Release Team Meeting 2026-04-08

Meeting Type: Foreman Release Team Meeting
Date: April 8, 2026
Community: https://community.theforeman.org


Foreman Nightly

Foreman 3.18

Foreman 3.17


Katello 4.20

  • Status Updates
    • No releases planned at the moment
    • Katello folks would like to handle (small) Katello releases within a given X.Y series - Z-streams.
      • Release engineers to make sure we have up-to-date procedures in the foreman-rel-eng to reduce ambiguity.
      • Katello folks can start anytime they want :slight_smile:

Katello 4.19


Pulp Integration

  • Current Status
    • branching PR is open
    • pulp_smart_proxy: We failed to Create New Release Branch Create New Release Branch · theforeman/pulp_smart_proxy@9c8d7b8 · GitHub. Waiting for Evgeni to come back online. :slight_smile: :this-is-fine:
    • We expect backports to pulp-container due to postquantum crypto support
      • It’s Rust. We need to vendor stuff
      • We can’t merge changes to pulp-container to 3.85 atm, we’re waiting for 3.105 branching
    • Katello 4.21 to be updated to pulpcore 3.105
      • We’ll need a new Postgres with 3.105 because of Django 5
        • We confirmed with Candlepin - Candlepin should work with the new Postgres
        • We need to test whether migrations work as expected
    • Significant cleanup was made in pulpcore-packaging; only 6 PRs remain open