What’s New in 4.14.0.0

  • New modern UI (Project Primate, Technical preview)
  • Backup and Recovery framework
  • VM ingestion
  • L2 network PVLAN enhancements
  • CloudStack Kubernetes Service
  • UEFI support
  • Enable Direct Download for systemVM templates
  • VR health checks
  • Download logs and diagnostics data from SSVM/CPVM/VRs
  • Enable additional configuration metadata to virtual machines

The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.14.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html

Important

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

Libvirt Python Dependency on KVM and CentOS

For CentOS users using the security groups feature on KVM it is needed to install the epel-release and python36-libvirt packages.

New User Interface & Depreciation notice of existing UI

The next LTS release (likely to be version 4.15) of Apache Cloudstack will ship with the production release of the new UI. It will also be the last version of CloudStack to ship with the old UI. This release will also have the final deprecation notice for the old UI.

In the following release (likely to be 4.16), the old UI will be deprecated.