Release Notes:
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04.05.2022: Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.2

 - Debian 11.3 Bullseye including latest (security) updates

 - Kernel 5.15 with ZFS 2.1.4

 - QEMU 6.2, LXC 4.0.12

 - latest Ceph Pacific and Octopus

 - support creating erasure coded pools

 - Improve backup and restore experience by providing:
   - Overrides of basic settings on restore
   - Note templates to allow one saving meta information (e.g., VM/CT name)
     along side backup easily
   - Allow to set protection status and notes directly when creating a manual backup

  - VirGL support for QEMU VMs

  - Many more features, misc. bug fixes and improvements, for more details see:
    https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Release_History

07.12.2021: Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.1 (ISO release 2)

 - Debian 11.1 Bullseye including latest (security) updates

 - QEMU and Kernel 5.13 improvements regarding various VirtIO, io-uring and
   SATA usage combinations

 - Latest misc. bug fixes and improvements

17.11.2021: Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.1

 - Debian 11.1 Bullseye including latest (security) updates

 - Kernel 5.13

 - QEMU 6.1

 - Ceph Pacific and Octopus

 - More flexible scheduling of backup jobs with the systemd calendar-event
   inspired format

 - support configuring multiple Two-Factors per user and add WebAuthn and
   Recovery Key support

 - QEMU TPM and improved secure-boot support required for Windows 11 and 2022
   VMs

  - Many more features, misc. bug fixes and improvements, for more details see:
    https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Release_History

06.09.2021: Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0 ISO release 2

 - Updated base system of ISO to final Debian 11.0 Bullseye release

 - Latest misc. bug fixes and improvements

06.07.2021: Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0

 - Debian 11 Bullseye

 - Kernel 5.11

 - QEMU 6.0

 - Ceph Pacific and Octopus

 - BTRFS as technology preview

 - Render Node and Guest notes as Markdown

 - APT Repository GUI

 - first public Proxmox VE 7.0 release

24.06.2021: Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0 BETA

 - Debian 11 Bullseye Testing

 - Kernel 5.11

 - Ceph Pacific and Octopus

 - BTRFS as technology preview

 - Render Node and Guest notes as Markdown

 - first public Proxmox VE 7.0 BETA release

28.04.2021: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.4

  - Based on Debian 10.9 Buster

  - Updated kernel (5.4.106) and include latest security fixes

  - ZFS 2.0.4

  - QEMU 5.2

  - Ceph 15.2.11 Octopus

  - Ceph 14.2.20 Nautilus

  - allow one to restore single files from backups located on a Proxmox Backup Server

  - live-restore backups located on a Proxmox Backup Server

  - allow one to edit Ceph pools and set target-size or target-ratio, the CRUSH
    rule to use, and the PG-Autoscaler.

  - Many more features, misc. bug fixes and improvements, for more details see:
    https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Release_History

26.11.2020: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.3

  - Based on Debian 10.5 Buster

  - Updated kernel (5.4.73) and include latest security fixes

  - ZFS 0.8.5

  - QEMU 5.1

  - Ceph 15.2.6 Octopus (initial stable integration)

  - Ceph 14.2.15 Nautilus

  - initial stable Proxmox Backup Server integration

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements, for more details see:
    https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Release_History

12.05.2020: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.2

  - Based on Debian 10.4 Buster

  - Updated kernel to 5.4 LTS based one

  - ZFS 0.8.3

  - Ceph v14.2.9 Nautilus

  - QEMU 5.0

  - LXC 4.0

  - LXCFS 4.0

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements, for more details see:
    https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Release_History

06.03.2020: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.1 (ISO release 2)

  - Based on Debian 10.3 Buster

  - Updated kernel (5.3.18) to fix cursor issues on systems using a matrox
    graphic adapter (MGA)

  - ZFS 0.8.3

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements

04.12.2019: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.1

  - Based on Debian 10.2 Buster

  - Updated kernel (5.3.10) and include latest security fixes

  - Qemu 4.1.1

  - LXC 3.2.1

  - Ceph v14.2.4.1 Nautilus

  - ZFS 0.8.2

  - installation on disks with 4k native blocks (4kn)

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements


16.07.2019: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.0

  - Based on Debian 10 Buster

  - Kernel 5.0.15

  - Ceph v14.2.1 Nautilus

  - ZFS 0.8.1

  - ZFS on EFI and/or NVMe installation

  - Improved installer handling of re-used disks with exising 'pve' VGs

  - Qemu 4.0.0

  - LXC 3.1.0

  - New/updated LXC templates

  - corosync 3

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements

04.07.2019: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.0 BETA 1

  - Kernel 5.0.15

  - Ceph v14.2.1 Nautilus

  - ZFS 0.8.1

  - ZFS on EFI and/or NVMe installation

  - Qemu 4.0.0

  - LXC 3.1.0

  - corosync 3

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements

09.04.2019: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.4 (ISO release 1)

