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We are pleased to announce the release of Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey v6.3.0, the latest version of the popular command-line interface tool for managing Apache CloudStack environments.

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® CloudStack® v4.18.

Apache CloudStack 4.18.0.0 is a 4.18 LTS release with 300+ new features, improvements, and bug fixes since 4.17, including 19 major new features. Some of the highlights include:

Apache CloudStack LTS Maintenance Release 4.17.2.0​

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of CloudStack 4.17.2.0.

The CloudStack 4.17.2.0 release is a maintenance release as part of its 4.17.x LTS branch and contains more than 20 fixes since the CloudStack 4.17.1.0 release.

The global Apache CloudStack community is hosting its major annual event - CloudStack Collaboration Conference, running from November 14th to November 16th 2022. The conference will be taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria. However, the conference is hybrid, allowing speakers and attendees to join virtually.

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of CloudStack 4.17.1.0. The CloudStack 4.17.1.0 release is a maintenance release as part of its 4.17.x LTS branch and contains more than 150 fixes and improvements since the CloudStack 4.17.0.0 release.

Apache CloudStack version 4.5.0 and later has a SAML 2.0 authentication Service Provider plugin which is found to be vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE) injection. This plugin is not enabled by default and the attacker would require that this plugin be enabled to exploit the vulnerability. When the SAML 2.0 plugin is enabled in affected versions of Apache CloudStack could potentially allow the exploitation of XXE vulnerabilities. The SAML 2.0 messages constructed during the authentication flow in Apache CloudStack are XML-based and the XML data is parsed by various standard libraries that are now understood to be vulnerable to XXE injection attacks such as arbitrary file reading, possible denial of service, server-side request forgery (SSRF) on the CloudStack management server.

On 14th June 2022, a new issue affecting only KVM users using Shared Mount Point storage was reported [1]. This issue affects the creation and the usage of existing Shared Mount Point storage pools on Apache CloudStack 4.17.0.0.

Apache CloudStack 4.17.0.0 added support for the StorPool storage based on Shared Mount Point. However, the current version of CloudStack doesn't allow multiple implementations of Shared Mount Point storage pool providers, causing the StorPool provider to override the default implementation. This affected the other storage pool providers for Shared Mount Point since CloudStack tries to add them as a StorPool storage pool.

To mitigate the issue, a CloudStack administrator needs to do the following on version 4.17.0.0:

• On each management server: stop the CloudStack management service, remove the Storpool plugin jar on /usr/share/cloudstack-management/lib/cloud-plugin-storage-volume-storpool-4.17.0.0.jar and restart the Cloudstack management service
  
• On each KVM host: stop the CloudStack agent service, remove the StorPool plugin jar on /usr/share/cloudstack-agent/lib/cloud-plugin-storage-volume-storpool-4.17.0.0.jar and restart the CloudStack agent service
  

Note: This workaround removes the StorPool plugin support. StorPool users should not apply the workaround to continue using their Storpool storage.

This issue will be fixed in the upcoming CloudStack version 4.17.1.0.

[1] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/6455

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® CloudStack® v4.17

Apache CloudStack 4.17.0.0 is a 4.17 LTS release with 383 new features, improvements and bug fixes since 4.16, including 16 major new features. Some of the highlights include:

Apache CloudStack 4.17 is the latest release of the cloud management platform from the Apache Software Foundation and is a result of months of work from the development community. Apache CloudStack 4.17 is an LTS (Long Term Support) release so will be maintained for a period of 18 months after release.

For the 10^th consecutive year, the Apache CloudStack community is organising its major event - CloudStack Collaboration Conference, running from 14^th to 16^th November 2022. The event will be a hybrid event, giving attendees and speakers the option to join in Sofia, Bulgaria (Exact location TBD) or remotely from their computers. By doing so, the conference will allow more people from the Apache CloudStack community and people interested in the technology, to learn more about it and its latest capabilities and integrations.