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-<h1>Xen Cloud Platform 1.6
Beta is available <img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="20"/></h1>
-<p>Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 Beta is available! For a list of features see the
+<h1>Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 is available <img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="20"/></h1>
+<p>Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 is available! For a list of features see the
<a href="/download/xcp/releasenotes_1.6.0.html">1.6 release notes</a>. This release supersedes the XCP 1.5 beta
-release. A few months ago, the XCP team decided to concentrate their efforts on fixing internal build system
-issues so that we could release new XCP versions more efficiently. We will be recommending that XCP 1.5 beta users
-upgrade to XCP 1.6 final when it is released.</p>
+release. </p>
-<p>For more information go to the <a href="/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html">XCP 1.6 Beta download page</a>.</p>
+<p>For more information go to the <a href="/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html">XCP 1.6 download page</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<h1>Xen Cloud Platform 1.1</h1>
<p>For more information go to the <a href="/download/xcp/index_1.1.0.html">XCP 1.1 download page</a>.</p>
-<p>Security updates are available! <img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="20"/></p>
+<p>Security updates are available!</p>
<p> </p>
<h1>Xen Cloud Platform 1.0</h1>
<p>For more information go to the <a href="/download/xcp/index_1.0.0.html">XCP 1.0 download page</a>.</p>
-<p>Security updates are available! <img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="20"/></p>
+<p>Security updates are available!</p>
<p> </p>
<td id="xen_content"><div class="xen_navThird"> </div>
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- <h1>Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 Beta</h1>
- <h2>Welcome to the XCP 1.6 Beta download page!</h2>
+ <h1>Xen Cloud Platform 1.6</h1>
+ <h2>Welcome to the XCP 1.6 download page!</h2>
+ <p>Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 is available.</p>
<p>Content of this page:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#survey">XCP User Survey</a></li>
- <li><a href="#information">XCP 1.6 Beta Information</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#release">XCP 1.6 Release Information</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#information">Additional Information for XCP 1.6 Beta Users</a></li>
<li><a href="#general">General Information About XCP</a></li>
<li><a href="#install">Installable Distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="#source_install">Source Distribution</a></li>
</ul>
- <p>Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 Beta is available for testing!</p>
<a name="survey"></a><h2>XCP User Survey:</h2>
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dEhpdmltdlY4dVQtSW94cGJWYWVkRXc6MQ" width="760" height="1000 frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>
- <a name="information"></a><h2>XCP 1.6 Beta Information:</h2>
+ <a name="release"></a><h2>XCP 1.6 Release Information</h2>
+ <p>Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 is available.
<ul>
- <li>This is build 61549c of XCP 1.6 beta - <b>or beta #4</b>.</li>
- <li>Changes in beta #4:</li>
- <ul>
- <li>Removed upgrading bug introduced in beta #3</li>
- </ul>
- <li>Changes in beta #3:</li>
- <ul>
- <li>Allow upgrades from XCP 1.1 and from the previous XCP 1.6 betas</li>
- </ul>
- <li>Changes in beta #2:</li>
- <ul>
- <li>The remaining XenServer branding has been removed</li>
- <li>Upgrading from XCP 1.5 works, and migrations from XCP 1.5 hosts during an upgrade works</li>
- <li>The performance issue in the event subsystem has been resolved</li>
- </ul>
- <li>Older beta releases:</li>
- <ul>
- <li>Beta #3 (build <a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61365c/">61365c</a>)</li>
- <li>Beta #2 (build <a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61002c/">61002c</a>)</li>
- <li>Beta #1 (build <a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/59061c/">59061c</a>)</li>
- </ul>
- <li><a href="releasenotes_1.6.0.html">Release Notes</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP_1.6_Manuals">Manuals</a></li>
+ <li>The final build of XCP 1.6 is <b>61809c</b></li>
+ <li>If you have tested or installed any of the beta releases of XCP 1.6, you may want to read <a href="#information">Additional Information for XCP 1.6 Beta Users</a>.</li>
+ <li><a href="releasenotes_1.6.0.html">XCP 1.6 Release Notes</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP_1.6_Manuals">XCP 1.6 Manuals</a></li>
<li><b>Reporting Bugs:</b> If you would like to report a possible bug, please email the <a href="http://lists.xen.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-api">xen-api</a> mailing list with the <br>
- subject <i>"XCP 1.6 B
ETA BUG: <subject>"</i>. Please read the <a href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs_against_XCP">the bug reporting guide</a> before raising a bug.</li>
