[Nut-upsuser] NUT v2.8.4 coming up

[Jim Klimov]

And, it is live! (again)

CI passed, tarball and NUT for Windows build zip published (nut-website and
github release)

See y'alls next month!

Jim Klimov


On Fri, Aug 1, 2025, 10:19 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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