OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest

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 tagged release: ipxe-binaries v0.1.0 ships, building on long-standing PR #1 (attestations, from late 2024) plus this week’s PR #3 from abhishek-sa1 (ipxe v2.0.0 for latest Broadcom firmware NIC support).
• inventory-service gains a Hardware resource type: inventory-service PR #20 from shunr-hpe adds the Hardware resource — a key model for the Flexible Hardware Identification RFD.
• fabrica v0.4.2 + docs cleanup: fabrica v0.4.2 ships, plus seantronsen’s fabrica PR #43 lands the documentation cleanup that closed earlier complaints about outdated tutorials.
• release v0.1.5 + coresmd v0.4.3 bump: release v0.1.5 ships, and release PR #51 bumps coresmd v0.4.0 → v0.4.3 in the release definition.
• kube-deploy gets CI: kube-deploy PR #9 from rainest proposes adding CI; PR #8 fixes a “not-quite numbers” YAML quoting issue.
• Dependabot active in cloud-init: Three new dep bumps opened in cloud-init — #105 go-jose v4, #106 golang.org/x/crypto, #107 mapstructure v2. Dependabot is doing its job; reviewers needed.
• UCL 2026 Summit final-prep: Final presenters update by dominicfriend, and the UCL page expanded to multiple pages for clearer attendee navigation.

New & Notable PRs#

• ipxe v2.0.0 for Broadcom firmware NICs (ipxe-binaries #3) by abhishek-sa1
• Hardware resource type (inventory-service #20) by shunr-hpe
• fabrica documentation cleanup (fabrica #43) by seantronsen
• Add CI (kube-deploy #9) by rainest
• Expanded UCL pages (openchami.org #98) by alexlovelltroy

Issues to Watch#

No fresh blockers this week; activity is on the PR side.

Releases#

• release v0.1.5
• fabrica v0.4.2
• coresmd v0.4.3 (via release PR #51)
• ipxe-binaries v0.1.0 — first tagged release
• boot-service v0.1.2 (from last week, surfaced now)

Contributor Thanks#

• abhishek-sa1 — Broadcom firmware NIC support in ipxe-binaries.
• shunr-hpe — Hardware resource type in inventory-service.
• rainest — kube-deploy CI proposal + YAML quoting fix.
• dominicfriend, alexlovelltroy, green-br — UCL 2026 Summit final-prep content.
• seantronsen — fabrica documentation cleanup.

What’s next?#

• Review and merge the three open cloud-init Dependabot PRs.
• Move kube-deploy CI PR #9 toward landing.
• Final UCL 2026 Summit content review before the event.

Proposed Blog Titles#

1. “ipxe-binaries v0.1.0: Modern NICs, Modern Boot”
2. “Hardware as a Resource: How inventory-service Models the Stack”
3. “CI for kube-deploy: Catching Regressions Earlier”