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===POWER/PowerPC/Power ISA releases=== <!-- Template:Version - for version & release history. Documentation and examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Version --> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin-left:1em; margin-right:0" |- ! Version !! Release date !! End of support date |- | {{Version |o |5L 5.1}} | {{Release date and age|2001|05|04}}<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates">{{cite web|url=http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/aix/lifecycle/index.html|title=AIX software lifecycle dates|publisher=IBM|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427021255/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/aix/lifecycle/index.html|archive-date=April 27, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> | {{End date and age|2006|04|01}}<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> |- | {{Version |o |5L 5.2}} | {{Release date and age|2002|10|18}}<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> | {{End date and age|2009|04|30}}<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> |- | {{Version |o |5L 5.3}} | {{Release date and age|2004|08|13}}<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> | {{End date and age|2012|04|30}}<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> |- | {{Version |o |6.1}} | {{Release date and age|2007|11|09}}<ref name="anouncement-letter-207-271">{{cite web |url = https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/archive/ENUS207-271 |title = IBM AIX Version 6.1 provides leadership virtualization, security features, availability, and management capabilities |id = 207-271 |type = Announcement letter |publisher = IBM.com |date = November 6, 2007 |access-date = January 19, 2025 }}</ref> | {{End date and age|2017|04|30}}<ref name="aix=6.1-withdrawal">{{cite web |url = https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/archive/ENUS915-204 |title = Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM AIX 6, IBM System Director for Power Systems and associated licensed programs |id = 915-204 |type = Announcement letter |publisher = IBM |date = September 29, 2015 |access-date = January 19, 2025 }}</ref> |- | {{Version |o |7.1}} | {{Release date and age|2010|09|10}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS210-200|title=IBM AIX V7.1 and IBM PowerVM V2.2 offer new functions for virtualization, security, reliability, and system management for mission-critical, core business applications|date=August 17, 2010|publisher=IBM}}</ref> | {{End date and age|2023|04|30}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS921-107|title=Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM AIX 7.1 Standard edition, IBM AIX 7.1 Enterprise editions 1.5, and IBM AIX Dynamic System Optimizer 1.1|date=October 19, 2021|publisher=IBM}}</ref> |- | {{Version |co |7.2}} | {{Release date and age|2015|12|04}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS215-393|title=IBM AIX 7.2 delivers the reliability, availability, performance, and security needed to be successful in the new global economy|date=October 5, 2015|publisher=IBM}}</ref> | {{TBA}} |- | {{Version |c |7.3}} | {{Release date and age|2021|12|10}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS221-328|title=IBM delivers enhanced capabilities with IBM AIX 7.3 Standard Edition|date=October 19, 2021|publisher=IBM}}</ref> | {{TBA}} |- | colspan="3" | <small>{{Version |l |show=111100}}</small> |} * AIX V7.3, December 10, 2021<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/aix-73-standard-edition |title = IBM delivers enhanced capabilities with IBM AIX 7.3 Standard Edition |id = 221-328 |type = Announcement letter |publisher = IBM |date = October 19, 2021 |access-date = January 19, 2025 }}</ref> ** Requires [[POWER8]] or newer CPUs * AIX V7.2, October 5, 2015<ref name="IBM AIX 7.2 Announcement Letter">{{cite web |url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/archive/ENUS215-393 |title=IBM AIX 7.2 delivers the reliability, availability, performance, and security needed to be successful in the new global economy |type=Announcement letter |publisher=IBM.com |date=October 5, 2015 |access-date=January 19, 2025}}</ref> ** Live update for Interim Fixes, Service Packs and Technology Levels{{snd}} replaces the entire AIX kernel without impacting applications ** Flash based filesystem caching ** Cluster Aware AIX automation with repository replacement mechanism ** SRIOV-backed VNIC, or dedicated VNIC virtualized network adapter support ** RDSv3 over [[RDMA over Converged Ethernet|RoCE]] adds support of the Oracle RDSv3 protocol over the Mellanox Connect RoCE adapters ** Supports secure boot on [[POWER9]] systems.