Hello Argonauts, We are past the feature freeze deadline i.e. 17 Feb, 2023[1]. If you have a feature which you would like to get it into the 2023.1 (Antelope) release, please request a feature freeze exception on the OpenStack discuss mailing list with the following subject: *[cinder] Request for Feature Freeze Exception* Include the patch details, reason for missing the feature freeze deadline and current status in the email. The feature freeze exception will be granted for 1 week i.e. till 24th Feb, 2023 and no features will be accepted after that. Following are the targeted features and their current status: *Hitachi: support data deduplication and compression* Patch: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/850831 Status: Fix merge conflict and add unit test *Add iSCSI export support to the StorPool driver* Patch: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/847536 Status: Has multiple negative votes with feedback that needs to be addressed *[SVf] Adding support of clone operation for volumegroup* Patch: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/871257 Status: Has negative votes with feedback that needs to be addressed *LVM NVMe Target* Topic: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:lvm-nvmet-shared Status: Need confirmation that the patches are in a reviewable state [1] https://releases.openstack.org/antelope/schedule.html#a-ff Thanks Rajat Dhasmana