Bug Fixes In This Version

4659210

Description: The system incorrectly permits users to configure the internal CPU model to "Separated" mode, even though this mode is deprecated and no longer supported.

Keywords: Modes of operation

Reported in version: 4.9.4

4924239

4817141

Description: The RShim USB device may intermittently disappear from the DPU BMC, causing operations that rely on it to fail with a Failed to enable BMC rshim error.

Keywords: RShim USB; out-of-band update

Discovered in version: 4.9.4

4929721

4848119

Description: A BlueField-2 UEFI boot-time regression added approximately 20 seconds to system startup.

Keywords: BlueField-2; boot time; UEFI

Discovered in version: 4.9.4

4982730

Description: After a host power cycle, (particularly when ENABLE_BMC_WAIT=1 is configured), the UEFI boot progress is not completely logged in the BMC SEL. The expected System boot initiated event is missing, and an incorrect event message is logged instead.

Keywords: System Event Log; UEFI boot progress

Discovered in version: 4.9.4

4983438

Description: During BlueField boot, the BlueField BIOS/UEFI may fail to acquire a DHCP IP address from the BMC for Redfish communication. This would cause the BIOS to bypass the Redfish step and to ignore any configuration changes in Redfish.

Keywords: DHCP; BIOS; UEFI

Discovered in version: 4.9.4

5000684

Description: After upgrading a BFB image, UEFI boot entries may disappear, and the BootOrder may change in the efibootmgr output.

Keywords: EFI; BFB upgrade

Discovered in version: 4.9.4

5030858

Description: When running the doca-installer tool with the --show-running-fw flag, the utility may intermittently fail to read the CEC firmware component version, displaying N/A in the output list.

Keywords: CEC firmware; version reading error

Discovered in version: 4.9.4

5040557

Description: After a BFB update and system power cycle, the host mlx5_core driver may fail to initialize.

Keywords: BlueField; boot timeout

Discovered in version: 4.9.4

5041514

Description: Timing dependencies during boot can lead to the BMC misinterpreting SEL boot logs.

Keywords: Logging

Discovered in version: 4.9.4

5031932

4234285

Description: During BlueField boot, the BlueField BIOS/UEFI may fail to acquire a DHCP IP address from the BMC for Redfish communication. This would cause the BIOS to bypass the Redfish step and to ignore any configuration changes in Redfish.

Keywords: DHCP; BIOS; UEFI

Discovered in version: 4.9.4