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February 07, 2026

Stackers Network Digest — February 07, 2026

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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 — CI broke in multiple places at once: the openstacksdk-functional-devstack job went to 100% failure across several projects, nova-next hit a 100% fail rate tied to a Cinder bug, and nova-alt-configurations broke on RBAC. Gazpacho is at R-7 (seven weeks out), Oslo and the OpenStack client/SDK hit their feature freeze this week, and Manila used the moment to retire two pieces of long-deprecated surface area.

Development & Technical Decisions

Multiple gate-breaking CI failures, all in one week. melanie witt flagged that the openstacksdk-functional-devstack job was failing 100% across multiple projects: test_add_remove_router_interface expects a tenant_id key but the router API now returns project_id, possibly related to neutron change 972982. In parallel, melwitt reported that nova-next was 100% failing because of LP 2127196 (fixes proposed on both Cinder and Nova), and Ghanshyam Maan proposed a fix for nova-alt-configurations breaking on RBAC after a tempest change. The recurring advice across all three threads: hold your rechecks until fixes land.

Manila trims legacy surface area in Gazpacho. Carlos Silva announced two removals landing in 2026.1: the legacy manila CLI (deprecated since Zed, now at full feature parity with the openstack share OSC plugin) will no longer be installed or supported, and the V1 API — deprecated for nearly a decade — is being removed entirely, with the /v1 endpoint ceasing to exist (v2 microversion 2.0 is identical to v1). Anyone with automation still calling manila directly or hitting /v1 needs to migrate to the openstack CLI and the V2 API now. Patches are tracked under topic bp/openstack-client-support and hashtag remove-manila-api-v1.

A real-world Noble upgrade migration snag. Chang Xue described live-migration trouble while upgrading from Ubuntu Jammy to Noble: VMs created before applying a required libvirt patch (review 967570) can't live-migrate to Noble at all, and migrations back to Jammy show ~10-second post-migration network latency. Attempts to add a managed='no' flag to the libvirt XML let old VMs reach Noble but didn't clear the latency. A concrete cautionary tale for operators planning the Jammy→Noble jump.

Cross-project driver onboarding. The InfoScale team (Alokedip Choudhuri) worked through the coordinated workflow for landing a new storage backend across Cinder, os-brick, and Nova and — having missed the 2026.1 deadlines — confirmed they'll target 2026.2, preparing Gerrit reviews for early feedback once master reopens. A clean example of the cross-project driver process.

Heads Up / Action Needed

  • Election nominations are open until February 18, 23:45 UTC; voting follows Feb 25 → Mar 18. PTLs win by acclaim if uncontested; a TC poll only happens with more than five candidates.
  • Check your voter eligibility now. Goutham Pacha Ravi posted a reminder: log in at openinfra.org/a/profile, restore "OIF Individual Member" status if you've been auto-downgraded, and if you haven't merged code in the 2025.2–2026.1 window, ask your PTL/DPL liaison to add you as an Extra AC before February 13.
  • Oslo / OpenStack client / OpenStack SDK feature freeze took effect this week per the R-8 TC summary; these stay frozen until past the coordinated release.
  • TC drops the FIPS compliance cross-community goal: maintaining the test jobs had grown too large for individual effort. Project teams may tear down FIPS jobs or maintain them at their discretion; reviving the goal would require a committed team, a clear test definition, and named maintainers.
  • TC resets Oslo and Requirements leadership so both can elect a PTL — a deliberate signal that these near-universal dependencies need more maintainers. (Watcher decided to move to the PTL model; decisions from Ironic, Requirements, Freezer, and Oslo were pending in the R-8 summary.)
  • April 2026 PTG team sign-up survey due March 1, 7:00 UTC.

Community & Events

The Digital Sovereignty WG held its February 4 meeting (recording posted), with a homework ask: draft "stance" text on why OpenInfra and its projects support digital sovereignty. A poll is out to pick between Feb 17, 18, and 19 for the next meeting.

Ghanshyam Maan opened the QA vPTG topic etherpad (add topics by Feb 17) and rescheduled the RBAC policy-popup meeting an hour later (now Monday, monthly 18:00 UTC). Cinder ran its Festival of Reviews on February 6, and Allison Price kicked off an effort to streamline the OpenStack User Survey — input wanted in the etherpad by April 15, with changes targeted for the August 2026 survey. Jay Faulkner continued the Ironic physical-location-API discussion, signaling it as a PTG item. A Keystone federation thread from a PhD researcher also sought operator input on real-world mapping-rule and attribute practices.