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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 14-21)
by Stefano Maffulli 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Highlights of the week -- Holiday edition Happy holidays from the whole team at the OpenStack Foundation. We wish you a merry time to spend with your beloved ones. DevStack on openSUSE, or how to quickly setup OpenStack on openSUSE <http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2012/12/21/DevStack-on-openSUSE%2C-or-how…> DevStack is a set of shell scripts to build complete OpenStack development environments. It is useful to create a small OpenStack environment that will be used for hacking, testing, etc. and is therefore primarily used for upstream development. Vincent Untz got DevStack to work on openSUSE. Ten Useful Openstack Swift Features <http://www.17od.com/2012/12/19/ten-useful-openstack-swift-features/> Adrian Smith goes through some of the new features introduced in Swift 1.7.5 and their implication. If you want to learn about CORS support <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/misc.html#cors-headers>, Etag, Object versioning and other nice features read his post. Introducing OpenStack Packstack <http://goodsquishy.com/2012/12/introducing-openstack-packstack/> Derek Higgins developed a tool that is capable of installing OpenStack in a distributed environment using some of the most common configurations. Packstack can be used to transform Fedora 17/18, RHEL 6 or CentOS 6 servers into a functional Openstack Folsom deployment. The tool ssh's onto each server and apply's puppet manifests to set openstack up. On his blog post Derek outlines how to use his Packstack on Fedora 17. A look at individual membership in the OpenStack Foundation <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/a-look-at-individual-membership-in-the-opensta…> It's no secret that I like numbers and charts. If you like them too, then David Fishman's post is a must read for the holidays. Davide took a snapshot of the membership of the OpenStack Foundation using the publicly available data. Who are these people and what are their affiliations? What if anything does it say about the use and uptake of OpenStack cloud? What doesn't it say? And, like any data, what other useful questions does it raise? Remember that the OpenStack Foundation elections are coming <http://www.openstack.org/election/2013-board-election/> and the holidays may be a good time to get to know the candidates <http://www.openstack.org/election/2013-board-election/CandidateList> for the Board of Directors. An <http://martin-paulo.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/earlier-this-month-i-gave-talk-…>Introduction To OpenStack <http://martin-paulo.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/earlier-this-month-i-gave-talk-…> Martin Paulo introduced OpenStack to a new group of people. He collected and published his notes: I believe his work can be very useful for other OpenStack speakers. Tips and tricks * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>:Where does my instance run? <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/20/where-does-my-instance-run/> * By Christian Berendt <http://www.cberendt.de/>: Allocation of multiple VLAN ranges on one physical network <http://www.cberendt.de/2012/12/allocation-of-multiple-vlan-ranges-on-one-ph…> * By Michael Still <http://www.stillhq.com/>: Some quick operational notes for users of loop and nbd devices <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000009.html> Upcoming Events * OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Dec 22, 2012 -- Wuhan, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> * Minnesota OpenStack: Part 2 <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> Jan 07, 2013 -- Minneapolis, MN Details <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> * FOSDEM'13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 -- 03, 2013 -- Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Other news * The new OpenStack Marketing team has its own wiki page http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Marketing with good details * Horizon Hyper-V RDP console access <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/004008.html> * Report from past events: o Event Report: OpenStack Day, Bangalore, India <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/event-report-openstack-day-bangalore-…> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Harika Vakadi, Persistent * Ben Andrews * Walter A. Boring IV, HP * Therese McHale, HP Bonus Video Overview of OpenStack and the OpenStack Foundation by Mark Collier: http://youtu.be/dclcFiVvO7g /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities //occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment./

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 30 – Dic 14)
by Stefano Maffulli 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Highlights of the weeks What people talk about when they talk about OpenStack Cloud <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/what-people-talk-about-when-they-talk-about-op…> There’s enough going on in the OpenStack <http://www.mirantis.com/openstack-services/> ecosystem that you can pretty much find a comfortable niche drilling down on anything from hypervisor compatibility to driver support to who’s in the foundation. Mirantis’ David M. Fishman takes a step back and highlights recent conversations about OpenStack. *Welcome New Outreach Program for Women Interns <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/welcome-new-outreach-program-for-wome…>* With a flurry of applications, we had a difficult decision in front of us, deciding who would be our newest mentored contributors through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women <https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen>. All the