Roadmap

Roadmap for 2.x

• Complete new web interface (new javascript framework, RIA)
• Based on Debian Squeeze
• New cluster communication based on corosync
• HA for KVM guests
• User management (advanced)
• RESTful web API
• Extend pre-built Virtual Appliances downloads
• Resource monitoring
• Firewall

Already finished:

• 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 8.3.4 in all kernel branches 2.6.18, 2.6.24, 2.6.32 - see Proxmox VE Kernel)

Release History

Proxmox VE 1.5

Released 20.01.2010: See Downloads

Including:

• many Linux kernel improvements
• support different kernel versions
• new 2.6.18 Linux kernel - default (OpenVZ, KVM)
• new 2.6.24 Linux kernel (OpenVZ, KVM)
• new 2.6.32 Linux kernel (KVM only, KSM support)
• use update-initramfs
• DRBD: update to drbd 8.3.4
• AOE: update to AOE6-73
• SCST: update to latest SCST modules
• new KVM user-space tools
• we now use the qemu-kvm stable branch (0.11.1)
• new virtual packages for better kernel dependency handling - proxmox-ve-2.6.18, proxmox-ve-2.6.24 and proxmox-ve-2.6.32
• updated most appliances
• installation CD now use/install proxmox-ve-2.6.18
• installer uses UUID for /boot partition
• updated vzctl, with improved init-logger patch
• updated Russian and Japanese translation
• many other small improvements and bug fixes

Proxmox VE 1.4

Released 19.10.2009: See Downloads

Including:

• First release with new storage model
• iSCSI support
• NFS support
• LVM (managed storage, shared LVM devices like FC)
• DRBD storage replication with active/active mode
• Multiple ISO storages (NFS)
• Multiple backup locactions (including NFS)
• Zero downtime live migration (KVM); over ssh channel - all traffic is encrypted
• Updated web interface (pve-manager)
• Support new storage model
• Allow to specify MAC address (for KVM and OpenVZ in veth mode)
• Added iSCSI Tape support, see http://scst.sourceforge.net/
• Added SCST modules to the kernel
• Provide SCST userspace package
• Updated kernel; update broadcom bnx2 and tg3 drivers; updated ARCEA RAID (acrmsr) drivers; updated kvm modules (2.6.30.1); update realtek network drivers; update intel igb driver (igb-1.3.28.4.tar.gz); update intel e1000e driver (e1000e-1.0.2.5.tar.gz); cciss driver updates; ich10 updates for Nehalem (corei7) based systems
• Updated kvm modules (2.6.30.1)
• Update DRBD to 8.3.2
• New KVM userspace tools
• New feature: assign Sockets/Cores to KVM guests
• We now use the qemu-kvm stable branch (0.11.0)
• Rename package pve-kvm to pve-qemu-kvm
• Qemu-server updates
• Support up to 1000 vlans
• New migrate_speed and migrate_downtime settings
• New VZDump - complete rewrite to support the new storage architecture; do not waste space in 'stop' mode
• Slightly changed naming of backup files; added date and time to file name; added VM type (Openvz/Qemu) to file name; new plugin architecture; support hook scripts

Proxmox VE 1.4 beta2

Released 29.09.2009: See Downloads

Including:

• Updated vzdump web interface with support new storage model
• Updated kernel: update broadcom bnx2 and tg3 drivers, updated kvm modules (2.6.30.1), updated realtek network drivers, more ich10 updates for Nehalem (corei7) based systems
• New kvm userspace tools
• New feature: assign Sockets/Cores to KVM guests
• We now use the qemu-kvm stable branch (0.11.0)
• Rename package pve-kvm to pve-qemu-kvm
• Qemu-server updates: support up to 1000 vlans
• New migrate_speed and migrate_downtime settings

Note: the sources.list does not point to the pvetest repo, so please adapt this accordingly if you want to update/install packages from pvetest

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

Note: the sources.list does not point to the pvetest repo, so please adapt this accordingly if you want to update/install packages from pvetest

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