The next official release date has not been finalized, but it will be before the end of March.
My team has not been testing RHEL 9, but github user Obihörnchen has made many significant contributions to improve the RHEL 9 support. Thank you, Obihörnchen, for all of your contributions related to RHEL 9 and other general improvements. Based on feedback from Obihörnchen and Gilad, the state of RHEL 9 support is good enough that we will claim beta support for RHEL 9 in the next release. There may still be additional improvements needed for full support, however. I would encourage anyone interested in RHEL 9 support to download the latest xCAT development build and try out RHEL 9 in your test environment as soon as possible. The current development builds are very stable based on our internal testing and will allow anyone interested in RHEL 9 support to try it out and provide additional fixes before the next official release. Instructions on how to install development builds using either go-xcat or using the xcat.org repositories directly can be found here: http://xcat.org/download.html ________________________________ From: Gilad Berman <gber...@lenovo.com> Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 5:24 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Garrett, Charles <cgarret...@bellflight.com> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Next Release I would like to second Jerrod’s statement regarding Confluent for EL9, if you want to give it a try. As for xcat rhel9 support, we are also curious regarding the plans for official support on the next release. We did made it work (including ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd I would like to second Jerrod’s statement regarding Confluent for EL9, if you want to give it a try. As for xcat rhel9 support, we are also curious regarding the plans for official support on the next release. We did made it work (including stateless and statelite) and if there’s interest, we can gather our notes and share. Probably better to try it with latest xcat-dep after the merge of the two commits below (which, honestly, took care of the hard parts of the porting, so I assume some people on this list knows the topic better). I can find some time and try it again. https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/commit/87d2b8fad2904152adcc27d5c3e0c7a0eb3495e9<https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/commit/87d2b8fad2904152adcc27d5c3e0c7a0eb3495e9> https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/commit/16b58193f826962c1cf65f3c7c7b2a3b2dc5f92f<https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/commit/16b58193f826962c1cf65f3c7c7b2a3b2dc5f92f> One way or the other, we will have a detailed doc in few weeks that we plan to share. Gilad Berman HPC Architect, Lenovo EMEA gber...@lenovo.com<mailto:gber...@lenovo.com> +972-522554262 [cid:image001.png@01D93CE3.F63D3730] From: Jarrod Johnson <jjohns...@lenovo.com> Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:24 To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Garrett, Charles <cgarret...@bellflight.com> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Next Release I've heard second hand some people at least rigging up EL9, but I didn't have details. Ultimately they made it sound doable, but without details I'm unable to be more helpful on that.. My team has done EL9 (RH, CentOS Stream, Alma, Rocky, Oracle) in confluent OS deployment for anyone that cares. ________________________________ From: Garrett, Charles via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 2:04 PM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Cc: Garrett, Charles <cgarret...@bellflight.com<mailto:cgarret...@bellflight.com>> Subject: [External] [xcat-user] Next Release Does anyone know when the next release will occur? Will the next release support RHEL 9? I’m going to build a new cluster soon and would prefer to use RHEL 9 if possible. Kris Garrett Principal Engineer - HPC Bell Textron, Inc
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