Release updates:

18.2.1 - QE validation done, gibba lab upgrade complete without issue, LRC ran into issues with unexpected cephadm exception and one monitor down - being investigated with no known impact on services yet

16.2.15 - https://github.com/ceph/ceph/milestone/17 in progress

General updates:

- Squid kickoff PR(https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/53191) going through QE validation across suites, will be merged before the holidays

- MDSMap decode issue (18.2.0/1 user-space cephfs clients broken with squid+) has been discovered, CephFS team will work on a plan of action to address it (Venky to send a detailed email to the dev list about the issue)

- FYI, a minor change to vstart is being merged https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/53393 

- Ceph Days NYC being planned by Bloomberg - it will be nice to announce the Squid release at the event (current ETA April 2024)

Thanks,

Neha