Base Command Manager / Bright Cluster Manager Release Notes

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Release notes for NVIDIA Base Command Manager (BCM) 11.33.1
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*Released: 24 June 2026*

CMDaemon
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Fixed Issues
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* Fixed CMDaemon database upgrade failures related to NVLink SDN partition migrations during larger version-gap updates

cm-kubernetes-setup
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New Features
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* Added support for routing from bcm-gateway to Ingress NGINX for NMC wizards without Gateway API support
* Updated all containerd configuration to use RUNTIME_DROP_IN_CONFIG and version 3; removed NVIDIA_RUNTIME_SET_AS_DEFAULT=true from the configuration
* Updated containerd drop-in configuration for sandbox image and certs.d path specification to version 3

Fixed Issues
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* Added port-in-use check for the Gateway proxy port in the Kubernetes wizard, consistent with the existing check for the Kubernetes API server proxy port
* Fixed airgapped NVIDIA Network Operator deployment referencing a non-existent k8s-launch-kit image (now uses v26.1.0, which is the correct version for Network Operator v26.1.1)
* Fixed failure of cm-runai-setup --skip-packages in airgapped environments when apt update was incorrectly attempted