xCAT_2.12_ReleaseInformation

New Function

High Level summary of completed functions for xCAT 2.12.x. See individual release notes for more details.

Completed

2.12.5

• Special release only to be used by Power775 Team. Limited testing done.

2.12.4

• RHELS 7.3 OS support
• noboot option to control discovery deployment on correct network interfaces
• Added additional xcatprobe functions

2.12.3

• Manage IBM OpenPower S822LC for HPC, "Minsky" Servers (8335-GTB)
• Switch-based Switch discovery support
• Ubuntu 16.04.1 OS Support

2.12.2

• new compression options for packimage
• Improvements to status reporting
• Added additional xcatprobe functions

2.12.1

• Created tool to easily install xCAT [go-xcat]
• Introduced a framework for diagnostics tool [xcatprobe]
• lsdef supports creating definitions using shipped template files
• rinstall command revived to help install OS images without the need to remember hardware architecture specific xCAT commands

2.12.0

• Enhance the selection logic when installing OS on servers with multiple disks [get_install_disk]
• Added the ability to debug the OS install process interactively [site.xcatdebugmode]
• Docker Lifecycle support (Beta)
• Provide a tool to help predict the network interface names implemented in systemd v197 [getadapter]
• Ubuntu 16.04 (ppc64le, x86_64)
• Ubuntu 14.04.04 (ppc64le, x86_64)
• RHELS 6.8 (ppc64, x86_64)

Release Schedule

Version	Date	Release Notes	Issues
2.12.0	May 20, 2016	xCAT 2.12.0 Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR
2.12.1	Jul 08, 2016	xCAT 2.12.1 Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR
2.12.2	Aug 19, 2016	xCAT 2.12.2 Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR
2.12.3	Sep 30, 2016	xCAT 2.12.3 Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR
2.12.4	Nov 11, 2016	xCAT 2.12.4 Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR
2.12.5	May 5, 2017	xCAT 2.12.5 Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR