On last Monday we finally released Kolla and Kolla Ansible 8.0.0 ‘stein’. Took us longer than we planned but now it is done and ready for users.
Changes
What got changed? Many things — details can be found in Kolla release notes and Kolla Ansible release notes.
My work in this cycle was more reviews, less code. And lot of planning how to handle Python 3 migration for Debian/Ubuntu based images. At some point we decided that this stuff will be postponed to ‘train’ cycle. You can read more about it my previous post: Moving Kolla images to Python 3.
Why so late
Usually we release Kolla ‘two weeks’ after official OpenStack release. This allows us to switch to final release code of other projects, do some testing etc. This time it took us far more time :(
Due to several issues (some core developers got more occupied with work, distributions changed dependencies in packages) it took us longer than ‘two weeks’ after official OpenStack ‘stein’ release. We added more tests for CI, handled partial Python 3 migration in Ubuntu Cloud Archive and more.Several fixes were made in ‘train’ and backported to ‘stein’.
Now it is your turn — build, deploy, test, report ;D