Eucalyptus (1.5.1)

Eucalyptus version 1.5 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 Changelog:

http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/ChangeLog_v1.5

For a Eucalyptus compatibility matrix of supported Amazon features:

http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/API_v1.5