Hello, - first public foundation board meeting recording is available (Neha) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPyu9KLVD64 - CDS is starting this week! (Anthony) - https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2026/ceph-developer-summit-vampire/ - performance session led by Mark Nelson is yet to be scheduled, the post will be updated when that happens - upcoming Ceph Days PSA (Patrick) - Zurich: https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2026/ceph-days-zurich/ - Chicago: https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2026/ceph-days-chicago/ - merge window process (Ilya, Patrick) - the date in the calendar is the "branch closes on" not the "PR must be ready for QA by" date - this is in large part due to the fact that the time that it takes for the PR to be picked up into a QA run and the time that it takes for the test results to be reviewed are currently outside of the release manager's control - Patrick will be introducing a new needs-qa alike automated label for backport PRs to formalize the "PR is ready for QA" requirements and make such PRs more discoverable - component leads are free to do their own QA runs when needed - 21.1.1 status - merge window closes in two days - barring negative user feedback or last minute blockers this would be the last umbrella RC - "happy path" tentative release date remains to be Aug 31 - squid EOL plan - at least one merge window/release after umbrella is out Thanks, Ilya