applicants were enthusiastic and personable, knowledgeable and technical. We’re pleased to announce that the decisions have been made and these three are going to work on OpenStack full-time from January to March. Please welcome Laura, Anita and Victoria to the OpenStack community. *Making sense of SDN with–and without–HW-based networking in OpenStack Cloud <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/making-sense-of-sdn-with-and-without-hw-based-…>* There’s a tremendous amount of talk about the shift in the networking business from hardware-bound networking to Software Defined Network. Mirantis’ Greg Elkinbard gives an overview of SDN in OpenStack world. *OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 1 with Rob Hirschfeld, Principal Cloud Architect at Dell <http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2012/12/06/ope…>* Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Dell’s engagement in the community. Rafael Knuth’s goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. Security Advisories * CVE-2012-5625 : Information leak in libvirt LVM-backed instances <http://secstack.org/2012/12/cve-2012-5625-information-leak-in-libvirt-lvm-b…> Tips and tricks * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: Reviewing Code <http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/12/reviewing-code/> * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: Keystone and Eclipse PyDev <http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/12/keystone-and-eclipse-pydev/> * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: What changed in that latest patch? <http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/12/what-changed/> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Cleanup keystone tokens <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/12/cleanup-keystone-tokens/> * By Alessandro Pilotti <http://www.cloudbase.it/>: Cinder-Volume on Windows Storage Server 2012 <http://www.cloudbase.it/cinder-volume-on-windows-storage-server-2012/> * By Hui Cheng <http://freedomhui.com/>: How To Use Hadoop Image In Openstack Cloud <http://freedomhui.com/2012/12/how-to-use-hadoop-image-in-openstack-based-sy…> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: OpenStack: perform consistent snapshots <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/10/openstack-perform-consistent-snapsh…> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Openstack and rsyslog <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/05/openstack-and-rsyslog/> * By Alessandro Pilotti <http://www.cloudbase.it/>: Cloud-Init for Windows instances <http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/> * By Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/>: Using an orchestrator to improve Puppet-driven deployment of OpenStack <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/orchestrator-puppet-driven-deployment-openstac…> Upcoming Events * India OpenStack Day <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/announcing-openstack-day-15-december-…> Dec 15, 2012 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/announcing-openstack-day-15-december-…> * OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Dec 22, 2012 – Wuhan, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Other news * My (Very) Minor Contribution to OpenStack Bug Squashing Day <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/12/13/my-very-minor-contribution-to-openstack-…> * *Image Building Service Demo <http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/12/12/image-building-service-demo/>* * *RabbitMQ in Nova [2] <http://freedomhui.com/2012/12/rabbitmq-in-nova-2-2/>* * *Altai v1.0.2 is out <http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/altai-v1-0-2-is-out/> and What’s New in Altai 1.0.2 from Maintainer’s Point of View <http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/whats-new-in-altai-1-0-2-from-m…>* * *Welcome Claire and Jim <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-December/001285.html>* * *OpenStack Nova 2012.2.2 released <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-December/00006…>* * Report from past events: o OpenStack in action 3! The Open Revolution / Paris, November 29th, 2012 <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/openstack-in-action-3-the-open-revolu…> o 1st Swiss OpenStack User Group <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/1st-swiss-openstack-user-group/> o 1^st Minnesota Meeting: OpenStack, Community, and You <http://www.siliconloons.com/?p=367> o 37th Open Technet Korea Dope’n'stack cloud antehm <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifjSyy2l22Y> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Pavel Kravchenko and Alexey Roytman, IBM * Boris Pavlovic * Cian O’Driscoll, HP * Mana Kaneko * Andrew Glen-Young, Canonical * zhoudongshu * Yufang Zhang * Qiang Guan, Netease * Rohan Rhishikesh Kanade, NTT Data /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. 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[ANNOUNCE] OpenStack Nova 2012.2.2 released
by Mark McLoughlin 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hey, In the time since the Folsom release, we have been busy selectively back-porting bugfixes to the stable/folsom branch according to our "safe source of high-impact fixes" criteria documented here: http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch We're now announcing the 2012.2.2 release of Nova, a snap release containing a security fix and a fix for a serious regression in 2012.2.1. This release is a bugfix update to Folsom and is intended to be relatively risk free with no intentional regressions or API changes. The list of bugs fixed can be seen here: https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.2 Please read (and add to!) the release notes at: http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/2012.2.2 Enjoy! Mark.

