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