Feature Support and Stability
In the spirit of openness and time-saving, this page contains a matrix chart to describe the feature stability by release so that companies, organizations, and individuals can see which version has certain features that are stable and indicate which features that are experimental.
OpenStack Compute (Nova)
Project |
Release |
Feature |
Expectation |
OpenStack Compute (Nova) |
Austin |
Install from Package |
Bug 668342 fixed against Austin release |
Austin |
Support for KVM |
Stable |
|
Austin |
Support for Xen |
Experimental - partial API coverage. |
|
Austin |
Support for Hyper-V |
No, see Bexar |
|
Austin |
Images without ramdisks |
No, see Bexar |
|
Austin |
Networking |
FlatManager works well; others are experimental |
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
Project |
Release |
Feature |
Expectation |
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) |
Austin |
Install from Package |
Stable |
Austin |
Storage and Retrieval |
Stable |
|
Austin |
Object Size |
5GB in Austin release, Bexar release has large object support |
OpenStack Imaging Service (Glance)
Project |
Release |
Feature |
Expectation |
OpenStack Imaging Service (Glance) |
Austin |
Install from Package |
Not available |
Austin |
Storage and Retrieval of Images |
Experimental |
|
Austin |
Connected to Nova |
No, see Bexar |