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xCAT is an open-source tool for automating deployment, scaling, and management of bare metal severs and virtual machines.

xCAT offers complete management for HPC clusters, RenderFarms, Grids, WebFarms, Online Gaming Infrastructure, Clouds, Datacenters etc. xCAT provides an extensible framework that is based on years of system administration best practices and experiences. It is agile, extensible and powerful.

Note: this wiki is only for release information, and security notices. xCAT user documentation is at ReadTheDocs

General Release Information and Planning

ATTENTION: The xCAT team is going through some internal transition, will update the release plans and target dates when we have some more concrete information. We apologize for this disruption to any plans that are already in place. - xCAT Team

Version	Release Notes	Issues
2.15.1 (development)	Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR
2.15 (stable)	Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR
2.14	Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR
2.13	Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR
2.12	Release Notes	Closed Issues/PR

Security Notices

Security Notices for xCAT has been moved to here: Security Notices

• Notices from 2014
  • SSLv3 POODLE Attack CVE-2014-3566
  • [Heartbleed bug vulnerability CVE-2014-0160](Heartbleed bug vulnerability CVE-2014-0160)
  • Bash vulnerablity CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187, CVE-2014-6277, and CVE-2014-6278

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xCAT is developed under the Eclipse Public License.