We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2019.04. The noticeable changes: Firefox was updated to 60.6.3 ESR Virtualbox packages were added (including guest additions) Mate was updated to 1.22 IPS has received updates from OmniOS CE and Oracle IPS repos, including automatic boot environment naming Some OI-specific applications have Read More …
Our infrastructure was too long without attention. As a result, confluence was compromised. Confluence runs on w01.openindiana.everycity.co.uk, together with main site and exim/mailman. We know, confluence was compromised (expected date of infection – Apr 17). The malware was detected at 8th May about 21:00 UTC. It looked as one described Read More …
With merge of PR #4800 Apache 2.4 has become 64-bit-only. This is a big breaking change, because we’ve reworked Apache directory layout and configuration to facilitate IPS switch to Python 3.5. Python 3.5 is 64-bit-only, and we had an unpleasant choice either rewrite depot and sysrepo configuration to always use Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2018.10. The noticeable changes: Mate desktop was updated to 1.20. Python 3.5 was added, a lot of Python modules are now delivered for 3.5 Python version in addition to 2.7 and 3.4. Image Packaging System has received a lot of updates from Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2018.04. The noticeable changes: Userland software is rebuilt with GCC 6. KPTI was enabled to mitigate recent security issues in Intel CPUs. Support of Gnome 2 desktop was removed. Linked images now support zoneproxy service. Mate desktop applications are delivered as 64-bit-only. Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2017.10. The noticeable changes: Xorg server was updated to 1.19.5. Mate was updated to 1.18. Text installer now can perform basic OpenIndiana installation to existing ZFS pool (for example, in parallel to another OpenIndiana installation). Cluster suite was updated. ABI compatibility for Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2017.04. The noticeable changes: Support for USB 3.0 devices was integrated. Intel KMS port was reworked and should work on most Intel GPUs. Xorg server was updated to 1.18.4. Mate was updated to 1.16. A lot of end user applications are delivered Read More …
A bug was found in the illumos bootloader that resulted in the inability to boot after updating Openindiana Hipster on MBR disk installs. The problem with booting is solved by updating to OI Hipster osnet-incorporation 0.5.11-2017.0.0.16205 (2017-02-25_1202) with system/boot/loader 1.1-2017.0.0.16205 (2017-02-25_1228) and upwards and reinstalling boot blocks. Here are some Read More …
We’ve prepared ISO images with updated DRM drivers. They can be found here. New drivers should support some older hardware, which is currently not supported in OI. There are currently 2 known issues with this code: it still doesn’t restore VGA text mode on Xorg exit; users reported seeing ‘WARNING: Read More …
Two illumos security issues, https://www.illumos.org/issues/7488 and https://www.illumos.org/issues/7483 got CVE-2016-6560 and CVE-2016-6561. First one is an issue in kernel bcopy code, second is related to in-kernel SMB server. Both can lead to system crash. Both issues were fixed about ten days ago. Check that your systems are updated at least to Read More …