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 >> >
