Last Updated: 3 April 2025

z/VM News and Information Archive

Archived z/VM News and Updates

• August 16, 2021 - z/VM 7.2 achieves FIPS 140-2 validation
• October 5, 2020 - Anonymous FTP to testcase.boulder.ibm.com is no longer allowed
• September 18, 2020 - z/VM 7.2 is now available
• August 4, 2020 - z/VM 7.2 Announcement
• April 14, 2020 - z/VM 7.2 Preview Announcement
• April 14, 2020 - z/VM service required for the IBM z15 and LinuxONE III servers
• February 21, 2020 - z/VM Spotlight: Dynamic Crypto - New function for z/VM 7.1
• January 23, 2020 - z/VM 7.1 7104 RSU now available
• September 26, 2019 - z/VM 7.1 7103 RSU now available
• September 12, 2019 - z/VM Support for IBM z15 and LinuxONE III
• September 12, 2019 - z/VM Spotlight: 80 Logical Processor Support - New function for z/VM 7.1
• July 26, 2019 - z/VM Spotlight: Extended Address Volume (EAV) Paging Support - New function for z/VM 7.1
• June 3, 2019 - z/VM Spotlight: VSwitch Priority Queuing - New function for z/VM 7.1

Out of Service z/VM Release Resources

• z/VM 7.2 resources
• z/VM 7.1 resources
• z/VM 6.4 resources
• z/VM 6.3 resources
• z/VM 6.2 resources
• z/VM 6.2 resources
• z/VM 5.4 resources
• z/VM 5.3 resources
• z/VM 5.2 resources
• z/VM 5.1 resources
• z/VM 4.4 resources
• z/VM 4.3 resources
• z/VM 4.2 resources
• z/VM 4.1 resources
• z/VM 3.1 resources

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