XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing

gduperrey

What you're describing sounds more like an RPU issue with Xen-Orchestra than a problem related to XCP-ng updates. But I could be wrong

However, since these updates affect Xen, a reboot was clearly indicated in our procedure. So a simple restart of the toolstack isn't enough. You did the right thing by rebooting afterward.

Are you using XO Appliance or from source?

If it's XO Appliance, you can open a ticket to ask for help analyzing the situation and see if anything in the logs or configuration explains this behavior.

If it's from source, for the same issue, I would suggest you start a separate thread on the forum so other users can help you with the analysis

In any case, it's great if your pool is working in the end

acebmxer

@gduperrey

Thank you for the reply. Work uses XOA.

Edit - Support ticket created - Ticket#7755004

gduperrey

@acebmxer I invite you to open a ticket through the support ticketing system.

I do not connect remotely myself and I am also unable to provide support for Xen-Orchestra.

gduperrey

New security update candidate for you to test!

A new security vulnerability has been detected and fixed for xen.

This was introduced by an upstream commit, and detected before the Xen Project did any new release. Therefore this does not impact any upstream release, and there is no Xen Security Advisory this time. But that change was backported into XCP-ng xen package, therefore XCP-ng is impacted.

Security updates

xen: Fix a security issue where insufficient memory sanitization during guest creation can lead to information leakage from previous guests and potential privilege escalation

Test on XCP-ng 8.3

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

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

Versions:

xen: 4.17.6-5.2.xcpng8.3

What to test

Normal use and anything else you want to test.

Test window before official release of the updates

~2 days

flakpyro

@gduperrey Installed on my usual round test hosts. No issues to report so far! With such a small change i wasn't expecting anything to go wrong!

ph7

@gduperrey
All good so far

Andrew

@gduperrey Up and working on several Intel pools.

JeffBerntsen

@gduperrey Seems to be working well on my test systems.

Greg_E

How many of these are critical? I haven't even had time to apply the last round of patches to either lab or production.

gduperrey

Thank you everyone for your tests and your feedback!

The updates are live now: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2026/03/26/march-2026-security-updates-2-for-xcp-ng-8-3-lts/