Hi, Everyone Smart nics management involved Nova, Neutron and Cyborg. After 2 releases of discussing, coding and reviewing, we have merged Cyborg and Neutron support. Nova patches also got lots of attention and had many rounds of review, plus several +2. I hope we could merge Nova patches also in this release. The following is the Nova patches topic, individual patches links, and related resources links Now we blocked by lots of comments when reaching to the end of the feature freeze. Those comments could be addressed in 2-3 days, then we could get 3 more rounds review, very likely we could make it by RC1. Those comments include: • functional test -- released already. • minor typo, text changes, and needs more code comments • several codes flow refactor request • how to store arq-uuid ==nova patch topic link: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bp%252Fsriov-smartnic-support%22+(stat...) ==nova individual patch link: 1) smartnic support - cyborg drive: two +2 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/771362 2) smartnic support - new vnic type: rounds review https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/771363 3) smartnic support: main patch rounds review, one +2 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/758944 4) smartnic support - reject server move and suspend, one +2 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/779913 5) smartnic support - functional tests https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/780147 == resource: 1) blueprint sriov-smartnic-support https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/sriov-smartnic-support 2) Approved spec: merged https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova-specs/+/742785 3) Cyborg NIC driver: merged https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cyborg/+/758942 4) neutron patch sets: merged neutron patch set: merged https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug%252F1906602%22+ 5) neutron-lib: merged Add new VNIC types for Cyborg provisioned ports https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-lib/+/768324 6) neutron ml2 plugin support: merged [SR-IOV] Add support for ACCELERATOR_DIRECT VNIC type https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/779292 Yongli He Regards