A few days late because internal tests led to a few fixes, here are the pre-release ISO images for a refreshed XCP-ng 8.3 installer:
https://repo.vates.tech/tmp/
$ cat SHA256SUMS
22deae59e7c5cff7d4691c447af9dbf27b29a372748c1844c280bdc212ef2a5f xcp-ng-8.3-20250606-linstor-upgradeonly.pre3.iso
9a5dcc8d98949ee207d28307b8b94320d1ffd24841e34ca74e1c0f0422e5ecab xcp-ng-8.3-20250606-netinstall.pre3.iso
4d6f5a99da0d70920bc313470ad2b14decab66038f0863ca68a2b81126ee2977 xcp-ng-8.3-20250606.pre3.iso
- No need to upgrade XCP-ng 8.3 with these. It is not a new release. It's refreshed installation images, with all updates included.
- When we release them, at the same time, XCP-ng 8.3 will be officially labeled LTS. Again, the existing XCP-ng 8.3 that you already use. Not a new XCP-ng release.
- This is also when XOSTOR becomes officially supported in XCP-ng 8.3
.
- 8.2 to 8.3 upgrade with XOSTOR required a specific treatment, to get a compatible LINSTOR version installed on upgrade. This constraint we had to handle was caused by Linstor not supporting rolling upgrade. For this, we provide a dedicated upgrade ISO (
-linstor-upgradeonly
). After the upgrade, if there are available updates in 8.3 for linstor, then you can follow the usual update process (which also contains specific steps for XOSTOR such as updating linstor-satellite first on all hosts and restarting the services on all of them, still due to linstor not supporting rolling update. That's something that XOA's RPU handles automatically since a few releases, by the way).
- Some packages are slightly newer in the ISOs than in 8.3's update repositories. The only reason is because I didn't want to push updates so soon right after the previous batch, so that XOA doesn't tell you that you are outdated and need to update. But of course these updates will also come to existing XCP-ng 8.3 hosts soon. They're not just for the ISOs.
- The netinstall ISO image will pull the original 8.3.0 packages at the moment, so if you want to use it you first need to create a netinstall reposistory somewhere by extracting the full installation ISO, and point at it.
Regarding testing we are interested on all kind of feedback. Installations, upgrades with and without XOSTOR, and everything you want to test that seems pertinent to ensure there are no regressions when compared to the original 8.3.0 installation ISOs.