After six months of development, the release of the free distribution OpenIndiana 2021.04 has taken place, which replaces the binary distribution of OpenSolaris, the development of which was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides users with a working environment built on the latest snapshot of the Illumos project codebase. Development of OpenSolaris technologies continues through the Illumos project, where the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, as well as a core set of user system utilities and libraries are evolving. Three types of ISO images have been created for download — server edition with console applications (877 MB), minimal build (345 MB), and a build with the MATE graphical environment (1.6 GB).
Main changes in OpenIndiana 2021.04:
- Several options for proprietary NVIDIA drivers are available: 460.67, 390.141 (default), 340.108.
- The compilers gcc-7, gcc-8, gcc-9, and gcc-10 have been compiled using the SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) mechanism for stack protection (-fstack-protector).
- The OpenSSL library has been updated to branch 1.1.1.
- The process of upgrading Python versions and related packages has begun. Until the transition is complete, in addition to python-39 (3.9.4), the python-37 (3.7.10) package is offered.
- New packages included: fcron-3.3.0, libsigc++3 3.0.6, nodejs-16.0.0, re2c 2.0.3, wine 4.17.
- The following packages have been removed from the shipment: couchdb-21, libcouchbase, percona-server-56, php-70 and related extensions.
- User packages have been updated: mate 1.24.2, firefox 78.10.0, thunderbird 78.9.1, emacs 27.2, mc 4.8.26, vlc 3.0.12, youtube-dl 2021.01.08.
- System components and libraries have been updated: binutils 2.36, coreutils 8.32, cups 2.3.3, gnupg 2.2.27, gnutls 3.6.15, sudo 1.9.6p1, virtualbox 6.1.18.
- Developer tools have been updated: cmake 3.20.2, go 1.16.2, qt5 5.12.10, gtk+3 3.24.24, rust 1.44.1, sqlite 3.35.5.
- Server software has been updated: nginx 1.20.0, bind 9.16.15, haproxy 2.2.13, ntp 4.2.8p15, openldap 2.4.58, postgresql 12.6, tor 0.4.5.7.
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