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

[Jim Klimov]

This Easter bunny is finally out of the cage! NUT v2.8.3 is out :)

Thanks to everyone for testing and to those posting last-minute fixes and
feature-completions - you know who you are. Our heroes!

Jim Klimov

PS: As my colleague at a previous job used to announce as head of QA during
the gate-go meetings, "All bugs have been added to this release".
We always assumed, English not being the first language, this meant
issue-tracker items categorized as bugs (and so their fixes). Anyhow, the
running joke stuck with all of us :)


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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