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 >
