XCAT_2.17_Release_Notes - xcat2/xcat-core GitHub Wiki
2.17 Release Notes (November 13, 2024)
Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior
Features
Operating System Support
- RHEL/Alma/Rocky 9.4
- RHEL/Alma/Rocky 8.10
- For complete list of supported operating systems see xCAT2 Release Information and Compute node support matrix
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
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xcat-core
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.17.0-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.17.0-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.17.0-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.17.0-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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 |