Roadmap

Roadmap for 2.x

• Appliance builder (Released on 20th of January 2009 - Debian_Appliance_Builder)
• Move to Debian Lenny (Released on 12th of May 2009)
• Flexible storage pools, including direct attached and remote storage like iSCSI and FC (Released on 11th of September 2009)
• DRBD support (DRBD 8.3.2 Released on 11th of September 2009)
• Extend pre-built Virtual Appliances downloads
• Resource monitoring (user beancounters)
• User management (advanced)
• Firewall

Release History

Proxmox VE 1.4 beta1

Released 11.09.2009: See Downloads

Including:

• First release with new storage model
• iSCSI support
• NFS support
• LVM (managed storage, shared LVM devices)
• DRBD storage replication with active/active mode (DRBD 8.3.2)
• Multiple ISO storages (NFS)
• Zero downtime live migration (KVM) over ssh channel - all traffic is encrypted
• Updated kernel:update Intel igb driver (igb-1.3.28.4.tar.gz), Intel e1000e driver (e1000e-1.0.2.5.tar.gz),cciss, ich10 updates, update DRBD to 8.3.2
• new VZDump: complete rewrite to support the new storage architecture; do not waste space in 'stop' mode; new plugin architecture

Proxmox VE 1.3

Released 4.06.2009: See Downloads

Including:

• Updated Kernel
• Support for Highpoint RR3120
• Removed OpenVZ limit of 50 machines
• Update to kvm-86
• Vzdump: minor bug fixes
• Qemu-server: added new 'tablet' option

Proxmox VE 1.2

Released 12.05.2009: See Downloads

Including:

• Based on new Debian Lenny (Debian 5.0)
• New KVM with many improvements (kvm-85)
• New Kernel (still 2.6.24 based but with a lot of backported drivers)
• Update to aoe6-71
• Update to drbd-8.3.1
• Include HighPoint RocketRAID 3xxx/4xxx Controller Driver
• Update to busybox 1.14.0
• Use busybox mdev as firmware loader
• Compiled with gcc 4.3.2 (default on Debian Lenny)
• Load virtio_blk (if you run Proxmox VE inside Proxmox VE as a KVM guest)
• New OpenVZ vzctl (mainly bug fixes)
• Vncterm: better terminal emulation
• Everything updated to Debian Lenny
• Many bug fixes

Proxmox VE 1.1

Released 15.01.2009: See Downloads

Including:

• Updated Kernel - new e1000/e1000e drivers
• New KVM with many improvements (KVM-83)
• New Chinese translations
• Minor pve-manager updates and bug fixes

Proxmox VE 1.0 - First stable release

Released 29.10.2008: See Downloads

Including:

• KVM and OpenVZ live migration
• Web interface for vzdump backups
• Improved vzdump, now support KVM guests
• New templates available
• Support multiple languages (see Translations for details)
• Improved installer (use grub as boot loader, automatic country/keyboard detection)
• Support up to 16 CPUs
• Based on Debian 4.0r5
• KVM updates (kvm-75)
• OpenVZ updates, Fedora support added
• Improved Kernel (includes drivers for ISCSI, AoE 6-64, DRBD 8.2.6, qlogic firmware for ISCSI/FC HBAs)
• Many bugfixes

Proxmox VE 0.9beta2

Released 22.7.2008, see Proxmox VE 0.9beta2 released!

Including:

• Extend pre-built Virtual Appliances downloads
• Multi-bridge support
• Bonding
• VLAN support
• Extend web interface for KVM guests (add hard drives, network cards, etc.)
• Many bug fixes

Proxmox VE 0.9

First public release: 15.4.2008