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This is a long-term support (LTS) release. LTS is the practice of maintaining a software product for an extended period of time (up to three years) to help increase product stability. LTS releases include bug fixes and security patches.

This LTS version 5.8-2.0.3.0 should be used by customers who would like to utilize ConnectX-4 adapter cards and above and keep using sable 5.8-x deployment while getting the following:

  • Critical bug fixes
  • Support for new major operating systems

For other use cases, it is recommended to use the latest 5.x version.

Release Notes Update History

VersionDateDescription

5.8-2.0.3.0

February 28, 2023

Second update of 5.8 LTS branch.

As of MLNX_OFED version v5.1-0.6.6.0, the following are no longer supported.

  • ConnectX-3
  • ConnectX-3 Pro
  • Connect-IB
  • RDMA experimental verbs libraries (mlnx_lib)

To utilize the above devices/libraries, refer to version 4.9 long-term support (LTS).

Release Notes contain the following sections:

Supported NIC Speeds

The Linux Driver operates across all NVIDIA network adapter solutions supporting the following uplinks to servers:

Uplink/Adapter CardDriver NameUplink Speed
BlueField-2mlx5
  • InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR
  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2
BlueField
  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR
  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE
ConnectX-7
  • InfiniBand: EDR, HDR100, HDR, NDR200, NDR
  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE3, 400GbE
ConnectX-6 Lx
  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2
ConnectX-6 Dx
  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE2
ConnectX-6

  • InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE2

ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex
  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR
  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE
ConnectX-4 Lx
  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE
ConnectX-4
  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR
  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 56GbE1, 100GbE
  1. 56GbE is an NVIDIA proprietary link speed and can be achieved while connecting an NVIDIA adapter card to NVIDIA SX10XX switch series or when connecting an NVIDIA adapter card to another NVIDIA adapter card.
  2. Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode.
  3. Speed that supports PAM4 mode only.


Package Contents 

Package

Revision

Licenses

clusterkit

1.8.428-1.58203

BSD

dapl

2.1.10.1.mlnx-OFED.4.9.0.1.5.58203

Dual GPL/BSD/CPL

dpcp

1.1.37-1.58203

BSD-3-Clause

dump_pr

1.0-5.13.0.MLNX20221016.gac314ef.58203

GPLv2 or BSD

hcoll

4.8.3220-1.58203

Proprietary

ibdump

6.0.0-1.58203

BSD2+GPL2

ibsim

0.10-1.58203

GPLv2 or BSD

ibutils2

2.1.1-0.156.MLNX20221016.g4aceb16.58203

Mellanox Confidential and Proprietary

iser

5.8-OFED.5.8.2.0.3.1

GPLv2

isert

5.8-OFED.5.8.2.0.3.1

GPLv2

kernel-mft

4.22.1-11

Dual BSD/GPL

knem

1.1.4.90mlnx1-OFED.5.8.0.4.7.1

BSD and GPLv2

libvma

9.7.2-1

GPLv2 or BSD

libxlio

2.0.7-1

GPLv2 or BSD

mlnx-en

5.8-2.0.3.0.g4ff99ef

GPLv2

mlnx-ethtool

5.18-1.58203

GPL

mlnx-iproute2

5.19.0-1.58203

GPL

mlnx-nfsrdma

5.8-OFED.5.8.2.0.3.1

GPLv2

mlnx-nvme

5.8-OFED.5.8.2.0.3.1

GPLv2

mlnx-ofa_kernel

5.8-OFED.5.8.2.0.3.1

GPLv2

mlnx-tools

5.2.0-0.58203

GPLv2

mlx-steering-dump

1.0.0-0.58203

GPLv2

mpi-selector

1.0.3-1.58203

BSD

mpitests

3.2.20-de56b6b.58203

BSD

mstflint

4.16.1-2.58203

GPL/BSD

multiperf

3.0-3.0.58203

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

ofed-docs

5.8-OFED.5.8.2.0.3

GPL/BSD

ofed-scripts

5.8-OFED.5.8.2.0.3

GPL/BSD

openmpi

4.1.5a1-1.58203

BSD

opensm

5.13.0.MLNX20221016.10d3954-0.1.58203

GPLv2 or BSD

openvswitch

2.17.2-1.58203

ASL 2.0 and LGPLv2+ and SISSL

perftest

4.5-0.18.gfcddfe0.58203

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

rdma-core

58mlnx43-1.58203

GPLv2 or BSD

rshim

2.0.6-18.g955dbef

GPLv2

sharp

3.1.1.MLNX20221122.c93d7550-1.58203

Proprietary

sockperf

3.10-0.git5ebd327da983.58203

BSD

srp

5.8-OFED.5.8.2.0.3.1

GPLv2

ucx

1.14.0-1.58203

BSD

xpmem

2.6.4-1.58203

GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1