Hello Stackers, It's release week [1]! We've pulled out a lot of stops to get the 32nd release of OpenStack packed with exciting improvements [2]. Project teams have released their final RCs for all deliverables following the cycle-with-rc release model in preparation for the coordinated release on October 1st, 2025. Work has begun on the 2026.1 "Gazpacho" release [3]. This next one is a SLURP release—alongside major feature work, the community is actively prioritizing paying down technical debt, most of which has been identified as Community Goals [4]. In the next few weeks, cycle-trailing projects will work on supporting the 2025.2 "Flamingo" release. They will join the rest of the community in a week of design discussions at the OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering, scheduled for October 27–31st, 2025. If you're looking to seed or participate in a discussion here, please add your topics to the many discussion Etherpads that have been created for the event [5]. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee was re-formed with three returning (frickler, bauzas, and cardoe) and one new member (tonyb). We're looking to fill roles such as TC chair, vice-chair, and liaisons to various project teams, including the OpenStack VMT, this week. The retirement of the "shade" client library was approved; functionality provided by this library has long been available as a part of openstacksdk. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee occurred on September 23rd, 2025 [6]. The meeting began by acknowledging the recently concluded TC elections, congratulating the elected members, and thanking the election officials for their work. We discussed the status of "leaderless" projects—Venus, Vitrage, and OpenStack Charms. For OpenStack Charms, Felipe Reyes (freyes) submitted a patch to appoint himself as PTL. For Venus and Vitrage, the committee decided to gather more data for a thorough discussion next week. The group noted low activity for Venus and maintenance activity for Vitrage, though its core-team list is significantly outdated and requires cleanup. The discussion also touched on the completed action item of vendoring the ply library into yaql, which sparked a lengthy debate on the implications for downstream package maintainers and distributions, with the consensus being to keep the change but acknowledge the concerns. The meeting wrapped up with a brief note on the broken CI for the Skyline project and attempts to contact the core maintainers whose time has been stretched thin. The next meeting of the OpenStack TC is today, September 30th, 2025. The meeting will be hosted on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel. Please find the meeting's agenda and other details on the wiki page [7]. I hope you'll be able to join us there! I'd like to note that any community member is welcome to edit this wiki page at any time to seed a new topic of discussion. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Add gouthamr's nomination for 2026.1 TC chair | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/962049 - Fix small mistake with month in subject resolution | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/962512 - Retire shade | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/962197 - Add TC/PTL results from 2026.1 election | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/961598 ==== Open For Review ==== - Appoint Felipe Reyes as PTL for OpenStack Charms | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/962121 - Retire Monasca project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 - Extend Monasca's inactive state | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/959392 - Retire metalsmith project from bare metal program | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/958297 - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-10-01: OpenStack 2026.1 "Flamingo" release day - 2025-10-03: OpenStack's Birthday Meetup, Austin: https://www.meetup.com/openinfra-austin/events/310508680 - 2025-10-17: OpenInfra Summit, Paris-Saclay: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/ - 2025-10-27: OpenInfra PTG: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ - 2025-10-04: OpenInfra Board meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) [1] 2025.2 "Flamingo" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html [2] 2025.2 "Flamingo" Release highlights: https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/highlights.html [3] 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html [4] OpenStack-wide Goals: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/selected/index.html [5] Gazpacho PTG Etherpads: https://ptg.opendev.org/etherpads.html [6] TC Meeting IRC Log, Sep 23rd, 2025: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-09-23-17.00.html [7] TC Meeting Agenda, Sep 30th, 2025: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting