Release Team Meeting 2026-03-11

[ogajduse]

Release Team Meeting 2026-03-04

Meeting Type: Foreman Release Team Meeting
Date: March 11, 2026
Community: https://community.theforeman.org

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Foreman Nightly

• foreman-plugins-nightly-rpm-pipeline #2506 - Jenkins is failing, most likely due to invalid CDN cache

Foreman 3.18

• Status Updates
  • 3.18.0 released today - March 11: Foreman 3.18.0 is now available
  • CI is green except for one UI test failure
  • 3.18.1 is planned to be released on March 17

Foreman 3.17

• Current Release Status
  • 3.17.2 TODO | 3.17.2 DONE
  • CI Overview
  • 3.17.1 is out: Foreman 3.17.1 is now available
  • CI is green
  • 3.17.2 is planned to be released on March 17

Foreman 3.16

• Maintenance Status
  • 3.16.3 TODO | 3.16.3 DONE
  • CI Overview
  • 3.16.3 is planned to be released on March 17

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Katello 4.20

• Status Updates
  • 4.20 RC2 was released - Katello 4.20.0.rc2 Release Process
  • 4.20 in progress, no blockers
  • Candlepin updated to 4.7

Katello 4.19

• 4.19.1 on the way Katello 4.19.1 Release Process
• two issues pushed off of 4.19.1
  • Bug #39052: When editing activation key description, webui freezes - Katello - Foreman
  • Bug #39030: There is no progress displayed while the Flatpak scan task is running - Katello - Foreman
  • There were issues with pushing the issues off, @Zhunting to talk to Ian about it

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Pulp Integration

• Current Status
  • Evgeni requested cherry-picks to 3.85
    • @Odilhao will backport the fixes
  • Katello 4.21 to be updated to pulpcore 3.105
    • We’ll need a new Postgres with 3.105 because of Django
  • We don’t know when Pulp 4 is going to be released, yet (Django 5)
  • We can’t update to past Postgres 13 at the moment, most likely due to Candlepin??

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[Dirk]

I stumbled over Puppet 7 being no longer supported by the installer at least by Foreman 17.1, which is not mentioned anywhere.

# foreman-installer
2026-03-11 17:02:27 [NOTICE] [root] Loading installer configuration. This will take some time.
Puppet 7.34.0 does not meet requirements for puppetlabs-apache (>= 8.0.0 < 9.0.0)
Cannot continue due to incompatible version of Puppet. Use --skip-puppet-version-check to disable this check.
2026-03-11 17:02:31 [ERROR ] [root] Puppet 7.34.0 does not meet requirements for puppetlabs-apache (>= 8.0.0 < 9.0.0)
2026-03-11 17:02:31 [ERROR ] [root] Incompatible version of Puppet used, cannot continue

[ogajduse]

Interesting. What environment did you reproduce it in?
I wonder if that’s something that our CI should have caught.

[evgeni]

We dropped Puppet 7 support in Drop Puppet 7 support · theforeman/foreman-installer@59ef3ea · GitHub but it seems we never wrote a release note about this

[Dirk]

It was my normal CentOS Stream 9 demo system where I already wanted to switch to OpenVox but did not find the time for. Now I had a good reason to do it during the update.

I am also not sure if the package update should already have revealed this instead of the installer complaining after everything already being updated.

[evgeni]

Yeah, updating package dependencies is probably a good idea too.

[evgeni]

Require puppet/openvox >= 8

Require puppet 8

can be backported to 3.18 and 3.17 then

[ogajduse]

Backport:

3.18

• RPM: Require puppet/openvox >= 8 by ogajduse · Pull Request #13257 · theforeman/foreman-packaging · GitHub
• DEB: Require puppet 8 by ogajduse · Pull Request #13258 · theforeman/foreman-packaging · GitHub

3.17

• DEB: Require puppet 8 by ogajduse · Pull Request #13259 · theforeman/foreman-packaging · GitHub
• RPM: Require puppet/openvox >= 8 by ogajduse · Pull Request #13260 · theforeman/foreman-packaging · GitHub

[Dirk]

Merged it! Thanks @evgeni and @ogajduse!