OpenIndiana follows currently a rolling-release model and all the development is focused on Hipster.
The 151a development series which was a direct descendant of the OpenSolaris project and compatible with legacy OpenSolaris installations is now unmaintained.
Hipster
This series is built using the oi-userland with GCC and consists in the effort to modernize OpenIndiana.
Our main goal is to integrate all software delivered with OpenIndiana into oi-userland build system, in place of the former software consolidations.
Migration of consolidations:
The list of packages remaining for migration from X11 (XNV) and Desktop (JDS) consolidations can be consulted on the Wiki: only a small number of packages remains
If you would like to contribute, pick a component in the list and get started with building with oi-userland.
On the menu for Hipster 2016.04:
| Task | Status |
|---|---|
| Use GCC 4.9 as default compiler | PR#1520 |
| Update Firefox to version 43 | PR#1540 PR#1617 |
| Update Thunderbird to version 38 | PR#1754 |
| Add VLC 2.2.1 and multimedia libraries | PR#1616 |
On the menu for Hipster 2016.10:
| Task | Status |
|---|---|
| Update NTFS-3G | PR#1883 |
| Provide the Go programming language | PR#1902 |
| Provide GCC 5 | PR#1965 |
| Update of Pulseaudio to 6.0 | PR#2262 |
| Move to MATE desktop environment 1.14 | Completed |
| Move away from SunSSH to OpenSSH | PR#2332 |
| Integration of Intel KMS driver port by Martin Bochnig | PR#2367 |
| Bump inkscape to 0.91 | PR#2338 |
| Add ARC stats to 'top' | PR#2387 |
Ideas for next snapshots:
- Resurrect the IPS package manager GUI deprecated by upstream
- Refesh the installer code
- Update the Device Driver Utility
- …
- …
- more ideas are available on the Wiki.