The kernel RPM integrating the patch is now available on the xcp-ng-testing repo. So you can already upgrade and use it. To do this, here are the commands:

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

It will be released to all our users in an upcoming security update or update train. We don't have a date yet.

Updates published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/07/03/july-2025-security-and-maintenance-update-for-xcp-ng-8-3-lts/

Thank you for the tests!

New update candidates for you to test!

As you may know, we group non-urgent updates together for a collective release, in order not to cause unnecessary maintenance for our users.

The moment to release such a batch has come, so here they are, ready for user tests before the final release.

• XAPI:
  • Synced with XS82ECU1074
    • Enhancement: robustification of the command xe host-emergency-ha-disable
    • Correction of different issues:
      • Performing a hard shutdown of a VM may hang due to unnecessary RBCA permission checks. An icon (yellow triangle) may then be displayed on some management applications, indicating that the shutdown process did not complete successfully.
      • Canceling a hard shutdown of a hung VM fails because the cancel function only checks for proper shutdowns.
      • Migrating VMs from 8.2.1 to 8.3 with the xe vm-migrate command may fail with the error 'Failure: Unknown tag/contents'.
      • You may encounter a 500 error (internal server error) when trying to retrieve RRD measurements from a powered off virtual machine.
• xsconsole:
  • Synced with XS82ECU1074: Fix for a time-out when creating an iSCSI SR.
• guest-templates-json:
  • Add generic templates for Linux BIOS and UEFI
  • Synced with XS82ECU1085:
    • Oracle 8 requires minimum 2 vCPUS.
    • Added template for Ubuntu 24.04
• sm:
  • Synced with XS82ECU1075
    • Updated multipath.conf for several SANs
    • Fix for CA-393194: Find the real PV in a VG before removing the VG.
• blktap: Synced with XS82ECU1075: Improvements on coalesce performance.
• curl: Backport fixes for several CVE: CVE-2024-2004, CVE-2024-2379, CVE-2024-2398, CVE-2024-2466, CVE-2024-6197, CVE-2024-7264
• openssl: Update to version 1.0.2k-26 from CentOS 7 updates and backports of available CVE fixes from openssl upstream. Update from CentOS 7 Includes fixes for CVE-2021-3712, CVE-2022-2078 and CVE-2023-0286. Backport are fixing CVE-2019-1547, CVE-2019-1551 and CVE-2019-1563.
• xs-openssl: Rebased on version 1.1.1k-12 from CentOS 8 Stream. Include fixes for CVE-2023-5678, CVE-2023-3446, CVE-2023-3817 and a proper fix for CVE-2020-25659.
• zstd: Update to version 1.5.5 to avoid an extremely rare cases of corruption
• xcp-ng-xapi-plugins: Enhance error reporting when a command run on a host fails.
• xenserver-status-report: Update to latest version, synced with XS82ECU1058
• python-defusedxml: Added as a new dependency of xenserver-status-report.
• Alternate Drivers: Updated to newer versions.
  • intel-i40e-alt: From version 2.22.20-3.1 to 2.22.20-5.1
  • mellanox-mlnxen-alt: From version 5.9.0.5.5.0-1.1 to 5.9.0.5.5.0-1.2
  • More information about drivers and current versions is on the drivers page: (https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Drivers).
• New alternate driver mlx4-modules-alt: To resolve some issues with CX3 cards and SR-IOV, we added an updated version 4.9-7.1.0.0-LTS of this driver.
• kernel-alt: Backport of a fix to correct cooling fan rotation speed on some Lenovo servers. For more information, you can read this thread on the forum.

