| .. _skiboot-5.4.0-rc3: |
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| ================= |
| skiboot-5.4.0-rc3 |
| ================= |
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| skiboot-5.4.0-rc3 was released on Wednesday November 2nd 2016. It is the |
| third release candidate of skiboot 5.4, which will become the new stable |
| release of skiboot following the 5.3 release, first released August 2nd 2016. |
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| skiboot-5.4.0-rc3 contains all bug fixes as of :ref:`skiboot-5.3.7` |
| and :ref:`skiboot-5.1.18` (the currently maintained stable releases). |
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| For how the skiboot stable releases work, see :ref:`stable-rules` for details. |
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| Since this is a release candidate, it should *NOT* be put into production. |
| |
| The current plan is to release a new release candidate every week until we |
| feel good about it. The aim is for skiboot-5.4.x to be in op-build v1.13, which |
| is due by November 23rd 2016. |
| |
| Over :ref:`skiboot-5.4.0-rc2`, we have a few changes: |
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| - pflash: Fail when file is larger than partition |
| You can still shoot yourself in the foot by passing --force. |
| - core/flash: Don't do anything clever for OPAL_FLASH_{READ, WRITE, ERASE} |
| This fixes a bug where opal-prd and opal-gard could fail. |
| Fixes: `<https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/issues/44>`_ |
| - boot-tests: force BMC to boot from non-golden side |
| - fast-reset: Send special reset sequence to operational CPUs only. |
| Fixes fast-reset for cases where there are garded CPUs |
| - Secure/Trusted boot: be much clearer about what is being measured where. |
| - Secure/Trusted boot: be more resilient to disabled TPM(s). |
| - Secure/Trusted boot: The ``force-secure-mode`` NVRAM setting introduced |
| temporarily in :ref:`skiboot-5.4.0-rc2` has changed behaviour. Now, by |
| default, the ``secure-mode`` flag in the device tree is obeyed. As always, |
| any skiboot NVRAM options are in no way ABI, API or supported and may cause |
| unfinished verbose analogies to appear in release notes relating to the |
| dangers of using developer only options. |
| - gard: Fix compiler warning on modern GCC targetting ARM 32-bit |
| - opal-prd: systemd scripts improvements, only run on supported systems |