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What's New in |release|
=======================

Apache CloudStack |release| is a 4.23 Regular release with 9 new features,
around 20 improvements and more than 120 bug fixes since the 4.22.0.0 release.
Some of the highlights include:

• CLVM (Clustered LVM) Enhancements for KVM
• Key Management Service (KMS) with HSM Integration
• NetApp ONTAP Primary Storage Support
• KVM Backup on Secondary Storage (KBOSS), a new provider with support for incremental backups, compression, and validation
• Incremental Backup Support for the NAS Backup and Recovery Provider
• Support for Dedicating Backup Offerings to Domains
• Veeam Backup and Recovery Integration for KVM
• Conserve Mode for VPC Offerings
• DNS Framework, with PowerDNS as the first plugin
• DHCP Lease Timeout Support
• MAC Address Reuse Control for Virtual Router Public NICs
• Network Extension: Orchestrate External Network Devices
• Support Firewall Rules on Public IPs in VPC
• Support for Enabling/Disabling NICs on KVM
• API Key Pairs with Limited Permissions and Expiry Dates
• Keycloak OAuth Provider Support
• Per-Domain OAuth Provider Support
• Affinity Group Selection during Kubernetes Cluster Creation
• Headlamp as the New Kubernetes Dashboard (Legacy Dashboard Deprecated)
• Clone Existing Compute/Service Offerings and Update Them
• Flexible JavaScript Rules for Guest OS Allocation
• Quota Plugin Improvements and UI Rework
• Scheduled Min/Max Sizing for VM Autoscaling Groups
• Live Scaling for VMs with Fixed Service Offerings on KVM
• XenServer/XCP-ng 8.3/8.4 vTPM Support
• Several UI fixes and improvements

Known Issues
------------

• Restoring a backed up volume and attaching it to a VM can fail on KVM hosts, across NFS, Linstor and Ceph
  primary storage, due to a regression in the restore-and-attach command handling. See
  https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/14007 for details and status.

The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.23.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html