Hello Stackers, The release team will be tagging the GA release for all cycle-with-rc projects for 2025.1 ("Epoxy") on 2025-04-02 [1][2]. Remarkably, this will be the 31st release of OpenStack and one of two that will mark 15 years of the community! There will be an OpenInfra Live event on 2025-04-03, where a few project maintainers will reflect on how the release cycle went, what it will bring to users, and project priorities for the 2025.2 ("Flamingo") release cycle [3]. Alongside project teams, the OpenStack Technical Committee has been preparing for the upcoming virtual Project Teams Gathering. We're still gathering topics, so please add yours if you're interested in seeding a relevant discussion. You can find all the discussion etherpads linked on the PTG Website [4]. In the past week, we completed the community testing goal to upgrade CI integration testing ("migrate-to-noble") [5]. Kudos to our goal champion, Ghanshyam Mann (gmann), and to everyone who helped with the effort! === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack TC was held over IRC in OFTC's #openstack-tc channel on 2025-03-25 [6]. We added a discussion topic on operator engagement to the os-operators' PTG slot. We caught up on CI issues that needed attention from several quarters, including a kernel regression that prevented release-critical patches from merging in Neutron and Kolla and warranted a workaround. A breaking change in Setuptools 78 impacted many projects on Zuul; however, OpenStack was minimally affected before the issue was resolved in Setuptools. A broken CentOS 9 mirror briefly caused problems due to an inconsistent state from an upstream source. It was brought to the TC's attention that the Skyline project commits pre-built static files (e.g., JavaScript bundles generated using Yarn) directly into its repository. This manual intervention creates a potential security risk similar to the XZ backdoor attack since there is no verifiable way to check whether these builds contain malicious code. The TC brainstormed that it would be better to offload the build process to Zuul, preventing manual intervention, and to ensure the yarn.lock file is always included in releases for better traceability. Operators and project contributors must be aware of this issue and the fact that builds are currently not reproducible, complicating packaging. There was a suggestion that OpenStack governance should enforce standardized project security practices. Since we haven't identified concrete steps to resolve the current issue, we'll revisit this topic in a future discussion. The next meeting of the OpenStack TC is today, 2025-04-01, at 1700 UTC. Please note the change in timing—it is an hour earlier than our past meetings. This meeting will be held simultaneously on Video (Zoom) and IRC (OFTC's #openstack-tc channel). Please find the conference details and agenda on the meeting's wiki page [7]. I hope you'll be able to join us there. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Mark CI migration to Ubuntu Noble goal complete | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/945641 ==== Open for Review ==== - [resolution] Extend scope of VMT to cover all project teams | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/944817 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-04-01 - 2025-04-04: KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/ - 2025-04-02: OpenStack 2025.1 ("Epoxy") Release - 2025-04-03: OpenInfra LIVE - Epoxy release [3] - 2025-04-08: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-04-07 - 2025-04-12: OpenInfra PTG Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2025.1 "Epoxy" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html [2] 2025.1 Release tags: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/945949 [3] Introducing OpenStack 2025.1 Epoxy on OpenInfra Live: https://openinfra.org/live/ [4] OpenInfra Flamingo vPTG: https://ptg.opendev.org/ptg.html [5] "migrate to noble" community goal: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/completed/2025.1/migrate-ci-jobs-t... [6] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-03-25: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-03-25-18.00.log.html [7] TC Meeting Agenda 2025-04-01: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting