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author: fabiand
description: This is a weekly update from the KubeVirt team.
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pub-date: December 15
pub-year: 2017
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

- Being easier to be used on Kubernetes and OpenShift

- Enabling people to contribute

- Streamlining and improving the Kubernetes experience

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This week we achieved to:

- VM Grace period and shutdown improvements (@davidvossel)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/526>)

On another side we were also successful in:

- Initiating a Kubernetes WG Virtualization mainlinglist:
  <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-wg-virtualization>

- Triggering a \#virtualization slack channel in the Kubernetes org

In addition to this, we are also working on quite a few things:

- Serial console rework (@davidvossel)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/613>)

- VM API Redesign (@rmohr)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/606>)

- Add OpenShift support (@karimb)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/608>,
  <https://github.com/kubevirt-incubator/kubevirt-ansible/pull/29>)

- Ansible Broker support (@gbenhaim)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt-incubator/kubevirt-ansible/pull/30>)

- Improve development builds (@petrkotas)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/609>) - 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>