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[OSSA 2012-020] Information leak in libvirt LVM-backed instances (CVE-2012-5625)
by Thierry Carrez 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 OpenStack Security Advisory: 2012-020 CVE: CVE-2012-5625 Date: December 11, 2012 Title: Information leak in libvirt LVM-backed instances Reporter: Eric Windisch (Cloudscaling) Products: Nova Affects: Folsom, Grizzly Description: Eric Windisch from Cloudscaling reported a vulnerability in libvirt LVM-backed instances. The physical volume content was not wiped out before being reallocated and passed to an instance, which may result in the disclosure of information from previously-allocated logical volumes. Only setups using libvirt and LVM-backed instances (libvirt_images_type=lvm) are affected. Grizzly (development branch) fix: http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/9d2ea970422591f8cdc394001be9a2deca4… Folsom fix (included in upcoming Nova 2012.2.2 stable update): http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a99a802e008eed18e39fc1d98170edc495c… References: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1070539 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2012-5625 - -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQx4DRAAoJEFB6+JAlsQQj5sEP/2osrfWvooWEeQbhnHGIp7yg GRR1BdPqqnBqBT4lzXp1B6O23l4LqSjKVC1X3r3zs2VqUcsZwTiJJz3FmPFlr0xZ 5BSSrg4GWo+If0atGqsWwOabTzuOZqCoFe16uXghtBwjmceZBjUOhra4mfnW+VtO xVc9eXiREEnxkHFHVPVuNnAxdxgoYin8Nw0NaOs+uZ9ehTjv2h0/81FNGNy3Rw5Y TPJOq3YFrneAK5GEL/srhV+3V6LnRKXqlPIhFbw5wqO+WlHZWOHnayL/hQZaivdF gYiuaTkwU2d6yKbasy+q9flreylZbtllcj1p3IGvoAFbTSA3u2l3AeElqnx6D+ak ULxIpLQGlBzabiUDLpSe+9t/gv7bY7qcf+Ec1u6DsgRpN/GhHHwBKykzoQwvTPS/ Of+CfmJj39NJarepUHMO7GMVUu/BYkQm4EnfPAnP8X8Gz5/0xJjo2ue7vnx8yuxC M7CPxWx3pZanC98n1omF5GvRlcdWECmbcP7NYynXhrROOw8mgXAs+Eh77mD94flk iZULo5fOJDShCVY+LmekzHix9WNRQSWxceAMYHrlNLo/H4zN5DWo063xgxYlSuNI +jfJ6DtqePjjG+c9tDcpVG9/OMxpyN8CKoWDSVWwdkTega3a7e1AAf9xEj0jT1jd OC2iQxz1crzjL1CV9z3J =CE4b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 16-30)
by Stefano Maffulli 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Highlights of the weeks OpenStack Outreach Program for Women Still Accepting Candidates <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-…> We are constantly moving and growing and very excited to invite newcomers to our community. To this end, the OpenStack Foundation has joined the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. The Women in OpenStack group has already found some mentors for the program and ideas for projects are flowing in. If you know women that may be interested in joining OpenStack please tell them to read our blog post <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-…> with more details. The deadline is approaching (Dec 3) and we still have place for candidates. OpenStack Nova, Glance, Keystone, Cinder, Quantum and Horizon 2012.2.1 released <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/00005…> The OpenStack Stable Branch Maintainers Team has been busy selectively back-porting bugfixes to the stable/folsom branch according to our "safe source of high-impact fixes" criteria documented on the wiki page StableBranch <http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch>. We're happy to announce the 2012.2.1 release, the first in the series of releases to make available the bugfixes from stable/folsom. A total of 139 bugs have been fixed in this release, which is a higher than the usual volume of fixes in a stable release. What to expect from Grizzly-1 milestone <http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/what-to-expect-from-grizzly-1-milest…> The first milestone of the OpenStack Grizzly development cycle is just out <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/00005…>. What should you expect from it? What significant new features were added? With more than 399 bugfixes landing in this milestone, Grizzly-1 contains already lots of new features. Thierry's blog post adds details for what changed in each component. Developing OpenStack Dashboard using Fedora <http://www.matthias-runge.de/2012/11/20/developing-openstack-dashboard-usin…> Many developers recommend using devstack <http://devstack.org/> to work on OpenStack. Matthias Runge <http://www.matthias-runge.de/> doesn't recommend that for Dashboard (Dan Berrange <http://berrange.com/> has an article providing more details <http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/20/what-devstack-does-to-your-host-when-s…>). Good news is, at least for OpenStack's dashboard, devstack is not required in any case, it just runs on plain Fedora. Matthias swears that the instructions provided for Fedora's test day <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-09-18_OpenStack> worked great, no rocket science and no engineering master required. What DevStack does to your host when setting up OpenStack on Fedora 17 <http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/20/what-devstack-does-to-your-host-when-s…> DevStack is one of those huge, massive scripts that requires super user access to your machine. Understanding what it does to your setup is pretty complex. Daniel P. Berrangé <http://berrange.com/> did most of the work for us investigating just what DevStack does to a Fedora 17 host when it is run. Fascinating read. The Future of Incubation and Core <http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/11/17/the-future-of-incubation-and-core/> Mark McLoughlin summarizes quite well the ongoing discussion to define the future of Incubation nd Core. The OpenStack Technical Committee <http://www.openstack.org/foundation/technical-committee/> and the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors <http://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/> have pretty separate sets of responsibilities and can get on with their work independently. One exception to that is the inclusion of new projects in OpenStack. In the coming weeks, members of the two bodies will decide how to clarify confusion around the term "core project" and what exactly happens projects who graduate through OpenStack's Incubation process. A thread on the openstack-dev mailing list <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-November/thread.htm…> is ongoing and is a great example of how a mailing list discussion can actually help to drive a rough consensus while still giving everyone an opportunity to express their views.// Driving a 100 Gigabit Network with OpenStack <http://buriedlede.blogspot.com/2012/11/driving-100-gigabit-network-with.html> Argonne National Laboratory is interested in building IaaS cloud systems that perform similarly to traditional HPC cluster-style systems for one of their projects. Narayan Desai <https://plus.google.com/111442327943164013992> reports on the work to validate the ability of an Openstack system to drive large quantities of network bandwidth, memory to memory. *Go to Australia in January for an OpenStack day at LCA2013 <http://bit.ly/Waue30>* Being held in January in Canberra, Australia, linux.conf.au is one of the foremost open source conferences in the world, and is considered the most prestigious in the southern hemisphere. Linux.conf.au's first ever OpenStack miniconf day is being held Jan 29, and we expect over 200 people will be attending the miniconf alone, with hundreds more attending the week long conference. More information is available at http://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack and the CFP is open <http://bit.ly/Waue30>. Security Advisories * EC2-style credentials invalidation issue (CVE-2012-5571) <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/00005…> * Extension of token validity through token chaining (CVE-2012-5563) <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/00005…> Tips and tricks * By Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/>: Working through DNS and DHCP service configuration issues in OpenStack Nova <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/dns-dhcp-service-configuration-openstack-nova/> * By SwiftStack Team <http://swiftstack.com/>ç Video: How the Ring Works in OpenStack Swift <http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/11/21/how-the-ring-works-in-openstack-swift/> * By Emilien Macchi <http://my1.fr/blog>: First Guide to Deploy OpenStack Folsom on Ubuntu 12.04 <http://my1.fr/blog/first-guide-to-deploy-openstack-folsom-on-ubuntu-12-04/?