Hello Neutrinos:

Before stepping down as Neutron PTL, I would like to thank you for your commitment and work done during the last two releases. Let's keep Neutron, the stadium projects and OpenStack in general healthy and growing every day.

We are now in the RC phase and we should be focused on delivering the best possible code for Bobcat cycle. So far I think we are going to deliver a good quality release.

And in advance for the next cycle, let me bring here the hot topics we have right now in gerrit. I would ask you, as I've done during the last year, to spend some time reviewing them in order to continue the development of these features. The sooner we merge them in the Caracal cycle, the better we'll test it during the release development period.

Please remember this list is just a brief summary of the most relevant features under review.

** Specs ** https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-specs/+/891204: Add spec for partial support for OVN Interconnect RFE

** RFEs and important bugs ** https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:neutron_ovn_l3_scheduler: a series of patches related to LP#2023993, that will improve the OVN L3 scheduler.

https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/894026: support for IPv6 in the OVN metadata, closing a present gap between ML2/OVS and ML2/OVN.

https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/882832: provide a new parameter to define the port HW offload capability, instead of writing directly on the port binding profile.

https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:distributed_metadata_data_path: a series of patches for ML2/OVS, to provide distributed metadata capabilities.

https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:2023-aa-l3-gw-multihoming: a series of patches to provide to ML2/OVN multihoming (active-active) L3 GW capabilities.

Regards.