Yesterday, 2022-05-24, a new maintenance release to the latest long term support (LTS) version of AOS, 5.20, was released meaning the latest LTS release is now 5.20.4. Read more about difference between LTS & STS here.
AOS 5.20.4 includes support for ESXi 7.0U3c and in addition it includes a lot of improvements, with a strong focus on security, in the following areas:
- AHV-management
- API Infra
- Alerts
- Data Protection
- Hardware
- AHV-20201105.2030 and later releases do not support KLAS Voyager TDC 1.0 and 2.0. See KB 12216 for additional information
- IAM
- Infrastructure / Services
- Medusa
- Networking
- Prism
- Prism Central
- Prism Gateway
- Security – AHV
- CESA-2020:2432
- CESA-2020:3217
- CESA-2020:5083
- Security-AOS
- CESA-2021:4782 – CVE-2021-41617
- CESA-2021:4777 – CVE-2020-36385
- CESA-2021:4785 – CVE-2021-20271
- CESA-2021:4788 – CVE-2021-37750
- CESA-2021:4904 – CVE-2021-43527
- CESA-2022:0063 – CVE-2021-42739, CVE-2020-36322 & CVE-2020-25704
- OpenJDK 7 <= 7u321 / 8 <= 8u312 / 11.0.0 <= 11.0.13 / 13.0.0 <= 13.0.9 / 15.0.0 <= 15.0.5 / 17.0.0 <= 17.0.1
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.55 < 8.5.75
- CESA-2022:0143 – CVE-2021-44790, CVE-2021-39275, CVE-2021-34798, CVE-2021-26691
- CESA-2022:0274 – CVE-2021-4034
- CESA-2022:0473 – CVE-2021-45417
- CESA-2022:0666 (also included for AHV) – CVE-2022-24407
- CESA-2022:0620 – CVE-2022-22942, CVE-2022-0330, CVE-2021-4155, CVE-2021-3752, CVE-2021-0920, CVE-2021-3573, CVE-2021-3564, CVE-2020-0465 & CVE-2020-0466
- CESA-2022:0621 (also included for AHV) – CVE-2020-25709 & CVE-2020-25710
- SaltStack Minion 3000.x < 3001.8 / 3002.x < 3002.7 / 3003.x < 3003.3 RCE
- CESA-2022:1066 (also included for AHV) – CVE-2022-0778
- CESA-2022:1045 – CVE-2022-22720
- CESA-2022:1069 (also included for AHV) – CVE-2022-25315, CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236, CVE-2022-23852, CVE-2021-45960, CVE-2021-46143, CVE-2022-22822, CVE-2022-22823, CVE-2022-22824, CVE-2022-22825, CVE-2022-22826 & CVE-2022-22827
- CEBA-2022:1032
- Stargate
AOS 5.20.4 comes with AHV version 7.2.7 build 20201105.2286 and can be managed with any of the following Prism Central versions:
- pc.2022.4
- pc.2022.1.0.2
- pc.2022.1
- pc.2021.9.0.5
- pc.2021.9.0.4
- pc.2021.9.0.3
- pc.2021.9.0.2
- pc.2021.9.0.1
- pc.2021.9
- pc.2021.8.0.1
As usual check Nutanix Software End Of Life document on a regular basis to keep you up to date.
Useful links
- Acropolis Upgrade Guide
- Acropolis 5.20 Family Release Notes
- Firewall Requirements 5.20
- AOS 5.20.4 Download
- AOS 5.20.4 Release Notes
- AHV 20201105.2286 Download
- AHV 20201105.2286 Release Notes
- Upgrade Path
- Hypervisor json files
- Nutanix Compatibility Matrix
- Software Product Interoperability
Enjoy the new version and its capabilities..
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