openstack/ironic — 2026-09-26

Deployment fix. The week's substantive code change repairs fast-track deployment failures when the deploy interface is autodetected, landing ~170 lines that account for the bulk of the churn. A smaller fix casts cpu.frequency to a string to avoid type mismatches in inventory handling.

Release notes and branch cutover. The bulk of merges are release-note cleanup polishing the freshly cut stable/2026.2 material: correcting code-quote markup on the sanitize-kernel-params note, fixing typos in the kernel-parameter config-type note (including depreciate → deprecate), tidying the Firmware Identity Fields and empty-PCIe notes, and repairing bug links. Each fix landed twice — once on master and once on the backport — reflecting the branch split. Alongside these, three release-management patches updated .gitreview, TOX_CONSTRAINTS_FILE, and the master version for stable/2026.2.

Docs and tooling. VXLAN networking documentation received a clarification pass, and the pep8 tox environment now skips package install to speed linting.