Meeting Type: Foreman Release Team Meeting
Date: April 8, 2026
Community: https://community.theforeman.org
Foreman Nightly
Foreman 3.18
- Status Updates
- CI is green
- We expect a release in April. Exact date to be posted in the Release Procedure.
Foreman 3.17
- Current Release Status
- CI is green
- We expect a release in April. Exact date to be posted in the Release Procedure.
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

Katello 4.19
- 4.19.2 is released - Katello 4.19.2 now available - #2 by Zhunting
Pulp Integration
- Current Status
- branching PR is open
- pulp_smart_proxy: We failed to
Create New Release BranchCreate New Release Branch · theforeman/pulp_smart_proxy@9c8d7b8 · GitHub. Waiting for Evgeni to come back online.
: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
- We’ll need a new Postgres with 3.105 because of Django 5
- Significant cleanup was made in pulpcore-packaging; only 6 PRs remain open