Hello everyone,

It is my great pleasure to announce the immediate release of OpenStack 2012.2, codenamed "Folsom". This release includes two new services: OpenStack Networking ("Quantum") and OpenStack Block Storage ("Cinder").

You can find source tarballs for each component, together with lists of features and bugfixes introduced during this 6-month development cycle, at:

OpenStack Compute: https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2 OpenStack Object Storage: https://launchpad.net/swift/folsom/1.7.4 OpenStack Image Service: https://launchpad.net/glance/folsom/2012.2 OpenStack Networking: https://launchpad.net/quantum/folsom/2012.2 OpenStack Block Storage: https://launchpad.net/cinder/folsom/2012.2 OpenStack Identity: https://launchpad.net/keystone/folsom/2012.2 OpenStack Dashboard: https://launchpad.net/horizon/folsom/2012.2

You're strongly encouraged to read the Release Notes, available at: http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Folsom

We hope you will enjoy this release as much as we have enjoyed creating it.