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Below is a history of new features for each software release
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18.3 adds the following features (May 15, 2013)
- Updated Windows e1q driver for devices based on Intel® 82574/82575/82576/82583 Gigabit Controllers
- Updated Windows e1r driver for devices based on Intel® 82580/I350 Gigabit Controllers including Intel® Ethernet I340 and I350 Gigabit Server Adapters
- Updated igb Linux driver
- Advanced Network Services (ANS) support for 1 and 10 gigabit virtual function devices
18.2 adds the following features (March 29, 2013)
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) VN2VN Support
- FCoE Diskless Install for Windows Server 2012*
18.1 adds the following features (March 8, 2013)
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Connection I218-LM
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Connection I218-V
- Updated Windows* e1c driver for Intel® 82579LM and 82579V Gigabit Ethernet Connections
- Updated Linux* e1000e driver
18.0 adds the following features (January 11, 2013)
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Connection I217-LM
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Connection I217-V
- Updated Windows e1q driver for devices based on Intel® 82574/82575/82576/82583 Gigabit Controllers
- Updated Windows e1e driver for devices based on Intel® 82562/82566/82571/82572 Gigabit Controllers
- Updated Windows e1r driver for devices based on Intel® 82580/I350 Gigabit Controllers including Intel® Ethernet I340 and I350 Gigabit Server Adapters
- Updated advanced network services (ANS) driver and Intel® PROSet for Windows Device Manager
- User Guide updated
17.4 adds the following features (October 17, 2012)
- Support for the Intel® I210 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® I210 Gigabit Fiber Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® I210 Gigabit Backplane Connection
- Support for the Intel® I211 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I210-T1
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet I210-T1 GbE NIC
- Support for installing Windows* 7 / Windows Server 2008 drivers under Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 for devices using the E1E and E1Y drivers.
- Removed support for NO_NAPI mode from Linux* ixgbe driver
- Interrupt Moderation setting default in 10-gigabit vxn Virtual Function (VF) driver changed from adaptive to balanced
- Adds configurable FCoE RSS options to Intel® PROSet for Windows* Device Manager
- FCoE Starting NUMA Node
- FCoE NUMA Node Count
- FCoE Starting RSS Core Offset
Support for 1000BASE-SX SFP in X520 adapters
- 1Gb speed only. 10 Mbps and 1000 Mbps speeds are not supported.
- Wake on LAN is not supported.
- FCoE is not supported.
Support for co-existence of DCB and SR-IOV in Linux 10-Gigabit drivers
Support added to the v1q62x64 driver for Windows* Server 2008R2 guests
17.3 adds the following features (August 23, 2012)
- Updated Windows* e1c driver for Intel® 82579LM and 82579V Gigabit Ethernet Connections
- Updated Boot ROM images
17.2 adds the following features (July 27, 2012)
- Support for Microsoft* Windows* 8
- Support for Microsoft Windows Server* 2012
- Support for adding Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) enabled ports to AFT, SFT, and ALB team types
17.1 adds the following features (May 15, 2012)
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X540-T1
- Updated Windows* e1q driver for devices based on Intel® 82574/82575/82576/82583 Gigabit Controllers
- Updated Windows* e1e driver for devices based on Intel® 82562/82566/82571/82572 Gigabit Controllers
- Updated Windows Server 2008 R2* e1r62x64 driver for devices based on Intel® 82580/I350 Gigabit Controllers including Intel® Ethernet I340 and I350 Gigabit Server Adapters
17.0 adds the following features (March 23, 2012)
- Updated Windows* e1c driver for Intel® 82579LM and 82579V Gigabit Network Connections
- Updated Windows* e1k driver for various Intel® 82567, 82577, and 82578 Gigabit Network Connections
- Updated UEFI Boot ROM images
- Updated Linux* e1000e and igb drivers
16.8.1 adds the following features (January 20, 2012)
- Updated Windows* e1c driver for Intel® 82579LM and 82579V Gigabit Network Connections including a fix where the 82579V was intermittently identified as an 82579LM
16.8 Adds the following features (December 15, 2011)
- Updated Windows* e1c driver for Intel® 82579LM and 82579V Gigabit Network Connections
- Updated Windows* e1y driver for Intel® 82567 LM/LF/V/V-3/LM-2/LF-2/V-2/LM4 Gigabit Network Connections and 82562GT-3 10/100 Network Connection
- Updated Linux* e1000e driver
16.7 Adds the following feature (November 10, 2011)
- Support for the Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Network Connection
16.6 Adds the following features (September 26, 2011)
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Controller 10 Gigabit X540-AT2
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X540-T2
- Support for the Intel® X540 Virtual Function
- Support for temperature monitoring on adapters based on the Intel® Ethernet Controller X540
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350-F4
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350-F2
16.5 Adds the following features (August 12, 2011)
