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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hi, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">OFED 1.3 RC1 release is available on</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.3/OFED-1.3-rc1.tgz"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.3/OFED-1.3-rc1.tgz</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Please report any issues in bugzilla </FONT><A HREF="https://bugs.openfabrics.org/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">https://bugs.openfabrics.org/</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The RC2 release is expected on December 27</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Tziporet & Vlad </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Release information: </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">OS support: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Novell: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - SLES10 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - SLES10 SP1 and up1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Redhat: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - Redhat EL4 up4 and up5 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - Redhat EL5 and up1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">kernel.org: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc2</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Systems: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * x86_64 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * x86 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * ia64 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> * ppc64</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Main Changes from OFED 1.3-beta</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Fix SDP stability issues</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Force 32bit libraries installation on the SLES10 SP1 U1</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Open MPI: Enable compilation when using compilers that were not installed as RPMs.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">RDS: clean up handling of congested destinations vs poll</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">RDS: Fix download issue when removing low level driver (fix was in CMA)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">IPoIB: Fix kernel Oops resulting from xmit following dev_down.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">MPI packages update:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mvapich-1.0.0-1639.src.rpm</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">openmpi-1.2.5rc1-1.src.rpm</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mpitests-3.0-773.src.rpm</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mlx4 specific changes:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Fix segmentation fault in</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mlx4_clear_xrc_srq.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Fix max_eq's read from FW in QUERY_DEV_CAP.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Post send in the kernel is now using WQE building block.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Set default CQ moderation parameters for IPoIB</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ehca specific changes:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Fix error of sense context opts with multiple adapter</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Add files for older abi_versions</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Tasks that should be completed for RC2 release:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1. IPoIB performance improvements for small messages</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">2. Fix bugs</FONT>
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