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Weekly Updates Archive
Every weekly digest published since the series began. Most recent first.
30 updates, most recent first.
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: May 18–May 25, 2026
A productive week with fru-tracker reaching v0.2.4, coresmd v0.6.2 landing multi-subnet DHCP, and a new HPC-VM RFD opening up. Also some real SMD bugs surface around RedfishEndpoint parsing. Highlights fru-tracker v0.2.4 + reconciliation enhancements: fru-tracker v0.2.4 and v0.2.3 ship. Highlights:…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: May 11–May 18, 2026
A landmark week — metadata-service v0.1.0 ships as a first release alongside smd v2.20.0 with optional tokensmith authentication, plus an ochami boot service status command and a fabrica health-endpoint addition. Highlights metadata-service v0.1.0 — first release: metadata-service v0.1.0 ships. The…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: May 04–May 11, 2026
A big week. Seven releases including inventory-service v0.1.0 (the first tag), a built-in MCP server in fabrica, a Single System Image RFD on the table, and group-membership-from-SMD in boot-service. Highlights inventory-service v0.1.0 — the first release: inventory-service v0.1.0 tags. Months…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Apr 27–May 04, 2026
Five releases this week, the first tagged ipxe-binaries release with Broadcom firmware support, and continued UCL 2026 Summit final-prep. Plus the first Dependabot PRs landing in cloud-init — the cross-org dep-update story is gaining ground. Highlights ipxe-binaries v0.1.0 — first…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Apr 20–Apr 27, 2026
A strong release week with five tags shipping, the first ever gpg-signing-manager PR, and an OpenAPI discovery RFD on the table. Highlights gpg-signing-manager opens up: gpg-signing-manager PR #1 — the first PR on this repo — from synackd switches to…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Apr 13–Apr 20, 2026
Two big themes: a six-PR inventory-service cleanup sprint from shunr-hpe, and the OpenCHAMI Developer Summit @ UCL 2026 agenda getting its final shape. Plus a tokensmith RFC 8693 refactor and the closure of a long-standing boot-service legacy-API issue. Highlights inventory-service…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Apr 06–Apr 13, 2026
A focused week with coresmd gaining tokensmith-backed authentication, inventory-service adding a memberships API, and a new Flexible Hardware Identification RFD on the table. Highlights TokenSmith-backed service auth for coresmd: coresmd PR #60 from alexlovelltroy implements TokenSmith-backed authentication for the coresmd…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Mar 30–Apr 06, 2026
A very busy week — tokensmith ships its first three releases, inventory-service and fabrica integration deepens, and several long-running issues close. Highlights tokensmith reaches its first releases: Three tags this week — tokensmith v0.0.1, v0.0.2, and a jump to v0.3.0.…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Mar 23–Mar 30, 2026
A heavy week with four releases shipping, the flexible hostname-policy work in coresmd finishing up, and Dependabot starting to roll across the org. Highlights Four releases in seven days: smd v2.19.3, coresmd v0.6.0, ochami v0.7.1, and a fru-tracker pr-18 cut.…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Mar 16–Mar 23, 2026
The remote-console import from CSM lands and clears a stack of old issues, a coresmd refactor separates packages cleanly, and the OpenCHAMI Developer Summit @ UCL 2026 gets Cambridge day-0 details. Highlights remote-console comes online: remote-console PR #15 from cjh1…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Mar 09–Mar 16, 2026
A week dominated by aarch64 support across multiple components and a parallel REUSE compliance push. New opaal release, structured-logging proposal for bss, and documentation continues to accrete. Highlights aarch64 support across opaal and local-ca: A coordinated push closes opaal #7…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Mar 02–Mar 09, 2026
A busy week with significant inventory-service foundational work, fru-tracker polish, and a fresh ochami v0.7.0 release. Highlights ochami v0.7.0 released: ochami v0.7.0 ships this week, building on the v0.6.x line. inventory-service foundational work: shunr-hpe lands a batch of PRs setting…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Feb 23–Mar 02, 2026
Recent Highlights (Feb 16–Feb 23, 2026) Highlights Expanded Architecture Support Work is underway to add aarch64 support in container images, improving compatibility on ARM-based systems. Improved Health & Version Monitoring A proposal to add health and version endpoints aims to…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Feb 16–Feb 23, 2026
Feb 09 – Feb 16, 2026 Highlights Enhanced DNS Security: The coresmd repo added the Response Rate Limiting (RRL) plugin, improving DNS server resilience against abuse and attacks. #45 Profile-Based Configuration Control: In metadata-service, new features to manage metadata and…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Feb 09–Feb 16, 2026
Activity Highlights (Feb 06–Feb 13, 2026) Highlights Enhanced DNS Security: A new pull request adds support for the RRL (Response Rate Limiting) plugin to the coresmd service, helping mitigate DNS abuse and improve reliability. Flexible DNS Configuration: Proposed feature to…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Feb 06–Feb 13, 2026
Highlights Enhanced DNS capabilities in coresmd: Added support for the rrl plugin to improve DNS response rate limiting, plus proposed per-interface DNS entries for finer control. ( Issue #44, Issue #43, PR #45) Security upgrade in boot-service: Introduced JWT support…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Feb 02–Feb 09, 2026
A solid week across fabrica, metadata-service, and ochami — including the first ochami v0.6.1 patch and a fresh fabrica v0.4.0 release that lines up with the kubebuilder-style versioning work. Highlights fabrica v0.4.0 ships kubebuilder-style versioning: fabrica v0.4.0 is the first…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Jan 26–Feb 02, 2026
A quieter week focused on image-builder improvements and a notable new cloud-init feature request. The openchami.org repo also saw a bulk maintenance sweep across older digest and event PRs. Highlights Image-builder runtime improvements: image-builder PR #54 adds support for module…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Jan 19–Jan 26, 2026
A focused week dominated by ARM cross-compilation fixes in power-control, HTTP-client and Redfish improvements in smd, and forward motion on the 2026 Developer Summit. Highlights ARM cross-compilation gets sorted in power-control: A run of merged PRs — power-control #62 (migrate…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Jan 12–Jan 19, 2026
Highlights Improved API docs access: Proposal to rename the /swagger endpoint to /docs in fabrica for clearer, user-friendly API documentation paths. Bulk device management: Feature request in fabrica to simplify device deletion with a clear command or multi-device delete, addressing…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Jan 05–Jan 12, 2026
(Last 7 Days) Highlights Storage Upgrade in tutorial-2025: Proposal to replace MinIO with Versity Gateway for improved storage backend. Issue #11 Fixing Image Build on x86 Nodes: Bug reported where image-build v0.1.2 fails on x86 architecture, impacting build consistency. Issue…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 29, 2025–Jan 05, 2026
A quiet holiday-week digest — most maintainers were away. Activity picks back up next week. Highlights Network-config endpoint lands in metadata-service: metadata-service PR #2 implements the v1 /network-config endpoint and enriches metadata with network interface details, an early step toward…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 22–Dec 29, 2025
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…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 15–Dec 22, 2025
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…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 08–Dec 15, 2025
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:…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Dec 01–Dec 08, 2025
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…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Nov 24–Dec 01, 2025
(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…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Nov 17–Nov 24, 2025
(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…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Nov 10–Nov 17, 2025
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…
OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest: Nov 03–Nov 10, 2025
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,…