…> * By Daniel P. Berrangé <http://berrange.com/>: Walk through of running OpenStack on Fedora 17 using DevStack <http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/19/walk-through-of-running-openstack-on-f…> * By Alessandro Pilotti <http://www.cloudbase.it/>: DevStack on Hyper-V <http://www.cloudbase.it/devstack-on-hyper-v/> Upcoming Events * Pune OpenStack Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/> Dec 02, 2012 -- Pune, India Details <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/> * EMEA OpenStack Day <http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/> Dec 05, 2012 -- London Details <http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/> * OpenStack Ireland December Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/92413652/> Dec 06, 2012 -- Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/92413652/> * Palestra: Explorando o OpenStack <http://papers.consegi.gov.br/pub/programacao/823> Dec 07, 2012 -- Belem, BR Details <http://papers.consegi.gov.br/pub/programacao/823> * OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Dec 22, 2012 -- Wuhan, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Other news * Report from past events: o Australian OpenStack UG -- Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Tri-City Meetup 20/11/12 <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/australian-openstack-ug-sydney-melbou…> o November month OpenStack meetup, India <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/report-november-month-openstack-meetu…> o 1st OpenStack Swiss User Group Meeting <https://wiki.systemsx.ch/display/chosug/2012.11.15+1st+OpenStack+User+Group…> * jclouds 1.5.3 Released With OpenStack Cinder and Rackspace Cloud Block Storage Support <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/11/20/jclouds-1-5-3-with-cinder-and-rackspace-…> * A new Nova service: nova-conductor <http://russellbryantnet.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/a-new-nova-service-nova-co…> * Bufunfa -- Chargeback [Billing] for OpenStack <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-November/003043.html> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-20-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-20-21.…>, Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-27-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-27-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Yolanda Robla, Canonical * dekehn * Ken'ichi Ohmichi, NEC * Belmiro Moreira * Anita Kuno * Shrutiranade38 * Morgan Fainber, Metacloud * Wangpan, Netease /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. 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[ANNOUNCE] OpenStack Nova, Glance, Keystone, Cinder, Quantum and Horizon 2012.2.1 released
by Mark McLoughlin 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hey, In the time since the Folsom release, we have been busy selectively back-porting bugfixes to the stable/folsom branch according to our "safe source of high-impact fixes" criteria documented here: http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch We're happy to announce the 2012.2.1 release, the first in the series of releases to make available the bugfixes from stable/folsom. These releases are bugfix updates to Folsom and are intended to be relatively risk free with no intentional regressions or API changes. A total of 139 bugs have been fixed in this release, which is a higher than the usual volume of fixes in a stable release. The list of bugs fixed can be seen here: https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.1 https://launchpad.net/glance/folsom/2012.2.1 https://launchpad.net/keystone/folsom/2012.2.1 https://launchpad.net/cinder/folsom/2012.2.1 https://launchpad.net/quantum/folsom/2012.2.1 https://launchpad.net/horizon/folsom/2012.2.1 Please read (and add to!) the release notes at: http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/2012.2.1 Enjoy! Mark.

