This document has been updated since it was published! Updates are marked in blue. On January 3rd, 2018, Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar…
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Updated to v3 on Dec 12th! Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen…
Some recent patches to the QEMU source fix a long standing problem where the PV vkbd backend was unable to function correctly without the PV fb backend, which effectively made…
The Xen Project is comprised of a diverse set of member companies and contributors that are committed to the growth and success of the Xen Project Hypervisor. The Xen Project…
I am pleased to announce the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.10. As always, we focused on improving code quality, security hardening as well as enabling new features. The…
This blog post was written by Dr. Felipe Huici, Chief Researcher, Systems and Machine Learning Group, at NEC Laboratories Europe  The team at NEC Laboratories Europe spent quite a bit…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.7.4 and 4.9.1. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users…
On Monday, we created Xen 4.10 RC1 and will release a new release candidate every MONDAY, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen…
Mohsen Mostafa Jokar is a Linux administrator who works at the newspaper Hamshahri as a network and virtualization administrator. His interest in virtualization goes back to when he was at…
It has long been the case that all HVM guests under Xen are provided with a PV console. You can attach to this console in the same way that you…
Today we released three patches for the following vulnerabilities: XSA-213, XSA-214 and XSA-215. Xen Project follows industry-accepted best practices regarding software security. This includes observing an embargo period, during which…
Today, we created Xen 4.9 RC1 and will release a new release candidate every week, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen 4.9…
We’re excited to announce that registration and the call for proposals is open for Xen Project Developer and Design Summit 2017, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary from…
This is a quick announcement that the Xen Project is again participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a program that awards three-month paid stipends to University students to work…
Issuing advisories has a cost: It costs the security team significant amounts of time to craft and send the advisories; it costs many of our downstreams time to apply, build,…
I’m pleased to announce the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8. As always, we focused on improving code quality, security hardening as well as enabling new features. One area…
Dear community members, I’m pleased to announce that Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> will be the Release Manager for the next Xen release. The appointment was voted by the Committers and the…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.6.4 and 4.7.1. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users…
On Monday, we created Xen 4.8 RC1 and will release a new release candidate every week, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen…
I’m pleased to announce the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.7 and Xen Project Hypervisor 4.6.3. Xen Project Hypervisor 4.7 This new release focuses on improving code quality, security hardening,…
We recently announced the program and speakers for our Xen Project Developer Summit happening in Toronto, Canada from August 25-26, 2016. The event will be co-located with LinuxCon North America….
The Xen Project’s code contributions have grown more than 10% each year. Although growth is extremely healthy to the project as a whole, it has its growing pains. For the…
This is a guest blog post by Rich Persaud, former member of the Citrix XenServer and XenClient engineering and business teams. He is currently a consultant to BAE Systems, working…
Yesterday we created Xen 4.7 RC2 and will release a new release candidate every Wednesday, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen 4.7…
The Xen Project has experienced incredible growth in our community (see diagram on the right) and simultaneously the Xen Project advisory board has funded a lot of great projects that…