[Nut-upsuser] NUT v2.8.4 coming up

[Jim Klimov]

As some have already noticed, the labours of issuing NUT v2.8.4 have begun.
The first shot looked promising, so the nut-website and similar resources
began their updates, but eventually that commit got demoted to v2.8.4-rc1,
and now iterating with rc4 to fix this hiccup:
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/3053

Now this one looks promising (essentially, disables the change which
misfired), so hopefully me and CI systems would complete the release
properly during the day.

Hope this helps,
Jim Klimov


On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>   Due to some issues uncovered with NUT v2.8.3 release on one hand
> (fixable, but cumbersome for packagers to extract and patch in their
> recipes), and an upcoming hiatus due to vacation travels on another, I've
> pushed much of the more-ambitious plan slated for NUT v2.8.4 back to
> v2.8.5, and plan to release what has cropped up until now as a smaller
> v2.8.4 increment, just a few months after a preceding release. This is
> probably how things should be (aiming for smaller quicker releases), too :)
>
>   Even so, it is by no means a trivial hot-fixing release - there were
> many contributions that have already landed, including new drivers, updates
> to existing drivers and other programs, recipes, CI tests, etc.
>
>   While a few smaller PRs are still queued and iterated, it would be wise
> of the community to run some builds of the current master against their
> devices in their OS ecosystems of choice, to make sure we do not get big
> facepalms within a week after a release :)
>
>   The plan is to cut off a snapshot of the `master` branch (slightly
> pre-doctored as usual) into a NUT v2.8.4 release, and so begin the v2.8.5
> timeline, during the first week of August, probably before next Friday. Or
> forever hold our silence (that is, until September or later).
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Klimov
>
>
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