hi everyone. As many people know the non-client lib freeze is thursday the 28th so it is time to do the final os-vif release for stein. there are a number of pending patches to os-vif https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/os-vif+status:open+branch:master while i think we can merge several of them i have sorted them into groups below. required: remove use of brctl from vif_plug_linux_bridge https://review.openstack.org/636822 remove use of brctl from vif_plug_linux_bridge https://review.openstack.org/636821 prefer to merge: Add native implementation OVSDB API https://review.openstack.org/482226 make functional tests run on python 3 https://review.openstack.org/638053 nice to have: modify functional base.py to allow using vscode https://review.openstack.org/638058 docs: Add API docs for VIF types https://review.openstack.org/637009 doc: Use sphinx.ext.todo for profile, datapath offload types https://review.openstack.org/638405 docs: Start using sphinx.ext.autodoc for VIF types https://review.openstack.org/638404 docs: Add API docs for profile, datapath offload types https://review.openstack.org/638395 defer: Add 'SUPPORT_BW_CONFIG' option to VIFs https://review.openstack.org/636933 the required patches are makeing there way though the gate. i would hope we can merge most of the patches in the prefer and nice to have buckets but my intent is to propose a patch to the release repo tonight with the head of master proably at or after 20:00 UTC which will be around noon PST. that will give eu and us folks that want to review these changes a resonably amount of time. ideally we can try and get the release out early tommorow. once that is done os-vif will go into a a feature freeze until RC1 is released of nova and neutron at which point it will unfreeze. once i submit the patch for the release until thursday i would like to do a full code freeze on os-vif so that if there are any bugs that show up in the gate we can fix those without accepting any other changes. once we pass the non-client lib freeze on thrusday non feature patches such as docs changes or testing changes are fine but features should wait to RC1. regards sean