[ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.17 GA release is available

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Hi,
OFED-4.17 is available at:
https://openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-4.17/OFED-4.17.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info

Please report any issues in bugzilla
http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/ for OFED 4.17

Release notes:
http://openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/release_notes/OFED_4.17-release_notes


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OFED-4.17 Main Changes from OFED-4.8-2
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1. Add support for RHEL7.5 and SLES15

2. Remove support for RHEL7.0,7.1,7.2,7.3, and SLES12.0,12.1,12.2

3. compat-rdma
- Based on kernel.org kernel 4.17
- Fixed cma_configfs backport
- Fixed SRP backport
- openibd: unload bnxt_en on restart/stop
- i40iw: remove support for ib_get_vector_affinity
- qed: Fix shmem structure inconsistency between driver and the mfw.

4. Updated packages
- rdma-core v17.2
- perftest-4.4-0.5.g1ceab48
- opensm 3.3.21
- infiniband-diags-2.1.0
- mstflint-4.10.0
- ofed_scripts
- libfabric-1.6.2
- fabtests-1.6.2


Regards,
Vladimir