+ subject <i>"XCP 1.6 BUG: <subject>"</i>. Please read the <a href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs_against_XCP">the bug reporting guide</a> before raising a bug.</li>
</ul>
+
+ <a name="information"></a><h2>Additional Information for XCP 1.6 Beta Users</h2>
+ <h3>Upgrading to XCP 1.6 from the Beta Releases</h3>
+ <p>You should be able to automatically upgrade from XCP 1.6 beta 2 onwards, to XCP final. For more information,
+ and for more information on the beta 1.6 release history see the <a href="releasenotes_1.6.0,html#beta">XCP 1.6 Release Notes.</a></p>
+
<a name="general"></a><h2>General Information about XCP</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP_Overview">XCP Overview</a></li>
<tr>
<td width="130"><b>Base ISO</b></td>
<td>Host Installation Program</td>
- <td width="100"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61549c/XCP-1.6-beta4-61549c.iso">
+ <td width="100"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61809c/XCP-1.6-61809c.iso">
<img src="/images/download/download_http.gif" alt="download" width="95" height="50" border="0" /></a></td>
- <td width="70"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61549c/XCP-1.6-beta4-61549c.iso.md5"><b>md5</b></a></td>
+ <td width="70"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61809c/XCP-1.6-61809c.iso.md5"><b>md5</b></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<tr>
<td width="130"><b>Binary Package</b></td>
<td>Contains all the binary files that are contained in the installable image.</td>
- <td width="100"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61549c/sources/binpkg.iso">
+ <td width="100"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61809c/sources/binpkg.iso">
<img src="/images/download/download_http.gif" alt="download" width="95" height="50" border="0" /></a></td>
- <td width="70"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61549c/sources/binpkg.iso.md5"><b>md5</b></a></td>
+ <td width="70"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61809c/sources/binpkg.iso.md5"><b>md5</b></a></td>
</tr>
<!-- Interface: source-1.iso -->
<tr>
<td width="130"><b>Source Package</b></td>
<td>Contains the sources for most of the core components of XCP such as XAPI, XAPI Libs, Xen Hypervisor, Dom0,
Guest OSes, the installer, etc.</td>
- <td width="100"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61549c/sources/source-1.iso">
+ <td width="100"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61809c/sources/source-1.iso">
<img src="/images/download/download_http.gif" alt="download" width="95" height="50" border="0" /></a></td>
- <td width="70"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61549c/sources/source-1.iso.md5"><b>md5</b></a></td>
+ <td width="70"><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61809c/sources/source-1.iso.md5"><b>md5</b></a></td>
</tr>
<!-- Interface: source-4.iso -->
<tr>
<td><b>Auxiliary Package</b></td>
<td>Contains source and binaries for components and utilities that are needed for XCP development.</td>
- <td><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61549c/sources/source-4.iso">
+ <td><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61809c/sources/source-4.iso">
<img src="/images/download/download_http.gif" alt="download" width="95" height="50" border="0" /></a></td>
- <td><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61549c/sources/source-4.iso.md5"><b>md5</b></a></td>
+ <td><a href="http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/61809c/sources/source-4.iso.md5"><b>md5</b></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
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- <title>XCP 1.6 Beta Release Notes</title>
+ <title>XCP 1.6 Release Notes</title>
<meta name="description" content="Xen.org, home of the Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization.">
<meta name="keywords" content="XCP 1.6, Xen API, XCP, xen cloud platform, cloud platform, xen 2.0, xen 3.0, xen 4.0, hypervisor, server consolidation, open source, ian pratt, virtualization, virtualisation, xen, xensource">
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<td id="xen_content"><div class="xen_navThird"> </div>
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- <h1>Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 Beta Release Notes</h1>
+ <h1>Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 Release Notes</h1>
<h2>Licensing</h2>
<p></p>See <a href="/community/trademark.html">License information for software hosted on xen.org</a>.</p>
<li>Support for hypervisor monitoring (vhostmd) allows SAP software to run inside a XCP VM. </li>
</ul>
+ <a name="beta"></a><h2>XCP 1.6 Beta Releases History</h2>
+ <table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="servicestable">
+ <tr valign="top">
+ <td width="130"><b>Beta</b></td>
+ <td width="130"><b>Build Number</b></td>
+ <td><b>Changes</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr valign="top">
+ <td width="130">XCP 1.6 Final</td>
+ <td width="130">61809c</td>
+ <td>
+ The Final XCP Release also contains fixes to the following Xen security vulnerabilities. For more information on Xen security
+ vulnerabilities and fixes, see <a href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements">Xen Security Announcements</a>.
