--- upgrade: - | A bug that prevented Designate from starting up when services are running a mixture of Python 2 and 3 has been fixed, but there is still an issue when running a mixture of a patched and unpatched versions of Designate under Python 3. See `bug 1828534`_ for more information. .. _bug 1828534: https://bugs.launchpad.net/designate/+bug/1828534 fixes: - | Fixed an `issue`_ when upgrading to Python 3 (where bytes and str are different types) and _update_partitions() attempts to sort types of 'str' and 'bytes', causing designate-producer to crash. .. _issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/designate/+bug/1828534