24.01

Reference Architecture 24.01

New Components/Features:
- Support 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor for the Edge/IoT 
- Support Intel® Edge AI Box 4.0 on 12th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors, 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processor for IoT Edge, and Intel® Core™ Ultra Processor for Edge Deployments
- Support Intel® In-Band Manageability framework software to enable an administrator to perform critical device management operations for Intel® Edge AI box
- Support Intel® Workload Services Framework version of the Istio* Envoy* workload
- Support VMs provision via KubeVirt* (v1.1.0)
- Support external access to services via Ingress controller for Kubernetes using NGINX* as a reverse proxy and load balancer (ngress-nginx v4.8.3)
- Support automated detection and coniguration of SR-IOV and Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) devices for VMRA

Updates/Changes:
- Versions upgraded for the vast majority of RA components (See Section 4.1 for all supported versions)
- Notable updates:
    FlexRAN™ to v23.11 [under NDA]
    Kubernetes* to v1.28.3
    Rancher to 2.7.9
    Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) to v23.11
    Open vSwitch with DPDK to 3.2.1
    Intel® Multi-Buffer Crypto for IPsec library to v1.5
    Intel® QuickAssist Technology Engine for OpenSSL* (Intel® QAT Engine for OpenSSL*) to v1.4
    OpenSSL* to 3.1.4
    Intel® Power Manager to v2.3.1
    SR-IOV FEC Operator to v2.8
    OpenVINO™ v2023.1
    FFmpeg to v2023q3
    Intel® Deep Learning Streamer (Intel® DL Streamer) 2023.0
    OpenCV 4.8.0
    VPP to 23.10
    Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel® DLB) software release v8.7.0
    Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA) software release v4.14
    Istio 1.20.1
    Intel® Node Feature Discovery (NFD) to 0.14.3
    Linux overlay kernel 6.3.0-x 
    Intel® Core™ Ultra processor GPU driver and X11/Wayland* UI framework 
    Intel® AI Boost driver for Intel® Core™ Ultra processor [under NDA]
    Intel® Core™ Ultra processor audio firmware and topology [under NDA]

Updates/Changes made for the Reference System 23.10.1 minor release:
- Support Intel® Core™ Ultra processor with NDA packages
- Update Base Container components supported by On Prem Edge AI Box Configuration Profile

New Hardware (Platforms/CPUs/GPUs/Accelerators):
- Intel® Core™ Ultra processor for Edge Deployments 
- 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor for the Edge/IoT

Removed Support:
- Officially discontinued support for 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors

Known Limitations/Restrictions:
- CPU Control Plane Plugin for Kubernetes* is only supported on Ubuntu OS with single node deployment
- MinIO* is supported only with CRI-O runtime
- Only in-tree Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) drivers supported on RHEL 9.2 and Rocky 9.2 
- UserSpace CNI with VPP is not supported
- Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) on VMRA does not support Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel® DLB), Intel® DSA, Intel® QAT, or network adapter device passthrough due to Intel® TDX driver security concerns 
- Intel® Ethernet Operator DDP update feature might not work in rare cases; Legacy DDP update feature does not work
- KubeVirt and GPU_DP do not support Docker runtime
- Intel® Media Transport Library v23.08 only supports ICE versions between 1.9.11 and 1.11.14
- OneAPI ITEX sample does not support the GPU path on RHEL 9.2