# Keystone Team Update - Week of 4 February 2019
## News
### Performance of Loading Fernet/JWT Key Repositories
Lance noticed that it seems that token signing/encryption keys are loaded from disk on every request and is therefore not very performant, and started investigating ways we could improve this[1][2].
[1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-keystone/%23openstack-ke... [2] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-keystone/%23openstack-ke...
## Recently Merged Changes
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We merged 10 changes this week.
## Changes that need Attention
Search query: https://bit.ly/2RLApdA
There are 73 changes that are passing CI, not in merge conflict, have no negative reviews and aren't proposed by bots.
## Bugs
This week we opened 2 new bugs and closed 3.
Bugs opened (2) Bug #1814589 (keystone:High) opened by Guang Yee https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1814589 Bug #1814570 (keystone:Medium) opened by Guang Yee https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1814570
Bugs fixed (3) Bug #1804483 (keystone:Medium) fixed by Lance Bragstad https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1804483 Bug #1805406 (keystone:Medium) fixed by Lance Bragstad https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1805406 Bug #1801095 (keystone:Wishlist) fixed by Artem Vasilyev https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1801095
## Milestone Outlook
https://releases.openstack.org/stein/schedule.html
Feature freeze is in four weeks. Be mindful of the gate and try to submit and review things early.
## Shout-outs
Congratulations and thank you to our Outreachy intern Islam for completing the first step in refactoring our unit tests to lean on our shiny new Flask framework! Great work!
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