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Weekly Updates
Weekly engineering, roadmap, and ops updates.
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 22–Dec 29, 2025
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest Dec 15–Dec 22, 2025 Highlights Two new pull requests are underway aiming to improve community engagement and content delivery across OpenCHAMI projects. In the openchami.org repository, a PR titled “OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 15–Dec 22, 2025” is preparing a user-friendly update to keep the community informed on recent activity. The community repo has a new PR “Feature/weekly update” to streamline sharing weekly updates and potentially increase participation. Both contributions are authored by alexlovelltroy, highlighting ongoing commitment to community communication.
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 15–Dec 22, 2025
# OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest ## Highlights - **Dual-stack networking improved**: Added DHCPv6 support and enhanced documentation, helping users deploy IPv4/IPv6 networks more easily ([coresmd #41](https://github.com/OpenCHAMI/coresmd/pull/41)). - **New DNS header plugin**: Introduced a new header plugin to the DNS server, allowing more customization for DNS traffic handling ([coresmd #42](https://github.com/OpenCHAMI/coresmd/pull/42)). - **Bug fix needed on Fabrica startup**: SQLite backend causes startup failures in Fabrica when using the "ent" backend, currently under investigation ([fabrica #28](https://github.
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 08–Dec 15, 2025
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest Dec 01 – Dec 08, 2025 Highlights Expanded Hardware Support: Ongoing work to support air-cooled Grace-Grace ARM CPU nodes in ex-bootstrap. Enhanced DHCPv6 Support: Added DHCPv6 support in coresmd, improving dual-stack network configurations for modern environments. Improved Serial Console Access: Introducing RF SerialConsole support in magellan for better remote management. API Package Generation: New feature in fabrica to generate API packages for existing modules/applications, streamlining developer workflows. Versioning Improvements: Added Kubebuilder-style versioning in fabrica and new versioning features in metadata-service.
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 01–Dec 08, 2025
Nov 24 – Dec 01, 2025 Highlights Simpler API package generation requested for the fabrica repo, aiming to streamline module and application integrations. CoreDNS plugin enhancement: The coresmd repo added a “Fallthrough” feature to improve DNS routing flexibility. Power-control security boosted with OAuth2 token-based authentication for SMD requests, improving access control (power-control #56). Image-builder usability improved by allowing users to add extra DNF arguments, giving more control over system image builds (image-builder #51).
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Nov 24–Dec 01, 2025
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest (Last 7 Days) Highlights New Release Updates BSS advanced with v1.32.2 release improving stability and features. Ochami launched v0.6.0 delivering new capabilities and bug fixes. Release repo updated to v0.1.2 enhancing container management reliability. Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements Resolved SELinux access issue in coresmd-coredns container to improve Corefile access reliability (issue #39, PR #40). Fixed error when adding duplicate BMC entries in Ochami (issue #55). Security & Policy Enhancements
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Nov 17–Nov 24, 2025
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest (Last 7 Days) Highlights SELinux compatibility fix underway: Resolving an issue where the coresmd-coredns container struggles to read the Corefile reliably under SELinux access controls (issue #39, PR #40). Enhancing CoreDNS plugin: Implementation started for a new Fallthrough feature in the CoreSMD CoreDNS plugin to improve DNS resolution flexibility (issue #30). Improved secret management: Ongoing work to better handle secret storage within the kube-deploy project for safer deployments (issue #3).
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Nov 10–Nov 17, 2025
Nov 10–Nov 17, 2025 Highlights Documentation polish: A bug causing long empty space on the OpenCHAMI tutorial page was reported, aiming to improve the user reading experience. Image build fix in progress: Users on x86 nodes face building issues with image-build:v0.1.2 (issue #50), targeting smoother infrastructure setup. Firmware Management Service proposal: Functional specs for a new service to streamline firmware workflows were initiated (roadmap #119). Event updates: Multiple conference entries for 2026 added along with refreshed logos on the website, helping users stay informed about upcoming community events (PR #51).
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Nov 03–Nov 10, 2025
Highlights Multi-architecture support advancing: Image Builder continues to expand with a new open PR for multi-arch manifests (#49) and an enhancement issue focused on multi-arch image manifests (#15). Improved SMD APIs: Feature request for idempotent update APIs in SMD is open, alongside active work adding SerialConsole and CommandShell support to Redfish (Feature #79, PR #81). Power control updates: Latest SMD images integrated via a merged PR, boosting stability and capabilities (PR #55).