FreeIPMI 0.8.8 Released

[Albert Chu]

FreeIPMI 0.8.8 has been released. It can be downloaded at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/download.html

What is IPMI?

The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification
defines a set of interfaces for platform management.  It is
implemented by a large number of hardware manufacturers to support
system management on motherboards. The features of IPMI that most
users will be interested in are sensor monitoring (i.e. CPU
temperatures, fan speeds), remote power control, and serial-over-LAN
(SOL).

What is FreeIPMI?

FreeIPMI provides in-band and out-of-band IPMI software based on the
IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification.  FreeIPMI provides tools and libraries
for users to access and read IPMI sensor readings, system event log
(SEL) entries, serial-over-LAN (SOL), remote power control functions,
field replaceable unit (FRU) device information, and more.  More
information about FreeIPMI can be found at the FreeIPMI webpage at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/index.html

Release 0.8.8 Changes
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o Support Supermicro 'get-bmc-services-status' and
  'set-bmc-services-status' in ipmi-oem.
o Support bmc-watchdog 'ignorestateflag' workaround around more issues.
o Support Open Session Privilege Workaround around more related
  compliance issues.
o Fix bmc-watchdog --version option.
o Fix legacy workaround corner case in channel detection for Intel
nodes.
o Support Quanta reset-to-defaults command in ipmi-oem.
o Modify ipmiconsole protocol to not deactivate SOL protocol is SOL is
  already deactivated.
o Modify ipmiconsole protocol to not error out under several malformed
  packet scenarios.
o Fix ipmiping/rmcpping command line parsing corner case.
o Minor documentation updates.
o Minor error message output fixes.
o Support --without-random-device configure option for some embedded
systems.

Al

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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory