Current Series Release Notes

32.0.0.0rc1-52

Prelude

Group definitions for OpenStack-Ansible were changed by replacing dashes with underscores. Please check the Upgrade section for more detatails on how this affects you.

New Features

  • Ansible Core version was switched to 2.19 series.

Upgrade Notes

  • In order to configure SPICE frontend/backend on the loadbalancer use nova_console_type_mapping instead of nova_console_type.

    For example:

    nova_console_type_mapping:
  x86_64: spice
  ppc64le: novnc
  aarch64: serialconsole

    Variable nova_console_type is compute-specific and is not used to calculate configuration for the Load Balancer.

  • Group metering-group_container has been renamed to ceilometer_compute_container for general consistency across group naming logic

  • All OpenStack-Ansible groups, conf.d and openstack_user_config.yml definitions were renamed by replacing all existing dashes with underscores. This change was made in order to comply with Ansible groups naming convention, which has been introduced back in Ansible 2.8. While old definitions should work after the upgrade, it is still recommended to replace group names with underscores inside of the openstack_user_config.yml and conf.d files, as well as the openstack_inventory.json, as the dynamic_inventory will not perform the conversion. Please note, that old group names can be also referenced in openstack_user_config.yml inside of the``provider_networks`` -> group_binds. So please ensure, that network bindings are also updated and contain group names only with underscores in their names. Ansible will issue a warning in case invalid group names are present in the openstack_inventory.json, but will proceed with the replacement of dashes with underscores. You can ignore these warning messages and return the previous behavior by adding ANSIBLE_TRANSFORM_INVALID_GROUP_CHARS=ignore to /etc/openstack_deploy/user.rc or silence warnings and accept conversion to the new group names by adding ANSIBLE_TRANSFORM_INVALID_GROUP_CHARS=silently to the /etc/openstack_deploy/user.rc. Change of the value for ANSIBLE_TRANSFORM_INVALID_GROUP_CHARS may affect environments, where deploy hosts are also used actively to run 3rd party Ansible roles and playbooks. You can read more about the variable and it’s effect on Ansible Community Documentation

Bug Fixes

  • OpenStack-Ansible and venv version detection is fixed for environments which were upgraded from pre-Flamingo releases.

32.0.0.0rc1

New Features

  • Added support for condition key for ceph_extra_components mapping, which could be used to define a more narrow conditions when component should be having ceph mappings.

  • Introduced variable ceph_cinder_backup_enabled which can be manually overriden to enable provisionment of Ceph client to cinder-backup service. Previously logic for this has been hardcoded and not easily overridable.

  • Added coordination support to the Aodh service. In case zookeeper is present in deployment, service will be configured to use it for coordination. Operators are able to supply arbitrary coordination url via aodh_coordination_url variable.

  • Erlang version was updated to 27.3.x series.

  • RabbitMQ version was upgraded to version 4.1.4

  • Added variable venv_install_tool which has default value of pip. You can define it to uv to leverage package installation inside of the venv using uv tool instead of pip. Wheels build and venv creation is still managed via pip and venv respectively.

Upgrade Notes

  • Variable networking_ovn_bgp_install_branch has been renamed to networking_ovn_bgp_git_install_branch in order to match existing naming convention.

  • With removal of eventlet mode for neutron-server in Neutron, the only supported mode for the service is uWSGI. All deployments using eventlet will be migrated to uWSGI mode for neutron-server. With that multiple extra mandatory services will be started together with neutron-server, like neutron-rpc-server, neutron-periodic-workers and neutron-ovn-maintenance-worker for OVN-based deployments.

Deprecation Notes

  • Variable neutron_use_uwsgi has been removed and has no effect, since eventlet mode for neutron-server has been dropped in 2025.2 (Flamingo). uWSGI is the only supported mode at the moment.

  • Variable octavia_legacy_policy was removed and has no effect anymore. In case you was using the variable and it was set to True, you can incorporate policy changes this variable was implementing to your octavia_policy_overrides. You may find rules controlled by this variable via the link

  • Remove SHOW_KEYSTONE_V2_RC config option, which was deprecated since the Stein release. It is now safe to remove this option.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes SHA pinning and installation of ovn-bgp-agent, as SHA pinning and role were using different variable names.

  • URI to Shibboleth mirror has been fixed for EL-based distributions.

Other Notes

  • Debian/Ubuntu Repository for RabbitMQ has changed from ppa1.rabbitmq.com to deb1.rabbitmq.com and deb2.rabbitmq.com.