Prior to this update, ipmitool's Serial Over LAN (SOL) module erroneously calculated the number of octets processed by the Baseboard Management Controller and could have resent already acknowledged chunks of serial communication, which could have corrupted the serial line with additional characters. Under certain circumstances, this could have also brought ipmitool into an endless loop or unexpected termination. With this update, ipmitool now correctly calculates the number of octets processed by the BMC and does not resend unwanted characters over the serial line.

This update improves integration of the Linux Multiple Device (MD) driver with ipmitool to indicate the SCSI enclosure services (SES) status and drive activities for the PCIe SSD based solutions.

This update adds the "channel setkg" subcommand to the "ipmitool" command, which allows for KG key configuration.

This update adds the "-Y" option, which allows reading of the KG key from the terminal.

A serial console connected to over the LAN and activated with the command "ipmitool sol activate" contained a memory leak, which could have consumed all available memory resources over time. This update fixes the problem.

Invoking "ipmitool delloem powermonitor" did not properly convert values received over the network to integer numbers on big-endian systems (PowerPC, IBM System z). As a result, mostly random values were displayed when reporting power consumption. This update fixes the integer conversions in the "powermonitor" command so that the power consumption is now reported correctly on PowerPC and IBM System z architectures.