<ref>{{cite book|title=IBM AIX Enhancements and Modernization|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ni3KDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66|date=February 4, 2020|publisher=IBM Redbooks|author=Scott Vetter, Navdeep Dhaliwal, Ahmed Mashhour, Armin RΓΆll, Liviu Rosca|chapter=Chapter 2.2 AIX Secure boot|isbn=978-0738458281|access-date=September 25, 2020|archive-date=April 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412234349/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ni3KDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66|url-status=live}}</ref> ** Requires [[POWER7]] or newer CPUs * AIX V7.1, September 10, 2010<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/archive/ENUSAP10-0184 |title = BM AIX V7.1 and IBM PowerVM V2.2 offer new functions for virtualization, security, reliability, and system management for mission-critical, core business applications |id = AP10-0184 |type = Announcement letter |publisher = IBM |date = August 17, 2010 |access-date = January 19, 2025 }}</ref> ** Support for 256 cores / 1024 threads in a single LPAR ** The ability to run AIX V5.2 or V5.3 inside of a Workload Partition ** An XML profile based system configuration management utility ** Support for export of Fibre Channel adapters to WPARs ** VIOS disk support in a WPAR ** Cluster Aware AIX ** AIX Event infrastructure ** Role-based access control (RBAC) with domain support for multi-tenant environments ** Requires [[POWER4]] or newer CPUs * AIX V6.1, November 9, 2007<ref name="anouncement-letter-207-271" /> ** [[Workload Partitions]] (WPARs) [[operating system-level virtualization]] ** [[Live Application Mobility]] ** [[Live Partition Mobility]] ** Security *** Role Based Access Control [[RBAC]] *** [[AIX Security Expert]]{{snd}} a system and network security hardening tool *** Encrypting [[JFS2]] filesystem *** [[Trusted AIX]] *** [[Trusted Execution]] ** Integrated Electronic Service Agent for auto error reporting ** Concurrent Kernel Maintenance ** Kernel exploitation of [[POWER6]] storage keys ** [[ProbeVue]] dynamic tracing ** Systems Director Console for AIX ** Integrated [[Snapshot (computer storage)|filesystem snapshot]] ** Requires [[POWER4]] or newer CPUs ** AIX 6 withdrawn from Marketing effective April 2016 and from Support effective April 2017<ref name="aix=6.1-withdrawal" /> * AIX 5L 5.3,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS204-155|title=IBM AIX 5L for POWER V5.3 offers new levels of innovative and self-management technologies on advanced POWER5 systems|date=July 13, 2004|publisher=IBM}}</ref> August 13, 2004,<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> end of support April 30, 2012<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> ** [[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]] Version 4 ** Advanced Accounting ** Virtual [[SCSI]] ** Virtual [[Ethernet]] ** Exploitation of [[Simultaneous multithreading]] (SMT) ** [[Micro-Partitioning]] enablement ** POWER5 exploitation ** [[IBM Journaled File System 2 (JFS2)|JFS2]] quotas ** Ability to shrink a [[JFS2]] filesystem ** [[Kernel scheduler]] has been enhanced to dynamically increase and decrease the use of virtual processors. * AIX 5L 5.2,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS202-270|title=IBM AIX 5L for POWER V5.2 Delivers Industry-Leading Resource Management for Commercial and Enterprise Servers|date=October 8, 2002|publisher=IBM}}</ref> October 18, 2002,<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> end of support April 30, 2009<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> ** Ability to run on the IBM [[BladeCenter]] JS20 with the [[PowerPC 970]] ** Minimum level required for POWER5 hardware ** [[multipath I/O|MPIO]] for [[Fibre Channel]] disks ** [[iSCSI]] Initiator software ** Participation in [[Dynamic Logical Partitioning|Dynamic LPAR]] ** [[Concurrent I/O]] (CIO) feature introduced for [[JFS2]] released in Maintenance Level 01 in May 2003<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/whitepapers/db_perf_aix.pdf|title=Power Systems β IBM|date=n.d.|website=ibm.com|access-date=April 14, 2008|archive-date=April 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412234249/http://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/servers|url-status=live}}</ref> * AIX 5L 5.1,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS201-090|title=IBM AIX 5L Version 5.1 Advanced UNIX Operating System with Linux Affinity Delivers the Most Powerful and Flexible Choice for e-business and Enterprise Servers|date=April 17, 2001|publisher=IBM}}</ref> May 4, 2001,<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> end of support April 1, 2006<ref name="archived-aix-5-dates" /> ** Ability to run on an [[IA-64]] architecture processor, although this never went beyond beta.