XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing

[bufanda]

@gleh installed on my lab pool. Haven’t seen any issues so far.

[acebmxer]

@gleh

Installed...

Updated:
  blktap.x86_64 0:3.55.5-9.4.xcpng8.3                forkexecd.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3                
  message-switch.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3       qcow-stream-tool.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3         
  rrdd-plugins.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3         sm.x86_64 0:3.2.12-23.5.xcpng8.3                       
  sm-cli.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3               sm-fairlock.x86_64 0:3.2.12-23.5.xcpng8.3              
  squeezed.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3             varstored-guard.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3          
  vhd-tool.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3             wsproxy.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3                  
  xapi-core.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3            xapi-nbd.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3                 
  xapi-rrd2csv.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3         xapi-storage-script.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3      
  xapi-tests.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3           xapi-xe.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3                  
  xcp-networkd.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3         xcp-rrdd.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3                 
  xenopsd.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3              xenopsd-cli.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3              
  xenopsd-xc.x86_64 0:26.1.16-1.2.xcpng8.3

[MajorP93]

@gleh Installed those RC packages in my test environment.
Tested basic operation. Looks good so far.
(Booted, all 3 SR connected, VMs able to start, both VHD and QCOW2)
Best regards

[flakpyro]

Installed on my usual hosts without issues. I am only making limited use of QCOW2 however.

[gduperrey]

Thank you everyone for your tests and your feedback!

The updates are live now: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2026/08/27/august-2026-updates-2-for-xcp-ng-8-3-lts/

[Andrew]

@gduperrey Installed and running. Rolling pool update worked.

[mthird]

First time rolling update worked for my pool. Woot!

[mthird]

Spoke to soon. While the updates succeeded, one of the nodes is rebooting every few minutes due to an HA self-fence.

[manilx]

This is a new one:

Updated all our 3 pools:

Backup via CLI, runs XOA

Then DR.

Tasks showed RPU on pool PRD instead of DR. RPU finished just fine but task stayed.

Then RPU on PRD. Task did not change. Finished also fine. task stayed.

[gduperrey]

@manilx If the pools are up to date, I would try restarting the XO VM to see if the task persists.

If it does persist, it might be best to open a separate topic for the XO team.

[manilx]

@gduperrey Restarted and the task persisted. Deleted it from the list.