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[OSSA 2012-019] Extension of token validity through token chaining (CVE-2012-5563)
by Thierry Carrez 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 OpenStack Security Advisory: 2012-019 CVE: CVE-2012-5563 Date: November 28, 2012 Title: Extension of token validity through token chaining Reporter: Anndy Products: Keystone Affects: Folsom, Grizzly Description: Anndy reported a vulnerability in token chaining in Keystone. A token expiration date can be circumvented by creating a new token before the old one has expired. An authenticated and authorized user could potentially leverage this vulnerability to extend his access beyond the account owner expectations. Note: this vulnerability was fixed in the past (CVE-2012-3426) but was reintroduced in Folsom when code was refactored to support PKI tokens. Grizzly (development branch) fix: https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/38c7e46a640a94da4da89a39a5a1ea… Folsom fix (included in upcoming Keystone 2012.2.1 stable update): https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/f9d4766249a72d8f88d75dcf1575b2… References: https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1079216 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2012-5563 - -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQtjwXAAoJEFB6+JAlsQQj3cwP/3FUjqWBxAHgRTMWz2Df5JML DZIelkcq3kxSn05GCJ25FU5JyA3lWvqqoEsU4+SxytBTNAGYhDe8toSo74xU4PlU g3+A2V5oUMEJnyCS6ps7YMiLmd1unN3Fz/yrqxAZE7GRv+voD1l64+2IHK15bN7G WG+FxN3CgRK+pk+3MpPkaNLI1L9wTeYTPUgBdem+I7xhmLRsf5TBO1gqu3gHja1+ gvpWjezroWrVdAuqWFFsgzWf7LUZqZR/AqaWwS4DrHJ4LoD+ruHXNGvGyg1BQg8d IhqgAhBSdndlaJWTr6fj2KoqhpJK8Wu4VKIr9yIekbQIzJx11IYA9vjiJ38eJ2v1 x2NLnNDKrq2Q51l+iAy5MMbqmFWqljwZhPNfDW+ysybFMG1CtEnCgQPLqmbF9m9m 8M9uV/vfGKuD73GpmMR7MlHldySv+uiqJnFzyCce+QMzP7enCBitBDp0t52dRal7 TrTR7HGXIkVJ4I/73o3MBAfQrzmTsSIYmuVybArnaNzvrcT6aZTKH8hSPWRKVqx/ pcBP7Z+wLzHkJELWD0X9vgZJZJUj5qbMx6jq0NYYWY1lCrLTIRxXppS76/ZUzzIm qGS7FqUQM8u+x8rynnKNattFjWOdwXcFhcy3Io3Noc3kBDTgZf4fshBHWbO0XOqf BI3upFpAwQ4g4ep16o1k =CZnJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[OSSA 2012-018] EC2-style credentials invalidation issue (CVE-2012-5571)
by Thierry Carrez 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 OpenStack Security Advisory: 2012-018 CVE: CVE-2012-5571 Date: November 28, 2012 Title: EC2-style credentials invalidation issue Reporter: Vijaya Erukala Products: Keystone Affects: All versions Description: Vijaya Erukala reported a vulnerability in Keystone EC2-style credentials invalidation: when a user is removed from a tenant, issued EC2-style credentials would continue to be valid for that tenant. An authenticated and authorized user could potentially leverage this vulnerability to extend his access beyond the account owner expectations. Only setups enabling EC2-style credentials (for example enabling EC2 API in Nova) are affected. Grizzly (development branch) fix: http://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/9d68b40cb9ea818c48152e6c712ff41… Folsom fix (included in upcoming Keystone 2012.2.1 stable update): http://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/37308dd4f3e33f7bd0f71d83fd51734… Essex fix: http://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/8735009dc5b895db265a1cd573f39f4… References: https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1064914 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2012-5571 - -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQtjAkAAoJEFB6+JAlsQQj+4sP/0uKJHxXeCY3HcAdMUtkYP+5 QyQGnscOhlggr9iE3ifPWkiLALPbfVrdwp/nJr0psXiUnf60QX4Pfj63VJz23DSf 1Hk/Z3yY5oWmCCgT8/DMgw+SPhkn09YfS6f5KwuMR5zdEX345myp2MFcc1/mgNzx CfVKagHoCq8rrIhTjhAvyy5iwY/ZvbDFIgWKzgr3KCSm+76QuIqIoXHkdiCGYm4q OMfKEcS1WQZlmUddc54fR2g6kFY/sIsVKGdCtqJBqc6COU+MyUuhNvs7niXGK1Ep cU3U7tV6JCK58K70vgtQ0O5EWcDKm/Yfh5Sf/wmJTDwE2UxI8OGNEAzNJl/qxdEw iMUp/qRObtnN2t7pF2Rf7/ixZsTWSxpFToq6BZl4O4pghqQZQgZ9dGVgtSFkX8Tn crMjs8oWwtJuu1/paHje0O+9Y23NHMIdAg3ccjJUkC8MxfcnrxZkYd5XHZytecff iWPUWmm3ISFkOQQPuemah0vcu2Y+YvhjEY9b5nL2Ew6I/E4DeYxL1HwpeBA0lzrt w7nQgWCyf+ERz2g1liesuaSJ0CPBmKe93ji20kVvHTV9IRXmC3zK/SDhXtgultVo DmY/ovoUjTw9sg60CceTNXAUz4/4QbbUV79vFQ/06sThZ8t7ZW1kTfOrTSG6M4uw a557x0IhXfUedbbLCsE6 =+0zu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Grizzly-1 development milestone available (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Quantum, Cinder)
