XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing

Mitchel-APD

We are using SNMPv3 with SHA AES

semarie

@Mitchel-APD SHA1 ? I am looking if it is still supported/activated-by-default. I saw that 5.8 added SHA-2 family for RFC-7860 compliance

semarie

SHA`is SHA1. so I assume it is that.
And it seems to be still accepted in authProtocol parameter.

semarie

after testing (with net-snmp-utils 5.9.3), I have no problem with snmpv3 and SHA/AES.

On my testing host, snmpd server (OpenBSD):

User: user1
auth: AES with password123
priv: AES with 321drowssap

From XCP-ng 8.3, with net-snmp-utils 5.9.3:
$ snmpbulkwalk -v3 -a SHA -A password123 -l authPriv -x AES -X 321drowssap -u user1 192.168.1.80

so the net-snmp client itself seems fine with SHA/AES.

could you share more elements ?

Mitchel-APD

@semarie Hi,

Thanks for your help, I just created the user with the net-snmp-create-v3-user command, and definded SHA-256.

SNMP now works like before.

net-snmp-create-v3-user -ro -A verrysecureauthenticationpassword-a SHA-256 -X verrysecureprivacypassword--x AES snmpusername

abudef

Hi, it seems that shutting down the host is taking an extremely long time now. I tried it in two different environments; the shutdown process starts but gets stuck on the splash screen for several minutes before finally completing. There were no active virtual machines on the hosts being shut down.

Does anyone have the possibility to test this in a lab? Thanks!

gduperrey

@abudef I've updated and rebooted numerous hosts with these updates and haven't noticed any significant slowdowns.

Do you have any additional information in the logs?

MajorP93

Can also confirm that I was able to apply this round of patches using rolling update method without any issues or slowdowns on a pool of 5 hosts.

abudef

@gduperrey Restart happens normally, without any noticeable delay, but shutdown takes a long time. Which logs should I specifically check?

(It's not a real issue, but I just needed to move servers in the lab and had to shut them down, so I noticed it.)

robertblissitt

@abudef After the excitement from the last update cycle (see my post above from ~January 29), I kicked off a Rolling Pool Reboot this time before considering a Rolling Pool Update. During this RPR, the first host is currently hanging on its shut down right now after about 10 - 15 minutes as shown in the screenshot. I am running the previous most recent version of XCP-ng, again from January 29, 2026. I'll revisit installing these most recent updates once I get clean reboots.

manilx

@robertblissitt Press ECS and you'll see what's happening