  - Kernel 4.15.18

  - Ceph v12.2.11 (stable)

  - ZFS 0.7.13

  - Qemu 2.12.1

  - LXC 3.1.0

  - ship xserver-xorg-video-all X server output drivers

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements

23.01.2019: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.3 (ISO release 2)

  - apt 1.4.9 (security fixes)

  - systemd 232-25+deb9u8 (security fixes)

  - LXC 3.1.0

04.12.2018: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.3 (ISO release 1)

  - Kernel 4.15.18

  - Ceph v12.2.8 (stable)

  - ZFS 0.7.12

  - Qemu 2.12.1

  - LXC 3.0.2

  - do not create a swap zvol on installation with ZFS

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements

16.05.2018: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.2 (ISO release 1)

  - Kernel 4.15.17

  - Ceph v12.2.5 (stable)

  - ZFS 0.7.8

  - Qemu 2.11.1

  - LXC 3.0.0

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements

21.12.2017: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.1 (ISO release 3)

  - update kernel to fix Intel SPI / Lenovo BIOS bug

18.12.2017: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.1 (ISO release 2)

  - Kernel 4.13.13

  - Ceph v12.2.2 (stable)

  - ZFS 0.7.3

  - Qemu 2.9.1

  - LXC 2.1.0

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements

24.10.2017: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.1

  - Kernel 4.13.4

  - Ceph v12.2.1 (stable)

  - ZFS 0.7.2

  - Qemu 2.1

  - LXC 2.1.0

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements

09.08.2017: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.0

  - Kernel 4.10.17

  - Ceph v12.1.2 luminous (technology preview)

  - Installer bug fixes

  - Misc. bug fixes and improvements

04.07.2017: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.0

  - Based on Debian Stretch 9.0

  - Kernel 4.10.15

  - Qemu 2.9

  - LXC: update to 2.0.8

  - New/updated LXC templates

  - New asynchronous replication feature (needs ZFS, technology preview)

  - Updated/improved noVNC console

  - Ceph v12.1.0 luminous (technology preview)

  - Improved installation ISO

  - Lots of bug fixes and improvements

16.05.2017: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.0 Beta 2

  - Improved handling of re-used disks in installer

  - Improved handling of network devices in installer

  - Update to kernel 4.10.8

  - Update to Qemu 2.9

  - Lots of bug fixes and improvements

22.03.2017: Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.0 Beta 1

  - Based on Debian Stretch

  - Kernel 4.10

  - Many small improvements and bug fixes

09.12.2016: Proxmox Virtual Environment 4.4

   - update kernel to 4.4.35

   - improved GUI, cluster dashboard, ceph dashboard

   - KVM: update to qemu 2.7.0

   - LXC: update to 2.0.6

   - LXC: implement new restart migration

   - LXC: CPU limitations for containers

   - LXC: unprivileged containers

   - HA: improved GUI

   - improved reference documentation

   - Installer: support more than 8 ZFS disks

   - many small improvements and bug fixes

27.09.2016: Proxmox Virtual Environment 4.3

   - update to kernel 4.4.19

   - update to Debian 8.6

   - improved GUI, online help, better disk management, ...

   - KVM: update to qemu 2.6.1

   - LXC: update to 2.0.4

   - ship with new reference documentation

   - many small improvements and bug fixes

17.06.2016: Proxmox Virtual Environment 4.2 update

   - update to kernel 4.4.10

   - update to Debian 8.5

   - many small improvements and bug fixes

27.04.2016: Proxmox Virtual Environment 4.2

  - update to kernel 4.4.6

  - new GUI based on ExtJS 6

  - KVM: update to qemu 2.5

  - LXC: add support for Alpine Linux and Ubuntu 16.04

  - LXC: improved container setup

  - many new and improved manual pages

  - many other small improvements and bug fixes

11.12.2015: Proxmox Virtual Environment 4.1

  - update to kernel 4.2.6

  - improved startup/shutdown behavior (systemd)

  - enable NTP by default

  - installer: allow up to 8 disks for ZFS

  - KVM: add qemu agent GUI option

  - KVM: update network boot ROMs

  - Improve HA GUI for users with restricted permissions

  - add Galician language to GUI

  - LXC: add mount points (and resize) to GUI

  - LXC: add support for Fedora 22 and Debian stretch/sid, Ubuntu 15.10

  - LXC: support unpriviledged containers (technology preview)

  - storage: added LVM thin support (technology preview)

  - added new pvereport command

  - many other small improvements and bug fixes

05.10.2015: Proxmox Virtual Environment 4.0

  - based on Debian 8.2

  - new kernel 4.2.1

  - update qemu to 2.4

  - new high availability manager

  - bash completion support

  - IPv6 support

  - include LXC (and removed openvz)

  - added DRBD9 with drbdmanage (technology preview)

  - countless bug fixes and package updates (for all details 
    see bugtracker and GIT)

19.02.2015: Proxmox Virtual Environment 3.4

  - add ZFS support
    * installer supports all ZFS RAID levels.

