Hi All +1 (binding)
Tested manually , divided the testing into sections like ( compute, storage, network, IAM, etc) upgraded from RC1 to RC2 and RC3, and the test cases passed successfully. Area Component Test case Type Hypervisor / scope Status Compute VM lifecycle Deploy / start / stop / reboot / destroy / expunge VMs Regression KVM / VMware / XenServer Pass VM lifecycle Deploy VM from ISO, from template, with userdata / SSH key injection Regression All Pass VM lifecycle Deploy VM with multiple disks / multiple NICs Regression All Pass VM lifecycle Reset VM (reinstall from template), change template Regression All Pass Live scaling Scale up / down VM with fixed service offering on KVM without offering change New feature KVM Pass Guest OS mapping Deploy Windows Server 2025 guest OS mapping Improvement VMware Pass Live migration Live migrate VM across mixed CPU generation hosts with guest.cpu.mode=custom Regression KVM Pass Live migration Cross-cluster / cross-pod migration where supported Regression VMware Pass Disk controllers Retest PCI slot exhaustion on q35 / pc-q35-noble with rootDiskController=scsi Regression KVM Pass HA / fencing Verify KVMHAProvider.fence Regression KVM Pass HA Host HA: fence, degrade, recover via OOBM / IPMI / Redfish Regression KVM Pass HA VM HA: host failure triggers VM restart on surviving host Regression All Pass Host maintenance Enter / cancel maintenance with running VMs (auto-migrate) Regression All Pass Offerings Clone existing compute / disk offering and update the clone independently New feature All Pass Storage Primary storage Add / remove NFS, Local, RBD primary storage pools; capacity and tag scoping Regression All Pass KMS / HSM Volume and secret encryption end to end with HSM or software KMS; key rotation; VM boot on encrypted volume New feature All Pass Templates / ISOs Register, copy across zones, delete, extract; private / public / featured visibility Regression All Pass Templates Configurable template replica counts enforced against secondary storage NFS Improvement All Pass Backup & DR Veeam integration Veeam KVM integration: backup job trigger, restore to new VM New feature All Pass Networking VPC VPC create / delete with conserve mode on and off New feature All Pass VPC Public IP firewall rule CRUD; interaction with existing VPC ACLs New feature All Pass DNS framework DNS record lifecycle for guest networks and VPCs via new DNS plugin framework New feature All Pass Network extensions Extensions framework: orchestrate an external network device end to end New feature All Pass Router / VR Virtual router restart / recreate; redundant VR failover; VR upgrade after systemvm template update Regression All Pass IPv4 / IPv6 Dual-stack network provisioning; NATted vs routed; static vs dynamic routing matrix Regression All Pass Autoscaling Scheduled autoscaling Configure and validate scheduled scale-out / scale-in windows Improvement All Pass IAM / Security API keys Create multiple key pairs per user with distinct permissions and validity intervals New feature All Pass OAuth Per-domain OAuth provider scoping Improvement All Pass SAML SSO SimpleSAMLphp SSO auth success, plus check for blank-UI-after-auth regression (localStorage / cookie issue) Regression All Pass LDAP LDAP user import / sync, login binding Regression All Pass Accounts / Domains / Projects Domain admin scoping, project resource sharing, account limits and resource counts Regression All Pass Roles Custom role and rule-based API access control; role permission inheritance Regression All Pass 2FA Two-factor authentication enrollment and login enforcement Regression All Pass Kubernetes (CKS) Cluster creation CKS cluster create with affinity group selection Improvement All Pass Cluster upgrade CKS cluster upgrade path; verify /mnt/k8sdisk mount and CKS binaries ISO tarball are recognised Regression All Pass CCM / CSI cloud-controller-manager LoadBalancer service and CSI PVC provisioning regression Regression All Pass Autoscaling CKS cluster node autoscale up and down Regression All Pass Cluster operations CKS cluster lifecycle operations Regression All Pass Regards Kiran Chavala On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 6:17 PM Slavka Peleva <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 (binding) > > Same as Nicolas - upgraded from RC2 and repeated my tests with StorPool and > some basic functionality using NFS as a primary storage > > Best regards, > Slavka > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 1:27 PM Harikrishna Patnala < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 (binding) > > > > Verified 4.23 RC3 with a VMware environment and tried multiple VM and > > volume lifecycles. > > > > Thank you everyone involved here. > > > > Regards, > > Harikrishna > > > > > > <https://www.cloudstackcollab.org> > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Wei ZHOU <[email protected]> > > *Sent:* Monday, 31 August 2026 13:04:54 > > *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > > *Cc:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > > *Subject:* Re: [VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4.23.0.0 (RC3) > > > > +1 (binding) > > > > > > Run smoke tests with different OSes and hypervisors, they look good. > > The smoke test results can be found here: > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/discussions/13980 > > > > There are some smoke test failures with vmware and xcpng/xen which are > > addressed by https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/13628 > > > > Kind regards, > > Wei > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 4:43 PM Wei Zhou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have created a 4.23.0.0 release (RC3), with the following artifacts > up > > > for testing and a vote: > > > > > > Git Branch and Commit SHA: > > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/4.23.0.0-RC20260825T1422 > > > Commit: 463f8d0294702a920e8020b62ae3b67f52ae1473 > > > > > > Source release (checksums and signatures are available at the same > > > location): > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cloudstack/4.23.0.0/ > > > > > > PGP release keys (signed using > 500B5E88394EEFEA6F2CF5EA1503DFE7C8226103): > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/cloudstack/KEYS > > > > > > The vote will be open for 7 days, and will close at 15:00 UTC on > > > September 1, 2026. > > > > > > For sanity in tallying the vote, can PMC members please be sure to > > indicate > > > "(binding)" with their vote? > > > > > > [ ] +1 approve > > > [ ] +0 no opinion > > > [ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why) > > > > > > For users convenience, the packages from this release candidate (RC3) > are > > > available here: > > > https://download.cloudstack.org/testing/4.23.0.0-RC3/ > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Wei > > > > > >
