POWER/PowerPC releases

AIX V7.1

( Sept 10, 2010)

Support for 256 cores / 1024 threads in a single virtual machine The ability to run AIX V 5.2 inside of a Workload Partition

A XML profile based system configuration management utility Support for export of fibre channel adapters to WPARs VIOS disk support in a WPAR Cluster Aware AIX AIX Event infrastructure

Role Based Access Control (RBAC) with domain support for multi-tenant environments

AIX V6.1 ( November 9, 2007)

Workload Partitions (WPARs) operating system-level virtualization

Live Application Mobility Live Partition Mobility Security AIX Security Expert - A system and network security hardening tool

Encrypting JFS2 filesystem Trusted AIX Trusted Execution

Integrated Electronic Service Agent(tm) for auto error reporting

Concurrent Kernel Maintenance Kernel exploitation of POWER6 storage keys

ProbeVue dynamic tracing Systems Director Console for AIX Integrated filesystem snapshot Requires POWER4 or newer CPUs

AIX 5L 5.3 ( August 13, 2004)

NFS Version 4 Advanced Accounting Virtual SCSI Virtual Ethernet Exploitation of Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) Micro-Partitioning enablement POWER5 exploitation JFS2 quotas Ability to shrink a JFS2 filesystem

kernel scheduler has been enhanced to dynamically increase and decrease the use of virtual processors.

AIX 5L 5.2, October 18, 2002, end of support April 30,

2009
Ability to run on the IBM BladeCenter JS20 with the PowerPC Minimum level required for POWER5 hardware MPIO for Fibre Channel disks iSCSI Initiator software Participation in Dynamic LPAR 970.

Concurrrent I/O (CIO) feature introduced for JFS2 released in Maintenance Level 01 in May 2003[12]

AIX 5L 5.1

( May 4, 2001 //Support discontinued April 1,

2006) Ability to run on an IA-64 architecture processor, although this never went beyond beta[14] Minimum level required for POWER4 hardware and the last release that worked on the Micro Channel architecture

64-bit kernel, installed but not activated by default JFS2 Ability to run in a Logical Partition on POWER4 The L stands for Linux affinity Trusted Computing Base (TCB) Support for mirroring with striping

AIX 4.3.3

September 17, 1999

Online backup function

Workload Manager (WLM)

Introduction of topas utility October 23, 1998 April 24, 1998 October 31, 1997

AIX 4.3.2 AIX 4.3.1 AIX 4.3

Ability to run on 64-bit architecture CPUs IPv6 Web-based System Manager April 25, 1997

AIX 4.2.1

NFS Version 3 May 17, 1996 November 8, 1996 October 20, 1995 July 7, 1995

AIX 4.2
AIX 4.1.5

AIX 4.1.4 AIX 4.1.3

CDE 1.0 became the default GUI environment, replacing Motif Window Manager.

AIX 4.1.1 AIX 4.1 AIX 4.0

October 28, 1994 August 12, 1994 1994

Run on RS/6000 systems with PowerPC processors and PCI busses.

AIX 3.2 AIX 3.1

1992 February 1990

Journaled File System (JFS) filesystem type

AIX 3.0

1989

LVM (Logical Volume Manager) was incorporated into OSF/1, and in 1995 for HP-UX,[15] and the Linux LVM implementation is similar to the HP-UX LVM implementation.[16]

SMIT was introduced.

IBM PS/2 releases

AIX PS/2 v1.1

1989

last version was 1.3, 1992.

IBM 6150 RT releases

AIX v1.0
AIX v2.0

1986

last version was 2.2.1.