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

[Jim Klimov]

So, NUT v2.8.3-rc1 is out.

  I first thought it was the release, but some CI runs convinced me
otherwise, so there would be a bit of back and forth on the master branch
as some recipes get fixed. Apparently, some parallel runs stepped onto each
other's toes sometimes, but coinciding the wrong way just once in a few
hundred builds. Hopefully I found why and will re-publish in a few hours.

Jim Klimov


On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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