What’s New in 4.23.0.0

Apache CloudStack 4.23.0.0 is a 4.23 Regular release with 9 new features, around 20 improvements and more than 120 bug fixes since the 4.22.0.0 release. Some of the highlights include:

• CLVM (Clustered LVM) Enhancements for KVM

• Key Management Service (KMS) with HSM Integration

• NetApp ONTAP Primary Storage Support

• KVM Backup on Secondary Storage (KBOSS), a new provider with support for incremental backups, compression, and validation

• Incremental Backup Support for the NAS Backup and Recovery Provider

• Support for Dedicating Backup Offerings to Domains

• Veeam Backup and Recovery Integration for KVM

• Conserve Mode for VPC Offerings

• DNS Framework, with PowerDNS as the first plugin

• DHCP Lease Timeout Support

• MAC Address Reuse Control for Virtual Router Public NICs

• Network Extension: Orchestrate External Network Devices

• Support Firewall Rules on Public IPs in VPC

• Support for Enabling/Disabling NICs on KVM

• API Key Pairs with Limited Permissions and Expiry Dates

• Keycloak OAuth Provider Support

• Per-Domain OAuth Provider Support

• Affinity Group Selection during Kubernetes Cluster Creation

• Headlamp as the New Kubernetes Dashboard (Legacy Dashboard Deprecated)

• Clone Existing Compute/Service Offerings and Update Them

• Flexible JavaScript Rules for Guest OS Allocation

• Quota Plugin Improvements and UI Rework

• Scheduled Min/Max Sizing for VM Autoscaling Groups

• Live Scaling for VMs with Fixed Service Offerings on KVM

• XenServer/XCP-ng 8.3/8.4 vTPM Support

• Several UI fixes and improvements

Known Issues

• Restoring a backed up volume and attaching it to a VM can fail on KVM hosts, across NFS, Linstor and Ceph primary storage, due to a regression in the restore-and-attach command handling. See https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/14007 for details and status.

The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.23.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html