Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4 Released

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 10, 2025,
updated Apr 10, 2025

Quoting: Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4 Released —

Almost five months after its previous 8.3 release, Proxmox, a powerful, free, open-source virtualization platform with over 1.5 million installed hosts worldwide, unveiled its latest version, Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4.

One of the most notable highlights of this new version is the introduction of live migration with mediated devices. Mediated devices, such as the NVIDIA vGPU, can now be seamlessly transferred between nodes within a cluster while the virtual machines remain active.

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Another One From Linuxiac:

• Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 Brings Performance and Sync Enhancements

  A day after releasing Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4, the company announced the global availability of another offering, Proxmox Backup Server 3.4, which focuses on performance optimization and user-friendly enhancements.

  For those unfamiliar with it, Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise open-source backup and recovery solution that integrates seamlessly with Proxmox Virtual Environment. It allows simple storage configuration and provides tools like deduplication, compression, and encryption for streamlined and secure backups.

  Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 employs chunk-based data storage and relies on a garbage collection process to eliminate unused data segments after removing backup snapshots.

And this:

• Distribution Release: Proxmox 8.4 "Virtual Environment"

  Proxmox is a commercial company offering specialised products based on Debian, notably Proxmox Virtual Environment and Proxmox Mail Gateway. The company has announced its release of Proxmox 8.4 "Virtual Environment" which introduces new hardware support, an API for third-party backups, and Virtiofs passthrough. [...]