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Comment: Update timeline

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Design document: 4.23 Design Documents

Timeline:

  • Until June 1stJuly 3rd, 2026: accept new features, bug fixes and improvements.
  • June 2ndJuly 4th, 2026: freeze the main branch. From this point, we only accept critical/blocker fixes will be accepted.
  • June 3rdJuly 6th, 2026, or once all blocker/critical/security issues are resolved (whichever is later): cut RC1 and start the voting process (1-3 weeks to work on the next RCs if necessary).

1. New Features


No.SummaryDescription (PR link, cwiki page, etc)Current status (stage, assignee, date)Note
1API key pair restructure

Allows users to have multiple key pairs with different permissions, and define valid intervals for key pairs.

PR: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/9504

Merged on 2026-03-09


2

Add support to clone existing offerings and update them

https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12357

https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/630

Merged on 2026-03-17
3

Support Firewall for public IPs in VPC

https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12706Dev in progressBased on "Add conserve mode for VPC offerings"
4Add conserve mode for VPC offeringshttps://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12487Merged on 2026-03-16
5

Key Management Service (KMS) with HSM Integration

https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12711

Key Management Service (KMS) with HSM Integration

In Testing
6

DNS Framework and Plugins 

cwiki: DNS Framework and Plugins

https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12737

In Testing
7Guest OS ruleshttps://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/10098Needs review
8KVM Backup on Secondary Storage

https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/12758

cwiki: KVM Backup on Secondary Storage (KBOSS)

Needs review and testing
9

Live scaling for VMs with fixed service offerings on KVM

Needs review and testing
10

NetApp storage plugin

Needs review
11

Network Extension: Orchestrate external Network devices

Needs review and testing

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