The orch team is still investigating the issue that was found in the upgrade suite (https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/75570). We are leaning toward it being a testing/environmental failure, but we would like a bit more time to make a concrete consensus. Someone will try to update for sure by the end of today.

From: Yuri Weinstein via dev <dev@ceph.io>
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2026 10:12 AM
To: Yuri Weinstein <yweinste@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@ceph.io>; ceph-users <ceph-users@ceph.io>; Adam King <adking@redhat.com>; Sridhar Seshasayee <Sridhar.Seshasayee@ibm.com>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: tentacle 20.2.1 QE validation status

We got all approvals and are ready to start building.

Please speak up now if anything else is needed.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM Yuri Weinstein via dev <dev@ceph.io> wrote:

In a separate email Venky replied that failures in orch is a known issue

"This is a known issue and is tracked here

https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/64502

Redo ^^"

Adam King, I'd like to assume orch is good to go.

Please confirm.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 4:43 PM Yuri Weinstein via dev <dev@ceph.io> wrote:

We are still waiting for orch approval.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 12:26 PM Adam Emerson <aemerson@redhat.com> wrote:

On 22/03/2026, Yuri Weinstein via dev wrote:
> We have merged several important PRs and reran all suites.
>
> Details of this release are summarized here:
> https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/74838#note-4
>
> Seeking reviews and approval for all suites, please see runs on build 2

RGW Approved.