[Nut-upsdev] NUT testing for v2.8.3 (hopefully imminent)

[Jim Klimov]

So... April 1st came and went, busy with last-minute warnings from a newly
set-up NetBSD build agent for the NUT CI farm, as Greg-inspired warnings
exposed by the stricter platform kept popping up and biting.  Led to some
discoveries in toolkits and standards I thought I knew for decades, too. So
it was a tad bit annoying, but good overall :)

But now we are a day over the hopeful "not more than a year" since the last
release... Still, maybe sometime later in the week all CI stars will
converge to let the release be cut.

Has any other platform got last-minute changes to tackle? Plan 9 maybe? :)

Jim Klimov

PS: Colleagues from another community pointed to
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-enterprise-plan-9-support - fun read,
true story, true PRs; their request
https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/5794 posted some 3 years ago
got fulfilled just now.


On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com> 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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