As we get ever closer to the Botvinnik release, we turn our eyes to the next release cycle. In keeping with our nomenclature of using chess grandmasters and world champions as release names, we have a couple of candidates for the next cycle. Read about Viswanathan Anand and Mikhail Botvinnik to see whom we chose for the “A” and “B” releases, respectively.

We’re pleased to announce that, effective now, the first Botvinnik release candidate is now available. Among the improvements in this release:

That was fast! We found some problems with the first release candidate and have created another for your enjoyment. Download now and tell us what you think at talk.manageiq.org.

We’ve turned on one more web app to round out the manageiq.org experience: the Planet ManageIQ blog aggregator. For now, we syndicate the following blogs:

I’m pleased to announce that the ManageIQ project will have a big showing at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here are the activities we have on tap:

If you’ve been participating in our sprint reports, you’ve no doubt found them to be an excellent way to stay apprised of feature progress in ManageIQ. I’m happy to announce that our community activities are now part of the 3-week sprints and included in the sprint reports.

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, we are having a day to ourselves on Wednesday, May 20 at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.