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-0404.html|title=Unigroup Next Meeting Announcement|access-date=January 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829033329/http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-0404.html|archive-date=August 29, 2006|url-status=live}}</ref> ** Minimum level required for POWER4 hardware and the last release that worked on the [[Micro Channel architecture]] ** 64-bit [[Kernel (operating system)|kernel]], installed but not activated by default ** JFS2 ** Ability to run in a [[LPAR|Logical Partition]] on [[POWER4]] ** The L stands for [[Linux]] affinity ** [[Trusted Computing Base]] (TCB) ** Support for mirroring with striping * AIX 4.3.3, September 17, 1999<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=IBM AIX from Strength to Strength |url=https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/inline-files/IBM%20AIX%20from%20Strength%20to%20Strength%202020%2013%20July%202020.pdf |access-date=December 12, 2024 |website=IBM}}</ref> ** Online [[backup]] function ** [[Workload Manager]] (WLM) ** Introduction of topas utility{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * AIX 4.3.2, October 23, 1998<ref name=":2" /> * AIX 4.3.1, April 24, 1998<ref name=":2" /> ** First [[Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria|TCSEC security evaluation]], completed December 18, 1998<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/2305.wss|title=IBM's AIX is First Operating System in a 64-bit Environment to Receive C2 Security Certification|date=January 18, 1999|website=www-03.ibm.com|access-date=January 12, 2015|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220524/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/2305.wss|url-status=dead}}</ref> * AIX 4.3, October 31, 1997<ref name=":2" /> ** Ability to run on 64-bit [[CPU design|architecture]] CPUs ** [[IPv6]] ** [[Web-based System Manager]] * AIX 4.2.1, April 25, 1997<ref name=":2" /> ** [[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]] Version 3 ** Y2K-compliant * AIX 4.2, May 17, 1996<ref name=":2" /> * AIX 4.1.5, November 8, 1996<ref name=":2" /> * AIX 4.1.4, October 20, 1995<ref name=":2" /> * AIX 4.1.3, July 7, 1995<ref name=":2" /> ** [[Common Desktop Environment|CDE]] 1.0 became the default GUI environment, replacing the AIXwindows Desktop. * AIX 4.1.1, October 28, 1994<ref name=":2" /> * AIX 4.1, August 12, 1994<ref name=":2" /> ** AIX Ultimedia Services introduced (multimedia drivers and applications){{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * AIX 4.0, 1994 ** Run on RS/6000 systems with [[PowerPC]] processors and [[Peripheral Component Interconnect|PCI]] busses. * AIX 3.2.5, October 15, 1993{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} * AIX 3.2 1992{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} * AIX 3.1, (General Availability) February 1990{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} ** Journaled File System ([[IBM Journaled File System 2 (JFS2)|JFS]]) filesystem type ** AIXwindows Desktop (based on [[X.desktop]] from [[IXI Limited]]) * AIX 3.0 1989 (Early Access) ** LVM ([[Logical Volume Manager (AIX)|Logical Volume Manager]]) was incorporated into OSF/1, and in 1995 for HP-UX,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://byte.com/art/9504/sec14/art2.htm |title=How HP improved the performance, reliability, and ease of use of its flagship PA-RISC operating system |first1=John |last1=Sontag |work=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]] |date=April 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961020154920/http://byte.com/art/9504/sec14/art2.htm |archive-date=October 20, 1996 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> and the Linux LVM implementation is similar to the HP-UX LVM implementation.<ref>{{cite conference|url=https://www.usenix.org/conference/2001-usenix-annual-technical-conference/volume-managers-linux|title=Volume Managers in Linux|first1=David|last1=Teigland|first2=Heinz|last2=Mauelshagen|conference=2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference|date=June 2001|publisher=[[USENIX Association]]|access-date=January 13, 2022|archive-date=January 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113055232/https://www.usenix.org/conference/2001-usenix-annual-technical-conference/volume-managers-linux|url-status=live}}</ref> ** [[IBM AIX SMIT|SMIT]] was introduced.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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