For easy reference, The server was restarted (The outage was caused by apache2 killed by OOM) and the service is now back online. On 3/16/26 2:02 PM, Yatin Karel wrote:

releases.openstack.org <http://releases.openstack.org> is down for some reason and jobs failing like:-

2026-03-15 22:15:00.754677 | controller | WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x771c7273af90>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused')': /constraints/upper/master 2026-03-15 22:15:00.754693 | controller | ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='releases.openstack.org <http://releases.openstack.org>', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /constraints/upper/master (Caused by NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x771c7273b230>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

Need someone from infra to check and bring this server up to unblock the CI.

-- Thanks and Regards Yatin Karel