commit ee2c56d7dce1e1f07e72a6ebed3c6835356bda0c Author: Brian Rosmaita Date: Fri Oct 2 17:51:18 2020 -0400 Add release note about Brocade FCZM driver status This is going directly to stable/victoria (not a backport). Change-Id: Ib0dadd9e0c34af167becc4ac5cc2b4dbf18639ff diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/brocade-fczm-driver-victoria-2b80055ca328f31c.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/brocade-fczm-driver-victoria-2b80055ca328f31c.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed2931e --- /dev/null +++ b/releasenotes/notes/brocade-fczm-driver-victoria-2b80055ca328f31c.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +issues: + - | + The Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Manager driver was marked 'unsupported' in + the Ussuri release because the vendor declined to support Python 3, + whereas all OpenStack releases beginning with Ussuri support Python 3 only. + + In order to provide operators with a choice of FCZM drivers, the Cinder + community decided to continue supporting the Brocade FCZM driver on a + best-effort basis. See the "Bug Fixes" section of these notes for + changes made to allow the driver to run in a Python 3 environment. + + While the driver has been tested against the first Release Candidate for + the cinder Victoria release, be aware that it does not have ongoing + third-party CI. If you choose to use the driver, the configuration + option ``enable_unsupported_driver`` must be set to ``True`` in the + ``fc-zone-manager`` section in cinder.conf to allow its use in this + release. +upgrade: + - | + The Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Manager driver was marked 'unsupported' in + the Ussuri release, and it continues as 'unsupported' in this release. + If you choose to use the driver, the configuration option + ``enable_unsupported_driver`` must be set to ``True`` in the + ``fc-zone-manager`` section in cinder.conf to allow its use. +other: + - | + In order to provide operators with a choice of Fibre Channel Zone Manager + drivers, the Cinder community has decided to continue supporting the + Brocade FCZM driver, which was marked 'unsupported' in the Ussuri release, + on a best-effort basis. + + The driver has been tested against the first Release Candidate for + the cinder Victoria release, but it does not have ongoing third-party CI. + If you use this driver, and would be interested in running third-party + CI for it, please contact the Cinder project team.