Greetings,

I'm pleased to announce that TripleO Ussuri has been released today.  Special thanks to Chandan Kumar and Emilien Macchi for the extra time and effort in getting everything in place for the release.  Thanks to everyone else as well for your contributions, bug reports, patches and participation!

Some highlights from the TripleO release:

* The mistral to ansible conversion blueprint is complete

* The nova-less-deploy feature is complete

* The TripleO-Operator-Ansible feature is complete

* The RDO and CI teams completed work on component based DLRN rpm repos and CI.

* TLS and TripleO deployments tested together in upstream CI.

* Support for CentOS-8

* Many other improvements and updates

Congratulations to the following individual contributors for their reviews across ALL openstack projects!!

Alex Schultz, the #1 reviewer for all projects in Ussuri

Herve Beraud, the #3 reviewer for all projects in Ussuri

Emilien Macchi, the #4 reviewer for all projects in Ussuri

Followed closely behind in reviews by

Stephen Finucane

Dmitry Tantsur

Slawek Kaplonski

Thanks to all our TripleO contributors!!

https://www.stackalytics.com/?release=ussuri&metric=commits&project_type=openstack&module=tripleo-group

Oh by the way TripleO fixed 558 bugs this release as well :)

Additional statistics can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RV30OVxmXv1y_z33LuXMVB56TA54Urp7oHIoTNwrtzA/

Release notes can be found per TripleO project:

https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ 

At the time of writing this email not all the release notes have been published.

Thanks all and I'm looking forward to seeing you at the PTG!