I deferred applying the preview patches this time in order to try my luck again with RPU. Unfortunately, it did not work for me again as it has not in the past. My results are similar to others here: primary host patch application went fine including the reboot. However, once it began doing a secondary host, it started throwing errors e.g. CANNOT_EVACUATE_HOST and VM_REQUIRES_SR etc. However, manually putting the host in maintenance mode from the GUI evacuated each host just fine and I was able to apply the patches and reboot each subsequent host from the XO GUI. Also, as with others here, the RPU task hung in the task list and even a reboot of the XO VM would not clear it forcing me to delete the task using xo-cli e.g. xo-cli rest del tasks. ENVIRONMENT: Home lab consisting of 4 x Dell OptiPlex 7040 i7-6700 SFF hosts, 48GB RAM each, 10 Gbps storage connections to a TrueNAS home-built NAS via NFS and XO from source (XOS) using @ronivay build script on AlmaLinux 10.2 minimal install VM with XO commit 6a441 compiled on 2026-08-28 from master branch. FWIW, RPU functionality remains unavailable to me, though obviously, this is not a showstopper for a 4 x host home lab pool. If there is anything I can do to help resolve this, please let me know as I remain an enthusiastic proponent of the Vates virtualization stack.