Planning to have pulpcore 3.14 for Katello 4.1, which has various improvement in terms of caching and tasking. This will require changes in installer. Related references,
Expecting to have changes merged within two weeks.
Foreman: 2.5:
The new version 2.5.2 should be planned to include installer changes for pulpcore 3.14.
Targeting the release within two weeks(2nd week of July or earlier if possible)
Katello:
The pull requests of Foreman repository runs tests on Katello nightly. The Katello pipelines have been broken since long, requested @jjeffers to check this.
Just as a note for 2.5.2: There is a small but hard hitting regression bug on DHCP / TFTP handling in 2.5.1, which should be fixed within this minor release.
Yes, we are indeed discussing a rebase of Pulp in a stable release. This is something that we don’t take lightly. It came from the Pulp team. They recommended it. While each Pulp developer had their own reason for recommending it, it all came down to it being very hard to fix the bugs in 3.11. Pulp 3.14 features a new tasking system which is a major change, but it promises to resolve a lot of the problems that we’ve seen in our community.
Currently the goal is to get this into nightly ASAP. Today 3.14 and all plugins should be released which means the packaging can happen. There are also patches being prepared for the installer and we’re discussing potential problems during upgrades.