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Yahooo!!! We just released Searchlight Stein RC1 last week [1][2]. The stable/stein branch has been created for all of the projects. Here are the versions: - searchlight: 6.0.0.0rc1 - searchlight-ui: 6.0.0.0rc1 - python-searchlightclient: 1.5.0 Moreover, we also added some highlights for Searchlight in this Stein cycle  [3]. There will be not much going on for the rest of the cycle, only minor changes. And, since we're busy preparing for the next term with more features to fulfill the Searchlight's vision [4], we will focus on designing the architecture and make Searchlight more stable. BTW, I will continue serving as Searchlight's PTL for Train :) So, let's rock it!!! References: [1]  https://review.openstack.org/#/c/644359/ [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/644358/ [3] https://releases.openstack.org/stein/highlights.html#searchlight-search-service [4]  https://docs.openstack.org/searchlight/latest/contributor/searchlight-vision.html

Finally, we have reached the Stein-2 milestone. Over the past three months, we have been working on clarifying the use cases of Searchlight as well as envisioning a sustainable future for Searchlight. We decided to make the project a multi-cloud application that can provide search capacity across multiple cloud orchestration platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, K8S, etc.). The effort was made possible by the contribution of Thuy Dang (our newest core member) and Sa Pham [3]. You can check out the documents at [4]. The projects are versioned as following: searchlight: 6.0.0.0b2 searchlight-ui: 6.0.0.0b2 python-searchlightclient wasn't released in this milestone because there were no big changes. Here are the major changes included in this release: Searchlight use cases and vision [1] Fix bug [2] Let's searching!!! References: [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/629104/ [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/621996/ [3]  https://review.openstack.org/#/c/629471/ [4]...

At the last vPTG [1], the Searchlight team decided to do a release for Searchlight projects at the Stein-1 milestone. Even though a discussion of the release management team has agreed to move the 'cycle-with-milestones' to 'cycle-with-rc' model [5], we still need to release this time to evaluate our effort of reviving Searchlight. And finally, we reached the milestone, and today I was doing a release. The patch is being reviewed on gerrit [2]. The projects are versioned as following: searchlight: 6.0.0.0b1 searchlight-ui: 6.0.0.0b1 python-searchlightclient: 1.4.0 Here are the features and fixes included in this release: ES 5.x support [3] Fix bugs Versioned Nova notifications [4] tox use py3 by default Docs clean up Awesome!!!! References: [1]  https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/searchlight-stein-ptg [2]  https://review.openstack.org/#/c/614066/ [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/600287/ [4]  https://review.openstack.org/#/c/453352/ [...

It's been a busy week so there's not much work has been done this week (Stein R26, Oct 08-12). Here is some news from the community this week that somewhat affects the Searchlight project: Assigning new liaisons to projects : basically, the TC will assign who takes care of which project. That person will update on this  page the project's statuses, important activities etc. Proposed changes for library releases : in short, for each cycle-with-intermediary library deliverable, if it was not released during that milestone timeframe, the release team would automatically generate a release request early in the week of the milestone deadline. Proposed changes for cycle-with-milestones deliverables : to summarize the discussion: No longer be required to request a release for each milestone Beta releases would be optional Release candidates would still require a tag. Need PTL or release liaison's "+1" Requiring a person for each team to add their name t...