Proxmox 9 was released, based on Debian 13 (Trixie), with some interesting new features.
Here are the highlights: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_9.0
Upgrade from 8 to 9 readme: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9
Known issues & breaking changes: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#9.0-known-issues
Yay, it only took 2 hours and the help of an llm since the upgrade corrupted my lvm metadata! Little bit of post cleanup and verifying everything works. Now I can go to sleep (it’s 5am).
Wasn’t that bad, but not exactly relaxing. And when my VMs threw a useless error (‘can’t start need manual fix’) I might have slightly panicked…
Thanks for posting this and reminding me to never go back to Proxmox. My Proxmox server killed itself and all VM’s twice before I moved onto HyperV.