[ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.17-1 GA release is available

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Hi,
OFED-4.17-1 is available at:
http://openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-4.17-1/OFED-4.17-1.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info

Please report any issues in bugzilla
http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/ for OFED 4.17-1

Release notes:
http://openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/release_notes/OFED_4.17-1-release_notes

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OFED-4.17-1-GA Main Changes from OFED-4.17
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1. Add support for RHEL7.6 and SLES12 SP4

2. compat-rdma
- Module.supported: Added new Mellanox kernel modules
- bnxt_en: Fix bnxt_en compilation for RH 7.6
- Add vmw_pvrdma patch from linux-next
- compat: Move bpf_prog_sub to be exported by compat

3. Updated packages
- rdma-core v17.5
- perftest-4.4-0.6.gba4bf6d
- opensm-3.3.22
- mstflint-4.11.0-4
- libfabric-1.7.1
- fabtests-1.7.1

4. ofed-scripts
- install.pl: Updated rdma-core requirements
- install.pl: Disable compat-rdma-firmware on SLES12SP4 due to conflict
- install.pl: Added SLES12 SP4 support
- install.pl: Added RHEL7.6 support
- install.pl: Added openssl-devel requirement for mstflint


Regards,
Vladimir