.
+(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
+[Anthony Shaw]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Introduced error messages (&lt;code&gt;libcloud.compute.deprecated&lt;/code&gt;) for deprecated drivers
+(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
+[Anthony Shaw]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New Compute drivers- BSNL, Indosat, Med-1, NTT-America, Internet Solutions
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New driver for Aliyun Elastic Compute Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h4&gt;Storage&lt;/h4&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Added Outscale storage driver
+(GITHUB-730)
+[Javier M. Mellid]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New driver for Aliyun OSS Storage Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h4&gt;Loadbalancer&lt;/h4&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;New driver for Aliyun SLB Loadbalancer Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h4&gt;DNS&lt;/h4&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Added NearlyFreeSpeech.net (NSFN) driver
+&lt;a href=&quot;GITHUB-733&quot;&gt;Ken Drayer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Added Lua DNS driver
+&lt;a href=&quot;GITHUB-732&quot;&gt;Oltjano Terpollari&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Added NSOne driver
+&lt;a href=&quot;GITHUB-710&quot;&gt;Oltjano Terpollari&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h2&gt;Bug fixes&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fix a bug in the GoDaddy driver - make sure &lt;code&gt;host&lt;/code&gt; attribute on the
+connection class is correctly set to the hostname.
+[Tomaz Muraus]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fix handling of &lt;code&gt;MX&lt;/code&gt; records in the Gandi driver.
+(GITHUB-718)
+[Ryan Lee]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h2&gt;Improvements&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Compute&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[dimension data] added support for VMWare tools VM information inside list_nodes responses
+(GITHUB-734)
+[Jeff Dunham]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[ec2] added ex&lt;em&gt;encrypted and ex&lt;/em&gt;kms&lt;em&gt;key&lt;/em&gt;id optional parameters to the create volume method
+(GITHUB-729)
+[Viktor Ognev]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[dimension data] added support for managing host anti-affinity rules, added paging support to
+all supported calls and added support for requesting priority ordering when creating ACL rules
+(GITHUB-726)
+[Jeff Dunham]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[openstack] when creating floating IPs, added pool_id as an optional argument
+(GITHUB-725)
+[marko-p]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[google compute] Added setMachineType method to allow for changing sizes of instances
+(GITHUB-721)
+[Eric Johnson]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[google compute] allow bypassing image search in standard project list
+(GITHUB-713)
+[Max Illfelder]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add support for requesting a MKS token for accessing the remote console in VMware
+vCloud driver
+(GITHUB-706)
+[Juan Font Alonso]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add support in VMware vCloud driver for v5.5 API, with snapshot support
+(GITHUB-658)
+[Juan Font Alonso]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Added support for adding a family to an image on Google Compute Driver
+(GITHUB-704)
+[Max Illfelder]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fix to set default signature version for AWS Seoul region to v4, removed
+non-supported size (hs1.xlarge)
+(GITHUB-684)
+[Geunwoo Shin]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Support filtering by location in list_nodes for dimension data compute driver
+fix lack of paging support
+(GITHUB-691)
+[Jeff Dunham]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Support for filtering by IPv4, IPv6, network, network domain, VLAN in Dimension
+data driver.
+(GITHUB-694)
+[Jeff Dunham]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Added &lt;code&gt;Node.created_at&lt;/code&gt; which, on supported drivers, contains the datetime the
+node was first started.
+(GITHUB-698)
+[Allard Hoeve] [Rick van de Loo]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Storage&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Improvements to Google Auth for Storage and Compute and MIME bug fix
+(LIBCLOUD-800, GITHUB-689)
+[Scott Crunkleton]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Implement &lt;code&gt;get_container&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;get_object&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;upload_object_via_stream&lt;/code&gt;
+methods in the Backblaze B2 storage driver.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note: Backblaze API doesn&amp;#39;t upload streaming uploads so when using
+&lt;code&gt;upload_object_via_stream&lt;/code&gt; whole file is read and buffered in memory.
+(GITHUB-696)
+[Jay jshridha]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Backup&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Dimension Data - added additional testing, fixed bug on client response naming,
+added support for adding backup clients to a backup enabled node.
