openstack/ironic — Week of 2026-09-19

Feature work. Virtual media handling gained the ability to poll for insert completion, landing ~165 lines to track when a media insertion actually finishes rather than returning immediately. The API notification path also learned to mask secrets in payloads, closing a leak where sensitive fields could surface in emitted events.

Stability. The largest single change plugged a file descriptor leak in neutron client connections (~370 lines touched). Three parallel backports repaired broken project scoping across supported branches, and another three-branch sweep guarded inspection's PCIe device handling against MissingAttributeError when hardware reports incomplete Redfish data. The graphical console subsystem picked up several hardening fixes: failing loudly when the browser process does not start, creating the browser profile in a known directory, exiting non-zero when a certificate override cannot be built, and installing curl in the console container images.

Release plumbing. Release mappings were updated for 38.0 and a new mapping added for 39.0, alongside the 2026.2 release notes prelude.