Lars Kurth

Lars Kurth is a highly effective, passionate community manager with strong experience of working with open source communities (Symbian, Symbian DevCo, Eclipse, GNU) and currently is community manager

Lars Kurth
Xen Project 4.11.1 and 4.8.5 are available
Dec 13 2018

I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.11.1 and 4.8.5. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the 4.11 and 4.8 stable series update to the latest point release. These

Celebrating 15 Years of the Xen Project and Our Future
Oct 23 2018

In the 1990s, Xen was a part of a research project to build a public computing infrastructure on the Internet led by Ian Pratt and Keir Fraser at The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. The Xen Project is now one of the most popular open source hypervisors and amasses more

A Recap of the Xen Project Developer and Design Summit: Community Health, Development Trends, Coding Changes and More
Jul 27 2018

We were extremely thrilled to host our Xen Project Developer and Design Summit in Nanjing Jiangning, China this June. The event brought together our community and power users under one roof to collaborate and to learn more about the future of our project. It also gave us the opportunity to

Xen Project Hypervisor 4.11 Brings Cleaner Architecture to Hypervisor Core Technologies
Jul 10 2018

Latest release adds PVH functionality for better security and performance SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2018 – The Xen Project, hosted by The Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.11. The latest release adds new PVH-related functionality to simplify the interface between the Xen Project Hypervisor/Support

Xen Project 4.10.1 Available
May 03 2018

I am pleased to announce the release of 4.10.1. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the 4.10 stable series update to the latest point release. These releases are available from their git repositories * xenbits.

Announcing the Xen Project 4.11 RC and Test Day Schedules
Apr 18 2018

On Tuesday, we created Xen 4.11 RC1 and will release a new release candidate every FRIDAY, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen 4.11 release. We will also hold a Test Day every TUESDAY for the release candidate that was released

The Xen Project is participating in 2018 Summer round of Outreachy
Feb 13 2018

This is a quick reminder that the Xen Project is again participating in Outreachy (May 2018 to August 2018 Round). Please check the Outreachy application page for more information. Outreach Program for Women has been helping women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people get involved in free and

Meet us at FOSDEM 2018
Feb 01 2018

As in the past, the Xen Project will have a booth at Europe’s biggest open source conference FOSDEM (taking place February 3rd and 4th in Brussels, Belgium). Where? During FOSDEM community volunteers will man our booth, which is located in bulding K (level 1, group C). Meet the Team!

Xen Project Spectre / Meltdown FAQ (Jan 22 Update)
Jan 22 2018

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 processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users

Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ
Jan 04 2018

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 Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the impact and our next steps forward, we put together the

The Xen Project Welcomes Bitdefender to its Advisory Board
Dec 18 2017

Leading security vendor joins open source project to support and accelerate hypervisor’s growth SAN FRANCISCO, December 18, 2017 – The Xen Project, a project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity technology company protecting 500 million users worldwide, is a new Advisory Board member. The

Xen Project Hypervisor 4.10 Focuses on Security, Improved User Experience, and Future Proofing
Dec 14 2017

Rearchitecture and new user interface provide for cleaner and smaller codebase SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, 2017 – The Xen Project, hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.10. The latest release continues to take a security-first approach with improved architecture and more centralized documentation.