The Big Picture

A short, holiday-thinned week (the US Thanksgiving weekend) with no advisories and modest traffic, but a few decisions worth tracking. The through-line was maintenance discipline: the TC formalizing SIG governance and the os-net-config handover while wrapping up Monasca's retirement, alongside practical operator threads on Nova migration status, GPU passthrough, and the long-running machine-identity gap. With the 2025.2 "Flamingo" trailing deliverables shipping this week, the community is pivoting fully to 2026.1 "Gazpacho" (R-18).

Releases & Announcements

The week's "trailing" deadline loomed large: the TC summary from Goutham Pacha Ravi noted that the Thursday deadline for cycle-trailing deliverables — packaging, deployment, configuration, and lifecycle tooling — to ship their final 2025.2 Flamingo releases was approaching. Project teams were otherwise heads-down on Gazpacho roadmaps, with a reminder to add project-specific deadlines to the release calendar (as Nova and Manila have done).

Development & Technical Decisions

Governance cleanup, formalized. The TC merged two resolutions in the week prior: one formalizing the governance of Special Interest Groups (the result of an ongoing audit and cleanup of stale SIG information), and one retroactively acknowledging the continued maintenance of os-net-config outside OpenStack — closing the loop on the attribution discussion that ran through November. The TC also reported "major progress" on Monasca retirement: all deliverables are now marked retired, with documentation cleanup to follow. The TC reiterated it would welcome Monasca's continued development outside OpenStack, having discovered real users and use cases during the retirement.

Nova migration status lag. Nguyễn Hữu Khôi reported that on 2025.1, openstack server migration list keeps showing a completed migration as running for ~12 minutes before flipping to completed — a recurring operator usability complaint. A related subthread (Nell Jerram) dug into a migrated instance refusing traffic after an apparently-complete live migration. Operators doing migrations at scale should be aware of both the status-reporting delay and the post-migration networking edge cases.

Machine identities, still unsolved. Nathan Harper revived the thread asking whether anyone has built an OpenStack equivalent to AWS IAM roles / Azure managed identities for letting VMs talk to the API. Sean Mooney's earlier answer stands: no upstream-supported pattern exists; there have been JWT experiments and application-credential/bootstrap-token ideas, but nothing compelling was ever upstreamed. Vendors solve it privately. This remains a genuine feature gap.

Arbitrary qemu args. The thread on whether Nova should allow operator-set raw qemu flags continued — operators want an unsupported escape hatch rather than maintaining downstream patches, even as Nova's policy is to forbid arbitrary qemu args.

Heads Up / Action Needed

• TC and PTL election officials wanted. Goutham Pacha Ravi put out a call for volunteers to serve as election officials for the upcoming TC and PTL elections — chime in on #openstack-election on OFTC if interested.
• Post-quantum dependency drops in review. Artem Goncharov's patches to remove passlib, scrypt, and python-gnupg from global requirements are open; downstream consumers (Kolla, OpenStack-Ansible) should confirm they don't need them.
• Barbican review request. kaoru watanabe is still seeking review of a critical SoftHSMv2 / CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_PAD key-rewrap fix (bug 2130214) that's blocking a production environment.
• Blazar backports. Nitin Gupta asked how to backport the lease-notification-payload change to unmaintained/2024.1 and stable/2025.1 — a reminder that backports need separate changes per branch.

Community & Events

The holiday weekend hollowed out the calendar: Neutron drivers (Nov 28), Kolla (Nov 26), and Tacker meetings were cancelled, and Manila pre-cancelled Nov 27, warning of likely further cancellations through year-end. The TC's second APAC-friendly monthly meeting (Nov 18) was still finding its footing; it moved several stale "volunteer-needed" items — user-survey analysis, FIPS rework — to the tracker for lack of traction. Ghanshyam Maan's devstack/hacking core updates proceeded. The Ops Radio Hour recap (Ildikó Vancsa) carried forward the operator conversation about whether OpenStack is overextending RabbitMQ, the value of shared storage for clean live migration, and a tally of the oldest releases people still run (Mitaka, Stein, Train among them). The next Ops Radio Hour is December 19 at 1300 UTC — topic suggestions welcome.