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Following are the currently available Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management (ODIM RA) releases via GitHub:

New Features

Support for IPv6 address for sending API service requests for the northbound access of ODIM RA
Support for adding servers with IPv6 address as an aggregation source
Support for managing BMC accounts and roles
Support for specifying rate limits to limit:
- Resources for the same requests multiple times
- Number of concurrent API requests sent per session
- Number of active sessions a user can have
Added the following new properties in ODIM managers:
- ManagerForChassis
- ManagerForServers
- ManagerForManagers
Support for GET operation on LicenseService APIs to view the BMC server licenses
Updated documentation - Instructions for time synchronization between the deployment node and the cluster nodes
Updated documentation - Sample response for the GET operation on the collection of message registries

CompositionService does not produce any events. Composability related events are not part of this release.
ResourceZone instance does not have Collection capabilities represented.
Composed system does not support Add or Remove ResourceBlocks actions.
CompositionReservations are not supported for the current ODIM RA infrastructure.

Support for Lenovo Plugin
Supported OS version is Ubuntu 20.04
Support for RedisStreams message bus
Support for StoragePools and its subordinate URLs
Support for audit logs and security logs (authentication/authorization logs in syslog format)
Updated ODIM RA for initial OCP compliance
Removed weak ciphers and added secure ciphers
Updated DMTF Redfish schema version to 2021.2
Updated Kubespray version to 2.14.0
Updated Kubernetes version to v1.21.5
Updated Golang version to 1.17.2
Cache-control header value is updated with no-cache, no-store, and must-revalidate values
Updated common headers for all resources
Added new error message in lib utilities
Increased the channel buffer size used for processing events
Removed hard coding of the queue name and reusing internal queue for resource and task events
Replaced colon (":") with period (".") character in resource identifier URIs
Removed compiled proto files from the GIT repository
Deployment of Kafka is skipped if message bus is RedisStreams
ODIM RA services and plugins versions are updated
Added ManagerForChassis and ManagerForServer properties for plugin managers
ODIM RA internal events are updated with EventTimestamp, Message and Severity properties
ODIM RA services and plugin images are updated to Ubuntu 20.04
Additional troubleshooting information

Session creation captures a warning message under audit logs.
Deletion of the default roles 'ReadOnly' and 'Operator' must not be allowed.
@odata.type of SubTasks is #SubTasks.SubTasks instead of #TaskCollection.TaskCollection.
"SerialInterfacess" under BMC manager has an extra 's' character.
"DateTime" property under ODIM RA and plugin manager must be in UTC format.
"Certificates" property value under Drives resource is empty.
New role creation must not be allowed.

Support for Redfish TelemetryService
Migrated go-micro to gRPC framework
Kubernetes based deployment. Supported configurations are:
- One-node deployment
- Three-node deployment
Redis, Kafka, Zookeeper and etcd in High Availability mode (deployed only on master nodes)
Customized "odim-controller" deployment tool for Kubernetes and ODIM deployment and operations
Support for encoded URLs
VirtualMedia Insert and Eject operations
Enhancements in lib-persistence-manage package
Updated Redis database from 5.0.8 to 6.2.5
Updated DMTF Redfish schema version to 2021.1
Basic implementation of a plugin to support Dell servers
Basic implementation of a plugin to support Cisco ACI
Added ODIM RA profiles
Updated GitHub CI/CD actions to build and deploy ODIM RA and Kubernetes, and do a basic check before any PR is merged