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Today FOSS-Cloud 0.6.1 was published and is available for downloading.

In comparison with the FOSS-Cloud 0.6.0, the following improvements were made:

• Installer
• No changes.
• Virtual Machines
• No changes.
• Backend
• Updated installed PHP-Version and added further PECL-extensions.
• VM-Manager
• Changed unsupported php-livirt bindings to supported (Red Hat) libvirt-php bindings.
• User management was expanded, you can now add your own users.
• You can now upload your own ISO files via your web browser.
• The boot device in a VM-Template can be changed from CD-ROM to hard disk and visa versa.

The FOSS-Cloud offers a redundant infrastructure for the operation of virtual servers and desktops (Linux and Windows).

The Hosted Open-Xchange Offer from stepping stone GmbH was mentioned in the Swiss Magazine Swiss IT Magazine in edition number 03 from the 5th of March 2011.

You can find the German article online on the Swiss IT Magazine homepage or as a Portable Document Format (PDF) here (also in German).

Today FOSS-Cloud 0.6.0 was published and is available for downloading.

In comparison with the FOSS-Cloud 0.4.1, the following improvements were made:

• Installer
• FOSS-Cloud Version included in the installation process.
• Higher Grub default timeout (gives you more time to choose the preferred Linux kernel).
• Network: Changed the sequence of the network user query.
• Network: Clarified the user information by the network query.
• Added SSH login information to the login screen.
• Virtual Mashines
• The two default Linux openSUSE and Ubuntu virtual machines where reduced to a only the Ubuntu Linux virtual machine to save disk space on the installation medium.
• Backend
• The virtual machines retrieve their IP addresses via DHCP (which in turn retrieves the information from the inbuilt OpenLDAP server).
• VM-Manager
• Added FOSS-Cloud version information to the "About" page.
• VM-Profile can be created. Upload of ISO-file must still be done manually, please refer to the Admin Guide.
• VM-Templates can be created from VM-Profiles.
• Virtual Machines (VMs) can be created from VM-Templates.
• Users can be assigned to Virtual Machines (VMs). The user administration is planned for version 0.6.1, which should be release by the middle of March 2011.

The FOSS-Cloud offers a redundant infrastructure for the operation of virtual servers and desktops (Linux and Windows).