As a dependency of XOSTOR:

• http-nbd-transfer:
  • Try to open device and start HTTP server before notifying the user
  • Install pyc and pyo files

Test on XCP-ng 8.2

From an up to date host:

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

• blktap: 3.37.4-4.1.xcpng8.2
• curl: 8.6.0-2.2.xcpng8.2
• forkexecd: 1.18.3-12.1.xcpng8.2
• gpumon: 0.18.0-20.1.xcpng8.2
• guest-templates-json: 1.10.7-1.2.xcpng8.2
• http-nbd-transfer: 1.4.0-1.xcpng8.2
• message-switch: 1.23.2-19.1.xcpng8.2
• ocaml-rrd-transport: 1.16.1-17.1.xcpng8.2
• ocaml-rrdd-plugin: 1.9.1-17.1.xcpng8.2
• ocaml-tapctl: 1.5.1-17.1.xcpng8.2
• ocaml-xcp-idl: 1.96.7-6.1.xcpng8.2
• ocaml-xen-api-client: 1.9.0-20.1.xcpng8.2
• ocaml-xen-api-libs-transitional: 2.25.7-1.1.xcpng8.2
• openssl: 1.0.2k-26.2.xcpng8.2
• python-defusedxml: 0.7.1-1.xcpng8.2
• rrd2csv: 1.2.6-17.1.xcpng8.2
• rrdd-plugins: 1.10.9-14.1.xcpng8.2
• sm: 2.30.8-13.1.xcpng8.2
• sm-cli: 0.23.0-63.1.xcpng8.2
• squeezed: 0.27.0-20.1.xcpng8.2
• varstored-guard: 0.6.2-17.xcpng8.2
• vhd-tool: 0.43.0-20.1.xcpng8.2
• wsproxy: 1.12.0-21.xcpng8.2
• xapi: 1.249.38-1.11.xcpng8.2
• xapi-nbd: 1.11.0-19.1.xcpng8.2
• xapi-storage: 11.19.0_sxm2-19.xcpng8.2
• xapi-storage-script: 0.34.1-18.1.xcpng8.2
• xcp-networkd: 0.56.2-17.xcpng8.2
• xcp-rrdd: 1.33.4-6.1.xcpng8.2
• xenopsd: 0.150.19-5.1.xcpng8.2
• xenserver-status-report: 1.3.16-3.xcpng8.2
• xcp-ng-xapi-plugins: 1.10.1-1.xcpng8.2
• xs-opam-repo: 6.35.13-4.xcpng8.2
• xs-openssl: 1.1.1k-12.3.xcpng8.2
• xsconsole: 10.1.13.1-2.1.xcpng8.2
• zstd: 1.5.5-1.el7

Optional packages:

• kernel-alt: 4.19.265-2.xcpng8.2
• Alternates drivers:
  • intel-i40e-alt: 2.22.20-5.1.xcpng8.2
  • mellanox-mlnxen-alt: 5.9_0.5.5.0-1.2.xcpng8.2

New optional package:

• mlx4-modules-alt: 4.9_7.1.0.0-1.xcpng8.2

What to test

Normal use and anything else you want to test. The closer to your actual use of XCP-ng, the better.

Test window before official release of the updates

~1 week.

The update is published. Thanks for your tests!
Blog post: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/11/04/november-2022-security-update/

The fix, which was proposed as a test to resolve some of the issues encountered, has been integrated into an official update candidate which will be released to everyone next time we publish updates. For more information on this update, you can consult the following post: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/96135

Hello,

We've added a card to our backlog to investigate this topic.

Update published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/01/23/january-2025-maintenance-update-for-xcp-ng-8-3/

Thank you for the tests!

New update candidates for you to test!

A new batch of non-urgent updates is ready for user tests before a future collective release. Below are the details about these.

