Development Focus ----------------- We are getting close to the end of the 2025.1 Epoxy cycle! Next week on February 27th, 2025 is the Epoxy-3 milestone, also known as feature freeze. It's time to wrap up feature work in the services and their client libraries, and defer features that won't make it to the 2025.2 Flamingo cycle. General Information ------------------- This coming week is the deadline for client libraries: their last feature release needs to happen before "Client library freeze" on February 27th, 2025. Only bugfix releases will be allowed beyond this point. When requesting those library releases, you can also include the stable/2025.1 branching request with the review. As an example, see the "branches" section here: https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/deliverables/pike/o... February 27th, 2025 is also the deadline for feature work in all OpenStack deliverables following the cycle-with-rc model. To help those projects produce a first release candidate in time, only bugfixes should be allowed in the master branch beyond this point. Any feature work past that deadline has to be raised as a Feature Freeze Exception (FFE) and approved by the team PTL. Finally, feature freeze is also a good time for submitting a first version of your cycle-highlights. Cycle highlights are the raw data that helps shape what is communicated in press releases and other release activity at the end of the cycle, avoiding direct contacts from marketing folks. See https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/release-management.html#cycle-... for more details. Upcoming Deadlines & Dates -------------------------- Epoxy-3 milestone (feature freeze): February 27th, 2025 (R-5 week) RC1 deadline: March 14th (R-3 week) Final RC deadline: March 28th (R-1 week) Final 2025.1 Epoxy release: April 2nd, 2025 Project Teams Gathering (virtual): April 7th-11th, 2025 -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)