https://stackers.network An independent community digest of the OpenStack mailing lists — releases, development, security, governance, and events, summarized so you can catch up in minutes. https://stackers.network/issues/2026-05-23.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-05-23.html Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture The week's headline item is a fresh **Ironic security advisory (OSSA-2026-013 / CVE-2026-44919)** with patches across every supported branch, alongside a notable strategic signal from **OVHcloud**, which has opened upstream discussions about contributing a VPC… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-05-16.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-05-16.html Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture One thread dominated the week: a formal proposal to make **Rust an official OpenStack language**, driven by the argument that Keystone has become a scaling bottleneck. With 32 messages and 16 participants, it was by far the most active discussion and touches a… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-05-09.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-05-09.html Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture This was a heavy security week: **five OpenStack Security Advisories** landed in a single window, hitting Ironic (three times), Cyborg, and Horizon. If you read nothing else, read the Security section and check your exposure. Beyond that, the week was shaped b… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-05-02.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-05-02.html Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture With the Hibiscus PTG behind it, the community spent this week digesting the outcomes: a wave of detailed PTG summaries from Nova, the TC, Glance, Tacker, Cyborg, Watcher, and the cross-project eventlet-removal team set the technical agenda for the 2026.2 cycl… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-04-25.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-04-25.html Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture This was PTG week. The 2026.2 "Hibiscus" Virtual PTG ran Monday, April 20 through Friday, April 24, so the mailing list was quiet on day-to-day operations and busy with planning: meeting cancellations across Keystone, Tacker, Kolla, Watcher, and Neutron, plus … https://stackers.network/issues/2026-04-18.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-04-18.html Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture This was the calm-before-the-storm week: the entire community was packing its bags for the 2026.2 "Hibiscus" Virtual PTG, which kicked off Monday, April 20 and ran through Friday, April 24. Nearly every project team — Nova, Neutron, Kolla, Cinder, Tacker, Masa… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-04-11.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-04-11.html Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture With OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" out the door on April 1st, the community spent this week pivoting hard toward two things: the virtual Project Teams Gathering (April 20-24) and the start of the 2026.2 "Hibiscus" cycle. TC chair Goutham Pacha Ravi's weekly summ… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-04-04.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-04-04.html Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture This was release week. **OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" shipped on April 1st** — and yes, the release team went out of their way to confirm it wasn't an April Fool's joke. With the final tags cut, the openstack/releases repository is now open for 2026.2 "Hibiscus… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-03-28.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-03-28.html Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture This was the final week before the 2026.1 "Gazpacho" release (R-1), and the tone was a mix of last-minute release jitters and quiet confidence. The most consequential thread was a release-blocking question from Dmitriy Rabotyagov: does Glance actually work wit… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-03-21.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-03-21.html Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture Two things define this week: the **2026.2 "Hibiscus" PTL election concluded** with a full slate of leaders confirmed, and a new **Glance security advisory** landed. With the 2026.1 "Gazpacho" release now just over a week out (April 1), the community is simulta… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-03-14.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-03-14.html Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture This was the home stretch before **OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho," which ships April 1**. The release reached week R-2, release candidates are being tagged for cycle-with-rc deliverables, and the Technical Committee's focus has shifted to release-critical testing… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-03-07.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-03-07.html Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture With the coordinated **2026.1 "Gazpacho" release locked in for April 1**, this week was dominated by end-game release mechanics and a sobering structural shift in how OpenStack gets packaged for Enterprise Linux. The Technical Committee's R-4 update confirmed … https://stackers.network/issues/2026-02-28.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-02-28.html Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture With Gazpacho past feature freeze and racing toward the coordinated 2026.1 release, this week was about **end-game release mechanics** and the new **Hibiscus (2026.2) Technical Committee taking shape**. The R-4 countdown began, deliverables that hadn't yet rel… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-02-21.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-02-21.html Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture This was a pivotal week on the release calendar: Gazpacho reached **R-5**, and on Thursday the project observed **feature freeze across all cycle-with-rc deliverables**, putting teams into release-candidate mode. The combined 2026.2 elections also turned a cor… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-02-14.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-02-14.html Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture The week was dominated by **CI instability** and the **last days of election nominations**. Gazpacho sits at R-6 with a dense run of deadlines, and the gates kept buckling under upstream Python churn: setuptools' `pkg_resources` removal forced the community to… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-02-07.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-02-07.html Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture Two storylines defined the week. First, **nomination season for the combined 2026.2 PTL and TC elections officially opened** on February 4, with the TC simultaneously resetting leadership for cross-cutting teams. Second — and more painful day to day — the Pyth… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-01-31.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-01-31.html Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture Election season opened in earnest this week. With Gazpacho at R-9 (nine weeks to the coordinated release), the Technical Committee set the stage for the combined 2026.2 PTL and TC elections and began resetting leadership models for several at-risk teams. But t… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-01-24.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-01-24.html Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture This was a quieter week (18 threads, 27 messages) but a substantive one for anyone thinking past the current release. With the 2026.1 "Gazpacho" coordinated release ten weeks out (R-10) and milestone-2 behind us, project teams have shifted into reviewing imple… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-01-17.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-01-17.html Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture The community came fully back to life this week after the holiday break, and security led the news: a keystonemiddleware privilege-escalation CVE landed mid-week, complete with a same-day errata correcting the affected version range. Alongside it, the machiner… https://stackers.network/issues/2026-01-10.html https://stackers.network/issues/2026-01-10.html Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ## The Big Picture The first full working week of 2026 was quiet and operator-flavored, with the community easing back from the holidays — the TC explicitly skipped its January 6 meeting because members were still on PTO. No single thread dominated; the most active discussion wa…