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XCAT_2.17_Release_Notes

Markus Hilger edited this page Nov 13, 2024 · 6 revisions

2.17 Release Notes (November 13, 2024)

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

Highlighted Changes

  • Support for newer IPMI ciphers
  • Alpha support for aarch64 (requires manual setup of qemu-user-static and grub2)
  • Support for building stateless images for ppc64le and aarch64 on x86_64 management node (requires manual setup of qemu-user-static and grub2)
  • grub2 boot support for x86_64 and aarch64
  • Support for macvtap VM nics
  • Improve EL 9 support (especially confignetwork)
  • Improve Dell/Supermicro BMC support
  • Genesis fixes

xCAT Documentation

xCAT documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/

Download xCAT

Test Environment

Hardware Platforms and Operating Systems which have been verified:

Hardware Platform Operation System
x86 RHEL/Alma/Rocky 9.4
x86 RHEL/Alma/Rocky 8.10
x86 SLES 15.4
x86 SLES 12.5
x86 Ubuntu 18.04.2
x86 Ubuntu 16.04.6

Key Issues Resolved

Pull Requests and Issues Resolved

Restrictions and Known Issues

News

History

  • Oct 22, 2010: xCAT 2.5 released.
  • Apr 30, 2010: xCAT 2.4 is released.
  • Oct 31, 2009: xCAT 2.3 released. xCAT's 10 year anniversary!
  • Apr 16, 2009: xCAT 2.2 released.
  • Oct 31, 2008: xCAT 2.1 released.
  • Sep 12, 2008: Support for xCAT 2 can now be purchased!
  • June 9, 2008: xCAT breaths life into (at the time) the fastest supercomputer on the planet
  • May 30, 2008: xCAT 2.0 for Linux officially released!
  • Oct 31, 2007: IBM open sources xCAT 2.0 to allow collaboration among all of the xCAT users.
  • Oct 31, 1999: xCAT 1.0 is born!
    xCAT started out as a project in IBM developed by Egan Ford. It was quickly adopted by customers and IBM manufacturing sites to rapidly deploy clusters.
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