[Nut-upsdev] NUT v2.8.0(-rc1)

[Jim Klimov]

Hello all,

Having 10 days since an rc1 and a number of issues fixed and late-coming
features integrated, I'm rolling the dice again with NUT v2.8.0-rc2

Hope it brings no bad surprises either :)

Jim Klimov

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 02:01 Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, fellow NUTs!
>
>   It is with a [happy] heart that I must proclaim today, that the long
> reign of NUT v2.7.4 is coming to an end. Its anticipated successor of half
> a dozen years, release-in-waiting NUT v2.7.5 has also quietly expired, and
> [won't] be sorely missed. They were survived by the next name in line, NUT
> v2.8.0(-rc1). Le NUT est mort, long live the NUT!
>
>   Along just this leg of the journey, NUT codebase survived at least four
> separate CI farms and technologies to make its builds easier and more
> reliable, all while succeeding on a wide range of CPU and OS platforms,
> ranging from current distros to the dawn of millenium (nearly-immutable
> appliances and sturdy reliable servers matter too!), as well as multiple
> generations and implementations of compiler toolkits, "make" and scripted
> code interpreters involved.
>
>   We are grateful to the many freely available projects, services and
> communities who helped us in particular (maybe unwittingly) and the FOSS
> ecosystem in general (intentionally), such as (and not limited to)
> Asciidoc, Autotools and family, BuildBot, CCache, Clang/LLVM, FossHost,
> GCC, GitHub, Google, illumos, Jenkins, LiberaChat, Proxmox, QEMU,
> StackExchange, Travis, ZeroMQ... bits here, swathes there - it would have
> been much harder without the likes of them (and many others).
>
>   Advances in compiler code analysis in particular, as is seen on a daily
> basis with CI non-regression builds across the range of 10 major releases
> of clang and 7 of gcc, is immense. At times annoying, yes, but it led to a
> great cleansing of the codebase from questionable code (and indeed some
> potential bugs). And it was possible to do so in a way that all those
> regularly tested systems are satisfied, so the codebase stays clean and
> green and portable as we iterate new contributions, and merged with peace
> of mind many ports and features from long-awaited branches (such as
> libusb-1.0+0.1 support finally), or forks (notably 42ity/nut).
>
>   Let me take a moment to tender our special thanks from both the
> maintainer team and countless users of UPS, ePDU, solar panel and similar
> hardware, to numerous personal and corporate contributors of new drivers
> and features or fixes for existing ones, as well as to community members
> who ask and answer questions, and who log github issues with their ideas,
> experiences or grievances.
>
>   As always we would welcome people willing to regularly share their
> expertise in certain areas and tools (in particular, thanks @nbriggs for
> solving many practical mysteries around USB bit-stream lately), or
> protocols (more active experts on prolific Qx family would be great for PR
> reviews), or  packaging, service and distro integrations, or HCL/DDL
> maintenance based on reports trickling in... just about anything!
>
>   While we have a lot of features queued to complete or port for the next
> releases (hopefully with a healthier cadence), we expect to see more
> feedback by exposing thevrelease, and hope for little fallout from the many
> changes made while cleaning up the warnings.
>
>   Handing over to creative packagers now...
>
> Jim Klimov,
> on behalf of the Network UPS Tools Project
>
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