The OpenStack community has announced the release of Yoga, the 25th version of the open-source, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud OpenStack. Yoga highlights include support for advanced hardware features such as SmartNIC DPUs, improved integration with cloud-native software such as Kubernetes and Prometheus and reduction of technical debt to maintain a stable and reliable OpenStack core.

OpenStack, the open infrastructure-as-a-service standard, is the infrastructure platform for deployments of diverse architectures—bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and containers. With more than 25 million cores in production and over 180 public cloud data centers worldwide running OpenStack, the community has steadily integrated new technologies like Kubernetes over the project’s history, with more than 560,000 changes from over 8,700 contributors merged since 2012.

Over the span of just 25 weeks, almost 13,500 changes authored by over 680 contributors from more than 125 organizations and 44 countries were merged into the Yoga release.

“After 25 releases, the global OpenStack community continues to adapt and grow, building software that now runs on more than 25 million compute cores,” said Kendall Nelson, senior upstream developer advocate at the OpenInfra Foundation. “It’s amazing when you consider the scale of OpenStack: since 2012, our community has merged over 560,000 changes from over 8,700 contributors. Today, the Yoga release continues that momentum, evolving as OpenStack advances emerging use cases and new hardware architectures.”