Citrix Tech Wire

Estimate Azure VM monthly costs during catalog creation
Visualization of provisioning cost insights for machine catalogs
Convert MCS-provisioned machine catalogs from master images to using prepared images
Service accounts creation now supports proxy configuration through NSG proxy for Azure AD Identity Management
Create custom schedules in Autoscale to turn off unused VMs in a delivery group on specific days to reduce unnecessary resource consumption
Monitor Connector Appliance's health under the Infrastructure monitoring dashboard

GACS

ControlUp’s RemoteDX Plug-in Management

Gateway Service

Compliant with System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 2, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Geo-location Routing is now generally available for StoreFront
Addition of AWS PoP in Hyderabad, India

ITSM Adapter service

Support for Yokohama version of ServiceNow
ServiceNow Event Management integration
Error handling improvements
Performance enhancements around system reliability, scalability, and response times

Provisioning

Create MCSIO enabled MCS machine catalogs in AWS environments

Unified Communications SDK

Unified Communications SDK 4.1.0 is now generally available to real-time communications technology vendors

What's New

Endpoint screen capture (Tech Preview)
Session Reconnect handling for browser applications
Support for restarting ICE gathering
Support for iceCandidatePoolSize in RTCConfiguration
Better error handling and compliance improvements

Workspace Environment Management (WEM) service

What's New:

Support for importing AppLocker rules in WEM web console
Profile cleanup tool to efficiently manage storage space and enhance security
Use the Citrix Profile Migration Tool to migrate data from Windows roaming profiles to Citrix container-based profiles
All versions of Profile Management supported through 2503

Citrix Workspace app

User Interface (UI)

Activity Manager enabled by default
Admins can now manage the power management controls such as shut down, force shut down, and hibernate virtual sessions using Citrix Cloud

Virtual Channel SDKs

Download | Documentation for Windows, Linux

Workspace app for Android 2503

Workspace app for iOS 2503

Workspace app for Mac 2503.10

Workspace app for Windows 2503.2

Download | Documentation

Tech Preview

Citrix Workspace app

Unified Workspace APIs
View all Citrix Workspace app features in Tech Preview

Director (in CVAD 2503)

HDX

Monitor

Platform

GACS supports hybrid launch
Multi-site management and end-user resource aggregation

Provisioning and App Layering

Citrix Integration with Nutanix Prism Central on AHV
Enrollment of Hybrid Entra ID joined non-persistent VMs into Microsoft Intune
Citrix Integration with Azure Local for Linux Workload

Virtual Delivery Agents (VDAs)

VDA Upgrade Service multi-release support

Early Access Release

CVAD LTSR 2507

CVAD LTSR 2402 CU3

Citrix StoreFront LTSR 2507

New Resources

Citrix Community Articles

NetScaler

Now Available

NetScaler (ADC)

Release notes (NetScaler Kubernetes Gateway Controller, NetScaler Ingress Controller 3.0.5

NetScaler Kubernetes Gateway Controller (Kubernetes Gateway API implementation) for microservices application delivery
GSLB local site selection order: Upon receiving DNS request, GSLB to respond with local site LB Vserver IP first when local K8s cluster apps are healthy

Latest EPA Libraries

NetScaler Console (ADM)

What’s New

Enhanced HDX Insight visibility at the VPN virtual server level
Support to view Web Insight analytics for IPv6 virtual servers

Tech Preview

NetScaler VPX image for Nutanix AHV

Learn more

New Resources

Deployment guides

Deploy NetScaler Kubernetes Gateway Controller

Secure Private Access (SPA)

Now Available

Secure Private Access Hybrid

(Installed through the Cloud Connector)

Integration with Google Chrome Enterprise Premium

Secure Private Access service

Integration with Google Chrome Enterprise Premium

Citrix Secure Access and Citrix EPA client for Ubuntu

What's New

Single sign-on support with Windows Hello based login
Support for hostname-based application access over UDP in Secure Private Access
Support for hostname-based application access with DTLS enabled
Enhanced plug-in upgrade behavior in the EPA client

Tech Preview

Secure Private Access integration with Monitor

New Resources

Citrix Community Article

Introducing Observability and Monitoring for Secure Private Access: A Strategic Imperative

XenServer

Now Available

XenServer Updates

Normal Channel Updates - May 27, 2025

What's New

IntelliCache now supports SMB3 and shared LVM (iSCSI and HBA storage)

Improvements:

Decrease the number of DNS lookups to Active Directory
Improve kernel stability for storage
Logging improvements in storage I/O management
Updates to collected telemetry

Normal Channel Updates - May 12, 2025

Security Fix

XenServer and Citrix Hypervisor Security Update for CVE-2024-28956

Improvements:

Work around for Ice Lake erratum ICX143, which manifests as a hang on boot

XenServer 2025.2.0

Improved live patching advice. XenCenter displays extra guidance when partial live patches are available for a set of updates. Use this information to avoid unnecessary host reboots.
Improvements to the VM import mechanism. You are now prompted to select a template when importing VMs from disk images, which provides greater consistency between imported VMs.
Ensure compatibility between XenCenter and the latest XenServer updates. If you attempt to apply a set of updates to your pool that are not compatible with your current version of XenCenter, XenCenter blocks the update and prompts you to update your XenCenter to the latest version. This check ensures that your XenCenter does not lose connection with your pool during the update process.
Improvements to the root password change options. The option to change the pool root password is now shown only on the Pool menu. It was previously also shown on the Server menu.
When you select multiple pools or standalone hosts to apply licenses to at the same time, XenCenter now handles these pools in parallel, rather than sequentially. This change speeds the licensing process.
When a host exits maintenance mode, the previously evacuated VMs are now returned to it in parallel instead of one at a time. This speeds up the process of moving VMs back to their original host.
Resolves multiple issues including blank performance graphs for XenServer 8.4, unsaved network settings, crashes during HA events, toolstack update errors, UI bugs, import failures, and problems with saved hosts, AD domain access, and update wizards.

XenServer VM Tools for Windows 9.4.1

Fixed Issues:

In some cases, with XenServer VM Tools 9.4.0 installed, Windows 11 cannot be upgraded from 23H2 to 24H2
The Management Agent can sometimes crash on VM reboot or startup
Some Windows VMs can experience unexpected hard reboots
All customers who are affected by the issue described in CTX692748 - XenServer and Citrix Hypervisor Security Bulletin should update to this version of the tools or later

Conversion Manager 8.5.0*

VM template association: When converting a VM, you can associate it with a XenServer guest template. Using a template in the conversion ensures that the converted VMs have consistent configurations and behave more reliably.
XenServer VM Tools configuration: As part of the conversion process, you can now configure whether the Windows drivers included in the XenServer VM Tools for Windows are automatically updated.

*Note: To use these features in Conversion Manager 8.5.0, ensure that your XenCenter is using 2025.2 or above.

SDK 2.17.0