  - pve-manager (GUI) updates
    * openvz: implement suspend/resume
    * qemu GUI: support new pending changes API
    * new 'disconnect' button on the network edit panel
    * vzdump: new option --stop to abort running backup job
    * add NUMA option to processor form
    * add GUI for local ZFS storage
    * add startall/stopall/migrateall menu buttons  
    * add multiqueues field to NIC form

  - update to qemu 2.1.3

  - qemu-server updates
    * shutdown by Qemu Guest Agent if the agent flag is set
    * snapshot_create: call fsfreeze if agent flag is set
    * vzdump: use qga freeze in vzdump in snapshot mode
    * add custom NUMA topology support
    * serial: allow to pass arbitrary device names
    * add link_down flag to network config
    * support additional e1000 variants for VM machines
    * enable hotplug by default
    * hotplug config: allow to enable specific features
    * include memory hotplug patch (experimental)

  - improved hotplug support

  - based on Debian Wheezy 7.8

  - kernel updates

  - countless bug fixes and package updates (for all details 
    see bugtracker and GIT)

15.09.2014: Proxmox Virtual Environment 3.3

  - improved security features
    * Firewall support (new package pve-firewall)
    * Two-Factor Authentication (Yubico and OATH)

  - pve-manager (GUI) updates
    * new Firewall GUI
    * noVNC console
    * openvz: add bridge vlan && firewall options to gui
    * new Proxmox VE GUI for Mobile devices 
    * add new 'Pool View'
    * ZFS storage can now be configured on GUI
    * glusterfs: new option to specify backup volfile server
    * add new email_from option to datacenter.cfg
    * add Persian (Farsi) translation.
    * improved Spanish translation
    * update Chinese translation
    * Countless updates and fixes

  - update to qemu 2.1.0
    * pci passthrough improvements
    * hotplug improvements
    * migration : enable auto-converge capability
    * add cpu_hotplug (and maxcpus config)
    * add virtio-net multiqueue support
    * new option smbios1 to specify SMBIOS type 1 fields
    * set uuid for newly created machines
    * support new q35 machine type
    * add Broadwell cpu model
    * compile with new libiscsi (1.12.0)
    * use glusterfs 3.5.2 libraries
    * support drive option 'discard'
    * add support for new qemu throttling burst max parameters
    * add 'vmxnet3', 'lsi53c810', and 'pvscsi' to the list of available network card models
 
  - improved Console support
    * HTML5 Console for shell, VM and container console (noVNC)
    * noVNC console is now the deafult
    * vncterm: new option -notls (for novnc, which use 'wss')
    * vncterm: updated signature for java applet to avoid warnings 

  - pve-kernel-2.6.32-32-pve: 2.6.32-135
    * update aacraid, arcmsr, netxtreme2, ixgbe, igb, megaraid_sas and e1000e drivers
    * update to vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab093.4.src.rpm

  - pve-kernel-3.10.0-4-pve: 3.10.0-17
    * enable vfio xfga
    * update arcmsr, netxtreme2, ixgbe, igb, e1000e drivers
    * update to kernel-3.10.0-123.6.3.el7.src.rpm
    * allow to use grub-efi-ia32 boot loader
    * Note: there is still no OpenVZ support with this kernel

  - update ceph packages to 'firefly' (0.80.5)
    * Note: Please updrade ceph packages first if you run ceph 
      server on proxmox nodes (see ceph upgrade instructions).

  - update gluster packages to 3.5.2

  - fence-agents-pve: 4.0.10
    * update to 4.0.10
    * add fence_ovh and fence_amt
    * remove baytech, bullpap, cpint, egenera, mcdata, nss_wrapper, 
      rackswitch, vixel, xcat. Those agents are no longer included in 
      upstream package.
    * removed fence_scsi
    * Note: This incudes updates for fence_ipmilan (fence_ilo3, fence_ilo4, 
      fence_imm, and fence_idrac), and some parameter names changed (see 
      'man fence_ipmilan'). Please verify that your fence device still works 
      if you use HA.

