XCP-ng 8.3 betas and RCs feedback π
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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-c346b644a0ab
If 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
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not sure is it distro problem, but
mc
is pretty broken on 8.3, same at release version.
Arrows navigation is not working, it typing something instead.That probably happens because of missing ini file. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/26#issuecomment-210004998
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@Tristis-Oris indeed, I can confirm. I'm not sure about the config file because it's the same version of
mc
as we have on 8.2.1, where it's working.Maybe it needs a rebuild.
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I noticed an error message while performing this upgrade... Says we should be using UEFI from this point forward. I didn't see that in the release notes, or didn't really read that part very well. It lets you go forward but mentions that higher revisions will not be able to work in BIOS mode.
Here's a question that probably doesn't need to be worked out yet:
If we have old BIOS boot for 8.2.x, and we go to upgrade to 8.x.x (next LTS), are we going to be able to switch to shutdown, switch to UEFI, boot the installer, and upgrade? Or is this going to need a clean install?
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@Greg_E said in XCP-ng 8.3 betas and RCs feedback :
I noticed an error message while performing this upgrade... Says we should be using UEFI from this point forward. I didn't see that in the release notes, or didn't really read that part very well. It lets you go forward but mentions that higher revisions will not be able to work in BIOS mode.
Here's a question that probably doesn't need to be worked out yet:
If we have old BIOS boot for 8.2.x, and we go to upgrade to 8.x.x (next LTS), are we going to be able to switch to shutdown, switch to UEFI, boot the installer, and upgrade? Or is this going to need a clean install?
The release of 8.3 is the last version in the 8.x version series. Also 8.3 is a special release at the moment its a standard release, then at a later date its going to become the LTS.
The next version number after 8.3 is going to be 9.0 (https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2024/10/07/xcp-ng-8-3/ and https://docs.xcp-ng.org/releases/release-8-3/).