+ <ul>
+ <li><b>CVE-2012-4536 - XSA-21</b>: pirq range check DoS vulnerability</li>
+ <li><b>CVE-2012-4535 - XSA-20</b>: Timer overflow DoS vulnerability</li>
+ <li><b>CVE-2012-4537 - XSA-22</b>: Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability</li>
+ <li><b>CVE-2012-4538 - XSA-23</b>: Unhooking empty PAE entries DoS vulnerability</li>
+ <li><b>CVE-2012-4539 - XSA-24</b>: Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability</li>
+ <li><b>CVE-2012-5457</b>: Unprivileged XENMEM_add_to_physmap XENMAPSPACE_vlapic hypercalls can crash Xen</li>
+ </ul>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr valign="top">
+ <td width="130">XCP 1.6 Beta 4</td>
+ <td width="130">61809c</td>
+ <td>
+ Changes to previous build:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Removed upgrading regression that was introduced in beta #3</li>
+ </ul>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr valign="top">
+ <td width="130">XCP 1.6 Beta 3</td>
+ <td width="130">61365c</td>
+ <td>
+ Changes to previous build:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Allow upgrades from XCP 1.1 and from the previous XCP 1.6 betas</li>
+ </ul>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr valign="top">
+ <td width="130">XCP 1.6 Beta 2</td>
+ <td width="130">61002c</td>
+ <td>
+ Changes to previous build:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Removed remaining XenServer branding</li>
+ <li>Enable upgrading from XCP 1.5, and migrations from XCP 1.5 hosts during an upgrade</li>
+ <li>Fixed performance issue in the event subsystem</li>
+ </ul>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr valign="top">
+ <td width="130">XCP 1.6 Beta 1</td>
+ <td width="130">59061c</td>
+ <td></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
<h1>Known Issues and Errata</h1>
<p>This section details known issues with this release and any workarounds that can be applied. </p>
<h2></a>Installation and Upgrade</h2>
<a id="FeaturedStories"><h2>Featured Stories</h2>
<p><ul>
<li><a href="http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.html">NetBSD 6.0 releases with improved Xen support</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/10/01/xcp-1-6-beta/">Announcing XCP 1.6 Beta Release</a></li>
<li><a href="/news/2012/09_Xen_4_2_Releases.html">Xen 4.2 Releases</a></li>
<li><a href="http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/introducing-qubes-10.html">Introducing Qubes 1.0!</a></li>
<li><a href="/news/2012/05_xcp_in_ubuntu_server_12_04_LTS.html">XCP in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS : <i>"apt-get install xcp-xapi"</i></a></li>
</ul> </p>
<h2>Latest Product Releases</h2>
<p><ul>
- <li><b>Xen Cloud Platform 1.6
Beta</b>: <a href="download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html">Download</a> (<a href="/products/xcp/archives.html">archives</a>)<img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="17"/></li>
+ <li><b>Xen Cloud Platform 1.6</b>: <a href="download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html">Download</a> (<a href="/products/xcp/archives.html">archives</a>)<img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="17"/></li>
<li><b>Xen Hypervisor 4.2.0</b>: <a href="download/index_4.2.0.html">Download</a> (<a href="/products/xen_archives.html">archives</a>) <img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="17"/></li>
<li><b>Xen Hypervisor 4.1.3</b>: <a href="download/index_4.1.3.html">Download</a> (<a href="/products/xen_archives.html">archives</a>) </li>
<li><b>Xen Cloud Platform 1.1</b>: <a href="download/xcp/index_1.1.0.html">Download</a> (<a href="/products/xcp/archives.html">archives</a>)</li>
<h3>Xen Hypervisor Download</h3>
<p>Xen 4.2.0 is available <a href="/download/index_4.2.0.html">here</a>. <img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="20"/> </p>
<p>Xen 4.1.3 is available <a href="/download/index_4.1.3.html">here</a>. </p>
-<p>Xen 4.0.4 is available <a href="/download/index_4.0.4.html">here</a>. </p>
<p>Xen 3.4.4 is available <a href="/download/index_3.4.4.html">here</a>. </p>
<h3>Xen Cloud Platform Download</h3>
-<p>XCP 1.6 beta is available <a href="/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html">here</a> (replacing 1.5 beta). <img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="20"/> </p>
-<p>XCP 1.1 is available <a href="/download/xcp/index_1.1.0.html">here</a>.</p>
+<p>XCP 1.6 is available <a href="/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html">here</a>. <img src="/images/icons/new.png" align="top" height="20"/> </p>
<h3>Archived products</h3>
<h4>XCI Download</h4>
<p>The current XCI product in development is available <a href="/products/xci_source.html">here</a>. </p>
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