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xCAT is an open-source tool for automating deployment, scaling, and management of bare metal severs and virtual machines.
xCAT offers complete management for HPC clusters, RenderFarms, Grids, WebFarms, Online Gaming Infrastructure, Clouds, Datacenters etc. xCAT provides an extensible framework that is based on years of system administration best practices and experiences. It is agile, extensible and powerful.
Note: this wiki is only for release information, and security notices. xCAT user documentation is at ReadTheDocs
| Version | Release Notes | Issues |
|---|---|---|
| 2.17 (stable) | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.5 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.4 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.3 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.2 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16.1 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.16 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.15.1 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.15 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.14 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.13 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
| 2.12 | Release Notes | Closed Issues/PR |
Security Notices for xCAT has been moved to here: Security Notices
- Notices from 2014
- SSLv3 POODLE Attack CVE-2014-3566
- [Heartbleed bug vulnerability CVE-2014-0160](Heartbleed bug vulnerability CVE-2014-0160)
- Bash vulnerablity CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187, CVE-2014-6277, and CVE-2014-6278
xCAT is developed under the Eclipse Public License.
- 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.