The Ubuntu 24.04 guest template is no longer in preview and is now fully supported.

Apr 14, 2025
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These updates include the following new features:

• Add new guest template CentOS Stream 10 (preview).
• The Ubuntu 24.04 guest template is no longer in preview and is now fully supported.

These updates include the following improvements:

• XenServer now sends telemetry information to your Citrix License Server. For more information, see Data governance.
• Begin transition to use OpenSSL 3.0.9.
• Improvements to the performance and reliability of the high availability (HA) mechanism, particularly in larger (>16 host) pools.
• For GFS2 and XFS SRs, improved robustness against and clean up of unexpected power loss or host fencing.
• Improvements to the management of GFS2 SRs under load.
• Enable and disable SSH access for hosts and pools from the xe CLI.
• Add Ethtool support for 200G NIC speed.
• Update the qla2xxx driver to v10.02.13.00-k.
• Added prechecks on the emergency reenable TLS verification command so that it can now only be used when TLS verification is enabled in the pool.
• Gracefully handle the error when an HTTP header contains invalid data.

These updates contain fixes for the following issues:

• A regression in RRD format makes XenCenter unable to parse historical RRD data.
• XenCenter might sometimes show the CPU usage as negative or more than 100 percent.
• A cluster host can sometimes be fenced during shutdown.
• An issue in vGPU port and memory concurrent register.
• Reboot and shutdown issues on AMD caused by local APIC ESR interrupts.
• Some diagnostics logging can cause VDI deactivate on LVM SRs to freeze when an unrelated SMB3 SR is unresponsive.
• The log config file might be overwritten during an update.
• These updates contain upstream code changes for the following issues:
• CVE-2015-2716 - Buffer overflow in the XML parser.
• CVE-2025-1713 – Deadlock potential with VT-d and legacy PCI device pass-through.