• amd-microcode: Update AMD microcode to the 2024-11-21 drop
  • Updates firmware for families 17h and 19h CPUs. For the first time, AMD published updates for non-server CPUs. One can assume that they started supporting microcode update for these, contrarily to what they did in the past, and that these updates thus fix various bugs and vulnerabilities. This is only (sensible) speculation at the moment, though.
• grub: Backport VLAN networking support for UEFI PXE boot.
• iperf3: Upgrade to version 3.9-13 from CentOS 7
  • Includes a security fix for CVE-2023-38403
• kernel: Backport of a fix to correct cooling fan rotation speed on some Lenovo servers. For more information, you can read this thread on the forum.
• kexec-tools: Backport of a patch removing kernel_version(). Fixing a bug for kernel with a patchlevel greater than 255.
• netdata: Fixed an issue that could occur when quickly uninstalling the package, right after an unfinished installation, and leave a service in an undetermined status.
• slang: Fixed display and input issues in optional package mc.
• sm: Contains a fix for leaf coalesce where the size of the leaf to coalesce was wrongly computed before deciding if it was a live coalesce or not, it resulted in some leaf having too much data to coalesce not successing the live coalesce and staying in this state indefinitely.
• xapi:
  • Fixed a malfunction related to the absence of a certificate, which could cause a loop.
  • Fixed and improved various points in IPv6, related to management, reboot and re-initialization.
• xo-lite: Update to version 0.6.0. For more details, you can consult the blog post on the latest release of Xen Orchestra.

Optional packages:

• kernel-alt: Backport of a fix to correct cooling fan rotation speed on some Lenovo servers. For more information, you can read this thread on the forum.
• socat: Update the package to version 1.7.4.1 which includes a fix for a buffer overflow and security fixes.
• traceroute: Updated to version 2.1.5.
• Alternate Drivers: Updated to newer versions.
  • broadcom-bnxt-en-alt: From version 1.10.2_227.0.130.0 to 1.10.3_231.0.162.0
  • intel-i40e-alt: From version 2.22.20-3.1 to 2.26.8
  • More information about drivers and current versions is on the drivers page: (https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Drivers).

Test on XCP-ng 8.3

From an up-to-date host:

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

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

Versions

• amd-microcode: 20240503-1.1.xcpng8.3
• grub: 2.06-4.0.2.1.xcpng8.3
• iperf3: 3.9-13.xcpng8.3
• kernel: 4.19.19-8.0.37.1.xcpng8.3
• kexec-tools: 2.0.15-20.1.xcpng8.3
• netdata: 1.44.3-1.2.xcpng8.3
• slang: 2.3.2-11.xcpng8.3
• sm: 3.2.3-1.13.xcpng8.3
• xapi: 24.19.2-1.9.xcpng8.3
• xo-lite: 0.6.0-1.xcpng8.3

Optional packages:

• kernel-alt: 4.19.322+1-1.xcpng8.3
• socat: 1.7.4.1-6.xcpng8.3
• traceroute: 2.1.5-2.xcpng8.3
• Alternate drivers:
  • broadcom-bnxt-en-alt: 1.10.3_231.0.162.0-1.xcpng8.3
  • intel-i40e-alt: 2.26.8-1.xcpng8.3

What to test

Normal use and anything else you want to test. The closer to your actual use of XCP-ng, the better.

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

New security update candidates (xen)

Xen is being updated to mitigate some vulnerabilities:

• XSA-326: Malicious guests can cause xenstored to allocate vast amounts of memory, eventually resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored.
• XSA-419: Xenstore: Cooperating guests can create arbitrary numbers of nodes
• XSA-414: A malicious guest can cause xenstored to crash, resulting in the inability to create new guests or to change the configuration of running guests.
• XSA-415: Xenstore: Guests can create orphaned Xenstore nodes
• XSA-416: Xenstore: Guests can cause Xenstore to not free temporary memory
• XSA-417: Xenstore: Guests can get access to Xenstore nodes of deleted domains
• XSA-418: Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored via exhausting the stack
• XSA-420: Oxenstored 32->31 bit integer truncation issues. A malicious or buggy guest can write a packet into the xenstore ring which causes 32-bit builds of oxenstored to busy loop.
• XSA-421: Xenstore: Guests can create arbitrary number of nodes via transactions

Test on XCP-ng 8.2

From an up to date host:

yum clean metadata --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
reboot

Versions:

• xen-*: 4.13.4-9.27.1.xcpng8.2

What to test

Normal use and anything else you want to test. The closer to your actual use of XCP-ng, the better.

Test window before official release of the updates

~2 days.

The update is published. Thanks for your tests!