- Fixed a "no link" bug for the Intel® 82579LM and 82579V Gigabit Network Connections when link speed and duplex is not set auto-negotiate
16.4 Adds the following features (July 15, 2011)
- Jumbo frame support for the Intel® 82583V Gigabit Network Connection
- User Guide updated
- Updated Windows* e1q driver for devices based on Intel® 82574/82575/82576/82583 Gigabit Controllers including bug fixes for potential bug checks (BSOD), multicast performance, and VMQ
- Updated Windows* e1e driver for devices based on Intel® 82562/82566/82571/82572 Gigabit Controllers
- Updated Windows* e1c driver for Intel® 82579LM and 82579V Gigabit Network Connections
- Updated advanced network services (ANS) driver and Intel® PROSet for Windows* Device Manager
16.3 Adds the following features (May 20, 2011)
- No new features added in version 16.3
- Updated Windows* e1c driver for Intel® 82579LM and 82579V Gigabit Network Connections
- Updated Windows* e1k driver for various Intel® 82567, 82577, and 82578 Gigabit Network Connections
- Updated advanced network services (ANS) driver and Intel® PROSet for Windows* Device Manager
- Updated Linux* e1000e driver
- Updated user guide
16.2 Adds the following features (April 8, 2011)
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4
- Support for the Intel® I350 Virtual Function
- Support for the Intel® I350 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® I350 Gigabit Fiber Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® I350 Gigabit Backplane Connection
- Support for the Intel® I350 Gigabit Connection
- Support for temperature monitoring on adapters based on the Intel® Ethernet Controller I350
- Support for energy efficient Ethernet on adapters based on the Intel® Ethernet Controller I350 with a copper interface
- Support for DMA coalescing on adapters based on the Intel® Ethernet Controller I350
- Support for 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 and 2008 R2 guest operating systems on Linux* kernels that support SR-IOV
- Updated the Intel® Ethernet iSCSI Boot TCP/IP stack to make certain SYN & PSH flags are not set simultaneously
16.1 Adds the following features (February 24, 2011)
- No new features added in version 16.1
- Updated ixe driver for Windows* for devices based on the Intel® 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
- Updated e1c and e1k gigabit driver for Windows*
- Updated e1000e driver for Linux*
16.0 Adds the following features (January 27, 2011)
- Support for iSCSI over DCB on Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-T2
- Support for detailed status on iSCSI over DCB
15.8.1 Adds the following features (December 17, 2010)
- Support for Microsoft Windows 7* Service Pack 1
- Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2* Service Pack 1
- Support for iSCSI over DCB
- Adds the following FCoE related enhancements
- Support for Microsoft Hyper-V*
- Support for FCoE boot configurations
15.8 -- Replaced by version 15.8.1
15.7 Adds the following features (November 4, 2010)
15.6 Adds the following features (October 1, 2010)
15.5 Adds the following features (July 28, 2010)
- Support for the Intel® Gigabit ET2 Quad Port Server Adapter
15.4.1 Adds the following feature (June 30, 2010)
Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-T2
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If you installed software version 15.4, you must remove software version 15.4 before installing version 15.4.1. | |
15.4 Adds the following feature (June 2, 2010)
Support for data center bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
15.3 Adds the following features (May 6, 2010)
- Support for the Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection
- Support for wake from S5 on the Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Backplane Connection
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet X520 10GbE Dual Port KX4-KR Mezz
- Intel® Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility
- Support for active direct attach SFP+ cables for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520 Series
15.2 Adds the following features (April 23, 2010)
- Support for Intel® 82567V-4 Gigabit Network Connection
- Various bug fixes and performance enhancements for some client devices including:
- Resolves issue where Intel® PRO/1000 PL Network Connection (82573L) returned all zeros as the MAC address causing connection failures
- Resolves issue for some client network connections that were slow to resume connections after wake up
15.1 Adds the following features (February 2, 2010)
- Support for the Intel® 82599 virtual function device
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Mezzanine Adapter X520-KX4-2
15.0 Adds the following features (January 14, 2010)
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I340-T2
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I340-T4
- Support for the Intel® 82580 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82580 Gigabit Fiber Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82580 Gigabit Backplane Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82576NS Gigabit Ethernet Controller
- Prosetcl.exe utility for configuring Intel® Ethernet Adapters from the command line
14.8.3 Adds the following feature (December 16, 2009)
- Support for the Intel® 82567V-3 Gigabit Network Connection
14.7 Adds the following features (October 23, 2009)
