openstack/kolla — Week of 2026-07-25

Component tracking. The biggest addition is new tooling to monitor external component versions, landing ~355 lines to help catch upstream drift in the images Kolla builds (972434). Alongside this, RabbitMQ moved to 4.3, ansible-core was bumped to 2.21, and Neutron's tap-as-a-service was reshaped into a plugin. The Ironic image dropped its use of driver-requirements.txt, and the nova-compute-ironic image picked up genisoimage as a dependency.

Build internals. Tar normalization was refactored into a shared function, consolidating logic previously duplicated across build paths.

Documentation. A new AI/LLM assistant guide landed at ~213 lines, giving contributors and downstream users guidance on working with assistants against the Kolla codebase.

CI and tooling. The bulk of the week's change count went into stabilizing the copr periodic job: reworking the webhook secret handling to a new format, stripping newlines, converting a UUID to string, iterating on no_log to debug the pipeline, and finally restricting the periodic run to the master branch across three job definitions. Small in churn, but it takes up nine of the eighteen merges.