<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve reached the beta milestone for the Fuel Project. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next minor version of Fuel, but is not recommended for production use at this stage.</span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-690affe0-145b-46f4-179d-9daad5e9ffa8"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What’s New in Fuel 5.1?</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The primary new features of Fuel 5.1 are:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An upgrade path from 5.0 or 5.0.1 to 5.1</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Automated updating an existing OpenStack environment (e.g. from 2014.1 to 2014.1.1)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Access control to the Fuel UI and API</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deployment of the ML2 Open vSwitch plug-in for Neutron</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Fuel Master Node can be backed-up and restored</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VMWare NSX is supported as a network option for KVM hypervisors</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VMWare vCenter integration supports multiple vCenter clusters</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mellanox hardware support for ISER & SR-IOV based networking</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Zabbix monitoring solution can be deployed by Fuel (experimental)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experimental features can now be explicitly enabled or disabled</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How you can participate</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> To join us in the beta program, please follow these guidelines:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can download the latest beta build from the public jenkins repository:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://fuel-jenkins.mirantis.com/view/ISO/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://fuel-jenkins.mirantis.com/view/ISO/</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Look for the latest build that has passed the standard BVT tests. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can choose to download the ISO, IMG or Upgrade (UPGD) file by clicking on these links next to the build name. UPGD is for those folks upgrading from Fuel 5.0 or 5.0.1 to 5.1. Download the ISO or IMG if you’re installing fresh. </span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: square; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For this beta, we’re making the files available via BitTorrent, so please be sure to have a BitTorrent compatible client to download the files.</span></p></li></ul></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beta documentation for the release is available:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/master/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/master/</span></a></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have questions, want to provide feedback or encounter issues with the beta release, you can contact the community developers in a couple of ways:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IRC at freenode.net: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#fuel-dev</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3636363636363635;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OpenStack developers mailing list</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Obviously, if you’re receiving this message, you’re already signed up but if you want to forward this info to someone else, just let them know to sign up for this openstack-dev mailing list and send E-mails with the subject starting with "[Fuel]".</span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you find a reproducible bug, you can log it on Launchpad here:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please be sure to run the </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diagnostic Snapshot</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to collect the logs and configuration files needed by our dev team to troubleshoot the issue.</span></p></li></ul></ul><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We welcome any and all levels of participation in this Beta and we look forward to making this release of Fuel the best ever!</span></span><div><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks,</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div><div>- David J. Easter</div><div> Director of Product Management, Mirantis, Inc.</div></div></body></html>