- Support for the Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Backplane Connection
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet X520 10GbE Dual Port KX4 Mezz
- Support for the Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit CX4 Dual Port Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82576 virtual function
- Microsoft Windows 7* and Windows Server 2008 R2* support for
- Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520 Series
- Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller-based network connections
14.5 Adds the following features (September 2009)
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit AT2 Server Adapter
- Microsoft Windows 7* and Windows Server 2008 R2* support for the following adapters:
- Intel® 10 Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter
- Intel® 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter
- Intel® 10 Gigabit CX4 Dual Port Server Adapter
- Intel® 10 Gigabit SR Dual Port Express Module
- Intel® 10 Gigabit XF LR Server Adapter
- Intel® 10 Gigabit XF SR Dual Port Server Adapter
- Intel® 10 Gigabit XF SR Server Adapter
- Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit AF Dual Port Network Connection
- Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit AT CX4 Network Connection
- Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit BX Network Connection
- Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit KX4 Network Connection
- Intel® 82598EB 10GbE AF Network Connection
Support for virtual machine load balancing (VMLB) mode teams for Microsoft Hyper-V*
14.4 Adds the following features (August 2009)
- Support for unattended installs on Microsoft Windows XP x64*
- Support for the Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Mezzanine Card
14.3 Adds the following features (July 2009)
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit BR KX4 Dual Port Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-1
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2
- Support for the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2
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Microsoft Windows 7* and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2* are not supported in software version 14.3 on any of the above devices. Support will be added in a future release. | |
14.2 Adds the following features (June 2009)
- Support for the Intel® 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82578DM Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82578DC Gigabit Network Connection
14.1 Adds the following features (June 2009)
- Support for the Intel® 82552 10/100 Network Connection
- Support for Microsoft Windows 7*
- Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2*
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If you upgrade your operating system, you must reinstall your network drivers. Settings are not saved across an OS install or upgrade. | |
| Note |
Intel® Ethernet 10 Gigabit Server Adapter drivers are included as part of Windows 7* and Windows Server 2008 R2*. The drivers included with Windows* do not support Intel® PROSet or Intel® Advanced Networking Services (Intel® ANS). Full support will be added in a future release. | |
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Microsoft Windows 2000* is not supported. Use version 14.0 or earlier for Windows 2000. | |
14.0 Adds the following features (March 2009)
- Support for the Intel® 82583V Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® 82576NS Gigabit Ethernet Controller
- Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V*
- Support for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008*
13.5 Adds the following features (December 2008)
- Support for the Intel® 82598 EB 10 Gigabit KX4 Network Connection
13.4 Adds the following features (December 2008)
- No new features added
- Bug fixes only
13.3 Adds the following features (October 2008)
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit SR Dual Port Express Module
- Support for the Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter
- Support for 8 and 16 RSS queues under Microsoft Windows Server 2008*
- Support for configuring teams and VLANs under Microsoft Windows Server 2008 core installations
13.1 Adds the following features (July 2008)
- Support for the Intel® Gigabit EF Dual Port Server Adapter (added in version 13.1.2)
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter (added in version 13.1.1)
- Support for the Intel® Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
- Support for the Intel® Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82567LF-3 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82567LM-4 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82576 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection
13.0 Adds the following features (April 2008)
- Support for the Intel® 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82567LF Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82567V Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for Intel® iSCSI Remote Boot Mutual Chap
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit XF LR Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit CX4 Dual Port Server Adapter
12.4 Adds the following features (January 2008)
- Support for Microsoft Windows Server* 2008