Blog post: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/10/14/october-2022-security-update/

The fix, which was proposed as a test to resolve some of the issues encountered, has been integrated into an official update candidate which will be released to everyone next time we publish updates. For more information on this update, you can consult the following post: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/96135

New update candidates for you to test!

A new batch of non-urgent updates is ready for user tests before a future collective release. Below are the details about these.

---

Maintenance updates

• blktap: Fix a bad integer conversion that interrupts valid coalesce calls on large VDIs. This fixes an error that could occur on VHD coalesces, generating logs on the SMAPI side.
• kernel:
  • Fix compatibility issues with Minisforum MS-A2 machines. For more information, you can consult this forum post.
  • Backport fix for CVE-2020-28374, a vulnerability that is unlikely to be exploitable in XCP-ng, fixed as defence-in-depth.
• xapi & xen:
  • Add a new /etc/xenopsd.conf.d directory, in which users can add a .conf file with configuration values for xenopsd.
  • Patch Xen to support a new option allowing to activate the remapping of grant-tables as Writeback. This fixes a performance issue for Linux Guests on AMD processors. Guests need their kernel to support the feature which enables this fix (Linux distributions that have recent enough kernels or apply fixes from the mainline LTS kernels are OK. Older ones are not. Some currently supported LTS distros don't have the patch yet: RHEL 8 and 9 and their derivatives are not ready yet - no effect on older distros such as Ubuntu 20.04. See partial list below). Windows and *BSD guests were not affected by the performance problem this change solves.
  • While we are confident with this change, we decided to make it opt-in at first, so that users be conscious of the change and also know how to revert it if any side effects remain in edge cases. To enable the fix pool-wide, create a file named /etc/xenopsd.conf.d/custom.conf with the following line:

    xen-platform-pci-bar-uc=false
    

    • Then restart the toolstack on the host: xe-toolstack-restart
    • Then add the configuration and restart the toolstack on every other hosts of the pool
    • Then stop and start VMs so that the setting is applied to them at boot.
  • In a future update, this will become the default.
  • This is not the end of the way towards better performance on AMD EPYC servers, but it's significant progress!
• xo-lite:
  • [Host/VM/Dashboard] Fix display error due to inversion of upload and download
  • [Sidebar] Updated sidebar to auto close when the screen is small
  • [SearchBar] Updated query search bar to work in responsive (PR #8761)
  • [Pool,Host/Dashboard] CPU provisioning considers all VMs instead of just running VMs
  • For more details, we invite you to read the blog post about the latest Xen-Orchestra update.

OS support for the AMD performance workaround:

• Debian: 11 (5.10: TODO), 12 (6.1: OK)
• Ubuntu: 20.04 LTS (5.4: EOL), 22.04 LTS (5.15: SOON, HWE 6.8: OK), 24.04 LTS (6.8 & HWE 6.14: OK)
• openSUSE Leap, 15.5 (5.14: EOL) 15.6 (6.4: OK)
• SUSE Enterprise (LTSS) : SLE15 SP3 - LTSS (5.3: Not upstream), SLE15 SP4/5 - LTSS (5.14: Not upstream), SLE15 SP6+ (OK)
• RHEL (+derivates): 8 (4.19: EOL-ish?), 9 (5.14: Not upstream), 10 (6.12: OK)
• Fedora: All supported: OK (37+)
• Alpine Linux: All supported: OK (v3.18+)

• EOL = distro is EOL
• Not upstream = not covered by Linux stable project (i.e probably needs discussions with distro)
• SOON: Distro needs to update its kernel

Test on XCP-ng 8.3

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

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

Versions:

• blktap: 3.55.5-2.3.xcpng8.3
• kernel: 4.19.19-8.0.38.4.xcpng8.3
• xapi: 25.6.0-1.11.xcpng8.3
• xen: 4.17.5-15.2.xcpng8.3
• xo-lite: 0.13.1-1.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

Hello,

We've added a card to our backlog to investigate this topic.

Updates published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/07/29/july-2025-security-update-2-for-xcp-ng-8-2-lts/

Thank you for the tests!

