Features are in: the diablo-4 milestone

August was very busy for OpenStack Nova and Glance developers, and the culmination of those efforts is the delivery of the final feature milestone of the Diablo development cycle: diablo-4.

Glance gained final integration with the Keystone common authentication system, support for sharing images between groups of tenants, a new notification system and i18n. Twelve feature blueprints were completed in Nova, including final Keystone integration, the long-awaited capacity to boot from volumes, a configuration drive to pass information to instances, integration points for Quantum, KVM block migration support, as well as several improvements to the OpenStack API.

Diablo-4 is mostly feature-complete: a few blueprints for standalone features were granted an exception and will land post-diablo-4, like volume types or virtual storage arrays in Nova, or like SSL support in Glance.

Now we race towards the release branch point (September 8th) which is when the Diablo release branch will start to diverge from a newly-open Essex development branch. The focus is on testing, bug fixing and consistency... up until September 22, the Diablo release day.