Meeting Type: Foreman Release Team Meeting
Date: May 6, 2026
Community: https://community.theforeman.org
Foreman Nightly
- This week is Foreman 3.19 stabilization week
- translations work to be done by the Release Owner
- Installer updates to be done by the Installer Maintainer
- Foreman 3.19 branching is a week - 2026-05-12
- smart-proxy jobs are failing due to the new Rake version that broke the ci_reporter
- fix proposed Change rake task 'verbose' parameter by nadjaheitmann · Pull Request #938 · theforeman/smart-proxy · GitHub
- @nadjaheitmann did not receive much feedback on the patch from the smart-proxy maintainers
- smart-proxy should be migrated from test-unit to minitest to align with Foreman core. That means migrating from ci_reporter to minitest-reporters.
- This has been discussed in #theforeman-dev channel between @evgeni and @ekohl
- Bug #39248: smart-proxy test failures due to rake 13.4.2 breaking ci_reporter_test_unit - Smart Proxy - Foreman has been created to track this
- fix proposed Change rake task 'verbose' parameter by nadjaheitmann · Pull Request #938 · theforeman/smart-proxy · GitHub
- Luna pipeline failed in the almalinux9-upgrade phase due to vagrantcloud.com throwing 503
Foreman 3.18
- Status Updates
- CI is green
- We expect a release in May(?). Exact date to be posted in the Release Procedure. If there’s a need for 3.18.z, please reach out to @ogajduse.
Foreman 3.17
- Current Release Status
- CI is green
- We expect a release in May(?). Exact date to be posted in the Release Procedure. If there’s a need for 3.17.z, please reach out to @ogajduse.
Katello 4.20
- Status Updates
- No releases planned at the moment. We’ll release 4.20.1 next sprint. Sprint planning is this week.
- 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
Pulp Integration
- Current Status
- [Odilon, Zach] Branching 3.105 is done
- We had to update to 3.105.6 to include several Pulp-related fixes
- Katello 4.21 works with 3.105.6 well
; we’re ready to branch
- [Odilon, Zach] Branching 3.105 is done
Pulp integration with Katello 4.22
- We’ll need Postgres 16 with 3.105 because of Django 5; we’re still on Django 4
- There’s Support PostgreSQL 16 · Issue #465 · theforeman/foremanctl · GitHub at the moment to track this work.
- We confirmed with Candlepin - Candlepin should work with the new Postgres
- We need to test whether migrations work as expected
- This work will be a part of the Foreman EL10 rebuild