Package maintainers please focus on closing open issues without trying to push for new last minute features: those can wait for 4.5.1. Remind that 4.5.0 GA is planned for 2022-04-12 so there will be space for only one release candidate. Testers: please continue testing the released Alpha and providing feedback https://trello.com/b/3FZ7gdhM/ovirt-450-test-day Professional Services, Integrators and Backup vendors: please run a test session against your additional services, integrated solutions, downstream rebuilds, backup solution on the released alpha release and report issues as soon as possible. If you're not listed here: https://ovirt.org/community/user-stories/users-and-providers.html consider adding your company there. If you're willing to help updating the localization for oVirt 4.5.0 please follow https://ovirt.org/develop/localization.html and submit your translations no later than March 28th. If you're willing to help promoting the oVirt 4.5.0 release you can submit your banner proposals for the oVirt home page and for the social media advertising at https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues no later than March 31st As an alternative please consider submitting a case study as in https://ovirt.org/community/user-stories/user-stories.html Feature owners: please submit a presentation of your feature for oVirt Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ovirtproject no later than March 31st. If you have some new feature requiring community feedback / testing please add your case under the "Test looking for volunteer" section no later than March 29th. Do you want to contribute to getting ready for this release? Read more about oVirt community at https://ovirt.org/community/ and join the oVirt developers https://ovirt.org/develop/ -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/> *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*