+(GITHUB-692, GITHUB-693, GITHUB-695)
+[Jeff Dunham]&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Download&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The release can can be downloaded from
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html&quot;&gt;https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html&lt;/a&gt; or installed using pip:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+pip install apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Upgrading&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Upgrade notes&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
+changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
+can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html&quot;&gt;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Documentation&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Regular and API documentation is available at &lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/&quot;&gt;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Bugs / Issues&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD&quot;&gt;https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD&lt;/a&gt;.
+Don&amp;#39;t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
+problem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;h3&gt;Thanks&lt;/h3&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
+list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html&quot;&gt;CHANGES file&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+</content>
+  </entry>
+    
+  <entry>
     <title>Experimental support for the requests package</title>
     <link href="https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/04/06/requests-support.html" />
     <id>https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/04/06/requests-support.html</id>
@@ -837,81 +1093,4 @@ participation and contributions.&lt;/p&g
 </content>
   </entry>
     
-  <entry>
-    <title>Libcloud 0.19.0 released</title>
-    <link href="https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2015/10/30/libcloud-0-19-0-released.html" />
-    <id>https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2015/10/30/libcloud-0-19-0-released.html</id>
-    <updated>2015-10-30T00:00:00+11:00</updated>
-    <author>
-      <name>Eric Johnson</name>
-    </author>
-    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 0.19.0.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is a first release in the 0.19 series which means it brings many new
-features, improvements, bug-fixes, and DNS drivers.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;h3&gt;Release highlights&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New load balancer driver for &lt;a href=&quot;http://cloud.dimensiondata.com/am/en/&quot;&gt;Dimension Data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New DNS driver for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pcextreme.com/aurora/dns&quot;&gt;AuroraDNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New DNS driver for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldwidedns.net/home.asp&quot;&gt;WorldWideDNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New DNS driver for &lt;a href=&quot;https://dnsimple.com/&quot;&gt;DNSimple&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New DNS driver for &lt;a href=&quot;https://pointhq.com/&quot;&gt;PointDNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New DNS driver for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vultr.com/&quot;&gt;Vult DNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New DNS driver for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.liquidweb.com/&quot;&gt;Liquidweb DNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New DNS driver for &lt;a href=&quot;http://zonomi.com/&quot;&gt;Zonomi DNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New DNS driver for &lt;a href=&quot;https://durabledns.com/&quot;&gt;Durable DNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Added volume management methods and more to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.runabove.com/index.xml&quot;&gt;RunAbove compute service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Added new South America East region to &lt;a href=&quot;https://aws.amazon.com/s3/&quot;&gt;S3 storage driver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Many more improvements and API v2.0 added to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cloud.dimensiondata.com/am/en/services/public-cloud/cloud-networks&quot;&gt;Dimension Data compute driver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;New API v1 support for &lt;a href=&quot;https://cloud.google.com/dns/&quot;&gt;Google Cloud DNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Many improvements in the HostVirtual compute driver&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;and much more!&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Full change log can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-with-apache-libcloud-0-19-0&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;h3&gt;Download&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The release can can be downloaded from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html&quot;&gt;https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html&lt;/a&gt; or installed using pip:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-pip install apache-libcloud==0.19.0
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;h3&gt;Upgrading&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==0.19.0
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;h3&gt;Upgrade notes&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
-changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
-can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html&quot;&gt;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;h3&gt;Documentation&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Regular and API documentation is available at &lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v0.19.0/&quot;&gt;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/v0.19.0/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;h3&gt;Bugs / Issues&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD&quot;&gt;https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD&lt;/a&gt;.
