Hello community members, The stx release team has recently compiled an updated list of features that are on track for inclusion in the stx.9.0 release. Based on feedback from various feature primes, a number of features which were initially targeted for stx.9.0 will not be ready in time. Please review the list below and respond if you have any concerns about the current content. Thanks, Ghada == - Features that are IN stx.9.0: 24 - Armada Deprecation / Replacement - FluxCD (cont'd) - K8S Upversion Duration Reduction for AIO-SX - Upversion Helm (v3.9.4) - Upversion FluxCD - Containerization Component Refresh - k8s 1.25 / 1.26 - Support for Silicom TimeSync Server Adaptor - Platform Admin Network Introduction - L3 Firewalls for all Platform Interfaces - Platform Application Upversion - FEC Operator 2.6.1 - Platform Application Upversion - FEC Operator 2.7.1 & pf-bb-config - Platform Application Upversion - Istio - Redundant / HA PTP timing clock sources - Intel Ethernet Operator StarlingX Integration - AppArmor Support - Platform Application Upversion - Vault - Platform Application Upversion - Portieris - Platform Application Upversion - oidc - Platform Application Upversion - ingress-nginx - Platform Application Upversion - cert-manager - PSP Removal in support of transition to k8s 1.25/1.26 - WAD Users sudo and local linux group assignment - Subcloud Error Root Cause Correction Action - Containerize OpenStack application clients - Configurable Power Manager - Features that are OUT of stx.9.0: 16 - K8S Control Plane Scalability - Kata Container Runtime support (fix) in Debian - remove Armada - Securing/Encrypting local traffic on Platform L2 Networks - QAT/GPU Device Plugin Refresh - Link Bonding for SR-IOV PF interfaces - Platform Management Network Reconfiguration for AIO-SX - K8s API CLI oidc auth with local LDAP backend - Internal Management of ETCD Certificates - Full Disk Encryption Support via SDEs - Support for long latency between SystemController and Subclouds - Subcloud Install or Restore of Previous Release - Harbor Registry Integration in StarlingX - code merged, but no resources to test - Marvell Octeon NIC Accelerator Integration - StarlingX Container Image Updates for CVE fixes - Features that are TBD: 1 - Openstack services upversion: Ussuri -> Antelope << handled as a separate item due to visibility