Ubuntu Server Changelog

What's new in Ubuntu Server 15.10

• OpenStack Liberty:
• Ubuntu 15.10 includes the latest OpenStack release, Liberty, including the following components...
• OpenStack Identity - Keystone
• OpenStack Imaging - Glance
• OpenStack Block Storage - Cinder
• OpenStack Networking - Neutron
• OpenStack Telemetry - Ceilometer and Aodh
• OpenStack Orchestration - Heat
• OpenStack Dashboard - Horizon
• OpenStack Object Storage - Swift
• OpenStack Database as a Service - Trove
• OpenStack DNS - Designate
• OpenStack Bare-metal - Ironic
• OpenStack Filesystem - Manila
• OpenStack Key Manager - Barbican
• Ubuntu 15.10 provides Swift 2.5.0 including experimental support for erasure coded storage.
• Please refer to the OpenStack Liberty release notes for full details of this release of OpenStack.
• OpenStack Liberty is also provided via the Ubuntu Cloud Archive for OpenStack Liberty for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS users.
• Ubuntu 15.10 also includes the second Ubuntu release of of the Nova driver for LXD ('nova-compute-lxd'). This driver should not be considered ready for production use and is still provided for experimentation and early testing at this point in time in preparation for its first GA release in 16.04.
• WARNING: Upgrading an OpenStack deployment is a non-trivial process and care should be taken to plan and test upgrade procedures which will be specific to each OpenStack deployment.
• Make sure you read the OpenStack Charm Release Notes for more information about how to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack using Juju.
• Juju:
• Juju, the service orchestration tool for Ubuntu, has been updated to the latest current stable release, 1.24.6. See the upstream release notes for full details of all new features and improvements in this release.
• libvirt 1.2.16:
• Libvirt has been updated to the 1.2.16 release.
• qemu 2.3:
• Qemu has been updated to the 2.3 release.
• Open vSwitch 2.4.0:
• Ubuntu 15.10 includes the latest release of Open vSwitch, 2.4.0.
• Ubuntu 15.10 also includes an experimental preview of Open vSwitch integrated with DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) enabling fast packet processing through userspace usage of compatible networking cards - see the openvswitch-switch-dpdk package for more details.
• Ceph 0.94.3:
• Ubuntu 15.10 includes the latests stable release of Ceph, 0.94.3 'Hammer'.