--- title: MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 Released! description: Hello MAASters!I’m happy to annouce that MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 has now been released and it is currently available in Ubuntu Artful, PPA for Xenial and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use Alpha 1, please use the following PPA:Snap AvailabilityFor those running from the snap, or would like to test t […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/maas-2-3-0-alpha-2-released?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 22 August 2017 # MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 Released! [provisioning](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/provisioning) [Server](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/server) [server provisioning](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/server-provisioning) --- Share the article Hello MAASters! We're happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 has now been released and it is currently available in Ubuntu Artful, PPA for Xenial and as a snap. ### PPA Availability For those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use Alpha 1, please use the following PPA: ### Snap Availability For those running from the snap, or would like to test the snap, please use the **Beta** channel on the default track: ``` sudo snap install maas –devmode –beta ``` ## MAAS 2.3.0 (alpha2) ### Important announcements #### Advanced Network for CentOS & Windows The MAAS team is happy to announce that MAAS 2.3 now supports the ability to perform network configuration for CentOS and Windows. The network configuration is performed via cloud-init. MAAS CentOS images now use the latest available version of cloud-init that includes these features. ## New Features & Improvements ### CentOS Networking support MAAS can now perform machine network configuration for CentOS, giving CentOS networking feature parity with Ubuntu. The following can now be configured for MAAS deployed CentOS images: * Static network configuration. * Bonds, VLAN and bridge interfaces. Thanks for the cloud-init team for improving the network configuration support for CentOS. ### Windows Networking support MAAS can now configure NIC teaming (bonding) and VLAN interfaces for Windows deployments. This uses the native NetLBFO in Windows 2008+. Contact us for more information (). ### Network Discovery & Beaconing MAAS now sends out encrypted beacons to facilitate network discovery and monitoring. Beacons are sent using IPv4 and IPv6 multicast (and unicast) to UDP port 5240. When registering a new controller, MAAS uses the information gathered from the beaconing protocol to ensure that newly registered interfaces on each controller are associated with existing known networks in MAAS. ### UI improvements Minor UI improvements have been made * Renamed Device Discovery to Network Discovery * Discovered devices where MAAS cannot determine the hostname now show the hostname as “unknown” and greyed out instead of using the MAC address manufacturer as the hostname ## Issues fixed in this release Issues fixed in this release are detailed at [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). 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