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xCAT is an open-source tool for automating deployment, scaling, and management of bare metal severs and virtual machines.
xCAT offers complete management for HPC clusters, RenderFarms, Grids, WebFarms, Online Gaming Infrastructure, Clouds, Datacenters etc. xCAT provides an extensible framework that is based on years of system administration best practices and experiences. It is agile, extensible and powerful.
NOTE: Release 2.17 is the first non-IBM release released by the xCAT consortium.
Note: this wiki is only for release information, and security notices. xCAT user documentation is at ReadTheDocs
General Release Information and Planning
| Version | Release Notes | Issues |
|---|---|---|
| 2.17 (stable) | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.5 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.4 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.3 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.2 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.1 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.15.1 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.15 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.14 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.13 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.12 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
Security Notices
Security Notices for xCAT has been moved to here: Security Notices
- Notices from 2014
- SSLv3 POODLE Attack CVE-2014-3566
- [Heartbleed bug vulnerability CVE-2014-0160](Heartbleed bug vulnerability CVE-2014-0160)
- Bash vulnerablity CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187, CVE-2014-6277, and CVE-2014-6278
xCAT is developed under the Eclipse Public License.