Weekly status 🌟
Apache CloudStack had a productive week with 8 commits landing between 13 and 20 September. Engineering momentum is strong across release readiness, storage, backup reliability, and hypervisor support.
Highlights
- Upgrade and release readiness: Added the 4.23.0.0 upgrade path from 4.23.0.0-era schema work, including versioning and upgrade-test fixes.
- KVM/Ceph storage: Delivered librbd-native LUKS2 encryption for RBD volumes, encryption-aware resize and root-template flows, capability gating, and unit coverage. RBD template creation also now honors
rbd_default_data_pool, improving erasure-coded pool placement.
- Backup reliability: Backport work added incremental NAS backups for KVM, while restore handling now detects mount/unmount failures, cleans up failed mounts, and respects configured timeouts. Backup providers no longer require powered-off VMs.
- Xen/XCP-ng: Improved cross-pool volume-copy behavior, with active community attention on XCP-ng 8.3 system-VM/secondary-storage deployment compatibility.
- Release status: CloudStack 4.23.0.0 remains the latest regular release (2 September); no new release was published this week.
Project status
The project is moving forward confidently toward broader 4.23 adoption. The largest value delivered this week is operational: encrypted Ceph volumes, smaller/faster incremental backups, and clearer failure handling reduce risk for production operators.
The active issue queue still includes deployment compatibility and CKS offering usability concerns, so focused follow-through will help turn this momentum into a smoother operator experience.
Recommended next steps
- Validate in live environments: Exercise encrypted RBD boot, attach, resize, migration, snapshot/revert, and template-import paths across supported Ceph/libvirt combinations.
- Close the XCP-ng 8.3 gap: Confirm the correct replacement for the removed
lvhdutil dependency and verify system VM deployment plus LVM/iSCSI operations.
- Promote the backup improvements: Run upgrade/backward-compatibility coverage for incremental NAS chains and document operational prerequisites and recovery behavior.
- Triage user-facing follow-ups: Prioritize the open XCP-ng deployment report and CKS custom-offering workflow, and keep release/upgrade documentation aligned with 4.23 adoption.
Thanks to everyone contributing reviews, backports, testing, and operational feedback—great progress this week! 🚀
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Weekly status 🌟
Apache CloudStack had a productive week with 8 commits landing between 13 and 20 September. Engineering momentum is strong across release readiness, storage, backup reliability, and hypervisor support.
Highlights
rbd_default_data_pool, improving erasure-coded pool placement.Project status
The project is moving forward confidently toward broader 4.23 adoption. The largest value delivered this week is operational: encrypted Ceph volumes, smaller/faster incremental backups, and clearer failure handling reduce risk for production operators.
The active issue queue still includes deployment compatibility and CKS offering usability concerns, so focused follow-through will help turn this momentum into a smoother operator experience.
Recommended next steps
lvhdutildependency and verify system VM deployment plus LVM/iSCSI operations.Thanks to everyone contributing reviews, backports, testing, and operational feedback—great progress this week! 🚀
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