openstack/kayobe — Week of 2026-11-14

Switch config and validation. The Dell SONiC switch configuration template fix landed on master and was backported across two stable branches, making it this week's most widely propagated change. On the deployment side, Kayobe now validates network interface name length up front rather than letting oversized names fail later in the stack (1010858).

Package cache feature. Support for updating the package cache across all systems landed on master and was carried into two stable branches, giving operators a consistent knob for cache refreshes regardless of the release they're tracking.

CI repairs. Experimental seed image jobs were repaired, and two separate fixes addressed upgrade jobs broken by the 2025.1 branch renaming — one general and one specific to SLURP upgrade paths. Together these restore the branch-crossing upgrade coverage that the renaming had disrupted.