Xen users - Oct 2012 - XCP 1.6 Beta is available -- XCP Test Day scheduled for 9 Oct

Dear Community Members,

Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 Beta is available! The release
is available from the download page
<http://xen.org/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html> and a feature list is
available in the release notes
<http://xen.org/download/xcp/releasenotes_1.6.0.html>.

This release supersedes the XCP 1.5 beta release. In order to be able to
release new XCP versions more efficiently, the XCP team concentrate
their efforts on fixing the XCP internal build system issues. We
recommend that XCP 1.5 beta users upgrade to XCP 1.6 beta and final when
it is released.

*XCP User Survey

*We are also asking XCP users to contribute to our usage survey, which
can be completed from the download page
<http://xen.org/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html> or here
<http://xen.org/polls/xcp_survey.html>. We want to know more about how
and why people use XCP, so that we can continue to make it better. You
do not have to take the survey, but we highly encourage everyone to
participate.

*Test Day, October 9th*

Because of the great feedback we got from the Xen 4.2 Test Day a month
ago, we scheduled a Test Day <http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Test_Days>
for XCP (also see XCP 1.6 test instructions
<http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2_RC2_test_instructions>). If you find
any issues with XCP 1.6 beta, please report them on the xen-api mailing
list <http://lists.xen.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-api> with the subject
line containing *[XCP-1.6-BETA]*.

*XCP 1.6 Release Schedule*

The release schedule for XCP 1.6 is as follows:

  * XCP 1.6 Beta release: 1 October
  * XCP 1.6 Beta test day: 9 October
  * XCP 1.6 Final release: 24 October

Unless critical bugs are found that cannot be fixed in time for October
24th, we will release XCP 1.6 on October 24th.

Best Regards
Mike McClurg
XCP Project Lead

Upgrading from XCP 1.1 and XCP 1.5 Beta 

We expect this to work, but the XenCenter rolling pool upgrade feature
is currently untested with XCP. 

 

Has anyone tried the rolling upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6??

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Todd

 

 

From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Mike McClurg
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 5:15 AM
To: xen-api@lists.xensource.com; xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [Xen-users] XCP 1.6 Beta is available -- XCP Test Day scheduled
for9 Oct

 

Dear Community Members,

Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 Beta is available! The release
is available from the download page
<http://xen.org/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html>  and a feature list is
available in the release notes
<http://xen.org/download/xcp/releasenotes_1.6.0.html> .

This release supersedes the XCP 1.5 beta release. In order to be able to
release new XCP versions more efficiently, the XCP team concentrate
their efforts on fixing the XCP internal build system issues. We
recommend that XCP 1.5 beta users upgrade to XCP 1.6 beta and final when
it is released.

XCP User Survey

We are also asking XCP users to contribute to our usage survey, which
can be completed from the download page
<http://xen.org/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html>  or here
<http://xen.org/polls/xcp_survey.html> . We want to know more about how
and why people use XCP, so that we can continue to make it better. You
do not have to take the survey, but we highly encourage everyone to
participate.

Test Day, October 9th

Because of the great feedback we got from the Xen 4.2 Test Day a month
ago, we scheduled a Test Day <http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Test_Days>
for XCP (also see XCP 1.6 test instructions
<http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2_RC2_test_instructions> ). If you find
any issues with XCP 1.6 beta, please report them on the xen-api mailing
list <http://lists.xen.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-api>  with the subject
line containing [XCP-1.6-BETA].

XCP 1.6 Release Schedule

The release schedule for XCP 1.6 is as follows:

*	XCP 1.6 Beta release: 1 October
*	XCP 1.6 Beta test day: 9 October
*	XCP 1.6 Final release: 24 October

Unless critical bugs are found that cannot be fixed in time for October
24th, we will release XCP 1.6 on October 24th.

Best Regards
Mike McClurg
XCP Project Lead



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On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:27:28PM -0700, Todd H. Foster
wrote:
>    Upgrading from XCP 1.1 and XCP 1.5 Beta
> 
>    We expect this to work, but the XenCenter rolling pool upgrade feature
is
>    currently untested with XCP.
> 
> 
> 
>    Has anyone tried the rolling upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6??
> 
Based on the discussion on #xen-api I think there is a known issue with
upgrading to 1.6 beta.
Stay tuned for more information.


-- Pasi