It has been a couple months since I sent out our last activity update, and now seems like a good time to share what is new.
Ubuntu Jammy test nodes are now available in both x86_64 and ARM64 flavors. This version of Ubuntu ships with python3.10 and is ready for you to start testing your python projects on this newer runtime.
Our Gerrit server running at https://review.opendev.org has been upgraded from Gerrit 3.4 to 3.5. This newer version of Gerrit brings features like new change search predicates, updates to the UI, and performance updates. On the whole this is a bit more of an incremental update compared to previous upgrades. We expect many users haven't even noticed that the upgrade happened. If you'd like to learn more you can read the Gerrit 3.5 release notes: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.5.html.
Glean 1.23.0 has been released and finally adds proper support for static ipv6 configuration on RPM based distros.
Our Ethercalc server previously running at https://ethercalc.openstack.org has been shutdown and removed.
On the Zuul side of things there are two changes you should be aware of and planning for.
The first is the planned removal of pipeline specific queues in your Zuul config. This configuration was deprecated a number of releases ago and is slated for removal in the next major Zuul release. The OpenStack tenant is the only Zuul tenant that has this old style of configuration. More information on which projects are affected and how to correct it can be found in my email about this topic: https://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2022-May/028603.html. Note that projects with this configuration in place that do not update will have broken Zuul configurations after we upgrade to the next major Zuul release.
Next, is the plan for changing the default Zuul Ansible version from Ansible 2.9 to Ansible 5 on June 30, 2022. We've already done some testing of this and the base jobs as well as devstack and tempest seem to work with newer Ansible. If you'd like to learn more (including how you can test your specific projects early) please check my previous email on this subject: https://lists.opendev.org/pipermail/service-announce/2022-June/000041.html.
Looking ahead we should expect our Gitea farm to be upgraded to v1.17. Work will begin on upgrading Gerrit to version 3.6, but it is still too early to know when we will perform that upgrade.
There are a few larger tasks we'd like to get moving on including updating our Keycloak server to provide SSO capabilities for our services, upgrading our list servers to Mailman 3, modernizing our StoryBoard deployment, and deploying a Prometheus service to collect server and service metrics. If any of these sound interesting to you, and you would like to help, please reach out.
Clark