Xen 4.7 Includes Live Patching, Other Security Features

The open-source Xen Project issued a major release of its namesake virtualization hypervisor on June 23, with the debut of Xen 4.7, which incorporates live patching and other security features. Xen is the underlying hypervisor used to help enable the largest public cloud provider in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as public clouds from Rackspace, IBM and others. Xen is also widely deployed in private cloud and enterprise production environments.