-Don&amp;#39;t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
-problem.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;h3&gt;Thanks&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
-list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-with-apache-libcloud-0-19-0&quot;&gt;CHANGES file&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-</content>
-  </entry>
-    
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       <div class="post">
   
+    <h2><a href="/blog/2016/04/11/libcloud-1-0-0-rc2-released.html">Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2 released</a></h2>
+  
+
+  
+    
+  
+  <span class="post-date-author">By Anthony Shaw on Apr 11, 2016</span>
+
+  <div class="post-content">
+    <p>We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2.</p>
+
+<p>This the second pre-release in the 1.0.0 series which means it brings many new
+features, improvements, bug-fixes, and DNS drivers.</p>
+
+<h3>Release highlights</h3>
+
+<p>This includes:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Deprecated drivers that were no longer available such as Ninefold, IBM SCE <a href="http://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/02/16/new-drivers-deprecated-drivers.html">more details</a></li>
+<li>The Amazon EC2 driver has been changed to use</li>
+<li>Introduce new <code>list_regions</code>` class method on the base driver class</li>
+<li>Support for Dimension Data backup</li>
+<li>Added NSOne, LuaDNS, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET DNS drivers</li>
+<li>Added Aliyun compute, load balancer and storage drivers</li>
+<li>Added Outscale storage driver</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Full change log can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">here</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>Important breaking change-  Amazon EC2 driver changes</h3>
+
+<p>The Amazon EC2 API was updated to consolidate the regional-based drivers into a single driver with a region argument in the constructor.</p>
+
+<p>Amazon Instances should now be instantiated using the following syntax:</p>
+
+<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="python language-python" data-lang="python"><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.types</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Provider</span>
+<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.compute.providers</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span>
+
+<span class="n">cls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Provider</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">EC2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">region</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;us-east-i1&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
+<span class="n">driver</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">cls</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;access key&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;secret key&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
+</code></pre></div>
+
+<p>This brings the Amazon API inline with the other drivers, makes it easier to maintain and switch between regions.</p>
+
+<h3>Bug fixes</h3>
+
+<h4>General</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Fix a bug with consuming stdout and stderr in the paramiko SSH client which
+would manifest itself under very rare condition when a consumed chunk only
+contained a single byte or part of a multi byte UTF-8 character.
+[Lakshmi Kannan, Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Increase default chunk size from <code>1024</code> to <code>4096</code> bytes in the paramiko
+SSH client. This results in smaller number of receive calls on the average.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix to Dimension Data API address for Middle-East and Africa
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>Addition of Dimension Data Australia federal government region to dimension data
+drivers.
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>Throw a more user-friendly exception on &quot;No address associated with hostname&quot;.
+(GITHUB-711, GITHUB-714, LIBCLOUD-803)
+[Tomaz Muraus, Scott Crunkleton]</p></li>
+<li><p>Remove deprecated provider constants with the region in the name and related
+driver classes (e.g. <code>EC2_US_EAST</code>, etc.).</p>
+
+<p>Those drivers have moved to single provider constant + <code>region</code> constructor
+argument model.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Introduce new <code>list_regions</code><code>class method on the base driver class. This
+method is to be used with provider drivers which support multiple regions and
+</code><code>region</code>` constructor argument. It allows users to enumerate available /
+supported regions.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>New or deprecated drivers</h3>
+
+<h4>Compute</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Deprecated IBM SCE, HP Helion, OpSource, Ninefold and CloudFrames drivers, removed
+driver code and tests.
+(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>Introduced error messages (<code>libcloud.compute.deprecated</code>) for deprecated drivers
+(GITHUB-701, LIBCLOUD-801)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>New Compute drivers- BSNL, Indosat, Med-1, NTT-America, Internet Solutions
+(GITHUB-700)
+[Anthony Shaw]</p></li>
+<li><p>New driver for Aliyun Elastic Compute Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Storage</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Added Outscale storage driver
+(GITHUB-730)
+[Javier M. Mellid]</p></li>
+<li><p>New driver for Aliyun OSS Storage Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Loadbalancer</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li>New driver for Aliyun SLB Loadbalancer Service.
+(LIBCLOUD-802, GITHUB-712)
+[Sam Song]</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>DNS</h4>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Added NearlyFreeSpeech.net (NSFN) driver
+<a href="GITHUB-733">Ken Drayer</a></p></li>
+<li><p>Added Lua DNS driver
+<a href="GITHUB-732">Oltjano Terpollari</a></p></li>
+<li><p>Added NSOne driver
+<a href="GITHUB-710">Oltjano Terpollari</a></p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Fix a bug in the GoDaddy driver - make sure <code>host</code> attribute on the
+connection class is correctly set to the hostname.
+[Tomaz Muraus]</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix handling of <code>MX</code> records in the Gandi driver.
