Development Focus ----------------- We are getting close to the end of the Xena cycle! Next week on 02 September, 2021 is the Xena-3 milestone, also known as feature freeze. It's time to wrap up feature work in the services and their client libraries, and defer features that won't make it to the Yoga cycle. General Information ------------------- This coming week is the deadline for client libraries: their last feature release needs to happen before "Client library freeze" on 02 September, 2021. Only bugfix releases will be allowed beyond this point. When requesting those library releases, you can also include the stable/xena branching request with the review. As an example, see the "branches" section here: https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/deliverables/pike/o... 02 September, 2021 is also the deadline for feature work in all OpenStack deliverables following the cycle-with-rc model. To help those projects produce a first release candidate in time, only bugfixes should be allowed in the master branch beyond this point. Any feature work past that deadline has to be raised as a Feature Freeze Exception (FFE) and approved by the team PTL. Finally, feature freeze is also the deadline for submitting a first version of your cycle-highlights. Cycle highlights are the raw data that helps shape what is communicated in press releases and other release activity at the end of the cycle, avoiding direct contacts from marketing folks. See https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/release-management.html#cycle-... for more details. Upcoming Deadlines & Dates -------------------------- Xena-3 milestone (feature freeze): 02 September, 2021 (R-5 week) RC1 deadline: The week of 13 September, 2021 (R-3 week) Final RC deadline: The week of 27 September, 2021 (R-1 week) Final Xena release: 06 October, 2021 -- Hervé Beraud Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat irc: hberaud https://github.com/4383/ https://twitter.com/4383hberaud