Cray System Management (CSM) 1.7.1-patch.2 Release Notes
This document guides an administrator through the patch update to Cray Systems Management 1.7.1-patch.2
from CSM 1.7.1 onwards only – do not apply this patch directly to CSM 1.7.0.
This page documents the changes introduced by this patch, compared to the previous patch
version of CSM.
For the main CSM 1.7 release notes page, including links to other patch release notes,
see CSM 1.7 release notes.
Patch releases
This is the release notes page for CSM 1.7.1-patch.2;
each patch for CSM 1.7.1 has its own release notes, detailing what changes it includes.
For a full list of CSM 1.7.1 patch releases, see
CSM 1.7.1 patch releases.
Bug fixes, additions, and improvements
- Resolved CVEs in
console-node and csm-config
Configuration Framework Service (CFS)
This patch includes many fixes and improvements for CFS.
- Improvements
- Improved Kafka reliability in the CFS
API server and CFS Operator.
- Significantly faster CFS session creation.
- Improved debug logging by the CFS API server, CFS Operator, and
CFS Batcher.
- Minor performance improvements to session filtering (used when performing bulk list, patch,
or delete operations on sessions).
- Improve CFS Batcher reliability with regards to system clock changes.
- Known issues fixed
- Several CVEs patched in CFS Batcher, CFS Operator,
CFS Hardware Synchronization Agent,
CFS ARA, and the
Ansible execution environment.
Upgrade steps
See Upgrade CSM.