From 1eb45e768afb24ced9b2567ffdcac2b4d56f3741 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sylvain Bauza Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:27:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add Dalmatian prelude section Shamelessly copied from the cycle highlights Change-Id: I2d0584dee3f8133d6fb63fe4599de1ef76b42d62 --- .../dalmatian-prelude-35a774ecc9e56004.yaml | 42 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 releasenotes/notes/dalmatian-prelude-35a774ecc9e56004.yaml diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/dalmatian-prelude-35a774ecc9e56004.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/dalmatian-prelude-35a774ecc9e56004.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8e38d749c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/releasenotes/notes/dalmatian-prelude-35a774ecc9e56004.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +prelude: | + The OpenStack 2024.2 (Nova 30.0.0) release includes many new features and + bug fixes. Please be sure to read the upgrade section which describes the + required actions to upgrade your cloud from 29.0.0 (2024.1) to 30.0.0 + (2024.2). + As a reminder, OpenStack 2024.2 is not a `Skip-Level-Upgrade Release`__ + (starting from now, we name it a `SLURP release`) meaning that you can't + do rolling-upgrade from 2023.2, you first need to upgrade to 2024.1. + + .. __: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20220210-release-cadence-adjustment.html + + There are a few major changes worth mentioning. This is not an exhaustive + list: + + - The latest Compute API microversion supported for 2024.2 is `v2.96`__. + + .. __: https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/reference/api-microversion-history.html#maximum-in-2024-1-caracal-and-2024-2-dalmatian + + - With the libvirt driver and libvirt version 7.3.0 or newer, mediated + devices for vGPUs are now persisted across reboots of a compute host. + + - Instances with UEFI firmware can now be launched with stateless firmware + if their image has the ``hw_firmware_stateless`` property and if the + compute services have libvirt 8.6.0 or later. + + - Nova now automatically detects vTPM support for compute services if + libvirt version is above 8.0.0 and if ``swtpm`` is installed on the node. + It will also automatically get the TPM models that are supported. + + - You can now require TLS connections for SPICE consoles if you set the + ``[spice]/require_secure`` configuration option to ``True``. + + - ``AggregateMultitenancyIsolation`` scheduler filter now supports multiple + aggregate keys prefixed by ``filter_tenant_id`` which removes the + limitation on the number of tenants an aggregate of hosts can relate to. + + - A couple of other improvements target reducing the number of bugs we + have: one is changing how the Ironic driver sends metadata to the Ironic + API, and another one created a new ``nova.wsgi`` WSGI module that allows + different WSGI servers to set their WSGI application the same way (using + module instead of a binary).