- Support for the Intel® 5400 Chipset QuickData Technology Device
12.3 Adds the following features (September 2007)
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit XF SR Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit XF SR Dual Port Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® 10 Gigabit XF LR Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® Gigabit PT Quad Port Server ExpressModule
- Support for the Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit AT CX4 Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit AF Dual Port Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit AF Network Connection
12.2 Adds the following features (July 2007)
- Support for the Intel® Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® 82575EB Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for iSCSI Boot configuration in Windows* Device Manager
- Teaming on Windows Vista*
12.1 Adds the following features (April 2007)
- Support for the Intel® 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82562G-2 10/100 Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82562GT-2 10/100 Network Connection
- Test for specific genuine Intel® Network Adapters in PCI Express* slots
12.0 Adds the following features (February 2007)
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PF Quad Port Server Adapter
- Full support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Quad Port LP Server Adapter
- Support for using Intel® PROSet to configure iSCSI Boot
- Support for ANS in Windows Vista*
11.2 Adds the following features (November 2006)
- Support for Windows Vista, see Adapter and feature support for Windows Vista for more information
- Support for iSCSI Boot, see Intel® iSCSI Boot FLASH ROM Utility for more information
- Support for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2*
- Limited support for PCI Express* adapters on Intel® Itanium® Processor-based systems
- Linux and FreeBSD support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Quad Port LP Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® 82562GT 10/100 Network Connection
- Improved adaptive interrupt moderation
11.1 Adds the following features (September 2006)
- Support for the Intel® PRO/10GbE CX4 Server Adapter
- Linux* and FreeBSD* support for the Intel® PRO/10GbE CX4 Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter
- New Intel® PROSet power management tab
- Support for the Intel® 82562V 10/100 Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 EB1 Network Connection with I/O Acceleration
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 EB1 Backplane Connection with I/O Acceleration
10.3 Adds the following features (February 2006)
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 GT Quad Port Server Adapter
- Support for jumbo frames on the Intel® PRO/1000 PL Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 EB Network Connection with I/O Acceleration
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 EB Backplane Connection with I/O Acceleration
- Support for the Intel® 5000 Series Chipsets Integrated Device - 1A38
10.2 Adds the following features (October 2005)
- Support for Enhanced ASPM power saving mode on systems with an Intel® PRO/1000 PL Network Connection
- Support for WINPE
- Ability to search the user guides for keywords
10.1 Adds the following features (July 2005)
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PF Dual Port Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Connection
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PL Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PF Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PT Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PF Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PB Server Connection
10.0 Adds the following features (March 2005)
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 PM Network Connection
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 GT Quad Port Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 GT Dual Port Server Adapter
- Support for Intel® extended memory 64 technology
9.2 Adds the following features (December 2004)
- Support for the Intel® PRO/1000 P Dual Port Server Adapter
- Support for the Intel® PRO/10GbE LR Server Adapter
9.0 Adds the following feature
- Added support for express teaming
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Express Teaming was removed in version 12.2. This feature is no longer supported by Intel. Teaming is supported using advanced network services (ANS). | |
8.4 Added the following features
- The Intel® PRO/1000 MT Quad Port Server Adapter no longer has a separate INF or separate software downloads. It is now included in the standard PRO adapter driver set.
- An improved Makedisk utility to create base driver installation disks
- The IDAdapt DOS utility now returns the silicon stepping.
- The Windows* INF for the 10/100 adapters has been split into two separate INF's; one for Windows certified 10/100 adapters, and one for obsolete 10/100 adapters that cannot meet current certification requirements. See Certain obsolete 10/100 Adapters are no longer being WHQL certified for details.
8.3 Added the following features
- Windows 2000* and Windows Server 2003* certified drivers for the Intel® PRO/1000 MT Quad Port Server Adapter
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