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author: fabiand
description: This is a weekly update from the KubeVirt team.
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pub-date: March 08
pub-year: 2018
category: updates
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tags: [release notes, changelog]
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This is a weekly update from the KubeVirt team.

We are currently driven by

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- Building a solid user-story around KubeVirt

- Caring about end-to-end (backend, core, ui)

- Getting dependencies into shape (storage)

- Improve the user-experience for users (UI, deployment)

- Being easier to be used on Kubernetes and OpenShift

Within the last two weeks we achieved to:

- Released KubeVirt v0.3.0
  <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.3.0>

- Merged VirtualMachinePresets (@stu-gott)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/652>)

- Merged OfflineVirtualMachine (@pkotas)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/667>)

- Merged ephemeral disk support (@alukiano)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/728>)

- Fixes to test KubeVirt on OpenShift (@alukiano)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/774>)

- Scheduler awareness of VM pods (@vladikr)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/673>)

- Plain text inline cloud-init (@alukiano)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/757>)

- Define guest specific labels to be used with presets (@yanirq)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/767>)

- Special note: A ton of automation, CI, and test fixes (@rmohr)

In addition to this, we are also working on:

- Stable UUIDs for OfflineVirtualMachines (@fromanirh)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/766>)

- Subresources for consoles (@davidvossel)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/770>)

- Additional network glue approach (@vladikr)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/787>)

- Improvement for testing on OpenShift (@alukiano)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/792>)

Take a look at the pulse, to get an overview over all changes of this
week: <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pulse>

Finally you can view our open issues at
<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues>

And keep track of events at our calendar
[18pc0jur01k8f2cccvn5j04j1g@group.calendar.google.com](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=18pc0jur01k8f2cccvn5j04j1g@group.calendar.google.com)

If you need some help or want to chat you can find us on
<irc://irc.freenode.net/#kubevirt>
