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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!