+(GITHUB-718)
+[Ryan Lee]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Improvements</h2>
+
+<h3>Compute</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>[dimension data] added support for VMWare tools VM information inside list_nodes responses
+(GITHUB-734)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>[ec2] added ex<em>encrypted and ex</em>kms<em>key</em>id optional parameters to the create volume method
+(GITHUB-729)
+[Viktor Ognev]</p></li>
+<li><p>[dimension data] added support for managing host anti-affinity rules, added paging support to
+all supported calls and added support for requesting priority ordering when creating ACL rules
+(GITHUB-726)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>[openstack] when creating floating IPs, added pool_id as an optional argument
+(GITHUB-725)
+[marko-p]</p></li>
+<li><p>[google compute] Added setMachineType method to allow for changing sizes of instances
+(GITHUB-721)
+[Eric Johnson]</p></li>
+<li><p>[google compute] allow bypassing image search in standard project list
+(GITHUB-713)
+[Max Illfelder]</p></li>
+<li><p>Add support for requesting a MKS token for accessing the remote console in VMware
+vCloud driver
+(GITHUB-706)
+[Juan Font Alonso]</p></li>
+<li><p>Add support in VMware vCloud driver for v5.5 API, with snapshot support
+(GITHUB-658)
+[Juan Font Alonso]</p></li>
+<li><p>Added support for adding a family to an image on Google Compute Driver
+(GITHUB-704)
+[Max Illfelder]</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix to set default signature version for AWS Seoul region to v4, removed
+non-supported size (hs1.xlarge)
+(GITHUB-684)
+[Geunwoo Shin]</p></li>
+<li><p>Support filtering by location in list_nodes for dimension data compute driver
+fix lack of paging support
+(GITHUB-691)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>Support for filtering by IPv4, IPv6, network, network domain, VLAN in Dimension
+data driver.
+(GITHUB-694)
+[Jeff Dunham]</p></li>
+<li><p>Added <code>Node.created_at</code> which, on supported drivers, contains the datetime the
+node was first started.
+(GITHUB-698)
+[Allard Hoeve] [Rick van de Loo]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Storage</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Improvements to Google Auth for Storage and Compute and MIME bug fix
+(LIBCLOUD-800, GITHUB-689)
+[Scott Crunkleton]</p></li>
+<li><p>Implement <code>get_container</code>, <code>get_object</code> and <code>upload_object_via_stream</code>
+methods in the Backblaze B2 storage driver.</p>
+
+<p>Note: Backblaze API doesn&#39;t upload streaming uploads so when using
+<code>upload_object_via_stream</code> whole file is read and buffered in memory.
+(GITHUB-696)
+[Jay jshridha]</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Backup</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Dimension Data - added additional testing, fixed bug on client response naming,
+added support for adding backup clients to a backup enabled node.
+(GITHUB-692, GITHUB-693, GITHUB-695)
+[Jeff Dunham]</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Download</h3>
+
+<p>The release can can be downloaded from
+<a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html">https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html</a> or installed using pip:</p>
+
+<pre>
+pip install apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Upgrading</h3>
+
+<p>If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:</p>
+
+<pre>
+pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
+</pre>
+
+<h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
+
+<p>A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
+changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
+can be found at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html</a></p>
+
+<h3>Documentation</h3>
+
+<p>Regular and API documentation is available at <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a></p>
+
+<h3>Bugs / Issues</h3>
+
+<p>If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
+<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD</a>.
+Don&#39;t forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
+problem.</p>
+
+<h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
+list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
+<a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">CHANGES file</a>.</p>
+
+  </div>
+
+  <div class="row section post-meta">
+    <div class="col-md-12 post-tags">
+      <p>Tags: <a href="/blog/tags/news.html" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="/blog/tags/release%20announcement.html" rel="tag">release announcement</a></p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+    
+  
+    
+      <div class="post">
+  
     <h2><a href="/blog/2016/04/06/requests-support.html">Experimental support for the requests package</a></h2>
   
 
@@ -548,213 +819,6 @@ list of people who contributed to this r
 
     
   
-    
-      <div class="post">
-  
-    <h2><a href="/blog/2016/01/20/libcloud-1.0-pre1.html">Libcloud 1.0-pre1 open for feedback</a></h2>
-  
-
-  
-    
-  
-  <span class="post-date-author">By Anthony Shaw on Jan 20, 2016</span>
-
-  <div class="post-content">
-    <p>We are pleased to announce that version 1.0-pre1 vote thread is open and the release is ready for community feedback.</p>
-
-<p>1.0-pre1 marks the first pre-release of the 1.0 major release. Some years ago, Tomaz Muraus spoke on the podcast <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/181">FLOSS weekly</a>.
