<commit_before>---
title: OVirt 4.0.0 Release Notes
category: documentation
authors: rafaelmartins
---

# oVirt 4.0.0 Release Notes

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 4.0.0 alpha1 release as of April 5th, 2016.

oVirt is an open source alternative to VMware™ vSphere™, and provides an awesome KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization. This release is available now for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, CentOS Linux 7.2 (or similar).

This is pre-release software. Please take a look at our [community page](http://www.ovirt.org/community/) to know how to ask questions and interact with developers and users. All issues or bugs should be reported via the [Red Hat Bugzilla](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/). The oVirt Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. This pre-release should not to be used in production, and it is not feature complete.

To find out more about features which were added in previous oVirt releases,
check out the [previous versions release notes](http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/releases/).
For a general overview of oVirt, read [the Quick Start Guide](Quick_Start_Guide)
and the [about oVirt](about oVirt) page.

## Install / Upgrade from previous versions

### Fedora / CentOS / RHEL

## ALPHA RELEASE

In order to install oVirt 4.0.0 Alpha Release you will need to enable oVirt 4.0.0 alpha1 release repository.

In order to install it on a clean system, you need to install

`# yum localinstall `[`http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.0_alpha1/rpm/el7/noarch/ovirt-release40.rpm`](http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.0_alpha1/rpm/el7/noarch/ovirt-release40.rpm)

To test oVirt 4.0.0 alpha1 release, you should read our [Quick Start Guide](Quick Start Guide).
<commit_msg>update release notes for 4.0.0 beta1. (#245)<commit_after>---
title: OVirt 4.0.0 Release Notes
category: documentation
authors: rafaelmartins
---

# oVirt 4.0.0 Release Notes

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 4.0.0 beta1 release as of May 19th, 2016.

oVirt is an open source alternative to VMware™ vSphere™, and provides an awesome KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization. This release is available now for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, CentOS Linux 7.2 (or similar).

This is pre-release software. Please take a look at our [community page](http://www.ovirt.org/community/) to know how to ask questions and interact with developers and users. All issues or bugs should be reported via the [Red Hat Bugzilla](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/). The oVirt Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. This pre-release should not to be used in production, and it is not feature complete.

To find out more about features which were added in previous oVirt releases,
check out the [previous versions release notes](http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/releases/).
For a general overview of oVirt, read [the Quick Start Guide](Quick_Start_Guide)
and the [about oVirt](about oVirt) page.

## Install / Upgrade from previous versions

### Fedora / CentOS / RHEL

## BETA RELEASE

In order to install oVirt 4.0.0 Alpha Release you will need to enable oVirt 4.0.0 beta1 release repository.

In order to install it on a clean system, you need to install

`# yum localinstall `[`http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.0_beta1/rpm/el7/noarch/ovirt-release40.rpm`](http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.0_beta1/rpm/el7/noarch/ovirt-release40.rpm)

To test oVirt 4.0.0 beta1 release, you should read our [Quick Start Guide](Quick Start Guide).

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