====== AIX Roadmap ======

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-support-lifecycle-information

AIX Hybrid Cloud

AIX 7.3 TL2 Highlights (Nov 2023)


**Enhanced Availability**
  * AIX live kernel update performance with PowerVC landscapes
  * Enhanced LLDP reporting
  * MPIO support for Fabric Peformance Impact Notification (FPIN)

**Automation and Modernization**
  * python 3.19.17, bash 5.2.15, libxml2 2.10.4, rpm 4.18.1, rsyslog 8.2212.0

**Modernization with Hybrid Cloud**
  * Open-technology based Admin Tools
  * Automation with Ansible
  * Cloud Deployment Models

**Management modernization**
  * Python included for out of the box ansible automation
  * bash as an included alternate shell
  * create_ova with HW compression

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