by Thierry Carrez 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi everyone, The first milestone of the Grizzly development cycle, "grizzly-1" is now available. It contains all the new features that have been added since the Folsom pre-release Feature Freeze in September. You can see the full list of new features and fixed bugs, as well as tarball downloads, at: https://launchpad.net/keystone/grizzly/grizzly-1 https://launchpad.net/glance/grizzly/grizzly-1 https://launchpad.net/nova/grizzly/grizzly-1 https://launchpad.net/horizon/grizzly/grizzly-1 https://launchpad.net/quantum/grizzly/grizzly-1 https://launchpad.net/cinder/grizzly/grizzly-1 The Grizzly development cycle is now in full swing. The next milestone, grizzly-2, is scheduled for delivery on January 10th. Regards, -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack

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[Swift] Swift 1.7.5 released
by John Dickinson 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

I'm pleased to announce that Swift 1.7.5 has been released. This release is the work of twenty-seven contributors and includes several important new features and bug fixes. You can get a tarball of this release at http://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/1.7.5. Like all Swift releases, you can upgrade your currently running clusters to this version with no client downtime. The (https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG) is also available with the source. This release would not have been possible without the hard work of the many contributors and core developers who spent time submitting and reviewing patches. With the addition of the nine new contributors in this release, Swift has eighty-four total contributors. You can see the full list of contributors at https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/AUTHORS. I'd like to highlight a few of the bigger changes to Swift that have gone into this release. CORS Swift now supports setting CORS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing) headers on your data. This allows HTML5 forms, browser uploads, and JavaScript to work between your website and your Swift storage. Users can set `X-Container-Meta-Access-Control-Allow- Origin`, `X-Container-Meta-Access-Control-Max-Age`, and `X-Container- Meta-Access-Control-Allow-Headers` on their containers to allow CORS support. Custom log handlers Custom log handlers allow depoyers to more easily integrate with external log processors. This mechanism provides the ability to add your own handler to the log messages that Swift generates. The full docs are at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/admin_guide.html#custom-log-handl…. Multi-Range GETs Swift has always supported single range requests, but the HTTP spec allows for requesting multiple ranges of a resource at once. Swift now supports this feature on standard objects, and support against large object manifests should be available in a later release. Configurable constraints Deployers can set the client limits in a config file. These limits include the maximum object size, the maximum number of items returned in listings, and the limits on metadata. You can read the fully- commented sample config file at https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/etc/swift.conf-sample. Replicators can run against a specific partition or device Replicators can now replicate a specific partition or device. This feature allows deployers to prioritize data replication for data that may not be fully replicated. For example, although Swift detects missing replicas automatically, a deployer can choose to replicate a specific set of data before the automatic systems detect the error. --John

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