1. Introduction
2. Release Highlights
3. Known Issues
4. Credits
5. Test Results

Introduction

Apache jclouds 2.6.0 is a regular release which includes compatibility and bug fixes. You can read the official announcement here. To get started with jclouds, please see the jclouds installation guide.

Release Highlights

New features in Apache jclouds 2.6.0 include:

• Updated dependencies, particularly those that enable Java 21 and Guice 7 support.

Bugs and patches

• [JCLOUDS-1519] - Support for Backblaze application keys
• [JCLOUDS-1601] - upgrade log4j due to security issue
• [JCLOUDS-1606] - Cannot upload more than 32 parts to GCS
• [JCLOUDS-1608] - Slicing of large files can lead to exceed the 32 parts limit of GCS
• [JCLOUDS-1615] - Using Azure SAS Token unable to upload some parts of the file (blockid is "Not a valid base64 string")
• [JCLOUDS-1616] - Proxy credentials validation is missing in OkHttpCommandExecutorService API request
• [JCLOUDS-1618] - Jclouds 2.3.0 and above is incompatible with SpringBoot 2.7.*

New Feature

• [JCLOUDS-1596] - Support Activity Log Alert Operations
• [JCLOUDS-1597] - Support Alerts operations

Improvement

• [JCLOUDS-1604] - use non-beta/rc versions of auto-factory
• [JCLOUDS-1609] - upgrade bouncycastle due to cve
• [JCLOUDS-1620] - jclouds is not compatible with gson 2.9.0
• [JCLOUDS-1621] - Upgrade to Guice 5.1.0
• [JCLOUDS-1627] - Java Jakarta Support
• [JCLOUDS-1628] - Netty 3.10.* has multiple security vulnerabilities
• [JCLOUDS-1629] - Upgrade to Guice 7

The complete list of fixed issues and improvements can be found here.

Known Issues

• This release does not include labs providers. Users can depend on the SNAPSHOTs instead.

Credits

jclouds would like to thank everyone who contributed time and effort in order to make this release happen:

• Apache jclouds PMC and community for verifying the release.
• Check out who has been busy on Open Hub.

Test Results

Please see the discussion and the vote threads for live test results for 2.6.0:

• RC1 vote and discussion threads.