DGX OS 5 Software Release Notes
Release information for all users of DGX OS 5 software.
Latest Update: November 22, 2022
Table of Contents
- 1. DGX OS Releases and Versioning
- 2. DGX OS 5 Releases
- 2.1. New Features in DGX OS Release 5.4
- 2.2. New Features in DGX OS Release 5.3
- 2.3. New Features in DGX OS Release 5.2
- 2.4. New Features in DGX OS Release 5.1
- 2.5. New Features in DGX OS Release 5.0
- 2.6. Update History
- 2.6.1. Update: November 22, 2022
- 2.6.2. Update: October 14, 2022
- 2.6.3. Update: June 7, 2022
- 2.6.4. Update: May 17, 2022
- 2.6.5. Update: April 28, 2022
- 2.6.6. Update: February 17, 2022
- 2.6.7. Update: December 14, 2021
- 2.6.8. Update: October 26 , 2021
- 2.6.9. DGX OS 5.1 Release: August 26, 2021
- 2.6.10. Update: June 30 , 2021
- 2.6.11. Update: June 20 , 2021
- 2.6.12. Update: June 2, 2021
- 2.6.13. Update: May 27, 2021
- 2.6.14. Update: May 06, 2021
- 2.6.15. Update: April 20, 2021
- 2.6.16. Update: April 13, 2021
- 2.6.17. Update: March 30, 2021
- 2.6.18. Update: March 2, 2021
- 2.6.19. Update: February 23, 2021
- 2.6.20. Update: January 20, 2021
- 2.6.21. Update: December 11, 2020
- 2.6.22. DGX OS 5.0 Release: October 31, 2020
- 3. Known Issues Summary
- 3.1. Known Issues Details
- 3.1.1. Regression of CUDA application startup performance
- 3.1.2. NVSM Stress Test Logs Do Not Contain Summary Information
- 3.1.3. Unsupported Installation Options Appear in the ISO GRUB Menu
- 3.1.4. nvidia-release-upgrade May Report That Not All Updates Have Been Installed and Exit
- 3.1.5. EFI Boot Manager Lists Ubuntu as a Boot Option
- 3.1.6. Duplicate EFI Variable May Cause efibootmgr to Fail
- 3.1.7. Erroneous Insufficient Power Error May Occur for PCIe Slots
- 3.1.8. AMD Crypto Co-processor is not Supported
- 3.1.9. nvsm show alerts Reports NVSwitch PCIe Link Width is Degraded
- 3.1.10. nvsm show health Reports Firmware as Not Authenticated
- 3.1.11. Running NGC Containers Older than 20.10 May Produce “Incompatible MOFED Driver” Message
- 3.1.12. System May Slow Down When Using mpirun
- 3.1.13. Software Power Cap Not Reported Correctly by nvidia-smi
- 3.1.14. Forced Reboot Hangs the OS
- 3.1.15. Applications that call the cuCTXCreate API Might Experience a Performance Drop
- 3.1.16. NVIDIA Desktop Shortcuts Not Updated After a DGX OS Release Upgrade
- 3.1.17. Unable to Set a Separate/xinerama Mode through the xorg.conf File or through nvidia-settings
- 3.2. DGX OS Resolved Issues Details
- 3.2.1. NVSM Platform Displays as Unsupported
- 3.2.2. cudaMemFree CUDA API Performance Regression
- 3.2.3. NVSM Enumerates NVSwitches as 8-13 Instead of 0-5
- 3.2.4. BMC is not Detectable After Restoring BMC to Default
- 3.2.5. A System with Encrypted rootfs May Fail to Boot if one of the M.2 drives is Corrupted
- 3.2.6. NVSM Fails to Show CPU Information on Non-English Locales
- 3.2.7. Driver Version Mismatch Reported
- 3.3. Known Limitations Details
- 3.3.1. No RAID Partition Created After ISO Install
- 3.3.2. NSCQ Library and Fabric Manager Might Not Install When Installing a New NVIDIA Driver
- 3.3.3. System Services Startup Messages Appear Upon Completion of First-Boot Setup
- 3.3.4. Hot-plugging of Storage Drives not Supported
- 3.3.5. Syslog Contains Numerous "SM LID is 0, maybe no SM is running" Error Messages
- 3.3.6. Serial Over LAN Does not Work After Cold Resetting the BMC
- 3.3.7. Some BMC Dashboard Quick Links Appear Erroneously
- 3.3.8. Applications Cannot be Run Immediately Upon Powering on the DGX-2
- 3.3.9. [DGX-1]: Script Cannot Recreate RAID Array After Re-inserting a Known Good SSD
- 3.3.10. [DGX Station A100] Suspend and Power Button Section Appears in Power Settings
- 3.3.11. [DGX-2] NVSM Does not Detect Downgraded GPU PCIe Link
- 3.1. Known Issues Details
- A. Downgrading Firmware for Mellanox ConnectX-4 Cards
- B. DGX Software Stack
- Notices