The 21.04 release of the OpenStack Charms is now available. This release brings several new features to the existing OpenStack Charms deployments for Queens, Stein, Ussuri, Victoria, Wallaby and many stable combinations of Ubuntu + OpenStack. Please see the Release Notes for full details: https://docs.openstack.org/charm-guide/latest/2104.html == Highlights == * OpenStack Wallaby OpenStack Wallaby is now supported on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (via UCA) and Ubuntu 21.04 natively. * Ceph Pacific The Pacific release of Ceph is now supported, starting with OpenStack Wallaby. * Denying service restarts and charm hook calls The deferred service events feature can be enabled on a per-charm basis to avoid sudden service interruptions caused by maintenance and operational procedures applied to the cloud. This allows operators to apply the service restarts and hook calls at their prerogative. * Cloud operational improvements Improvements have been implemented at the operational level through the addition of scaling down actions for the hacluster and nova-compute charms. It is also now possible to query a nova-compute unit's hypervisor node name, list all hypervisor node names, and mark individual Ceph OSDs as 'out' or 'in'. * Sync Juju availability zones with Nova availability zones The nova-cloud-controller charm has a new action that synchronises Juju availability zones with Nova availability zones. This effectively configures host aggregates in Nova using the AZs already known to the nova-compute application. * Tech-preview charms Two tech-preview charms are now available for the deployment of OpenStack Magnum. The list of Manila charms is also expanded by two tech-preview charms. The new charms are magnum, magnum-dashboard, manila-dashboard, and manila-netapp. * Documentation updates Ongoing improvements to the OpenStack Charms Deployment Guide, the OpenStack Charm Guide, and the charm READMEs. A central documentation presence is also now available: https://ubuntu.com/openstack/docs . == OpenStack Charms team == The OpenStack Charms team can be contacted on the #openstack-charms IRC channel on Freenode. == Thank you == Lots of thanks to the below 37 contributors who squashed 54 bugs, enabled new features, and improved the documentation! Alex Kavanagh Alvaro Uria Arif Ali Aurelien Lourot Bartosz Woronicz Bayani Carbone Billy Olsen Chris MacNaughton Corey Bryant Cornellius Metto Cory Johns Dariusz Smigiel David Ames Dmitrii Shcherbakov Edward Hope-Morley Erlon R. Felipe Reyes Frode Nordahl Garrett Thompson Hemanth Nakkina Hernan Garcia Ionut Balutoiu James Page James Vaughn Liam Young Marius Oprin Martin Kalcok Mauricio Faria Nicolas Bock Nobuto Murata Pedro Guimaraes Peter Matulis Przemysław Lal Robert Gildein Rodrigo Barbieri Seyeong Kim Yanos Angelopoulos -- OpenStack Charms Team