RDO Caracal 2024.1 Released
The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the
RDO build for OpenStack 2024.1 Caracal for RPM-based distributions, CentOS
Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private,
public, and hybrid clouds. Caracal is the 29th release from the OpenStack
project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the
world.
The release is already available for CentOS Stream 9 on the CentOS mirror
network in:
http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-caracal/
The RDO community project curates, packages, builds, tests and maintains a
complete OpenStack component set for RHEL and CentOS Stream and is a member
of the CentOS Cloud SIG. The Cloud SIG focuses on delivering a great user
experience for CentOS users looking to build and maintain their own
on-premise, public or hybrid clouds.
All work on RDO and on the downstream release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform,
is 100% open source, with all code changes going upstream first.
The highlights of the broader upstream OpenStack project may be read via
https://releases.openstack.org/caracal/highlights.html but here are some
highlights:
- Drivers with inactive CI were marked unsupported including Windows
iSCSI Driver, Windows SMB Driver, Dell SC Series Storage Driver (iSCSI,
FC), Dell VNX Storage Driver (FC, iSCSI) and Dell XtremeIO Storage Driver
(iSCSI, FC).
- New driver features were added, notably, Fujitsu ETERNUS DX extend
volume on RAID group, Pure Storage synchronous replication, NetApp iSCSI
LUN space allocation, Dell PowerFlex Active-Active support, Dell PowerMax
configurable SRDF snapshots.
- Designate now supports Catalog Zones (RFC 9432). This can improve the
scalability of Designate pools managing a large number of zones and
significantly reduce the provisioning time when adding additional DNS
servers to a Designate pool.
- Horizon now uses Django 4.2 as default and dropped Django 3.2 support.
- Ironic has enabled RBAC support by default by changing the default
values of [oslo_policy]enforce_scope and [oslo_policy]enforce_new_defaults
to True. Additionally, we added [DEFAULT]rbac_service_project_name to
define a project where users in that project are treated as having a
service role. Please see Ironic release notes for full details.
- Ironic has added the ability to drain active tasks from a conductor
before shutdown. Sending a SIGUSR2 signal to an ironic-conductor will now
attempt to complete running tasks with a timeout of
[DEFAULT]drain_shutdown_timeout. No new tasks will be started on the
conductor while it’s draining.
- Support was added for the external-gateway-multihoming API extension.
The L3 service plugins supporting it can now create multiple gateway ports
per router. It is currently limited to the L3 OVN plugin.
OpenStack Caracal is marked as Skip Level Upgrade Release Process or SLURP.
According to this model (
https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20220210-release-cadence-adjustment.html)
this means that upgrades will only be supported from the Antelope 2023.1
release.
RDO Caracal 2024.1 has been built and tested with the recently released
Ceph 18.2.0 Reef version (https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/releases/reef/)
which has been published by the CentOS Storage SIG in the official CentOS
repositories. *Note:* Follow the instructions in [RDO documentation](
https://www.rdoproject.org/install/install-with-ceph/) to install OpenStack
and Ceph services in the same host.
During Caracal cycle, some projects have been retired or declared inactive
upstream. As such, the following packages for some projects are not present
in the RDO Caracal 2024.1 release:
- cinderlib
- dib-utils
- ec2api-tempest-plugin
- ec2api
- murano
- murano-agent
- muranoclient
- murano-dashboard
- murano-tempest-plugin
- sahara
- sahara-dashboard
- sahara-image-elements
- sahara-plugin-ambari
- sahara-plugin-cdh
- sahara-plugin-mapr
- sahara-plugin-spark
- sahara-plugin-storm
- sahara-plugin-vanilla
- sahara-tests
- senlin
- senlinclient
- puppet-ec2api
- puppet-etcd
- puppet-haproxy
- puppet-module-data
- puppet-murano
- puppet-qdr
- puppet-rsyslog
- puppet-sahara
During the next release we will continue working on retiring inactive
packages in order to ensure RDO content quality and security.
Contributors:
- During the Caracal cycle, we saw the following new RDO contributors:
- Marihan Girgis
- Balazs Gibizer
- Fiorella Yanac
Welcome to all of you and Thank You So Much for participating!
But we wouldn’t want to overlook anyone. A super massive Thank You to all
47 contributors who participated in producing this release. This list
includes commits to rdo-packages, rdo-infra, and rdo-website
