The OpenStack Networking Team (Neutron) holds public meetings as advertised on OpenStack IRC Meetings Calendar. If you are unable to attend, please check the most recent logs.

Ping list: bcafarel, elvira, frickler, mlavalle, mtomaska, slaweq, ykarel, lajoskatona, jlibosva, haleyb, ralonsoh

Announcements / Reminders

• Hibiscus/2026.2 release has started
  • We are currently in Week R-20
    • this is Hibiscus-1 milestone week,
      • so far we have proposed release of the python-neutronclient: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/988082
  • https://releases.openstack.org/hibiscus/schedule.html
  • Release countdown email:
    • N/A

• Week of May 11th
  • PTL (haleyb) is traveling, will not be able to chair weekly meeting or drivers
    • Will have reduced time for reviews

• PTG
  • Hibiscus PTG April 20-24, 2026
  • PTG Website: https://openinfra.org/ptg/
  • Neutron etherpad:
    • https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/apr2026-ptg-neutron
  • Link to all etherpads
    • https://ptg.opendev.org/etherpads.html

• Reminder: If you have a topic for the drivers meeting on Friday, please add it to the wiki @ https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/NeutronDrivers

• Let's continue to use the priorities dashboard for patches in the "ready to merge" state. This could be older changes as well as new ones
  • Neutron Priority Dashboard
  • For tap-as-a-service I can't set priority: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/2015471%22+status:open

• Past cycle PTG links
  • Gazpacho/2026.1 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2025-ptg-neutron
  • Flamingo/2025.2 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/apr2025-ptg-neutron
  • Epoxy/2025.1 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2024-ptg-neutron
  • Dalmatian/2024.2 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/apr2024-ptg-neutron
  • Caracal/2024.1 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2023-ptg-neutron

• 2024.2 (Dalmatian) transitioned to EOL
  • https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22dalmatian-eol%22

• 2024.1 (Caracal)/2023.1 (Antelope)/Zed/Yoga/Xena/Wallaby/Victoria have transitioned to Unmaintained
  • https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/V7H6M5ANYOMFWSZ5BJSWAXVNQCUXI6D7/

• 2023.2 (Bobcat)/Ussuri/Train have transitioned to EOL
  • https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bobcat-stable%22
  • https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/UJ7Y76LRWTZQSSDAGMPWCCVVGGIX3TOG/

• Old items
  • Ironic email
    • https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/5SX35AQZ65G6HWQ7WARLJTJK3ASAOWNU/
    • We discussed this in the Drivers meeting
      • https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/neutron_drivers/2024/neutron_drivers.2024-04-26-14.01.log.html
      • Miguel will be point person
      • If there is any impact or changes required in neutron it will be communicated
      • Left open possibility of a new library, but need more investigation

• Permanent links:
  • OpenInfra Live event - https://openinfra.dev/live/#all-episodes - there are some interesting presentations there, maybe people are interested in some of them

Bugs and Gate issues

• Report from otherwiseguy:

• Bugs without assignee or to be commented:
  • See report

• This week mtomaska is the bug deputy, next week will be bcafarel

• Current bug count this week: 685, down 13 from last week
  • All neutron bugs

• Bug squash etherpad - contains old bugs that need to be inspected and closed
  • https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/dalmatian-neutron-bug-squash
  • (haleyb) refreshed on December 15th, 2025

• More discussion on this topic takes place during the Neutron CI meeting: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/NeutronCI

• Confirmed gate failures
• Bugs that need attention
• All bug reports associated to deprecation issues
• Bugs Sheet
• Grafana dashboards

Bug deputy

You can find more information about what the role is here: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/contributor/policies/bugs.html#neutron-bug-deputy. During the Denver PTG we made the decision to institute a fixed rotation for the the bugs deputy role. The currently scheduled rotation is the following:

In preparation for their duty week, deputies are encouraged to review the Neutron bugs policy: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/contributor/policies/bugs.html

ryu os-ken

• To move os-ken from https://storyboard.openstack.org/ to launchpad
  • (former) Story board to track ryu backports: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2009283

• Active os-ken patches: https://review.opendev.org/q/project:openstack/os-ken+status:open

Specs

• Specs: https://review.opendev.org/q/project:openstack%252Fneutron-specs+status:open
• Open reviews:
  • https://review.opendev.org/q/project:openstack/neutron-specs+status:open
  • BGP EVPN Type-5 Route Support
    • https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-specs/+/982256
• Spec development in progress:
• Previous cycle specs:
  • OVN agent BGP extension
    • https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/2111276%22

• Last TC meeting summary:
  • https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2026/tc.2026-02-03-17.00.log.html

• Current Selected (Active) Goals:
  • Neutron client deprecation
    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1999774
    • Agenda: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/python-neutronclient_deprecation
    • Active patches to review:
      • https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/1999774%22
      • https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/1999774%22+status:open+project:openstack/python-openstackclient+or+status:open+owner:self+project:openstack/openstacksdk

• Past Goals:
  • Eventlet removal - DONE

Neutron-lib, planned refactoring and other impacts

• Started python type annotation in neutron (discussed in last PTG)
  • https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/929864/
  • Other patches in series
• Type annotation on neutron-lib
  • https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22type_tooling%22

On Demand Agenda

We can only pick one or two topics we can talk about in the time left of the meeting. People should add ideas to the topics section. We will select one or two topics we can discuss during the next meeting. Please follow the template below:

• May 26th:
  • (ralonsoh) Provide a defined API for the version module (https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/989335)
    • Question: stephenfin raises the following question: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/989335/comments/63cf4a06_44e82675
    • IMO, we should have a common API for all OpenStack projects or at least a common way (import.metadata, **documented**) to retrieve the project version
  • (ralonsoh) Add spec for Port Groups for Security Group Rules (https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-specs/+/987786)
    • I'm Ok with the OVN change
    • I'm not OK with the Neutron DB change. The user "complexity" can be solved by updating the CLI and presenting the related SG rules grouped in a single line, reporting a list of ports and port ranges for the same protocol, direction, etc.

• May 19th:
  • (nick): topic
  • (ralonsoh): Neutron skips default network segment range initialization under Apache mod_wsgi (https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2151245)
    • Are we considering adding support for other application servers? For example, Apache2.
    • The related bug should be an RFE.
  • (ralonsoh): Create a keepalived-state-change script in dash (https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/836140)
    • zigo has been updating the patch and now it is working.
    • IMO, for a while, we should support both the bash and the python implementations, providing a configuration flag. During this time, if a critical bug is reported, we can switch back to the python implementation. We can also add a periodic CI for the new implementation.

Previous meeting logs

• Previous meetings, with their notes and logs, can be found here.
  • networking-2026
  • networking-2025
  • networking-2024
  • networking-2023
  • networking-2022
  • networking-2021
  • networking-2020
  • networking-2019
  • networking-2018
  • networking-2017
  • networking-2016
  • networking-2015
  • networking-2014
  • networking-2013
  • quantum-2013
  • quantum-2012