Hi All, I would like to announce that only critical/blocker or any stabilization fixes will be accepted on the main branch from now onwards. If you have any PRs that are ready to be merged into 4.21 (with review & tests completed), please let me know or ping me (@sureshanaparti) on GitHub.
I'll work towards stabilization, and would like to cut 4.21.0 RC1 early next week (and further RCs if necessary) & start the voting / release process. Looking forward to your support. Thanks. Regards, Suresh On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM Suresh Kumar Anaparti < sureshkumar.anapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > We've so far closed 109 Issues and PRs in the 4.21.0 milestone [1]. There > are still some targeted items to finish, so I would like to postpone the > 4.21.0 release for at least a week. > > Here is the updated timelines: > > - (Ongoing) till last week of Jul 2025: Accept all PRs for the bug fixes, > improvements, features > - (1 week) last week of Jul 2025: Accept any critical/blocker fixes and > stabilise main/4.21 branch > - (1 week) end of Jul 2025, first week of Aug 2025 onwards: Cut 4.21.0 RC1 > (and further RCs if necessary), start & conclude vote, and finish release > work > > Looking forward to your support, mainly on the reviews & tests for the > outstanding PRs [2]. Also, please resolve any conflicts in your PRs, > address the outstanding comments and share the test results. Thanks. > > Please let me know if you have any feedback, thoughts. > > [1] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/milestone/35 > [2] > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A4.21.0 > > Regards, > Suresh > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM Suresh Kumar Anaparti < > sureshkumar.anapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> It's been a few months since the proposal, and we've so far closed 62 >> issues and PRs in the 4.21.0 milestone [1]. Currently, we've 208 open items >> in the 4.21.0 milestone, tracked/triaged through the GitHub project 'Apache >> CloudStack 4.21.0' [2]. Ping me (@sureshanaparti) on your issues and PRs >> that are to be included in 4.21.0, if these are not in the milestone / >> project. >> >> 4.21.0 release is proposed as a Regular (non-LTS) [3] release with the >> following timelines, aiming to start the RC/vote by the end of Jul 2025: >> >> - Now until mid-July 2025: Accept all PRs for the bug fixes, >> improvements, features >> - Until last week of Jul 2025: Accept any fixes and stabilise main/4.21 >> branch >> - Last week of Jul 2025: Cut 4.21.0 RC1 (and further RCs if necessary), >> start & conclude vote, and finish release work >> >> Please let me know if you have any feedback, thoughts. Looking forward to >> your support on bug fixes, reviews, and tests. Thanks. >> >> [1] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/milestone/35 >> [2] https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/503 >> [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/LTS >> >> Regards, >> Suresh >> >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM Suresh Kumar Anaparti < >> sureshanapa...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I want to propose and put myself forward as the release manager for >>> 4.21.0 if there are no objections. I've previously RM'd 4.16.1.0 & 4.19.1.0 >>> releases, and co-RM'd some releases before that. I hope that experiences >>> will help me here, for a successful release. >>> >>> I think, for 4.21.0, we can accept any features, improvements and bug >>> fixes in the next few months until May-2025, and aim to cut RC in Q2 2025 >>> (sometime in Jun-2025). Please ping me (@sureshanaparti) on GitHub, in case >>> you want to include any Issues/PRs in 4.21.0. I'll propose the timeline >>> details soon. >>> >>> I hope to have your support. Please let me know if you have any >>> thoughts/comments. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Suresh >>> >>
