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Normal channel updates

March 18, 2026

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Updates progress from the Early Access update channel to Normal on a regular cadence. The following features, preview features, improvements, and bug fixes are available in the Normal update channel.

Note:

This article doesn’t list all changes in the Normal channel, just a subset. For the full and up-to-date set of changes available, see the information in the XenCenter® Updates view.

File based licensing system EOL notification

License Activation Service (LAS) is the next generation technology for product activations across the suite of Citrix® products.

Note:

File based licensing system, traditionally used for activating various on-premises components, will be End of Life (EOL) on April 15, 2026.

LAS will be the only way to activate and license Citrix on-premises components after April 15, 2026. To remain supported, your XenServer® deployment must be on a LAS compatible version.

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Should you have questions or concerns, contact Customer Care. Citrix may limit or suspend your Citrix Maintenance for non-compliance with these requirements without liability in addition to any other remedies Citrix may have at law or equity. These requirements don’t apply where prohibited by law or regulation.

Mar 18, 2026

Checksum: 0e3647a4f77c8f52e9df18776988a3df99809565d3231cbdc7b6b68a79710a76

These updates include the following improvements:

Add qlogic-qla2xxx driver

These updates include upstream code changes for the following issues:

CVE-2024-12243
CVE-2025-32990
CVE-2025-32988
CVE-2025-32989
CVE-2025-6395
CVE-2025-9820
CVE-2025-14831
CVE-2026-1584

Mar 17, 2026

Checksum: 7ef0e9139be7686bf2b8ab3fe6e2323c5c8e9c1625e94b63dcdbfe82ef17f8c8

These updates include security fixes. For more information, see the Security Bulletin.

These updates include the following improvements:

Optimizations to VM migration process to reduce migration time for heavily loaded VMs on systems using AMD processors.

Mar 5, 2026

Checksum: fcdc08d17f088b98e6326f8b1173b15803b5135e5759c3f34c3f631157607358

These updates contain foundational changes.

Feb 26, 2026

Checksum: bb6f87ab348e9bb0ce519aac852952f13bf9e59231f67447d41511a77c69dc02

These updates include fixes for the following issues:

In some situations, a VM export operation can fail to complete.
A VDI copy operation initiated by a user with the “VM Power Admin” role may incorrectly result in a permissions error.

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Normal channel updates

March 18, 2026

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