PTG (virtual)¶

From April 8 to April 12 we’ll have a virtual PTG to plan the Dalmatian release schedule.

Dalmatian-1 milestone¶

May 16, 2024 is the Dalmatian-1 milestone. See project-specific notes for relevant deadlines.

2024.1 Caracal Cycle-Trailing Release Deadline¶

All projects following the cycle-trailing release model must release their 2024.1 Caracal deliverables by June 6, 2024.

Dalmatian-2 milestone¶

July 4, 2024 is the Dalmatian-2 milestone. See project-specific notes for relevant deadlines.

Membership Freeze¶

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.

Extra-AC freeze¶

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 Contributor and allowed to vote. This is done by adding extra-acs to https://opendev.org/openstack/governance/src/branch/master/reference/projects.yaml before the Extra-AC freeze date.

Final release for non-client libraries¶

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.

Dalmatian-3 milestone¶

August 29, 2024 is the Dalmatian-3 milestone. See project-specific notes for relevant deadlines.

Feature freeze¶

The Dalmatian-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.

Final release for client libraries¶

Client libraries should issue their final release during this week, to match feature freeze.

Soft StringFreeze¶

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).

Requirements freeze¶

After the Dalmatian-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.

RC1 target week¶

The week of September 9, 2024 is the target date for projects following the release:cycle-with-rc model to issue their first release candidate.

Hard StringFreeze¶

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.

Final RCs and intermediary releases¶

The week of September 23, 2024 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).

Dalmatian release¶

The Dalmatian coordinated release will happen on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.

Cycle Highlights¶

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. 2023.1 Antelope Highlights. 2023.2 Bobcat Highlights. 2024.1 Caracal Highlights.

Cinder¶

Manila¶

Nova¶

2025.1 Election Nominations Open¶

Candidates interested in serving for the next calendar year (TC), or development cycle (PTL) should announce their candidacies and platforms during this two week window. The nomination period runs between 2024-08-14 23:45 UTC and 2024-08-28 23:45 UTC. Please see the Election site for more information.

2025.1 Election Email Deadline¶

Contributors that will be in the electorate for the upcoming election should confirm their gerrit email addresses by 2024-08-28 00:00 UTC. Electorate rolls are generated after this date and ballots will be sent to the listed preferred gerrit email address.

2025.1 Election Campaigning Week¶

Election Campaigning window is between 2024-08-28 23:45 UTC and 2024-09-04 23:45 UTC. The electorate can use this time to ask candidates questions about their platforms and debate topics before polling begins. Please see the Election site for specific timing information.

2025.1 Election Polling Open¶

Election polling for open seats on the TC and any required PTL elections begins at 2024-09-04 23:45 UTC. Please see the Election site for more information.

2025.1 Election Polling End¶

All polls close in the 2025.1 Election at 2024-09-18 23:45 UTC and results are announced. Please see the Election site for more information.