Hi All

The title may seem a bit odd because surely yoga is the current release, and zed is the current cycle?  This is true, so a little explanation is in order.

As the charm-guide [1] explains, in the previous cycle, the OpenStack, and supporting, charms moved from a single stable charm (for each component) that supported multiple releases, to a charm+track that targets a specific release [2].  The current release for the OpenStack charms is 'yoga' and thus there is a yoga/stable track.  For a full explanation, please see [1].

Today, as part of our ongoing charmhub stable migration work this cycle, we have (re)released the 21.10 charms (that supported queens -> xena) as "xena" charms for OpenStack, "pacific" charms for Ceph, and "21.09" charms for OVN.  The xena, pacific and 21.09-OVN channel charms have the same features as the existing 21.10 charms, include bug-fixes and relevant backports since the 21.10 charms were released, and have been re-tested and verified as a set prior to being released to the xena/stable channel.  The full list of charms for a "Xena" OpenStack system, including ceph, OVN, mysql8, hacluster, rabbitmq-server, vault and others can be seen in the docs at [3].

The xena/pacific/21.09 charms have been designed to be upgradable from the 21.10 charms if you are running a xena OpenStack, but please consult the docs [4] about how to go about upgrading charms.  The charms also are able to perform the OpenStack upgrade from wallaby -> xena, and again please consult the docs [5] for upgrading OpenStack.

Our next stable maintenance release will be wallaby/pacific/20.12 (ovn), so please keep an eye out on the mailing lists.

Thanks!


[1] https://docs.openstack.org/charm-guide/latest/project/charm-delivery.html
[2] https://juju.is/docs/olm/deploy-a-charm-from-charmhub#heading--specify-a-charmed-operator-channel
[3] https://docs.openstack.org/charm-guide/latest/project/charm-delivery.html#channels-and-tracks-for-openstack-charms
[4] https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/charm-deployment-guide/latest/upgrade-charms.html
[5] https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/charm-deployment-guide/latest/upgrade-openstack.html

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Alex Kavanagh - Software Engineer
OpenStack Engineering - Data Centre Development - Canonical Ltd