.. _skiboot-6.5:

skiboot-6.5
===========

skiboot v6.5 was released on Friday August 16th 2019. It is the first
release of skiboot 6.5, which becomes the new stable release
of skiboot following the :ref:`skiboot-6.4` release, first released May 3rd 2019.

.. _skiboot-6.5-new-features:

New features
------------

Support for Memory-preserving IPL (MPIPL) which will be the basis for more
reliable creation of crash dumps, and for crash dumps fro OPAL.

Support for the Swift platform and NPU3 hardware.

Support for the Mihawk platform.
