FYI, 2402 LTSR CU2 was released yesterday. No release notes that I can find yet.

Odd, didn't pop on my RSS feed.

Release notes: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/2402-ltsr/whats-new/cumulative-update-2

interesting note: Federated Authentication Service You may experience performance issues when generating user certificates within the FAS server. To enable the performance improvement, configure the following registry key on the FAS server: • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Citrix\Authentication\UserCredentialService • Name: SignerCaching • Type: REG_SZ • Value: on [CVADHELP-26878]

no server 2025 support on the VDA, dang.

No SCVMM 2025 support either so my customers on Azure Local look like they'll need to move off LTSR to CR by June to stay in support.

I want to move to CR, as well. No reason to stay on LTSR anymore in Citrix Cloud for us. We'd be updating at the same frequency.

PVS doesn't support that same backward compat, correct? if you need a target device with server 2025, basically you also need to upgrade the backend to that version (2411) as well?

I think you're correct on that, yes.