Hi Vinicius and the rest of the team, Many thanks to you all.
I'm sure I speak for many members of the xCAT community when I say we're delighted to see that the project will continue to receive ongoing support—hopefully at least until I retire! 🙂 Thank you again for taking this on. It's genuinely appreciated, and I'm looking forward to seeing where the project goes from here. Best regards, Chris ________________________________ From: VinÃcius Ferrão via xCAT-user <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2026 12:10 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Cc: VinÃcius Ferrão <[email protected]> Subject: [xcat-user] Announcement: xCAT 2.18.0 released Dear xCAT community, We are pleased to announce that xCAT 2.18.0 has been released. This release marks an important milestone for the project: xCAT is actively maintained and moving forward, reinforcing our recent commitment to the continuity of the project. 2.18 is a major modernization effort, bringing xCAT to current platforms: Enterprise Linux 10, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and SLES 15 SP7 — while moving away from the legacy components the codebase had long depended on. Highlights: * New platform support - Provisioning support for Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10 and it's clones), Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and SLES 15 SP7 * Modernized dependency stack - OpenSSL 3.x for certificate and host key generation - systemd replaces legacy SysV init handling (no more hacking around init.d) - NetworkManager/nmcli replaces legacy network-scripts - makedns/DDNS reworked for Net::DNS >= 1.36 and bind >= 9.18 - grub2 replaces yaboot for genesis and node discovery - genesis dracut modules updated to the dracut 105+ format - libvirt 11 compatibility via updated perl-Sys-Virt, enabling mkvm on EL10 * New DHCP backend: Kea - A new site attribute, dhcpbackend (default: auto), selects the appropriate backend per platform: Kea on EL 10+ and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or newer; ISC DHCP on legacy releases * BMC / IPMI / OpenBMC reliability - Numerous compatibility and robustness fixes across hardware vendors Full release notes: - https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fxcat2%2Fxcat-core%2Fwiki%2FXCAT_2.18_Release_Notes&data=05%7C02%7C%7C339dc1cfe3324c1e9e2108dedd462cee%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639191490653507114%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Y89Wcg%2FpSW19zoA1qxVAZqruoPVj%2BwGg8dCOS9OLmRU%3D&reserved=0<https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/wiki/XCAT_2.18_Release_Notes> Our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed code, testing, reviews, and feedback to make this release possible. Special thanks to our fellow members of the xCAT Consortium — and especially to Markus Hilger, who first reached out to us to keep this project alive. We welcome your feedback, bug reports, and contributions: https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fxcat2%2Fxcat-core&data=05%7C02%7C%7C339dc1cfe3324c1e9e2108dedd462cee%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639191490653544153%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=53RtDibm5A5nq2V4ch6u6p%2Fj%2BbprmA%2FQEBlDxGsUFxo%3D&reserved=0<https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core> Best regards, VinÃcius Ferrão / VersatusHPC on behalf of the xCAT Consortium _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.sourceforge.net%2Flists%2Flistinfo%2Fxcat-user&data=05%7C02%7C%7C339dc1cfe3324c1e9e2108dedd462cee%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639191490653566692%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tC%2FUYDlD0xqfgiQjFtX9hTDyeEbc4jTldqGRakV4KIQ%3D&reserved=0<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user>
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