AMD ROCm 7.2.1 Released With Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Support, Bug Fixes
Building off the release of ROCm 7.2 from January, ROCm 7.2.1 is now available with Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS support as well as various bug fixes to this open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack.
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS shipped back on 12 February and now one and a half months later, ROCm 7.2.1 is providing official support for this latest Ubuntu Long Term Support point release. Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS is supported both with the default Linux 6.8 kernel as well as the Linux 6.17 hardware enablement (HWE) kernel option with Ubuntu 24.04.4. Ubuntu 24.04.3 support for ROCm is now marked end-of-life.
There are no hardware enablement changes with ROCm 7.2.1 with all of the same Radeon and Instinct products being supported by this new point release.
ROCm 7.2.1 does deliver improved hipBLASLt performance for MXFP8 and MXFP4 GEMM kernels, JAX 0.8.2 support, discontinuing of the ROCm Offline Installer Creator, GPU board and baseboard temperature sensor support with the amd-smi monitor command, and various bug fixes to the different ROCm libraries.
Install instructions and other details on the new ROCm 7.2.1 point release can be found via the ROCm documentation portal.
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS shipped back on 12 February and now one and a half months later, ROCm 7.2.1 is providing official support for this latest Ubuntu Long Term Support point release. Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS is supported both with the default Linux 6.8 kernel as well as the Linux 6.17 hardware enablement (HWE) kernel option with Ubuntu 24.04.4. Ubuntu 24.04.3 support for ROCm is now marked end-of-life.
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There are no hardware enablement changes with ROCm 7.2.1 with all of the same Radeon and Instinct products being supported by this new point release.
ROCm 7.2.1 does deliver improved hipBLASLt performance for MXFP8 and MXFP4 GEMM kernels, JAX 0.8.2 support, discontinuing of the ROCm Offline Installer Creator, GPU board and baseboard temperature sensor support with the amd-smi monitor command, and various bug fixes to the different ROCm libraries.
Install instructions and other details on the new ROCm 7.2.1 point release can be found via the ROCm documentation portal.