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OpenStack’s 24th Release, Xena, Wields Powerful Hardware Support, Project Integration to Strengthen Open Infrastructure for Cloud-Native Applications

The latest release occurs as the 2021 User Survey reveals significant growth in OpenStack deployments ranging from hundreds of cores to six million cores; Over 100 new OpenStack clouds have been built, growing the total number of cores under OpenStack management to more than 25,000,000 coresOpenStack Xena logo

The OpenStack community today released Xena, the 24th version of the most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software. Highlights of the Xena release include support for new hardware features, improved integration among components, and reduction of technical debt to maintain OpenStack’s stable and reliable core.

OpenStack is one of the most active open source projects in the world, supported by a vibrant and engaged community of developers globally. Over the span of just 25 weeks, almost 15,000 changes authored by over 680 contributors from over 125 different organizations were included in the Xena release.

This release comes at a time when the OpenStack project is deployed in production more widely than ever. Over 100 new OpenStack clouds have been built in the past 18 months, growing the total number of cores under OpenStack management to more than 25,000,000 cores. Organizations with deployments ranging from hundreds of cores to six million cores have logged significant growth according to the 2021 OpenStack User Survey. The User Survey report will be made available ahead of the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes, November 17-18, where several of these production users will be sharing the details of their growing OpenStack use cases.

Xena release highlights breakdown by project:

Xena delivers numerous other examples of integration among projects, including the following:

Blazar has added OpenStackClient support to python-blazarclient, allowing users to interact with Blazar using OpenStack reservation commands, which provides users with a similar command-line interface as when interacting with other OpenStack projects.

Glance has added support for unified quotas using Keystone limits.

OpenStack-Ansible, the most popular deployment tool (selected by 47% of OpenStack User Survey respondents), has added a role for Freezer deployment.

Manila has significantly increased feature parity between the manila-client shell utility and the unified OpenStackClient, enhancing usability of the Shared File Systems API.

Support for advanced hardware features; Nova’s support for SmartNICs leads a list of examples, including the following:

In Cinder, many current backend storage drivers now have added support for features exceeding the required driver functions, such as multiattach and the ability to take advantage of backend optimizations.

Ironic delivers substantial API improvements in node list retrieval performance, support for boot_mode and secure_boot state visibility on a bare metal node, as well as the capability to set these states as API actions.

Production usage of Kolla among OpenStack User Survey respondents has increased from 17% in 2020 to 28% in 2021. In the Xena cycle, the Kolla team added integration with Hashicorp Vault for control plane secrets.

In Neutron, ECMP routes are now supported. Multiple routes with the same destination address are now consolidated into a single ECMP route.

The Xena cycle was the occasion to buy back some technical debt accumulated during the previous releases of the platform. Notable examples include:

Cinder: Cinder has removed the long-deprecated Block Storage API version 2.

Cyborg: Cyborg offers refactoring documentation structure including API docs, user guide and contributor guide.

Horizon: Horizon and all Horizon plugins now support nodejs14.

Neutron: Neutron has added a new quota driver—DbQuotaNoLockDriver. This driver does not create a unique lock per (resource, project_id). Such locks could lead to a database deadlock state if the number of server requests exceeds the number of resolved resource creations.


Contributor List

Thank you to over 680 contributors from 125 different organizations who contributed to the OpenStack Xena release:

  • Takashi Kajinami
  • Dmitriy Rabotyagov
  • Radosław Piliszek
  • Mark Goddard
  • Ghanshyam
  • Slawek Kaplonski
  • Stephen Finucane
  • Hervé Beraud
  • zhongshengping
  • Aurelien Lourot
  • Dmitry Tantsur
  • Pierre Riteau
  • Alex Kavanagh
  • Elod Illes
  • Jiri Podivin
  • Rodolfo Alonso
  • Rabi Mishra
  • Harald Jensås
  • David Vallee Delisle
  • Riccardo Pittau
  • Gael Chamoulaud
  • Julia Kreger
  • Corey Bryant
  • Jonathan Rosser
  • Thomas Goirand
  • Goutham Pacha Ravi
  • Michele Baldessari
  • Shnaidman Sagi (Sergey)
  • Francesco Pantano
  • Tobias Urdin
  • Alex Schultz
  • Balazs Gibizer
  • Brian Rosmaita
  • Lee Yarwood
  • James Slagle
  • Marios Andreou
  • Martin Schuppert
  • Artem Goncharov
  • Steve Baker
  • Michal Nasiadka
  • Peter Matulis
  • Ian Wienand
  • Tim Burke
  • likui
  • Wenping Song
  • Lucas Alvares Gomes
  • wes hayutin
  • Gregory Thiemonge
  • Eric Harney
  • Juan Larriba
  • Jeremy Stanley
  • gnuoy
  • Lingxian Kong
  • Jose Luis Franco
  • yang yawei
  • Ronelle Landy
  • melanie witt
  • Marcin Juszkiewicz
  • yatin
  • Damien Ciabrini
  • Jesse Pretorius
  • Matthias Runge
  • Vishal Manchanda
  • Dan Smith
  • wushiming
  • mbu
  • Sandeep Yadav
  • YuehuiLei
  • Oleg Bondarev
  • Carlos Gonçalves
  • Brent Eagles
  • Sergii Golovatiuk
  • Martin Chacon Piza
  • chandan kumar
  • Gorka Eguileor
  • John Fulton
  • zhangboye
  • Abhishek Kekane
  • Daniel Bengtsson
  • Lajos Katona
  • Grzegorz Grasza
  • Gage Hugo
  • Martin Kopec
  • Cedric Jeanneret
  • Juan Badia Payno
  • Rajat Dhasmana
  • Aija Jauntēva
  • Sorin Sbârnea
  • Lance Bragstad
  • Michal Arbet
  • Douglas Mendizábal
  • Alistair Coles
  • Luigi Toscano
  • Alan Bishop
  • Michael Johnson
  • Mamatisa Nurmatov
  • Iury Gregory Melo Ferreira
  • Xinxin Shen
  • Dirk Mueller
  • Jakub Libosvar
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  • Artom Lifshitz
  • Xuan Yandong
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  • Manpreet Kaur
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