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#eventlet-removal Thank you for 2025
by Herve Beraud 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Two years ago, we collectively acknowledged that we were facing a demanding and somewhat paradoxical challenge: engaging a significant amount of time and resources to move away from a problematic technology, eventlet, without the promise of immediate functional gains. At that time, this effort could easily have been perceived as a necessary but uncomfortable burden — work that does not ship new features, does not directly address new user requests, and yet requires deep focus, coordination, and perseverance. We deliberately chose not to ignore the problem, not to postpone it, and not to settle for half-measures. Today, as we are reaching the end of 2025, we can clearly state that this choice was the right one. This year has been particularly intense, productive, and revealing of what a committed open source community can achieve when it aligns behind a long-term objective. The migration effort has reached a decisive milestone: more than 61% of the impacted OpenStack deliverables have now shown significant progress. Twenty deliverables are fully migrated, while forty others are actively undergoing migration. More than 424 Gerrit patches proposed this year alone directly contribute to this collective effort. Beyond the numbers, 2025 has delivered concrete, structural results. Several major projects — including Ironic, Heat, Barbican, Mistral, and others — are now fully migrated. Eventlet itself has evolved, gaining support for recent Python versions (3.12, 3.13, 3.14), ensuring compatibility with modern OpenStack runtimes during the transition phase. Oslo.service introduced a new threading backend, offering a fully threading-based execution model. Cotyledon is actively progressing toward supporting new spawning methods. Neutron is now just one step away from completing its migration, Nova can run specific services in threading mode, and teams such as Cinder, Designate, Watcher, Cyborg, and many others have shown sustained and visible momentum. What we are witnessing is more than a migration. It is a collective act of responsibility. Just like the Python 2 to Python 3 transition, this effort is about securing the future, reducing systemic risk, simplifying maintenance, and restoring long-term innovation capacity. It is about choosing durability over comfort, clarity over accumulation, and sustainability over short-term convenience. The foundations we are laying today are already making OpenStack more robust, more predictable, and better prepared for what comes next. As we close this year, I want to express my sincere respect and gratitude to everyone involved. Maintainers, contributors, reviewers, operators, companies — your engagement, patience, and persistence have made this progress possible. The level of coordination and trust demonstrated throughout 2025 is a strong signal, not only for our community, but for the entire industry that relies on OpenStack. On behalf of this community initiative, thank you for your commitment throughout this year. You have proven, once again, that necessary work — even when it does not immediately shine — is often the work that matters the most. I wish you all restful holidays and precious time with your loved ones. -- Hervé Beraud Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat irc: hberaud https://github.com/4383/

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[ops][publiccloud-sig] no Public Cloud SIG meeting d.d. 31 December
by Kees Meijs | Nefos 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Hello Stackers, The bi-weekly Public Cloud SIG meeting scheduled on 31 December will be cancelled due to the holiday season. See you next year, and enjoy your time off! Cheers, Kees __ Kees Meijs BICT Nefos Cloud & IT <https://nefos.com/contact> Nefos IT bv Burgemeester Mollaan 34a 5582 CK Waalre - NL kvk 66494931 +31 (0)88 2088 188 <tel:+31882088188> nefos.com <https://nefos.com/contact> The information contained in this message is intended for the addressee only and may contain classified information. If you are not the addressee, please delete this message and notify the sender; you should not copy or distribute this message or disclose its contents to anyone. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are those of the individual(s) and not necessarily of the organization. No reliance may be placed on this message without written confirmation from an authorised representative of its contents. No guarantee is implied that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been intercepted and amended. General terms and conditions ("The NLdigital Terms") apply to all our products and services.

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[horizon] Cancelling weekly meetings on Dec 24 and Dec 31
by Tatiana Ovchinnikova 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Hello team, SInce the holiday season is starting, I am cancelling the next two IRC weekly meetings on December 24 and December 31. See you all on January 7, 2026. Happy holidays! With kind regards, Tatiana

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[neutron] CI, Team and Drivers meetings canceled next two weeks
by Brian Haley 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Hello Neutrinos: As mentioned at our weekly meeting, I am going to cancel the Neutron CI, Team and Drivers meetings for the next two weeks as most of us will be out-of-office the remainder of the year. Next meetings will be week of January 5th. Have a happy holidays! -Brian

