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 <[email protected]> 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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