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    • gduperreyG Offline
      gduperrey Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
      last edited by gduperrey

      New update candidate for you to test!

      A new non-urgent update is ready for user testing before a future collective release. Below are the details.

      A bug was found in the Emergency Network Reset due to desynchronisation between xsconsole and XAPI. This issue prevented the Emergency Network Reset from working at all. This update includes the fixes from the upstream xsconsole project to fix it.


      Maintenance updates

      • xsconsole
        • Backport sync of network reset trigger file path with XAPI to fix emergency network reset
        • Backport fix for pool.conf IPv6 to avoid IPv6 truncation

      Test on XCP-ng 8.3

      yum clean metadata --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
      yum update --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
      reboot
      

      Reboot is not strictly necessary, but the xsconsole instance running on the first virtual terminal of your host won't be restarted otherwise. If you do not reboot, make sure to start xsconsole from another terminal after the update.

      The usual update rules apply: pool coordinator first, etc.

      Versions:

      • xsconsole: 11.0.8-1.2.xcpng8.3

      What to test

      Normal xsconsole usage, is still useful feedback. However, if possible, the most helpful test would be performing an Emergency Network Reset through xsconsole, making actual configuration changes and verifying that they are correctly applied after reboot.

      Test window before official release of the updates

      None defined, but early feedback is always better than late feedback, which is in turn better than no feedback 🙂

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      • gduperreyG Offline
        gduperrey Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
        last edited by

        New update candidate for you to test!

        A new non-urgent update is ready for user testing before a future collective release. Below are the details.


        Maintenance updates

        • broadcom-bnxt-en: Update driver to version 1.10.3_232.0.155.5

        Test on XCP-ng 8.3

        yum clean metadata --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
        yum update --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
        reboot
        

        A reboot is preferable to load the new version of the driver.

        The usual update rules apply: pool coordinator first, etc.

        Versions:

        • broadcom-bnxt-en: 1.10.3_232.0.155.5-1.xcpng8.3

        What to test

        Normal use and anything else you want to test.

        Test window before official release of the updates

        None defined, but early feedback is always better than late feedback, which is in turn better than no feedback 🙂

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        • gduperreyG Offline
          gduperrey Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
          last edited by

          Updates published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/09/01/september-2025-maintenance-update-for-xcp-ng-8-3/

          Thank you for the tests!

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            manilx @gduperrey
            last edited by

            @gduperrey Installed at HomeLab. No issues.
            Running via
            yum clean metadata ; yum update

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              john.c @manilx
              last edited by

              @manilx said in XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing:

              @gduperrey Installed at HomeLab. No issues.
              Running via
              yum clean metadata ; yum update

              You must have been looking forward to this improvement for quite a while. Once it reaches the point where it can be rolled into production, your AMD Epyc servers will get to see a boost, the Linux guests any way.

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                manilx @john.c
                last edited by

                @john.c Will apply to business EPYC servers right away 😊

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                  manilx @john.c
                  last edited by

                  @john.c Updated our 2 production pools, with RPU.

                  RPU emptied the master, rebooted BUT then nothing else.
                  It should have moved all VM's to the other host, patched/rebooted and then migrating the VM's where they were.
                  This did not happen. I had to manually empty the other hosts, patch, reboot and migrate the VM's.

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                    flakpyro @gduperrey
                    last edited by

                    @gduperrey Installed on about 50 servers across various pools and remote sites. No issues. Ran a couple backup jobs as well which completed without issue.

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                      Greg_E @manilx
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                      @manilx

                      Once in a while my rpu will do this, then I handle it manually. Been happening more often since the 8.3 upgrade, but not enough to post about it yet since we are only a couple of updates into the LTS. Still watching though and will probably do this patch on wednesday.

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                        Greg_E @Greg_E
                        last edited by

                        I got my production system updated yesterday, no issues or oddities with the RPU.

                        I'm still surprised by how much faster the VMs migrate host to host than they did with 8.2.x, it's like a 4:1 or 5:1 change on my production system. Haven't had time to fool with my lab and see what's what.

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