Release schedule and security information.
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2019.10. The noticeable changes: IPS was switched to Python 3 and updated to August 2019 OmniOS CE version. More OI-specific applications have been ported from Python 2.7 to Python 3.5 DDU binary blobs were rewritten, driver database was update A lot of Read More …
We’ve identified security issue in bind DNS server startup scripts. Users who use the BIND DNS server should upgrade to the very latest version, service/network/dns/bind@9.14.3-2018.0.0.0 9.14.3, not only to obtain the latest version of BIND, but to also include an additional OpenIndiana-specific privilege reduction for BIND processes. Before this version Read More …
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 …
Hello, about 2.5 years ago OI devs started playing with more recent versions of GCC: the intent was to support illumos by providing a testing environment for new compilers. We added GCC 5.x in Aug 2016, GCC 6.x in Jan 2017, GCC 7.x in April 2017, then GCC 8.x in 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 …
In a joint announcement with SmartOS and OmniOSce, we are pleased to call for testing the illumos KPTI implementation by Alex Wilson, John Levon, and Robert Mustacchi at Joyent; read the full story at https://blog.cooperi.net/a-long-two-months. Our contribution to this testing phase consists of Live Install images (GUI and Minimal Text) Read More …
Modulo some minor details, the transition of our userland to GCC 6 is complete. What does it mean in practice? All the packages in the main and encumbered repositories were rebuilt then republished. The component developer/gcc-6 provides now the default oi-userland compiler, GCC 6.4. The previous compiler GCC 4.9 is Read More …