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OpenInfra Foundation 2025 Annual Report Now Available
by Allison Price 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Hi everyone, The OpenInfra Foundation 2025 Annual Report is now published. Many of the themes in the report will be familiar to the OpenStack community, but this serves as a snapshot of how your work over the past year fits into the Foundation’s broader progress and direction. From an OpenStack perspective, the report highlights: Continued production adoption and momentum, reflected in the latest User Survey data and two coordinated releases in 2025. OpenStack’s role as a foundation for modern workloads, including AI infrastructure, edge and telco platforms, and sovereign cloud deployments. Ongoing collaboration across projects, showing how OpenStack works alongside Kata Containers, StarlingX, Zuul, Kubernetes, Ceph, and other open infrastructure technologies. Community visibility and events, including OpenInfra Summit Europe and regional activities where OpenStack users and contributors shared real-world experiences. Read the full report here: https://openinfra.org/annual-report/2025 Share with your network: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/openinfra-foundation_today-weve-published-th… Thank you to everyone who contributed code, reviews, docs, testing, operations experience, and community leadership in 2025. The impact captured in this report is a direct result of the OpenStack community’s continued commitment to building and operating open, production-grade cloud infrastructure. Cheers, Allison

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[cinder] festival of reviews friday 2025-12-19
by Brian Rosmaita 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Hello Argonauts, This is a reminder that the pre-holiday edition of the Cinder Festival of Reviews (last one this year!) will be held at the end of this week on Friday 19 December. who: Everyone! what: The Cinder Festival of Reviews when: Friday 19 December 2025 from 1400-1600 UTC where: videoconf info on the etherpad etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/cinder-festival-of-reviews This recurring meeting, that happens on the first and third Friday of each month, can be placed on your calendar by using this handy ICS file: https://meetings.opendev.org/calendars/cinder-festival-of-reviews.ics See you there!

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[magnum] Next meeting 20th Jan 2026
by Dale Smith 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Due to holidays, we are taking a break and the following two meetings (23 Dec and 6 Jan) are cancelled. Meetings will resume on 20th Jan 2026. For more meeting details refer to https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/magnum-weekly-meeting -- DALE SMITH Cloud Engineer Catalyst Cloud <https://catalystcloud.nz> Aotearoa New Zealand's cloud provider e dale(a)catalystcloud.nz w catalystcloud.nz <https://catalystcloud.nz> Follow us on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/catalyst-cloud-limited/> Level 6, Catalyst House, 150 Willis St, Wellington 6011 Confidentiality Notice: This email is intended for the named recipients only. It may contain privileged, confidential or copyright information. If you are not the named recipient, any use, reliance upon, disclosure or copying of this email or its attachments is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please reply via email or call +64 4 499 2267 <tel:+6444992267>.

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[ironic] Retirement of VirtualPDU
by Jay Faulkner 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Hi all, As it's clear the SNMP code in Ironic will be removed next cycle, and CI has been removed as well, we also will be needing to retire VirtualPDU as well -- either this cycle or next. VirtualPDU was never shipped for production use and only mapped SNMP calls into libvirt power actions for devstack. With these jobs removed, it no longer serves a purpose. Please speak up now if you oppose this retirement. Thanks! -- Jay Faulkner Open Source Developer G-Research OSS

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[qa] Onboarding contributors in QA
by Ghanshyam Maan 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Hello Everyone, As you might know that we need more contributors in QA projects[1], I have started a etherpad to onboard new or current OpenStack contriburtors with all the deatils which includes: - Onboarding steps/information in OpenStack: this is for the new contributors in OpenStack - QA projects list and their documentation link - Current working item and help needed: this list will be evolving over time based on current working item. Currently I have listed the open bugs and moving tempest tests to SRBAC defaults. - https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/qa-onboarding I have four contributors started working on moving tempest testst to SRBAC defaults. If you or someone form your organization is interested, feel free to ping me or add your name in etherpad. [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/upstream-investment-opportuni… -gmaan

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[ops][publiccloud-sig] Public Cloud SIG meeting d.d. 17 December
by Kees Meijs | Nefos 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Hello Stackers, Tomorrow (that's 17 December) the bi-weekly Public Cloud SIG meeting will be held again. The publicly available video meeting will be conducted from 08:05 hrs UTC (09:05 hrs CET) until 08:55 hrs UTC (09:55 hrs CET) here: https://meetpad.opendev.org/publiccloud-sig Additional information to be found on https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PublicCloudSIG See you tomorrow! Cheers, Kees __ Kees Meijs BICT Nefos Cloud & IT <https://nefos.com/contact> Nefos IT bv Burgemeester Mollaan 34a 5582 CK Waalre - NL kvk 66494931 +31 (0)88 2088 188 <tel:+31882088188> nefos.com <https://nefos.com/contact> The information contained in this message is intended for the addressee only and may contain classified information. If you are not the addressee, please delete this message and notify the sender; you should not copy or distribute this message or disclose its contents to anyone. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are those of the individual(s) and not necessarily of the organization. No reliance may be placed on this message without written confirmation from an authorised representative of its contents. No guarantee is implied that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been intercepted and amended. General terms and conditions ("The NLdigital Terms") apply to all our products and services.

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