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XCAT_2.16.2_Release_Notes
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RHEL 8.3
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Beta support for SLES 12.4, SLES 15.1 (ppc64le), SLES 15.2 (x86_64)
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Beta support for Oracle Linux 8.3 and 7.9
- Basic diskfull and diskless provisioning is functional
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For complete list of supported operating systems see xCAT2 Release Information and Compute node support matrix
- xNBA has been updated to an iPXE 1.20.1 base
- Missing file elilo-x86.efi has been added to elilo-xcat-3.14-6_all.deb
- RHEL 8: changed default diskfull partitioning from ext4 to xfs
- RHEL 8: updated xcatsnap to search for files for collection from additional locations
- SLES 12: changed default diskfull partitioning from btrfs to xfs for ppc64le
- getinstdisk now supports OS install on nvme disks
xCAT documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/
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xcat-core
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.16.2-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.16.2-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.16.2-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.16.2-ubuntu.tar.bz2
| Hardware Platform | Operation System |
|---|---|
| IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 8.3 |
| IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 8.2 |
| IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 7.6-Alt |
| IBM Power System AC922 | SLES 15.1 |
| IBM Power System AC922 | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
| IBM Power System S822LC | RHEL 8.3 |
| IBM Power System S822LC | RHEL 8.2 |
| IBM Power System S822LC | RHEL 7.7 |
| IBM Power System S822LC | SLES 12.4 |
| IBM Power System S822LC | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
| IBM Power System S822LC | Ubuntu 16.04.5 |
| IBM iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 8.3 |
| IBM iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 8.2 |
| IBM iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 7.6 |
| IBM iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 15.2 |
| IBM iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 12.4 |
| IBM iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
| IBM iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 16.04.6 |
Issue #6947 CentOS 8.3 xCAT 3.0 copycds can't recognize cumulus image
Issue #6942 Updates needed to files collected by xcatsnap
Issue #6923 getinstdisk erroneously stated to have found kernel files where there are none
Issue #6918 Support for Oracle Linux 7 and Oracle Linux 8
Issue #6882 kvm plugin bug, pid 234651, process description: 'xcatd SSL: rpower to vm1 for root@localhost: kvm instance' with error 'Not a HASH reference at /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/kvm.pm line 823.
Issue #6880 xCAT fails install on Ubuntu 18.04 (using go-xcat)
Issue #6873 go-xcat on Ubuntu fails to uninstall
Pull Requests and Issues Resolved
- Nov 13, 2024: xCAT 2.17 released.
- Mar 08, 2023: xCAT 2.16.5 released.
- Jun 20, 2022: xCAT 2.16.4 released.
- Nov 17, 2021: xCAT 2.16.3 released.
- May 25, 2021: xCAT 2.16.2 released.
- Nov 06, 2020: xCAT 2.16.1 released.
- Jun 17, 2020: xCAT 2.16 released.
- Mar 06, 2020: xCAT 2.15.1 released.
- Nov 11, 2019: xCAT 2.15 released.
- Mar 29, 2019: xCAT 2.14.6 released.
- Dec 07, 2018: xCAT 2.14.5 released.
- Oct 19, 2018: xCAT 2.14.4 released.
- Aug 24, 2018: xCAT 2.14.3 released.
- Jul 13, 2018: xCAT 2.14.2 released.
- Jun 01, 2018: xCAT 2.14.1 released.
- Apr 20, 2018: xCAT 2.14 released.
- Mar 14, 2018: xCAT 2.13.11 released.
- Jan 26, 2018: xCAT 2.13.10 released.
- Dec 18, 2017: xCAT 2.13.9 released.
- Nov 03, 2017: xCAT 2.13.8 released.
- Sep 22, 2017: xCAT 2.13.7 released.
- Aug 10, 2017: xCAT 2.13.6 released.
- Jun 30, 2017: xCAT 2.13.5 released.
- May 19, 2017: xCAT 2.13.4 released.
- Apr 14, 2017: xCAT 2.13.3 released.
- Feb 24, 2017: xCAT 2.13.2 released.
- Jan 13, 2017: xCAT 2.13.1 released.
- Dec 09, 2016: xCAT 2.13 released.
- Dec 06, 2016: xCAT 2.9.4 (AIX only) released.
- Nov 11, 2016: xCAT 2.12.4 released.
- Sep 30, 2016: xCAT 2.12.3 released.
- Aug 19, 2016: xCAT 2.12.2 released.
- Jul 08, 2016: xCAT 2.12.1 released.
- May 20, 2016: xCAT 2.12 released.
- Apr 22, 2016: xCAT 2.11.1 released.
- Mar 11, 2016: xCAT 2.9.3 (AIX only) released.
- Dec 11, 2015: xCAT 2.11 released.
- Nov 11, 2015: xCAT 2.9.2 (AIX only) released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT 2.10 released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT migrates from sourceforge to github
- Jun 26, 2015: xCAT 2.7.9 released.
- Mar 20, 2015: xCAT 2.9.1 released.
- Dec 12, 2014: xCAT 2.9 released.
- Sep 5, 2014: xCAT 2.8.5 released.
- May 23, 2014: xCAT 2.8.4 released.
- Jan 24, 2014: xCAT 2.7.8 released.
- Nov 15, 2013: xCAT 2.8.3 released.
- Jun 26, 2013: xCAT 2.8.2 released.
- May 17, 2013: xCAT 2.7.7 released.
- May 10, 2013: xCAT 2.8.1 released.
- Feb 28, 2013: xCAT 2.8 released.
- Nov 30, 2012: xCAT 2.7.6 released.
- Oct 29, 2012: xCAT 2.7.5 released.
- Aug 27, 2012: xCAT 2.7.4 released.
- Jun 22, 2012: xCAT 2.7.3 released.
- May 25, 2012: xCAT 2.7.2 released.
- Apr 20, 2012: xCAT 2.7.1 released.
- Mar 19, 2012: xCAT 2.7 released.
- Mar 15, 2012: xCAT 2.6.11 released.
- Jan 23, 2012: xCAT 2.6.10 released.
- Nov 15, 2011: xCAT 2.6.9 released.
- Sep 30, 2011: xCAT 2.6.8 released.
- Aug 26, 2011: xCAT 2.6.6 released.
- May 20, 2011: xCAT 2.6 released.
- Feb 14, 2011: Watson plays on Jeopardy and is managed by xCAT!
- xCAT OS And Hw Support Matrix
- 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.