Hello everyone, The release candidate for cinder for the end of the Newton cycle is available! You can find the RC1 source code tarball at: https://tarballs.openstack.org/cinder/cinder-9.0.0.0rc1.tar.gz Unless release-critical issues are found that warrant a release candidate respin, this RC1 will be formally released as the final Newton release on 6 October. You are therefore strongly encouraged to test and validate this tarball! Alternatively, you can directly test the stable/newton release branch at: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/cinder/log/?h=stable/newton If you find an issue that could be considered release-critical, please file it at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+filebug and tag it *newton-rc-potential* to bring it to the cinder release crew's attention. Note that the "master" branch of cinder is now open for Ocata development, and feature freeze restrictions no longer apply there! Thanks, Doug