-Tomaz spoke about how much of a huge challenge porting the project to Python 3.x would be(!) as well as the 1.0 milestone.</p>
-
-<p>It is worth listening to the podcast to see how far things have come, we now average 2 pull-requests a day and have 156 contributors.</p>
-
-<p>As the project has matured over the last 5 years one of the most remarkable changes has been the adoption from the community and 
-continued support from our contributors adding new drivers, patching strange API issues and keeping the project alive.</p>
-
-<p>Anthony Shaw will be speaking on the FLOSS weekly podcast on February 2nd and discussing our community and the project, so 
-please tune in. </p>
-
-<p>The Cloud market as I&#39;m sure you&#39;re all aware of is thriving, the purpose of Libcloud was originally:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>To help prevent lock-in to a particular vendor</li>
-<li>To abstract the complexity of vendor APIs</li>
-<li>To give a simple way for deploying to and managing multiple cloud vendors</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Since that we have had (at the last count) 2,118,539 downloads. The project continues to grow in popularity with each new release.</p>
-
-<p>So with the 1.0 major release we would like to announce 2 new driver types, containers and backup.</p>
-
-<h2>History of our drivers</h2>
-
-<p>The compute (IaaS) API is what libcloud is best known for but there is a range of drivers available for many other capabilities.</p>
-
-<p>There is a presentation on the value of using Libcloud to avoid lock in <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/AnthonyShaw5/apache-libcloud-keeping-up-with-the-cloud-market-in-2016">on SlideShare</a></p>
-
-<p>This is a history of the different driver types in the libcloud project.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Compute (v0.1.0)
-
-<ul>
-<li> Support for nodes, node images, locations, states</li>
-<li> 52 providers including every major cloud provider in the market. Plus local services like Vmware, OpenStack, libvirt</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>DNS (v0.6.0)
-
-<ul>
-<li> Support for zones, records, recordtypes</li>
-<li> 19 providers including CloudFlare, DigitalOcean, DNSimple, GoDaddy, Google DNS, Linode, Rackspace, Amazon R53, Zerigo</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Object Storage (v0.5.0)
-
-<ul>
-<li> Support for containers and objects</li>
-<li> 11 providers including Amazon S3, Azure Blobs, Google storage, CloudFiles, OpenStack Swift</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Load Balancer (v0.5.0)
-
-<ul>
-<li> Support for nodes, balancers, listeners and algorithms</li>
-<li> 11 providers including CloudStack, Dimension Data, Amazon ELB, Google GCE LB, SoftLayer LB</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>Backup (v0.20.0)
-
-<ul>
-<li> Support for backup targets, recovery points and jobs</li>
-<li> 3 providers, Dimension Data, Amazon EBS snaps, Google snaps</li>
-</ul></li>
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Introducing Backup Drivers</h2>
-
-<p>With 1.0-pre1 we have introduced a new driver type for backup, <code>libcloud.backup</code></p>
-
-<p>Backup API allows you to manage Backup as A Service and services such as EBS Snaps,
-GCE volume snap and dimension data backup.</p>
-
-<h3>Terminology</h3>
-
-<ul>
-<li><code>libcloud.backup.base.BackupTarget</code> - Represents a backup target, like a Virtual Machine, a folder or a database.</li>
-<li><code>libcloud.backup.base.BackupTargetRecoveryPoint</code> - Represents a copy of the data in the target, a recovery point can be
-recovered to a backup target. An inplace restore is where you recover to the same target and an out-of-place restore is where you
-recover to another target.</li>
-<li><code>libcloud.backup.base.BackupTargetJob</code> - Represents a backup job running on backup target.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Introducing Container-as-a-Service Drivers</h2>
-
-<p>The API is for Container-as-a-Service providers, these new types of cloud services offer container management and hosting as a service.
-The new services are already providing proprietary APIs, giving the need for a tool like Libcloud if you want to provision to any cloud provider.</p>
-
-<p>Google, Amazon and Joyent have all announced Container cloud services and Microsoft have launched a beta service also, so we are getting on the front foot with an
-abstraction API for people wishing to gain similar benefits to the compute, load balancer and storage APIs.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/AnthonyShaw5/introducing-container-asaservice-support-to-apache-libcloud">A presentation on this topic is available on SlideShare.</a></p>
-
-<p><strong>Isn&#39;t docker a standard?</strong>
-Well, yes and no.</p>
-
-<p>Docker has been the main technology adopted by these providers as the host system for the containers and also as the specification of the containers themselves.
