This is not just a powerful symbolic thing: by closing issue n°1, we are really reaffirming our independance and our capacity to build everything without using any binary provided by Citrix.
It's really a great news for XCP-ng's future!
https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/1
Since last week, we have a new team member 
@ronan-a is now part of Vates XCP-ng team, with @stormi and myself.
@r1 and @johnelse are still with us as external contributors.
@ronan-a , feel free to introduce yourself here (and the stuff you are working on)
It's far from being complete, but it's a great first step in improving XCP-ng existing documentation and also visibility/credibility!
Everyone can still contribute (link on the bottom of each page), even if it's a bit more difficult than the wiki.
Let me know what you think about it
What about the wiki? We'll probably to continue to have very specific content there, and "promote" content to the doc if it "fits" for enough people.
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/04/17/100-000-downloads-for-xcp-ng/
So you probably spotted the news, feel free to comment here 
To avoid splitting the community, we'll merge XO forum in this category. It seems not possible (or very not trivial) to fetch the previous XO threads here, so we'll probably have a transition time until we redirect directly XO forum URL toward this category directly.
Maybe it wasn't clear? French gov won't do anything in the project, they just support it as a research and dev project boosting innovation, and indirectly contributing to create more jobs that can't be replicated easily elsewhere.
There's no "control" on how we decide to do the R&D, as long as we put resources into it as we said.
XCP-ng is a free and community project, and everybody who want to contribute can do it. There's no "link" between us and any government.
So far we got 4 templates available:
Would you like other OS? Or even apps installed in those OS? Let us know!
Less yellowish terminal to use less different colors and keeping the variations in the logo:
For XCP-ng 8 we thought that it might be interesting to get a dedicated visual identity outside the boot splash: the prompt and the "ncurse" display.
rootNew vs old:
Obviously, we got a fallback for terminal without color support.
Also, it also works on white background terms:
New vs old:
There is also a fallback on terminals without color support (unchanged)
Maybe you could think it's a minor thing, but in the end, that's how we show XCP-ng is not just a clone of CH/XS
Obviously, you can still configure this easily (especially the prompt, because you can override it).
What do you think?
https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/
and
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-hypervisor/whats-new.html
So this is the starting point of a LOT of things for us. We'll keep you posted on what's new regarding SMAPIv3 perfs, UEFI and everything else.
Stay tuned!
https://xenproject.org/2019/04/02/whats-new-in-xen-4-12/
In short:
Details: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.12_Feature_List
See https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2021/09/14/runx-next-generation-secured-containers/ for more details.
If you want to test high level of security with your containers, yes. Or if you like to play with shiny new techs and report bugs 
THIS IS A TECH PREVIEW
It's not meant to run in production. Play with it in your lab, not in production. You have been warned 
Follow the next section.
Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/xcp-ng-runx.repo with:
[xcp-ng-runx]
name=XCP-ng runx Repository
baseurl=http://mirrors.xcp-ng.org/8/8.2/runx/x86_64/ http://updates.xcp-ng.org/8/8.2/runx/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-xcpng
Then, install all the packages:
yum install --enablerepo=epel -y qemu-dp xenopsd xenopsd-cli xenopsd-xc xcp-ng-xapi-storage runx
yum install --enablerepo="base,extras" docker podman
xe-toolstack-restart
mkdir runx-sr
mkdir -p /root/runx-sr
xe sr-create type=fsp name-label=runx-sr device-config:file-uri=/root/runx-sr
You must create a VM template with the desired amount of ram an the number of cores to use. Make sure the vm type is: PV.
It's not necessary to add disk to this VM.
Open /etc/runx.conf and modify these variables: SR_UUID and TEMPLATE_UUID.
Using podman:
podman pull archlinux
podman container create --name archlinux archlinux
podman start archlinux
With docker:
podman with docker.docker -b none.Please test and report any problem
I think you are misguided on what's XCP-ng.
So we "only" use CentOS for the rest, which is less critical (and we decide which package to use at which version).
If you have hardware issues, please report them, it's up to us to fix it, it's not a CentOS issue (could be a Xen issue or a dom0 kernel, stuff we integrate ourselves outside any CentOS process).
Yeah, we had specific threa instructions to remove the Nvidia/Citrix vGPU thing for XCP-ng because it's not Open Source.
On Intel side, recent Xeon supports it (but you know Intel graphic perfs lol…) and also AMD FirePro S7150 (16vGPU).
Hey guys!
Just before the official announcement tomorrow, please double test our latest ISO: https://xcp-ng.org/7.5/xcp-ng-7.5.0.iso
md5sum: 33adb5d92f56fe6cda0df047f2f60895
Nothing really changed since RC1 (except very few stuff).
Well, that's not true @cheese
The truth is far more complicated:
But yes, the goal is to be 100% independent in the end, but that require a reasonable team (already hired 3 persons, objective is to double this number in the next months) and as you can imagine, this cost a lot of money. So break even is needed to be sustainable. That's why being only "Fedora like" (eg cutting edge without support) isn't doable. We must also provide something tested and stable through time, otherwise no company will adopt it, and then we couldn't survive (Patreon or Kickstarter is OK to bootstrap a project, but just add 6 to 10 people full time and you'll see you'll need something close to one million USD and more)
So as you see, XCP-ng is not just a toy done in a garage, this is bigger than that Our ambition is to become the first turnkey and Open Source virtualization platform. Some parts will take time but yes, this is the objective.
We should pin this post somewhere
edit: thanks a lot for your feedback @dwita !
?? Why? I'll merge XO forum into this cat, not replacing anything. Also NodeBB works well, it's one of the less crappy forum software I know.