The release of the OmniOS Community Edition r151048 distribution is available, built on the Illumos project developments and providing full support for the bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual networking stack, the ZFS file system, and tools for launching lightweight Linux containers. The distribution can be used for building scalable web systems as well as for creating storage systems.
In the new release:
- Support for NVMe 2.x devices has been added.
- The ability to pass ATA commands (ATA PASS-THROUGH) has been added, allowing the use of the smartctl utility for SATA drives without unnecessary manipulations.
- Support for new AMD CPUs has been added in the kernel. Support for performance counters provided in AMD Zen 4 processors has been included to enhance performance. of virtual machines An extension of IBRS has been utilized to improve performance and reduce overhead when switching contexts on systems with AMD Zen 4 processors.
- Changes have been moved from Illumos to enhance CIFS/SMB support.
- Support for DISCARD/TRIM operations has been added to the lofi driver.
- Enhanced support for IPv6.
- Support for SMBIOS 3.7 has been added.
- The implementation of the 'which' utility has been replaced with a version written in C (the previous implementation was in csh).
- The svccfg utility has been enhanced with the '-z' parameter for working with services in non-global zones.
- The printmgr application, which is incompatible with newer versions of Java, has been removed.
- The standard library has been enriched with the strtonumx function, which complements the strtonum function.
- A new experimental isolation zone 'emu' has been introduced, designed for running systems in the QEMU emulator.
- In the LX zones intended for running Linux, the loading of busybox has been organized, support for the IPV6_RECVERR option has been added in setsockopt(), and the AT_SECURE parameter has been set for the root user.
- The Bhyve hypervisor has significantly accelerated memory page table handling, which has reduced the boot time of guest systems. The capabilities of the viona virtual network driver have been expanded.
- The package manager command 'pkg list' has been enhanced with support for the '-o' and '-F' options for output formatting management. In 'pkg list -i', it now shows packages available for installation.
- The GRUB boot loader has been deprecated and will be removed in one of the future releases. Python 2 and OpenSSL 1.0.x and 1.1.1 have also been deprecated. Support for the GSSAPI key exchange mechanism has been discontinued in OpenSSH.
- The default set of compilers is GCC 13. Updated versions of OpenSSL 3.1.4, BIND 9.18.19, OpenSSH 9.4.1, tcsh 6.24.10, SQLite 3.43.1, and other external components.
Note: At the end of October, the free distribution release OpenIndiana 2023.10 was published, succeeding the binary distribution OpenSolaris, whose development was halted by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides users with a working environment based on a fresh snapshot of the Illumos project codebase. The development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which develops the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, and also the core set of user system utilities and libraries. Three types of ISO images have been created for download: server edition with console applications (1 GB), minimal build (501 MB), and build with MATE graphical environment (1.9 GB).
Key changes in OpenIndiana 2023.10:
- Updated versions of Clang 17, GCC 13, Golang 1.21, Firefox 119, Inkscape 1.2.1, Samba, NVIDIA drivers.
- A package with OpenSearch, a fork of Elasticsearch, has been prepared.
- Migration to the new branch of OpenSSL library 3.1 has been completed.
- Automated importing of the latest versions of Python packages into the repository has been ensured.
- Improved JDK support.
- Issues with Virtualbox have been resolved.
Source: opennet.ru
