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prelude: |
    The OpenStack Bare Metal as a Service team announces the release of ironic
    version 12.0 which introduces a number of new features as part of the
    Stein development cycle.

    * Per-node automated cleaning control
    * Redfish out-of-band introspection
    * Redfish BIOS configuration management
    * Support for direct image downloads from the conductor host.
    * Support for validating the enhanced image checksums introduced in the
      Image service in Rocky.
    * Dedicated ``ipxe`` boot interface enabling better co-existence of
      different hardware types.
    * Configurable ``disk_erasure_concurrency`` to speed disk cleaning.
    * Configurable "protected" nodes to help prevent accidential actions
      upon critical nodes.

    And many many bug fixes, Enjoy!
