OpenStack Community and Operators,

As documented in https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/approved/new-release-model.html, Ironic performs bugfix releases in the middle of a cycle to permit downstream packagers to more rapidly deliver features to standalone Ironic users.

However, we've neglected as a project to cleanup or EOL any of these branches -- until now. Please take notice that during the first week in January, we will be EOL-ing all old, unsupported Ironic bugfix branches. This will be handled similarly to an EOL of a stable branch; we will create a tag -- e.g. for bugfix/x.y branch, we would tag bugfix-x.y-eol -- then remove the branch.

These branches have been out of support for months and should not be in use in your Ironic clusters. If you are using any branches slated for retirement, please immediately upgrade to a supported Ironic version.

A full listing of projects and branches impacted:

ironic branches being retired

bugfix/15.1

bugfix/15.2

bugfix/16.1  

bugfix/16.2  

bugfix/18.0  

bugfix/20.0 

ironic-python-agent branches being retired

bugfix/6.2   

bugfix/6.3   

bugfix/6.5   

bugfix/6.6   

bugfix/8.0   

bugfix/8.4

ironic-inspector branches being retired

bugfix/10.2  

bugfix/10.3  

bugfix/10.5  

bugfix/10.10

Thank you,

Jay Faulkner

Ironic PTL