openstack/ironic-python-agent — Week of 2026-06-20

Bootloader install opt-out. The headline feature is a new flag to disable bootloader installation during deployment, letting operators skip IPA's grub/efibootmgr step when an image or downstream tooling handles boot configuration on its own. The change landed on master and was backported across three stable branches, making the knob available to existing deployments rather than only future releases.

Tooling and CI. The rest of the week was housekeeping to keep gates green: the metalsmith-integration-ipa-src-uefi zuul job was disabled, a handful of unit tests were fixed to pass under both tox -e py3 and tox -e cover, and setuptools was pinned to a still-shipping range across multiple branches to unbreak CI installs.