Trying to deploy a release build from the current cf-release repo

[Troy Astle]

Hi All,

I'm very new here so apologies if this question covers old ground for the group.

Context

I am trying to deploy a cf release built from the current release-candidate branch of the cf-release repo using the following steps:

$ git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release.git

$ cd cf-release

$ git fetch 

$ git checkout -b release-candidate origin/release-candidate

$ git submodule update --init --recursive

$ bosh create release

The release builds OK and I have then deployed it to my bosh instance to attempt to deploy Cloud Foundry.

The issue I am then seeing is that my VMs start up (on VSphere) but then the pings to those VMs time out.

The manifest I am using is based of the example here:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-docs/blob/master/source/docs/running/deploying-cf/vsphere/cloud-foundry-example-manifest.md

Reading the logs on the VM I see this errror:
... `merge!': can't convert nil into Hash (TypeError)

We had a similar error yesterday trying to deploy BOSH using MicroBOSH which was resolved by updating to the latest VSphere Stemcell from here:

http://bosh-jenkins-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/micro-bosh-stemcell/vsphere/latest-micro-bosh-stemcell-vsphere.tgz

Question
1) Is there a record anywhere of which CF releases I can deploy onto which Stemcells?

2) Can someone point me to a more up-to-date cloud foundry manifest to work with to deploy from the current release.

Thanks all.

Again apologies if this is going over old ground.

Troy.