[repo-status] Weekly repository status — 13–20 September 2026

This issue is a generated weekly status report and does not identify a source file, test, or implementation entry point. Start by reviewing the listed follow-ups on encrypted RBD, XCP-ng 8.3 deployment, incremental NAS backups, and CKS offerings; a specific issue or task is needed before completion can be defined.

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

1. Validate in live environments: Exercise encrypted RBD boot, attach, resize, migration, snapshot/revert, and template-import paths across supported Ceph/libvirt combinations.
2. 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.
3. Promote the backup improvements: Run upgrade/backward-compatibility coverage for incremental NAS chains and document operational prerequisites and recovery behavior.
4. 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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