OpenStack 2013.2.2 released

The OpenStack Stable Maintenance team is happy to announce the release of the 2013.2.2 stable Havana release. A total of 98 bugs have been fixed across all projects. These updates to Havana are intended to be low risk with no intentional regressions or API changes. Official release notes.

The road to Juno Summit - Atlanta 2014

• Have you redeemed your invite code yet? Do it now! Check your inbox and spam folder if you contributed code before January 25 for yours.
• Next batch of invites will be sent regularly after each milestone until feature freeze.
• The call for speakers is open: submit your proposal by end of today.
• Applying for Visa? Looking for accommodation in Atlante? Visit http://openstack.org/summit
  
• Applications for Travel Support Program. Apply by Mar 2.

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Jay Pipes: Setting Up an External OpenStack Testing System – Part 1
  
• By Christian Berendt: Use of full virtualization with Xen/Libvirt
  
• By Kenneth Hui: Laying Cinder Block (Volumes) In OpenStack, Part 2: Solutions Design
  
• By Andrew Hutchings: Caveats with Eventlet and Working with Syslog
  
• By Everett Toews: Fixing my OpenStack Gerrit Permission denied (publickey) problem
  
• By Inside My Home Rackspace Private Cloud, OpenStack Lab, Part 1: The Setup
  
• By Miranda ZHANG: Wish List, Common Misunderstanding, Undocumented – OpenStack Identity API – Authentication, Add User
  
• By Florent Flament: Customizing OpenStack RBAC policies
  
• By Bmwiedemann: another way to access a cloud VM’s VNC console
  

Reports from Previous Events

• Sayali Lunkaad's first talk at Pune GNUnify OpenStack meetup
  
• Women In Computer Science Being Bold At Harvard University
  

Upcoming Events

• Korea OpenStack Day Feb 18, 2014 - Seoul, South Korea Details
  
• Austin OpenStack User Group Meetup Feb 19, 2014 - Austin, Texas Details
  
• OpenStack Boston Meetup Feb 19, 2014 - Boston, MA Details
  
• OpenStack Chicago Meetup Feb 20, 2014 - Chicago, IL Details
  
• SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO Feb 20, 2014 - Details
  
• OpenStack India Meetup Feb 22, 2014 - Hyderabad, India Details
  
• Open Cloud Summit at IBM Pulse Feb 23 - 26, 2014 - Las Vegas, Nevada Details
  
• Mobile World Congress Feb 24 - 27, 2014 - Barcelona, Spain Details
  
• OpenStack India Meetup Mar 01, 2014 - Bangalore, India Details
  
• SFBay Meetup - Beginner track Mar 06, 2014 - Sunnyvale, CA Details
  
• SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO Mar 06, 2014 - Details
  
• Cloud Connect Summit at Interop Mar 31 - Apr 01, 2014 - Las Vegas, Nevada Details
  
• World Hosting Days Apr 01 - 03, 2014 - Rust, Germany Details
  
• PyCon Apr 09 - 17, 2014 - Montreal, Canada Details
  
• OpenStack Summit May 2014 May 12 - 16, 2014 - Atlanta, GA Details
  
• Cloud World Forum Jun 17 - 18, 2014 - London, UK Details
  

Security Advisories

• Glance Swift store backend password leak (CVE-2014-1948)
  

Popular OpenStack Videos of the Week

• OpenStack Networking Hands-on Lab
  
• Bridging the Gap Explaining OpenStack to VMware Administrators
  

Got Answers?

Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:

• "MissingSchema at /admin/" from havana dashboard
  
• Failed to retrieve management_url from token
  
• live-migration with qemu is possible?
  
• where does ceilometer stores all the data related to instances
  
• Devstack (Havana) - curl SSL Certification verification error
  
• Nova compute service does not shutdown gracefully when it is terminated abruptly during create server api
  
• How to configure networking when Controller and Compute are connected together through one public interface
  
• Connectivity breaks between compute and controller
  
• Why isn't neutron net-create working?
  
• OVS flows disappear
  
• how to create instances from web interface
  

Other News

• python-swiftclient releases
  
• Jan 30 OpenStack Foundation Board Meeting
  
• How OpenStack parallels the adoption of Linux
  
• Open Mic Spotlight: Chang Bo Guo
  
• OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary and full logs
  

Latest Activity In Projects

Do you want to see at a glance the bugs filed and solved this week? Latest patches submitted for review? Check out the individual project pages on OpenStack Activity Board – Insights.

• Telemetry (Ceilometer)
  
• Block Storage (Cinder)
  
• Image Service (Glance)
  
• Orchestration API (Heat)
  
• Dashboard (Horizon)
  
• Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic)
  
• Identity (Keystone)
  
• Manuals
  
• Networking (Neutron)
  
• Compute (Nova)
  
• Hadoop Cluster as a Service (Savanna)
  
• Object Storage (Swift)
  
• Database As A Service (Trove)
  

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