XCAT_2.16.3_Release_Notes

2.16.3 Release Notes (under development)

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

• RHEL 8.4

• For complete list of supported operating systems see xCAT2 Release Information and Compute node support matrix

Highlighted Changes

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.16.3-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.16.3-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.16.3-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.16.3-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Test Environment

Hardware Platforms and Operating Systems which have been verified:

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

Key Issues Resolved

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

Restrictions and Known Issues