This release of the Windows Machine Config Operator (WMCO) provides bug fixes for running Windows compute nodes in an OKD cluster.
Issued: 31 August 2026
The components of the Red Hat Windows Machine Config Operator (WMCO) 10.21.2 were released in RHSA-2026:61780.
Before this update, the SSH connection between the WMCO and a Windows node would terminate when the WMCO rebooted the node after a configuration update. As a consequence, the WMCO incorrectly treated the SSH disconnection as a reboot failure, preventing the Windows node from completing required reboots. With this release, the reboot validation process is modified to ignore SSH termination errors and instead verify a successful reboot by using explicit node reachability checks and the SSH reconnection. As a result, Windows nodes successfully reboot upon node configuration changes. (OCPBUGS-98229)