Changes and New Feature History
This section includes history of 3 major releases back. For older releases history, please refer to the relevant firmware versions.
Feature/Change | Description |
26.47.1026 | |
Enable/Disable ECN in Upstream | Added the ability to enable or disable ECN in the upstream by allowing the MODIFY_CONG_STATUS and QUERY_CONG_STATUS commands in mlx5_fwctl. |
Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |
Feature/Change | Description |
26.46.3048 | |
Security Hardening Enhancements | This release contains important reliability improvements and security hardening enhancements. NVIDIA recommends upgrading your devices firmware to this release to improve the devices’ firmware security and reliability. |
Feature/Change | Description |
26.46.1006 | |
RSS with Crypto Offload | Added support for RSS with crypto offload enabling the NIC to parallelize packet processing across CPU cores while performing encryption/decryption in hardware. Additionally, introduced a new l4_type_ext parameter with values: 0 (None), 1 (TCP), 2 (UDP), 3 (ICMP). |
Incoming NC-SI Messages Validation for the payload_len Field | Added an extra validation for the payload_len field in incoming NC-SI messages. Previously, invalid packets might have been accepted; now, such packets are silently dropped. |
Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |
Feature/Change | Description |
26.45.1020 | |
Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |
Feature/Change | Description |
26.44.1036 | |
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) | Enhanced traffic management of PTP packets to reduce their impact on regular network traffic. |
NV config | Added a new NV config (SM_DISABLE, default 0) which, when enabled, blocks SMP traffic that does not originate from the SM. |
Dynamic Long Cables | Added the ability to set cable length as a parameter in the PFCC access register. The cable length is used in the calculation of RX lossless buffer parameters, including size, Xoff, and Xon thresholds. |
Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |