My team at Dell is still figuring out some big items for the 1.3 release; however, somethings were just added that is worth calling out.

1. Ubuntu 11.04 support!   Thanks to Justin Shepherd from Rackspace Cloud Builders!
2. Alias names for nodes in the UI
3. User managed node groups in the UI
4. Ability to pre-populate the alias, description and group for a node (not integrated with DNS yet)
5. Hadoop is working again – we addressed the missing Ganglia repo issue.  Thanks to Victor Lowther.

Also, I’ve spun new open source ISOs with the new features.  User beware!