-But, Docker is not a provisioning system, it is a virtualization host. Also there are alternatives, like CoreOS Rkt. </p>
-
-<h3>Container API design</h3>
-
-<p>Container-as-a-Service providers will implement the <code>ContainerDriver</code> class to provide functionality for :</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Listing deployed containers</li>
-<li>Starting, stopping and restarting containers (where supported)</li>
-<li>Destroying containers</li>
-<li>Creating/deploying containers</li>
-<li>Listing container images</li>
-<li>Installing container images (pulling an image from a local copy or remote repository)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3>Simple Container Support</h3>
-
-<ul>
-<li><code>libcloud.container.base.ContainerImage</code> - Represents an image that can be deployed, like an application or an operating system</li>
-<li><code>libcloud.container.base.Container</code> - Represents a deployed container image running on a container host</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3>Cluster Suppport</h3>
-
-<p>Cluster support extends on the basic driver functions, but where drivers implement the class-level attribute <code>supports_clusters</code> as True
-clusters may be listed, created and destroyed. When containers are deployed, the target cluster can be specified.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><code>libcloud.container.base.ContainerCluster</code> - Represents a deployed container image running on a container host</li>
-<li><code>libcloud.container.base.ClusterLocation</code> - Represents a location for clusters to be deployed</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3>Using the container drivers</h3>
-
-<p>The container drivers have been designed around similar principles to the compute driver. It is simple to use and a flat class design. </p>
-
-<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="python language-python" data-lang="python"><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.container.providers</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span>
-<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.container.types</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Provider</span>
-
-<span class="n">Cls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_driver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Provider</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DOCKER</span><span class="p">)</span>
-<span class="n">driver</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Cls</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;user&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;api key&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
-
-<span class="n">image</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">driver</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">install_image</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;tomcat:8.0&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
-<span class="n">container</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">driver</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">deploy_container</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;tomcat&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">image</span><span class="p">)</span>
-
-<span class="n">container</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">restart</span><span class="p">()</span>
-</code></pre></div>
-
-<h3>Container Registries</h3>
-
-<p>The Docker Registry API is used by services like Amazon ECR, the Docker Hub website and by anyone hosting their own Docker registry.
-It doesn&#39;t belong to a particular driver, so is a utility class. 
-Some providers, like Amazon ECR have a factory method to provide a registry client
-Images from docker registry can be sent to the deploy_container method for any driver.</p>
-
-<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="python language-python" data-lang="python"><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">libcloud.container.utils.docker</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">HubClient</span> 
-<span class="n">hub</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">HubClient</span><span class="p">()</span> 
-<span class="n">image</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">hub</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_image</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;ubuntu&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;latest&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span> 
-</code></pre></div>
-
-<p>When other container registry services are made available these can be provided in a similar context.</p>
-
-<h3>Prototype drivers in libcloud.container</h3>
-
-<p>Drivers have been provided to show example implementations of the API, these drivers are <strong>experimental</strong> and need to go through more thorough community testing
-before they are ready for a stable release.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/container/drivers/docker.html">Docker</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/container/drivers/joyent.html">Joyent Triton</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/container/drivers/kubernetes.html">Google Kubernetes</a> </li>
-<li><a href="http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/container/drivers/ecs.html">Amazon Elastic Container Service (as well as Amazon Container Registry Service)</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>The driver with the most contentious implementation is Kubernetes. We would like users of the Amazon ECS, Google Containers and Kubernetes project to provide feedback
-on how they would like to map clusters, pods, namespaces to the low level concepts in the driver.</p>
-
-<h1>Providing feedback</h1>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201601.mbox/%3CCAOZ4b6sJM8ofMinGJCpfJEq7BYcAbfJBVCE7cfPniESqkEpkPQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E">voting thread</a> is open, please use this as your opportunity to give feedback.</p>
-
-<h1>Thanks</h1>
-
-<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
-list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the
-<a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html">CHANGES file</a>.</p>
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