The release of the free distribution kit OpenIndiana 2024.04 has been presented, which replaced the binary distribution kit OpenSolaris, the development of which was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides the user with a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. The actual development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which develops the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, as well as a basic set of user system utilities and libraries. Three types of iso images have been generated for downloading - a server edition with console applications (970 GB), a minimal assembly (470 MB) and an assembly with the MATE graphical environment (1.9 GB).
Key changes in OpenIndiana 2024.04:
- Approximately 1230 packages have been updated, including approximately 900 Python-related packages and 200 Perl-related packages.
- The MATE user environment has been updated to branch 1.28 (not officially announced by the MATE project). Fixes from other distributions have been transferred to the MATE base libraries to improve stability.
- Updated versions of LibreOffice 24.2, PulseAudio 17, alpine 2.26, Firefox 125, Thunderbird 125 (test beta builds, the next stable release of Thunderbird is expected in the summer).
- Updated LLVM/Clang 18, Node.js 22, golang 1.22. Many packages are built using GCC 13.
- The fail2ban package has been added to the basic package to protect against flooding and password guessing attempts.
- An HPN SSH (High-Performance SSH) package has been prepared, including a version of OpenSSH with patches that eliminate bottlenecks that affect the performance of data transfer over the network.
- Packages that used libjpeg6 as a dependency have been moved to the libjpeg8-turbo library, which is included by default in the distribution.
- The zstd algorithm is used to compress boot images.
Source: opennet.ru