January 2025 Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.2 LTS

Update Jan 23, 2025

New bugfix, enhancement and security updates are available for XCP-ng 8.2 LTS.

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To update, follow this guide. You can also join the discussion on our community forum. Host reboots are necessary after this update.

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✨ What changed

This update brings non-urgent bugfixes, compatibility improvements, as well as some small enhancements, to a variety of components.

kernel:
- Synchronized with hotfix XS82ECU1079
  - Occasionally, a host that crashes is unable to produce a crash dump and becomes inoperable until it is restarted.
  - Include a fix to correct cooling fan rotation speed on some Lenovo servers. For more information, you can read this thread on the forum.
linux-firmware: Update AMD microcode to the 2024-11-21 drop
- Updates firmware for families 17h and 19h CPUs
openssh:
- Synchronized with hotfix XS82ECU1072 from Citrix.
- Security fix for CVE-2024-6387
sm:
- Fix VG activation in LargeBlockSR for non-NVMe devices meaning than 4KiB devices other than NVMe didn't work with the driver.
sudo: Synchronized with hotfix XS82ECU1072 from Citrix.
intel-igc: This driver replaces igc-module to maintain consistency with the change made in this direction in 8.3.
vendor-drivers: Updated to pull intel-igc instead of igc-module, following the package renaming.
XAPI + xha:
- Synchronized with hotfix XS82ECU1080 that fixes these issues:
  - High availability occasionally fails to process heartbeats in time when there are a lot of hosts in a pool. Consequently, the host that is unable to process heartbeats is flagged as offline and self-fences.
  - A virtual machine (VM) on the host that is restarted during or after a connectivity issue may become unresponsive or fail to start with the error message "an emulator required to run this VM failed to start" if there are problems connecting the pool coordinator to a host in the pool.
  - Resetting the connection can cause long-running VDI migrations to fail.
  - Current up-to-date RRD data is not included in the server status report.
xcp-ng-deps: Added vim-minimal as a dependency, so it is always present on XCP-ng systems.
xcp-ng-release:
- Synchronized with hotfix XS82ECU1072 from Citrix.
- Upstream changelog: "Start dhclient on iSCSI BFS interfaces".
xenserver-status-report:
- Synchronized with hotfix XS82ECU1072 from Citrix.
- Update from version 1.3.16-3 to 1.3.17

⛃ XOSTOR

If you are using XOSTOR, be sure to read our documentation on updating it.

DRBD: Add many improvements and a fix to prevent a dead-lock
linstor: Updated from version 1.21.1 to 1.29.0.
http-nbd-transfer: improved for faster and more reliable HA.
sm (specific release for XOSTOR):Add the same fixe as in the common sm.Update for latest linstor, drbd and http-nbd-transfer.XOSTOR Fixes.

🔧 Optional packages

iperf3: Upgrade to version 3.9-13 from CentOS 7
- Includes a security fix for CVE-2023-38403
netdata: Fixed an issue that could occur when quickly uninstalling the package, right after an unfinished installation, and leave a service in an undetermined status.
socat: Update the package to version 1.7.4.1 which includes a fix for a buffer overflow and security fixes.

🔗 Update for an alternate driver

As explained in our documentation, XCP-ng occasionally provides alternate drivers for users who have issues with the main drivers installed with XCP-ng. We just released an update: