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Table of Contents
Eucalyptus (1.5.2)
Eucalyptus version 1.5.2 incorporates several new features and improvements. Following is a summary of major changes from version 1.4:
- Elastic Block Store (EBS) compatible storage service
- Walrus improvements:
- Support for groups in ACLS
- Fixed issues with meta data support and key names
- Web browser form-based uploads via HTTP POST
- Object copying
- Query string authentication
- Compressed image downloads and fixes to image caching
- Reduced memory requirement
- Network improvement: new MANAGED-NOVLAN mode
- Node-side improvements:
- Support for the KVM hypervisor
- Compression and better failure handling on image downloads
- Reworked caching (now with configurable limit)
- Web UI improvements:
- Cloud registration with Rightscale (from admin's 'Credentials' tab)
- New configuration options for Walrus
- Better screening of usernames
- Fixed account confirmation glitches
- Building and installation improvements
- Better Java installation checking
- New command-line administration: euca_conf -addcluster ... -addnode ...
- Non-root user deployment of Eucalyptus
- Binary packages for more distributions: Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE and CentOS
For a more detailed list, see the 1.5.2 Changelog:
http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/ChangeLog_v1.5.2
For a Eucalyptus compatibility matrix of supported Amazon features:
