XCAT_2.14.3_Release_Notes - xcat2/xcat-core GitHub Wiki

• Ubuntu 18.04
• SLES 12.3

• xCAT GPG key updated

pub   4096R/CA548A47 2018-06-22 [expires: 2037-08-20]
      Key fingerprint = F2A2 306F 7EB3 3463 487F  7B84 6858 3856 CA54 8A47
uid                  xCAT Automatic Signing Key <[email protected]>

• xcat-inventory v0.1.5

  • compatibility between xcat-inventory schema version and xCAT release
  • the default format of inventory file is changed to "yaml"
  • support new inventory type "credential"

• performance issue fix for Large Scale Cluster

  • high CPU utilization when starting xcatd on Service Node Issue #5505
  • getopenbmccons does not work efficiently Issue #5507
  • hierarchicalattrs cause bad performance when querying nodes attributes Issue #5534
  • skip cumulus discovery if the static dhcp lease of switch already exists Issue #5528
  • skip switches which have no port connect to switchs and pdus for switch discovering Issue #5527

• goconserver v0.3.1

  • Support console broadcast mode(Restriction: Not support hierarchy)
  • Fix the systemd unit file error

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

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.14.3-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.14.3-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.14.3-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.14.3-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Issue #5517 Comma-separated syncfiles lists not supported by packimage

Issue #5454 rflash -d <dir> option fails to reboot Node Host/OS that is up/running

Issue #5436 xcatd starts conserver instead of goconserver on SNs

Issue #5276 rflash slow to respond and two operations can hang

Issue #5299 rflash over a range using the directory option, ends early with no reason

Issue #5312 rflash can not display error if firmware file upload has failed

Issue #5118 SLES12.3 supporting issue

Issue #4014 Command makedhcp failed silently when invalid mac address is used in node definition

Issue #3854 CentOS7: missing wget in installation chroot blocks postinstallationscripts

Issue #5121 rspconfig failed to set bmc ip etc in some specific condition

Issue #3513 For the latest xCAT-genesis-base, the mlx4_en driver 2.2-1 (Feb 2014) is included, it can not support Mellanox Ethernet NIC that need driver newer than 2.2-1, for more information, please reference build genesis locally with latest RH MN

Issue #5057 This issue cannot be reproduced, and the work around is : check the bmc state use rflash <node> -l, if the target firmware state is Active(+), execute rpower <node> boot to reboot the host and let new firmware take effect.

Issue #3284 While selinux on KVM host was reconfigured from enforcing to disabled, rpower failed to power previous created KVM guest on