OmniOS r151010

r151010u

Weekly release for 18 August - 22 August 2014

  • Other fixed:
    • Backported illumos 5111 (REBOOT REQUIRED)

r151010s

Weekly release for 4 August - 8 August 2014

  • Security fixes:
  • Other fixes:
    • Backported illumos 5026 (REBOOT REQUIRED)
    • Small modification to Perl build system generated a Perl-OS-modules update

r151010j

Weekly release for 2 June - 6 June 2014

r151010 release

Stable release, May 7, 2014

illumos-omnios at 8c08411

Upgrade instructions: Upgrade_r151008_r151010

  • Highlights
    • All packages shipped as part of OmniOS r151010 are cryptographically signed
      • All package signatures will be verified by default
      • More strict policies regarding signatures are possible. See “signature-policy” under IMAGE PROPERTIES in the pkg(1) man page for details
    • OmniOS has moved to a per-release package repository setup. Each major release going forward will have its own IPS repository
    • ZFS:
      • ZFS performance and reliability improvements, especially with hole-y ZFS sends and receives
      • ZFS bookmarks for easier sending and receiving of ZFS filesystems
      • ZFS CLI improvements
    • DTrace:
      • Increase DTrace visibility inside non-global zones
      • DTrace now can speak to you in JSON
      • Histogram support in DTrace’s count()
    • Hardware Support:
      • Supports Intel i354-based ethernet interfaces
      • SATA support for nVidia MCP61 chipsets
      • Areca 1882 SAS HBA support
      • Support for the HP P400 SmartArray HBA added to the cpqary3(7D) driver
      • Reliability improvements to the mpt_sas(7D) driver for LSI HBAs
    • Other:
      • Grub composite console (grub console on multiple screens)
      • OmniOS can now execute the illumos test suites
      • Improvements in libumem(3umem) performance
      • NFS reliability improvements
  • Notable upstream illumos changes and fixes
    • 4694 svcs(1) truncates contract ID
    • 3243 Add shadow support to getent(1)
    • 4655 add %Z corefile name pattern for zonepath
    • 4669 cpqary3 driver does not see drives on P400 Smart-Array
    • 4431 igb support for I354
    • 4471 DTrace count() with histogram
    • 4474 Userland CTF Support
    • 374 cron should send more useful mail
    • 4337 eliminate /etc/TIMEZONE
    • 4573 ZFS snapshot alias

Package changes ([+] Added, [-] Removed, [*] Changed)

  • [*] terminal/tmux 1.6 -> 1.9a
  • [*] network/dns/bind 9.9.4 -> 9.9.5
  • [*] network/rsync 3.0.9 -> 3.1.0
  • [*] library/nspr 3.39 -> 3.46
  • [*] system/pciutils 2.23 -> 3.2.1
  • [*] file/gnu-coreutils 8.21 -> 8.22
  • [*] system/management/snmp/net-snmp 5.7.2 -> 5.7.2.1
  • [*] web/curl 7.33.0 -> 7.36.0
  • [*] web/wget 1.14 -> 1.15