[ANNOUNCE] Apache Stratos 4.1.4 released

[Akila Ravihansa Perera <ra...@apache.org>]

The Apache Stratos community is pleased to announce the availability of
Apache Stratos 4.1.4.

Apache Stratos is a PaaS framework that is designed to address the various
challenges currently faced in the Cloud PaaS space. For developers, Stratos
provides a cloud-based environment for developing, testing, and running
scalable applications. IT providers benefit from high utilization rates,
automated resource management, and platform-wide insight including
monitoring and billing.

You can read more about Stratos and its features at website:
http://stratos.apache.org/

Changes
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* Support for Velocity template based nginx configuration
* LB extension support multiple thrift endpoints
* Support for secure message broker communication
* Support for pluggable artifact management via agent plugins in Python
cartridge agent
* Python based command line interface tool
* Loadbalancer extension for AWS-EC2 platform
* Metering service for Stratos including member life-cycle statistics

Release notes can be found at:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12333630&styleName=Html&projectId=12314521&Create=Create&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED%7C8d508a42ff0952818faa21edfbb8d692d2f34b3f%7Clout

Try downloading it from: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/stratos

The binary distribution's samples directory has bunch of different examples
for various cloud infrastructure providers (EC2, OpenStack, Kubernetes
etc.) that you can use to setup a cloud. Try it out and let us know what
you think!

We would like to thank all the contributors who made this release possible.

Thanks,
The Apache Stratos team