EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end (New Maintainer!)

manilx

@olivierlambert Because we (unfortunately) have google burnt in our minds

Virtual

@borzel said in EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end:

Hello XCP-ng Center users,

Citrix (or Cloud Software Group, Inc.) has ended the open source development of their XenCenter as noted here:

With that, for me its basically over, because the XenCenter codebase is the foundation of XCP-ng Center and I can not maintain this huge C# software with my limited time without this code base.

Today I released a nightly build for you all to test with XCP-ng 8.3 (beta): https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v.99.99.99.30
If all goes well and nothing pops up, this will be the base for the last XCP-ng Center Release 2023.12.

In the future I want to contribute to the web gui XO Lite, to get as much XCP-ng Center vibes into it, so we have a good alternative to XCP-ng Center soon.

Here you can follow the XO Lite progress: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/category/24/xo-lite

Thanks for all the help and feedback!

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michael.manley

Hello Everyone!

So I wanted to come out and mention that I would like to take over maintainership of XCP-ng Center. I personally use both XO and XCP-ng Center depending on use-case and have an environment with both.

I am pretty well versed in C# and have the knowledge of both XAPI and C# to continue its development.

I am in the process of taking the current codebase and modernizing it to work with VS 2022, and adding new features (ex. able to create a local ext store)

I am willing to talk to the current project maintainers and figure out a switchover plan. I would like not to see XCP-ng Center die, as I am one of the few "Not a webapp fan", I prefer desktop apps when available.

Also, let me know what y'all like to see added as well.

manilx

@michael-manley Awesome!

Anonabhar

@michael-manley Lovely! If you need beta testers, let me know... I use XCP-ng Center quite a bit and would not like to see it die either.

borzel

@michael-manley shure, go for it maybe let us talk via private message

michael.manley

Ok, so it's official! I will be taking over the maintainment of XCP-ng Center. I will have another test build soon with a few added features, and I am looking for a Q2 2024 release.

I will add GitHub Actions to automate test builds, so look out for those for future test builds.

Glad to continue the legacy of XCP-ng Center, and looking forward to adding useful features to people who prefer it!

Virtual

splastunov

great news! Thank you @michael-manley

rizaemet 0

Thank you @michael-manley. This is great news

john.c

@michael-manley Left a response to a request from @gb-123 about relocating user.config from C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming directory. They're interested in enabling xenadmin becoming capable of being placed on a USB flash drive. See the link below for more details.

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/issues/221