<div dir="ltr"><div>Cheers all,</div><div><br></div><div> If anyone wants to go for an Easter Bug hunt, be my guest - with v2.8.3-rc5 pushed out.</div><div> 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 :)</div><div><br></div><div>Jim Klimov</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM Jim Klimov <<a href="mailto:jimklimov%2Bnut@gmail.com">jimklimov+nut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello all,</div><div><br></div><div> 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.</div><div><br></div><div> 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 :)</div><div><br></div><div> As usual, <a href="https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/wiki/Building-NUT-for-in%E2%80%90place-upgrades-or-non%E2%80%90disruptive-tests" target="_blank">https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/wiki/Building-NUT-for-in%E2%80%90place-upgrades-or-non%E2%80%90disruptive-tests</a> (and the build prerequisites linked from there as <a href="https://networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/_build_prerequisites_to_make_nut_from_scratch_on_various_operating_systems.html" target="_blank">https://networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/_build_prerequisites_to_make_nut_from_scratch_on_various_operating_systems.html</a>) should help you get started.</div><div><br></div><div>Hoping for good news and no blocker issues,</div><div>Jim Klimov</div><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/2609" target="_blank">https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/2609</a> and others linked from it - for now I've exhausted the hardware-less ideas and the time I had; help is welcome.</div></div>
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