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FreeIPMI 1.6.1 Released
Item posted by Albert Chu <chu11> on Fri 02 Feb 2018 11:47:29 PM UTC.
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.6.1.tar.gz
FreeIPMI 1.6.1 - 02/02/18
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o Add IPv6 hostname support to FreeIPMI, all of FreeIPMI can now
take IPv6 addresses as inputs to "host" parameters, options, or
inputs.
o Support significant portions of IPMI IPv6 configuration in
libfreeipmi.
o Add --no-session option in ipmi-raw.
o Add SDR cache options to ipmi-config.
o Legacy -f short option for --flush-cache and -Q short option
for quiet-cache. Backwards compatible for tools that supported
it before.
o In ipmi-oem, support Gigabyte get-bmc-services and set-bmc-
services.
o Various performance improvements:
- Remove excessive calls to secure_memset to clear memory.
- Remove excessive memsets and clears of data.
- Remove unnecessary "double input checks".
- Remove expensive input checks in libfreeipmi fiid library.
Fallout from this may include FIID_ERR_FIELD_NOT_FOUND errors
in different fiid functions.
- Remove unnecessary input checks in libfreeipmi fiid library.
- Add recent 'lookups' of fields in fiid library to internal
cache.
o Various minor fixes/improvements
- Update libfreeipmi core API to use poll() instead of
select(), to avoid issues with applications with a high
number of threads.
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