XCP-ng 8.3 betas and RCs feedback 🚀
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@gskger Yes, but the official announcement is for tomorrow. Be careful because the release notes are crucial for this release, so wait for them before doing anything production related
(and yes we've already seen PAID users with XCP-ng 8.3 in PRODUCTION environment, people are crazy
Even if it's really stable, I wouldn't have bet my entire production on it) -
@olivierlambert I am one of those crazy people as you well know! But we needed the better hardware and driver support with our new servers.
That said if we already did the ISO upgrade to RC2 + latest updates are we essentially on the final version already or will there be additional new packages?
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Yes
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@olivierlambert Thats great news and makes for an easy Monday then tomorrow! Happy to actually be on a stable release now!
Also congrats on the release! We have been running 8.3 on remote single host sites since March of this year and in our core production environment since August, other than a few NFS4 related woes (Solved by using NFS3 instead) its been a very solid experience even for something considered "pre-release".
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@olivierlambert People might be a little crazy, but they also have trust in the test and RC lifecycle of XCP-ng, which has proven to be very reliable thanks to the dedication of the Vates team and also the community. But I agree, for production use it's better to wait for a GA announcement. Anyway, congratulation to this important milestone in the development of XCP-ng
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Let's celebrate tomorrow with the official announcement
We might do a live on Youtube with a part of the team, stay tuned -
@flakpyro said in XCP-ng 8.3 betas and RCs feedback
:That said if we already did the ISO upgrade to RC2 + latest updates are we essentially on the final version already or will there be additional new packages?
You even are one update ahead from the final version if you installed the the last security fix which isn't on the ISOs. But that's only because you already did the ISO upgrade to RC2. Users of earlier prereleases of XCP-ng 8.3 need to upgrade using the final installation ISO.
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@steff22 I have no idea. Maybe try to open a dedicated thread. Also search for older threads about the subject.
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@steff22 I have the exact same problem with a Asrock rack B650D4U i tried everything to make it but work but have the exact same problem as you.
Even new fresh installation of windows machine didnt work.If you have solution please let me know thanks in advance!
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@stormi the LINUX OS under XCP-NG detects the cards but xcp-ng says that no ethernet was detected. Even after some emergency network resets.
Hardware is fine. As said, solved reinstalling, but this is not the first time, after upgrading it happened some times but solved with emergency network reset -
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When upgrading an 8.2.1 pool is it safe to issue the commands
secureboot-certs install
xe pool-enable-tls-verificationas soon as the master is upgrade (all other hosts hosts still running 8.2.1) or does that need to wait until all hosts are updated?
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OK, I'm a little behind in my reading right now... If I was running the 8.3 beta and letting it do all the upgrades, am I now on the release version of 8.3? I just had an update this morning and my servers are telling me that I'm on version 8.3.0 ( ) which I think is different from a few days ago.
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@nomad Good question. Better once the complete upgrade process of the pool is finished.
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@Greg_E answer here, in the release notes: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/releases/release-8-3/#upgrade-from-previous-releases
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I upgraded to the RC today from 8.2.1 in prod, and everything went smoothly!
Even though it's just a homelab, I'm glad to move away from VMWare and not jump ship to the stereotypical Proxmox setup that many seem to be going for.
Question: should my uuid have changed, and if not, should I change it? Under XO Advanced settings, the 8.3 version is correct, but in the terminal, states,
xe host-list params=uuid,name,label,version uuid ( RO) : 8212db90-3c82-4e72-829a-c346b644a0abIf not, I'll leave it be. Thanks!
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No UUID change if you made an upgrade, that's the beauty of it, it should be painless/transparent without modifying the database for most parts
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@GravityMan You upgraded to the release candidate rather than the final release?
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Just in case not everyone is aware: we published XCP-ng 8.3 officially on Monday.
Announcement: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2024/10/07/xcp-ng-8-3/
Release notes: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/releases/release-8-3/
As you can read in the announcement, we really want to thank everyone who helped us with their feedback and other forms of contribution!
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We also had a live yesterday, whose replay is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfyCxP0I6y8
