Note
Deadlines are generally the Thursday of the week on which they are noted below. Exceptions to this policy will be explicitly mentioned in the event description.
March 22, 2023 - October 4, 2023 (28 weeks)
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Mar 20 - Mar 24 |
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Mar 27 - Mar 31 |
R-27 |
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Apr 03 - Apr 07 |
R-26 |
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Apr 10 - Apr 14 |
R-25 |
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Apr 17 - Apr 21 |
R-24 |
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Apr 24 - Apr 28 |
R-23 |
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May 01 - May 05 |
R-22 |
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May 08 - May 12 |
R-21 |
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May 15 - May 19 |
R-20 |
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May 22 - May 26 |
R-19 |
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May 29 - Jun 02 |
R-18 |
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Jun 05 - Jun 09 |
R-17 |
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Jun 12 - Jun 16 |
R-16 |
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Jun 19 - Jun 23 |
R-15 |
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Jun 26 - Jun 30 |
R-14 |
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Jul 03 - Jul 07 |
R-13 |
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Jul 10 - Jul 14 |
R-12 |
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Jul 17 - Jul 21 |
R-11 |
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Jul 24 - Jul 28 |
R-10 |
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Jul 31 - Aug 04 |
R-9 |
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Aug 07 - Aug 11 |
R-8 |
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Aug 14 - Aug 18 |
R-7 |
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Aug 21 - Aug 25 |
R-6 |
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Aug 28 - Sep 01 |
R-5 |
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Sep 04 - Sep 08 |
R-4 |
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Sep 11 - Sep 15 |
R-3 |
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Sep 18 - Sep 22 |
R-2 |
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Sep 25 - Sep 29 |
R-1 |
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Oct 02 - Oct 06 |
R+0 |
From March 27 to March 31 we’ll have a virtual PTG to plan the Bobcat release schedule.
May 11, 2023 is the Bobcat-1 milestone. See project-specific notes for relevant deadlines.
All projects following the cycle-trailing release model must release their Bobcat deliverables by June 1st, 2023.
From June 13 to June 15, 2023, the OpenStack community will gather in Vancouver for the OpenInfra Summit. Discussions on the future of the software, as well as project team meetings will happen there.
July 6, 2023 is the Bobcat-2 milestone. See project-specific notes for relevant deadlines.
Projects must participate in at least two milestones in order to be considered part of the release. Projects made official after the second milestone, or which fail to produce milestone releases for at least one of the first and second milestones as well as the third milestone, are therefore not considered part of the release for the cycle. This does not apply to cycle-trailing packaging / lifecycle management projects.
All contributions to OpenStack are valuable, but some are not expressed as Gerrit code changes. That allow teams to list active contributors to their projects and who do not have a code contribution this cycle, and therefore won’t automatically be considered an Active Technical Contributor and allowed to vote. This is done by adding extra-atcs to https://opendev.org/openstack/governance/src/branch/master/reference/projects.yaml before the Extra-ATC freeze on August 17, 2023.
Libraries that are not client libraries (Oslo and others) should issue their final release during this week. That allows to give time for last-minute changes before feature freeze.
August 31, 2023 is the Bobcat-3 milestone. See project-specific notes for relevant deadlines.
The Bobcat-3 milestone marks feature freeze for projects following the release:cycle-with-rc model. No featureful patch should be landed after this point. Exceptions may be granted by the project PTL.
Client libraries should issue their final release during this week, to match feature freeze.
You are no longer allowed to accept proposed changes containing modifications in user-facing strings. Such changes should be rejected by the review team and postponed until the next series development opens (which should happen when RC1 is published).
After the Bobcat-3 milestone, only critical requirements and constraints changes will be allowed. Freezing our requirements list gives packagers downstream an opportunity to catch up and prepare packages for everything necessary for distributions of the upcoming release. The requirements remain frozen until the stable branches are created, with the release candidates.
The week of September 11, 2023 is the target date for projects following the release:cycle-with-rc model to issue their first release candidate.
This happens when the RC1 for the project is tagged. At this point, ideally no strings are changed (or added, or removed), to give translators time to finish up their efforts.
The week of September 25, 2023 is the last week to issue release candidates or intermediary releases before release week. During release week, only final-release-critical releases will be accepted (at the discretion of the release team).
The Bobcat coordinated release will happen on Wednesday, October 4, 2023.
Cycle highlights need to be added to the release deliverables after the feature freeze to be included in any marketing release messaging. Highlights may be added after this point, but they will likely only be useful for historical purposes.
See the Project Team Guide for more details and instructions on adding these highlights.
For examples of previous release highlights: Stein Highlights, Train Highlights, Ussuri Highlights, Victoria Highlights, Wallaby Highlights, Xena Highlights, Yoga Highlights, Zed Highlights.
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