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

[Jim Klimov]

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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