New security update candidate

A new XSA (Xen Security Advisory) was published on the 8th of July, and an update to Xen addresses it.

---

Security updates

• linux-firmware: Update to 20250626-1 as redistributed by XenServer.
• xen-*:
  • Fix XSA-471 - New speculative side-channel attacks have been discovered, affecting systems running all versions of Xen and AMD Fam19h CPUs (Zen3/4 microarchitectures). An attacker could infer data from other contexts. There are no current mitigations, but AMD is producing microcode to address the issue, and patches for Xen are available. These attacks, named Transitive Scheduler Attacks (TSA) by AMD, include CVE-2024-36350 (TSA-SQ) and CVE-2024-36357 (TSA-L1).

Test on XCP-ng 8.2

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

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

Versions:

• linux-firmware: 20190314-11.3.xcpng8.2
• xen: 4.13.5-9.49.3.xcpng8.2

What to test

On Intel platform:

• Normal use and anything else you want to test.

On AMD platform zen3 or zen4:

• Normal use of course
• On a Linux guest, with cpuid installed, run the command following command:

lscpu | grep -q AMD && lscpu | grep -qi "cpu family.* 25$" && [ $(($(cpuid -1 -r -l 0x80000021 | grep eax | sed -r 's/.*eax=([^ ]+) .*/\1/') & 0x20)) -eq 32 ] && echo OK

This should print OK if your system is protected against XSA-471.

Test window before official release of the updates

~3 days.

@manilx We recently upgraded our Koji build system. This may have caused disruptions in this recent update release yesterday, where an XML file was generated multiple times. This has now been fixed and should not happen again. This may explain the issue encountered this time, particularly with the notification of updates via XO.

Note that normally yum metadata expires after a few hours and so it should normally return to normal on its own.

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

yum clean all

I can't explain it. I can't say what's going on on your system, especially with so little information.

Personally, I run the following commands all the time:

yum clean metadata ; yum update

I very rarely need to use yum clean all, and I don't remember having to do an additional rm. And yet, I run the above commands a lot during testing campaigns.

@flakpyro Yes, it always takes a little time for the mirrors to synchronize.

I'm getting correct feedback from the main repository (https://updates.xcp-ng.org/) with the correct updates available.

Updates published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/07/15/july-2025-security-update-2-for-xcp-ng-8-3-lts/

Thank you for the tests!

New security and maintenance update candidate

A new XSA (Xen Security Advisory) was published on the 8th of July, related to hardware vulnerabilities in several AMD CPUS. Updated microcode mitigate it, and Xen is updated to adapt to the changes in the CPU features. We also publish other non-urgent updates which we had in the pipe for the next update release.

---

Security updates

• amd-microcode:
  • Update to 20250626-1 as redistributed by XenServer.
• xen-*:
  • Fix XSA-471 - New speculative side-channel attacks have been discovered, affecting systems running all versions of Xen and AMD Fam19h CPUs (Zen3/4 microarchitectures). An attacker could infer data from other contexts. There are no current mitigations, but AMD is producing microcode to address the issue, and patches for Xen are available. These attacks, named Transitive Scheduler Attacks (TSA) by AMD, include CVE-2024-36350 (TSA-SQ) and CVE-2024-36357 (TSA-L1).

Maintenance updates

• http-nbd-transfer:
  • Fix missing import exceptions in log files.
  • Fix a potential HA startup failure with LINSTOR.
• xo-lite: update to 0.12.1
  • [Charts] Fix tooltip overflow when too close to the edge
  • [Host/VM/Dashboard] Fix timestamp on some charts

Test on XCP-ng 8.3

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

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

Versions:

• amd-microcode: 20250626-1.1.xcpng8.3
• http-nbd-transfer: 1.7.0-1.xcpng8.3
• xen: 4.17.5-15.1.xcpng8.3
• xo-lite: 0.12.1-1.xcpng8.3

What to test

Normal use and anything else you want to test.

Test window before official release of the updates

~2 days.