Recommended Hotfixes for Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1

Recommended Hotfixes for Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1

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Description

This article contains the minimum set of hotfixes to install to get your Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 installation up to date. If you use the Automated Updates feature of XenCenter, this is the set of hotfixes that are installed.

Download the minimum set of hotfixes from the product downloads page.

Note: Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 reaches end-of-life in June 2025. Upgrade to XenServer 8.4 before this time.

If you install Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 by using an installation ISO released after Jun 1, 2023, some of the hotfixes on this list are included in your installation. For more information, see Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 - Base Installation ISO - updated June 2023. You can install any hotfixes not included in this ISO in any of the the usual ways.

Before installing any hotfixes, ensure that you are using the latest version of XenCenter. For more information, see the Citrix Hypervisor product downloads page. There are many upcoming changes taking place in XenCenter which may require you to take necessary actions to continue to receive support for your Citrix Hypervisor and XenServer deployments. For more information, see Upcoming changes in XenCenter.

 

Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Some hotfixes remain listed in this table even though they are rolled up by subsequent hotfixes. These hotfixes are prerequisites for hotfixes to other components. For more information, see the hotfix articles.

Note: These hotfixes are available only to customers on the Customer Success Services program.

Hotfix Notes Prerequisite hotfixes Required tasks for after hotfix application
Hotfix XS82ECU1035 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: Fixes to Citrix Crypto Module

This hotfix includes the following improvements:

  • Updated Citrix Crypto Module to version 1.1.1t for general fixes and improvements.

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None Restart the toolstack
Hotfix XS82ECU1040 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: fixes to Toolstack

This hotfix includes the following improvement:

  • Enables hotfix XS82ECU1045 to expose additional Intel CPU features to the VMs.

    This set of CPU features (listed in MSR_ARCH_CAPS) enable significant performance improvements for VMs hosts on pools of servers with Cascade Lake or later Intel CPUs.

    To benefit from this change:

    1. All hosts in your pool must have Cascade Lake or later CPUs.
    2. Install this hotfix.
    3. Install Hotfix XS82ECU1045.
    4. Restart all hosts in the pool.
    5. Restart the VMs in the pool to enable them to see the new CPU features.

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None Restart the toolstack
Hotfix XS82ECU1048 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: fixes to Dom0 user space

This hotfix includes the following improvements:

  • Enable interrupt balancing for Fibre Channel (FC) PCI devices. This improves performance on fast FC HBA SRs, especially if multipathing is used.
None None
Hotfix XS82ECU1054 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: Security fixes to Dom0 user space files

This security hotfix addresses the vulnerabilities as described in the Security Bulletin above.
Note: Ensure that you install all the hotfixes listed in the Security Bulletin to address the described vulnerabilities.

None None
Hotfix XS82ECU1068 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: Security fixes to Xen Device Model

This security hotfix addresses the vulnerabilities as described in the Security Bulletin above.

Note: Security mitigations for CPU hardware vulnerabilities can impact system performance. Any impacts are typically workload dependent.

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None None
Hotfix XS82ECU1071 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: fixes to Clustered Storage

This hotfix resolves the following issue:

  • A storage leak on GFS2 SRs caused by deleted snapshots not being released after garbage collection.

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None None
Hotfix XS82ECU1075 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: fixes to Storage Manager

This hotfix includes the following improvements:

  • Update to the multipath configuration for HPE MSA SANs.
  • Update to the multipath configuration for Dell Arrays.
  • Update to the multipath configuration for IBM SAN Volume Controller 2145/2147.
  • Optimize data management in vhd-util coalesce.

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None None
Hotfix XS82ECU1079 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: fixes to Dom0 kernel

This hotfix resolves the following issues:

  • Sometimes, when a host crashes, the host fails to create a crash dump and gets stuck in a non-operational state until it is rebooted.
  • In a pool with a GFS2 SR, sometimes a failure in the distributed lock manager can cause a host to fail and require a reboot.
  • On the Lenovo SR635V3 AMD platform, memory temperatures cannot be read by the platform causing the server fan to run at maximum speed regardless of system load.

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None Restart the Citrix Hypervisor server
Hotfix XS82ECU1081 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: fixes to Open vSwitch

This hotfix includes the following improvement:

  • Update Open vSwitch to version 2.5.3-2.3.14.

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None Restart the Citrix Hypervisor server
Hotfix XS82ECU1083 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: fixes to Dom0 user space files

This hotfix includes the following improvements:

  • Upstream code changes for the following issues:
    • CVE-2024-12084
    • CVE-2024-12085
    • CVE-2024-12086
    • CVE-2024-12087
    • CVE-2024-12088
    • CVE-2024-12747
    • CVE-2015-2716

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None None
Hotfix XS82ECU1084 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: fixes to Toolstack

This hotfix resolves the following issues:

  • In pools with a large number of hosts, changing the pool master can fail and leave the proposed new master in a broken state. After this failure, XenCenter cannot connect to either the old or the new pool master. To recover any pools that had previously experienced this issue run the commands on the original pool master: "xe pool-emergency-transition-to-master" and "xe pool-recover-slaves".

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None Restart the toolstack
Hotfix XS82ECU1085 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: Support for CentOS Stream 10

This hotfix includes the following improvements:

  • Support for the CentOS Stream 10 operating system.

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

None None
Hotfix XS82ECU1086 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1

Public Availability: Security Updates to Xen and microcode

This security hotfix addresses the vulnerabilities as described in the Security Bulletin above. In addition, it includes the following changes:

  • Upstream code change for CVE-2025-1713 - deadlock potential with VT-d and legacy PCI device pass-through.

Note: Security mitigations for CPU hardware vulnerabilities can impact system performance. Any impacts are typically workload dependent.

This hotfix also includes the following previously released hotfixes:

  • XS82ECU1040
Restart the Citrix Hypervisor server

 

Issue/Introduction

This article contains the minimum set of hotfixes to install to get your Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 installation up to date. If you use the Automated Updates feature of XenCenter, this is the set of hotfixes that are installed.

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