OpenStack Hibiscus adds DNS security features and confidential computing to the open-source cloud platform
AI is having an oversized impact on the open-source OpenStack cloud infrastructure platform.
AI is having an oversized impact on the open-source OpenStack cloud infrastructure platform.
The short version
- AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports.
- Those are two of the prevailing themes in OpenStack 2026.2, code-named Hibiscus , which reaches general availability on Sept.
- According to the OpenInfra Foundation, about 600 contributors delivered 11,500 code changes during the six-month cycle.
What happened
Contributor count rose 21% and code changes rose 28% compared with OpenStack 2026.1 Gazpacho . The changes span the platform with multiple projects providing new security capabilities and fixes as well as scalability improvement to meet the growing demands of AI.
Why it matters
The scale of security vulnerability that the OpenInfra Foundation , which manages the OpenStack project, has had to deal with is unprecedented in the project’s 16 year history.
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