--- title: "OpenStack Liberty – now with added Calico" source: "https://www.tigera.io/blog/openstack-liberty-now-with-added-calico/" --- [Technical Blog](https://www.tigera.io/category/technical-blog/) # OpenStack Liberty – now with added Calico By [Ed Harrison](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/ed-harrison/) on Oct 15, 2015 • 2 min read Today sees the release of “Liberty” – the second OpenStack release of 2015 and the 12th major release of the project.  It’s always amazing to see how well the enormous OpenStack community comes together to pull off these major releases every six months. As we [said last month](https://www.tigera.io/blog/calico-now-works-with-vanilla-openstack/), this is a particularly exciting release from a Calico perspective as Liberty is the first OpenStack release that incorporates everything we need for Calico in the main codebase.  This means that, with Liberty, you no longer need any Calico specific patches to Nova or Neutron. Now that Liberty is released, we’ll be working hard to update our packaged install mechanisms for Red Hat and Ubuntu, but in the meantime if you want to try Calico on a Liberty based system, then you can do so using our DevStack Calico plug-in.  See [http://docs.openstack.org/developer/networking-calico/devstack.html](http://docs.openstack.org/developer/networking-calico/devstack.html) for more information on getting this up and running. Looking forward, there’s no time to rest as all eyes turn to discussion of the next OpenStack release, Mitaka.  The traditional kick-off for the next release cycle is the semi-annual OpenStack summit, which is taking place in Tokyo in later this month.  As you’d expect, the Calico team will be out in force at the summit, so please let us know if you’d like to meet up.  Our [contact page](https://www.tigera.io/contact/) gives you lots of options to touch base with us, but we’re finding our “calico-users” slack channel a particularly effective way to engage with the team and the community.  Go to [https://slack.projectcalico.org/](https://slack.projectcalico.org/) to get an invite and then jump into the #openstack channel and let us know if you’ll be in Tokyo and want to chat.   [Open Source](https://www.tigera.io/tags/open-source/)[Partner/Integration](https://www.tigera.io/tags/partner-integration/)[Project Calico](https://www.tigera.io/tags/project-calico/) ## Related posts [![What’s new in Calico: Spring 2026 Release](https://www.tigera.io/app/uploads/2026/06/Whats-New-in-Calico-NEW-TEMPLATE-2026.png)](https://www.tigera.io/blog/whats-new-in-calico-spring-2026-release/) [Company Blog](https://www.tigera.io/category/company-blog/) #### [What’s new in Calico: Spring 2026 Release](https://www.tigera.io/blog/whats-new-in-calico-spring-2026-release/) By [Veronika Smolik](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/veronika-smolik/) on Jun 2, 2026 Kubernetes has come a long way since its debut in 2014. It’s gone from running a couple of containerized microservices to orchestrating fleets of production workloads spanning everything from AI agents to full scale VMs... [Read more](https://www.tigera.io/blog/whats-new-in-calico-spring-2026-release/) [![Kubernetes Operational Maturity: Secure and Resilient Cluster Federation with Cluster Mesh](https://www.tigera.io/app/uploads/2026/05/Kubernetes-Operational-Maturity-Secure-and-Resilient-Cluster-Federation-with-Cluster-Mesh.png)](https://www.tigera.io/blog/kubernetes-operational-maturity-secure-and-resilient-cluster-federation-with-cluster-mesh/) #### [Kubernetes Operational Maturity: Secure and Resilient Cluster Federation with Cluster Mesh](https://www.tigera.io/blog/kubernetes-operational-maturity-secure-and-resilient-cluster-federation-with-cluster-mesh/) By [Veronika Smolik](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/veronika-smolik/) on May 25, 2026 Practically no one runs a single Kubernetes cluster in production these days. Maybe that’s how it started but data sovereignty requirements, acquisitions, AI initiatives and the need for edge servers, among other considerations, have pulled... [Read more](https://www.tigera.io/blog/kubernetes-operational-maturity-secure-and-resilient-cluster-federation-with-cluster-mesh/) [![What’s New in Calico v3.32](https://www.tigera.io/app/uploads/2026/05/Green-Please-use-a-different-background-color-alternately-1.png)](https://www.tigera.io/blog/whats-new-in-calico-v3-32/) #### [What’s New in Calico v3.32](https://www.tigera.io/blog/whats-new-in-calico-v3-32/) By [Reza Ramezanpour](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/rezar/) on May 13, 2026 We’re excited to announce the release of Calico Open Source v3.32! 🎉 This release corresponds with Kubernetes v1.36 (Codename Haru) and it goes beyond just sharing a cat as the mascot of the release, it... [Read more](https://www.tigera.io/blog/whats-new-in-calico-v3-32/)