[ANNOUNCE] Apache Deltacloud 0.5.0

[David Lutterkort <lu...@redhat.com>]

I am pleased to announce the availability of Apache Deltacloud 0.5.0.

Apache Deltacloud is a RESTful cloud abstraction API. The release
consists both of the API server and a Ruby client.

The release can be found at
http://www.apache.org/dist/deltacloud/0.5.0/ Gems and RPM's
for Fedora will become available shortly.

Many thanks to all those who contributed patches, reported bugs, and
asked for features.

Overview of the changes for this release:

  * add display of storage volumes to instance view
  * add way to change provider in HTML UI when applicable (JIRA 105)
  * fix attach volume form in HTML UI
  * fix incorrect handling of REQUEST_PATH (affects platforms like passenger)
  * support dynamically generated provider lists for /api/drivers/:id
  * create image: report correct URL in Location header
  * fix parameter validation error when switching drivers (BZ 750920)
  * create instance: validate hardware properties
  * incredibly experimental support for DMTF CIMI
    (http://dmtf.org/standards/cloud) If you run the server with --cimi and
    it breaks, you get to keep both pieces
  * various client fixes
  * deltacloudd: add --webrick to force use of WEBRick
  * Drivers
    + EC2
      - fetch available regions via DescribeRegions
      - add ap-northeast-1, sa-east-1 and us-west-2 regions
      - fix bucket creation when client specifies 'us-east-1' region
        (BZ 725646)
      - t1.micro HWP is available for 32 and 64 bit (JIRA 95)
      - improvements for launching multiple instances (JIRA 79)
    + Google storage
      - fix blob metadata listing
      - properly validate credentials
    + Mock
      - support storgae_volume create/delete
      - fix m1-large HWP to use integral memory size
    + OpenStack
      - new driver
    + Rackspace
      - correctly report bucket size
    + RHEV-M
      - data centers are now treated as completely separate regions. For a
        given provider URL, only the clusters for one datacenter are
        considered
      - fix deleting VMs (JIRA 110)
      - preserve details about backend errors
      - create instance: choose image realm when none is specified (JIRA 126)
      - better error msg when floppyinject is not installed (BZ 765855)
    + SBC
       - correctly return the realm for /api/realms/:id (JIRA 106)
    + vSphere
       - fix internal error in reporting of instance addresses
       - find objects (VMs etc.) even for datastores that are in nested
         folders (Alfredo Moralejo)
       - HWP: replace effectiveMemory with hardcoded values (JIRA 123)
       - Reboot of a VM now does a RebootGuest rather than ResetVM_Task

David