  - based on Debian Wheezy 7.5

  - countless bug fixes and package updates (for all details see bugtracker and GIT)


30.04.2014: Proxmox Virtual Environment 3.2 update

  - new installation CD with latest security update

  - update to Debian 7.5.0

  - update to vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab088.4.src.rpm

  - many small improvements and bug fixes 

07.03.2014: Proxmox Virtual Environment 3.2

  - update to vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab084.20.src.rpm
    * update e1000, igb, ixgbe, netxtreme2, megaraid_sas
    * include latest ARECA RAID drivers
    * update Broadcom bnx2/bnx2x drivers to 7.6.62
    * update aacraid to aacraid-1.2.1-30300.src.rpm

  - update qemu to 1.7.0
    * add 'pvscsi' to the list of scsi controllers (emulate the VMware
    PVSCSI device)
    * add 'lsi53c810' to the list of scsi controllers (supported on some 
    very old Windows NT versions)
    * add 'vmxnet3' to the list of available network card models (emulate
    VMware paravirtualized network card)
    * add drive option 'discard'
    * add support for new qemu throttling burst max parameters
    * improved live backup

  - improved SPICE support
    * spiceterm
    * add new console option to datacenter.cfg (java applet vs. spice)
    * add multi-monitor support 
    * GUI: use split-button to easily select SPICE or VNC

  - added Open vSwitch support (technology preview)

  - new GUI to manage Ceph server running on PVE nodes (technology preview)

  - storage: new ZFS plugin (technology preview)

  - storage: remove nexenta plugin (ZFS plugin is faster)

  - many small improvements and bug fixes 

21.08.2013: Proxmox Virtual Environment 3.1

  - update to vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab079.5.src.rpm
    * include Highpoint 2710 RAID driver
    * update megaraid_sas to 6.600.18.00

  - update lvm2 to 2.02.98

  - experimental code to support spice

  - enable glusterfs storage backend

  - add package update manager to GUI
    * support to view changelogs for available pve packages
    * add button to display package versions, to provide same 
      info as 'pveversion -v' on GUI

  - bug fixes

23.05.2013: Proxmox Virtual Environment 3.0

  - based on Debian 7.0 (Wheezy)

  - new VM clone feature

  - new event driven API server (pveproxy)
    * completely replace apache2
    * efficient support for HTTP keep-alive

  - support bootlogd (boot log can be viewed on the GUI)

  - update qemu-kvm to 1.4.1

  - update kernel to vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab076.7.src.rpm
    * changed default IO scheduler to 'deadline'
    * updated Intel network drivers for e1000e, igb and ixgbe

  - bug fixes

04.03.2013: Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.3

  - update qemu-kvm to 1.4.0

  - new kvm backup implementation

  - added RDB (ceph) support on GUI 

  - update kernel to vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab072.10.src.rpm

  - extend memory GUI to support ballooning

  - implement auto-ballooning

  - add HD resize feature to expand disks.

  - updated network drivers (bnx2/bnx2x/e1000e/igb/ixgbe)

  - updated debian packages

  - added omping binaries

  - bug fixes

24.10.2012: Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.2

  - update kernel to vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab062.2.src.rpm

  - update qemu-kvm to 1.2.0

  - openvz: update vzctl to 4.0

  - openvz: use real console instead of 'vzctl enter'

  - add live snapshot support (qcow2)

  - added Slovenian translation

  - kvm: new option to select SCSI controller hardware

  - kvm: support up to 32 network devices

  - kvm: support up to 16 virtio devices

  - kvm: add SATA to GUI 

  - updated cluster packages

  - update to latest debian version 6.0.6

  - bug fixes

27.04.2012: Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.1

  - simplify GUI for users without permissions

  - implemented startup/shutdown ordering 

  - improved task logs on node startup/shutdown

  - added Russian, Italian and Turkish translation

  - updated corosync cluster stack to 1.4.3

  - update LVM to 2.02.95 (fixes snapshot problems)

  - bug fixes

29.03.2012: Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.0

  - final 2.0 release 

  - Documentation at http://pve.proxmox.com 

  - all release critical bugs closed

16.02.2012: Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.0 RC 1

  - many fixes and updates, see individual package
    changelogs for details.

29.11.2011: Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.0 Beta 3

  - do not activate clvmd by default

  - start i18n support

  - many fixes and updates

18.11.2011: Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.0 Beta 2

  - new OpenVZ GUI

  - new Backup/Restore (vzdump)

  - many fixes and updates

30.09.2011: Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.0 Beta 1

  - first V2.0 beta release