The 20.02 release of the OpenStack Charms is now available. This release brings several new features to the existing OpenStack Charms deployments for Queens, Rocky, Stein, Train, and many other stable combinations of Ubuntu + OpenStack. Please see the Release Notes for full details: https://docs.openstack.org/charm-guide/latest/2002.html == Highlights == * New charm: manila-ganesha There is a new charm to support Ganesha for use with Manila and CephFS: manila-ganesha. This charm, as well as the requisite manila and ceph-fs charms, have been promoted to supported status. * Swift global cluster With OpenStack Newton or later, support for a global cluster with Swift is available as a tech preview. * OVN With OpenStack Train or later, support for integration with Open Virtual Network (OVN) is available as a tech preview. * MySQL8 With Ubuntu 19.10 or later, support for MySQL 8 is available as a tech preview. * New charms: watcher and watcher-dashboard There are two new charms to support Watcher, the resource optimization service for multi-tenant OpenStack-based clouds: watcher and watcher-dashboard. This is the first release of these charms and they are available as a tech preview. * Policy overrides The policy overrides feature provides operators with a mechanism to override policy defaults on a per-service basis. The last release (19.10) introduced the feature for a number of charms. This release adds support for openstack-dashboard and octavia charms. * Disabling snapshots as a boot source for the OpenStack dashboard Snapshots can be disabled as valid boot sources for launching instances in the dashboard. This is done via the new 'disable-instance-snapshot' configuration option in the openstack-dashboard charm. == 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 49 charm contributors who squashed 53 bugs, enabled support for a new release of OpenStack, improved documentation, and added exciting new functionality! Liam Young Corey Bryant Peter Matulis Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui Frode Nordahl Alex Kavanagh David Ames Chris MacNaughton Stamatis Katsaounis inspurericzhang Tiago Pasqualini Andrew McLeod ShangXiao Ryan Beisner James Page Felipe Reyes kangyufei Edward Hope-Morley Adam Dyess Xuan Yandong Arif Ali Chris Johnston wangfaxin Aurelien Lourot Alexandros Soumplis Jose Guedez Qitao Tytus Kurek Seyeong Kim Dongdong Tao Haw Loeung Jorge Niedbalski Qiu Fossen Yanos Angelopoulos Syed Mohammad Adnan Karim JiaSiRui Xiyue Wang Adam Dyess Jose Delarosa Alexander Balderson Andreas Jaeger Dmitrii Shcherbakov Jacek Nykis Thobias Trevisan Hemanth Nakkina Shuo Liu Drew Freiberger zhangboye Aggelos Kolaitis -- OpenStack Charms Team