On 16 March 2016 at 18:17, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Nova is next to produce a release candidate for the end of the Mitaka cycle! > Congratulations to all the Nova devs. You can find the RC1 source code > tarball at: > > https://tarballs.openstack.org/nova/nova-13.0.0.0rc1.tar.gz > > Unless release-critical issues are found that warrant a release candidate > respin, this RC1 will be formally released as the final Mitaka Nova release > on April 7th. You are therefore strongly encouraged to test and validate > this tarball ! So I am expecting to cut RC2 to include translations that happen now and release week. To help this, we now have hit Hard String Freeze on the stable/mitaka branch. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StringFreeze#Hard_String_Freeze > Alternatively, you can directly test the stable/mitaka release branch at: > > http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/log/?h=stable/mitaka > > If you find an issue that could be considered release-critical, please file > it at: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+filebug > > and tag it *mitaka-rc-potential* to bring it to the Nova release crew's > attention. > > Note that the "master" branch of Nova is now open for Newton development, > and feature freeze restrictions no longer apply there ! Although we have a few upgraded related DB changes, including: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/289449/4 More on that from dansmith in a sec. Thanks, johnthetubaguy