Cheers all, If anyone wants to go for an Easter Bug hunt, be my guest - with v2.8.3-rc5 pushed out. It was pretty quiet in the past days, with a few PRs to tie up loose ends patiently waiting in CI and their discussions, so I really hope this one is it, and that no small-fix commits parked in various branches were lost, and that I would finally be able to devote time to some other technical and social debts in different backlogs soon :)
Jim Klimov On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM Jim Klimov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > It has been too long that I was feeling a release is just around the > corner, just gotta tie up a few loose ends. The significant ones we had are > finally tied, some others delayed to v2.8.4 trail, and a documentation > refresh remains. Thanks to some package maintainers taking a look at the > master branch, some issues with "dist" archive creation and parallel builds > were also located and addressed. > > So, it is that time of the year again, folks, when flowers bloom and > code gets ripe for picking a new release snapshot -- so everybody is > welcome to give it a round during the weekend. After too many hopeful > deadlines missed, I hope to at least not exceed a year since the last > release snapshot :) > > As usual, > https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/wiki/Building-NUT-for-in%E2%80%90place-upgrades-or-non%E2%80%90disruptive-tests > (and the build prerequisites linked from there as > https://networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/_build_prerequisites_to_make_nut_from_scratch_on_various_operating_systems.html) > should help you get started. > > Hoping for good news and no blocker issues, > Jim Klimov > > PS: One known problem remains with the recently introduced apc_modbus > driver and/or the libmodbus (core or our fork with rtu_usb branch) - that > the USB connections tend to fall apart, as tracked at > https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/2609 and others linked from > it - for now I've exhausted the hardware-less ideas and the time I had; > help is welcome. >
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