update release notes pt1

Author: PaulAngus

source/releasenotes/about.rst

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 What's New in |release|
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-Version |release| is a |version| non-LTS release adding multiple features for those who want to access a fresh CloudStack prior to our next LTS.
-|release| combines 12 months of work and adds +200 commits, with multiple new features and fixes.
-
-Some of the changes are presented in this quick summary (this is not a complete list):
-
-* Drop support for Ubuntu 14.04
-* Allow users of all types to create L2 networks
-* keystore: don't restart systemvm cloud.service post cert
-* Add back ability to disable backup of snapshot to secondary
-* API: add command to list management servers
-* UI: Fix "Migrate instance to another host" popup modal
-* UI: Fix issue with verification of ipv4/ipv6 address.
-* UI: Fix UI bug: Create Network Offering Popup has no fields
-* UI: Update jquery and related libraries
-* network: Offerings do not have to have Security Grouping enabled
-* Vmware offline migration
-* IP address acquired with associate ip address is marked as source nat
-* ipv6: allow Secondary IPv6 addresses to be EUI-64
-* ipv6: Send userdata to Virtual Router if IPv6 is enabled
-* ipv6: Calculate IPv6 address instead of fetching one from a pool
-* ipv6: Advanced Networking Security Groups are supported
-* ipv6: Allow specification of IPv6 details when creating Basic network
-* Enable remote debugging for the management server, usage server, and KVM agent
-* Security Group: add secondary ips to the correct ipset based on ip family (4.11)
-* Security Group: add secondary ips to the correct ipset
-* XenServer: fix Security Groups 'vmops' script
-* XenServer: Support online storage migration from non-managed to managed storage
-* KVM: Security Group enhancements and refactor old code
-* KVM: Properly report available memory to Management Server
-* KVM: Add influxdb to statscollector
-* KVM: add libvirt / qemu IO bursting
-* KVM: Refactory VXLAN script and add IPv6 support
-* KVM: Set amount of queues for Virtio SCSI driver to vCPU of Instance
-* KVM: Use 'ip route show default 0.0.0.0/0' to find the default gateway
-* KVM: Add KVM Guest OS mapping for Windows Server 2019
-* KVM: Enable DPDK support on KVM
-* KVM: Allow KVM VM live migration with ROOT volume on file storage type
-* Prevent corner case for infinite PrepareForMaintenance
-* Enhance bypass vlan overlap check
-* Improved support for Java 8 for building artifacts/modules, packaging, and in
-* Destroy VM also removes volumes
-* Users are able to change/edit the protocol of an ACL rule
-* allows to remove local primary storage
-* Support requesting a specific IPv4 address in Basic Networking during Instance creation
-* Adding zone disablement during deletion of the range
-* Display mac address in nic detail view
-* Cleanup methods, classes, and POMs
-
-
-What's New in 4.11.3.0
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-
-The new |release| version is a |version| maintainance release containing almost 50
-fixes and improvements on the 4.11.2.0 release.
-
-
-
-What's New in 4.11.2.0
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+Version |release| is a |version| LTS release adding almost 200 new features, enhancements and fixes 
+since 4.12. 
 
-The new 4.11.2.0 version is a 4.11 maintainance release containing over 70
-fixes and improvements on the 4.11.1.0 release.
-
-
-What's New in 4.11.1.0
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-
-The new 4.11.1.0 version is a 4.11 maintainance release containing over 140
-fixes and improvements on the 4.11.0.0 release.
-
-These include the speeding up of virtual router deployments and fixes for corner cases
-effecting the new config drive and L2 features and some hypervisor specific fixes to improve compatibility
-with current hypervisor versions including the XCP-ng fork of XenServer.
-
-What's New in 4.11.0.0
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-
-Version 4.11.0.0 included more than 400 commits, 220 pull requests that fixes
-more than 250 issues since the last release. Version 4.11.0.0 was a large
-release that was worked on for 8 months.
-
-A LOT changed in this release, so this is not a complete list, but here is a
-quick summary of some of the changes:
-
-* Support for XenServer 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4, and support for XCP-ng 7.4.
-* Improved support for VMware 6.5.
-* Host-HA framework and HA-provider for KVM hosts with and NFS as primary storage, and a new background polling task manager.
-* Secure agents communication: new certificate authority framework and a default built-in root CA provider.
-* New network type - L2.
-* CloudStack metrics exporter for Prometheus.
-* Cloudian Hyperstore connector for CloudStack.
-* Annotation feature for CloudStack entities such as hosts.
-* Separation of volume snapshot creation on primary storage and backing operation on secondary storage.
-* Limit admin access from specified CIDRs.
-* Expansion of Management IP Range.
-* Dedication of public IPs to SSVM and CPVM.
-* Support for separate subnet for SSVM and CPVM.
-* Bypass secondary storage template copy/transfer for KVM.
-* Support for multi-disk OVA template for VMware.
-* Storage overprovisioning for local storage.
-* LDAP mapping with domain scope, and mapping of LDAP group to an account.
-* Move user across accounts.
-* Managed storage enhancements.
-* Extend config drive support for user data, metadata, and password (Nuage Networks).
-* Extra DHCP options support (Nuage Networks).
-* Nuage VSP 5.0 support and caching of NuageVsp ID's.
-* Nuage domain template selection per VPC and support for network migration.
-* Support for watchdog timer to KVM Instances.
-* Support for Secondary IPv6 Addresses and Subnets.
-* IPv6 Prefix Delegation support in basic networking.
-* Ability to specific MAC address while deploying VM or adding a NIC to a VM.
-* VMware dvSwitch security policies configuration in network offering
-* Allow more than 7 NICs to be added to a VMware VM.
-* Network rate usage for guest offering for VRs.
-* Usage metrics for VM snapshot on primary storage.
-* Enable Netscaler inline mode.
-* NCC integration in CloudStack.
-* The retirement of the Midonet network plugin.
-* Several UI Improvements.
-* Embedded Jetty and improved CloudStack management server configuration.
-* Improved support for Java 8 for building artifacts/modules, packaging, and in
-  the systemvm template.
-* A faster console proxy startup and service availability.
-* A new Debian 9 based smaller systemvm template that patches systemvm without
-  requiring reboot.
-* Several optimizations and improvements to the virtual router including better
-  support for redundant virtual routers and strongswan provided s2s and remote
-  access vpn.
+Highlights include; Enhancements to the scoping of disk, network and compute offerings and a new type
+of custom offering. Improvements to memory usage in System VMs.  DPDK support has been enhanced to 
+include support for live migration and vHost User mode.  Support has also been aded for vSphere OVA 
+templates which contain additional static data, such as network appliances.
 
+|release| combines 12 months of work and adds +200 commits, with multiple new features and fixes.