Release schedule and security information.
Directly after our last lighttpd announcement where we wrote about the (in our view) deprecated option server.set-v6only we have been contacted by a lighttpd developer who corrected us. To cite him:server.set-v6only still exists as an option, though I have removed someof the documentation. server.v4mapped should be used, instead.
Our perl versions were outdated for quite some time. Finally the old versions have been replaced with 5.34 and 5.36.
With merge of PR #8390 we updated lighttpd to the latest version 1.4.64 which removed support for the deprecated option server.set-v6only.This option’s default was true in upstream since our update to version 1.4.46 but we disabled it with a patch to prevent breaking existing lighttpd installations.The new update doesn’t allow Read More …
Another 6 months have passed and we are proud to announce the release of our 2021.10 snapshot. The images are available at the usual place. As usual we have automatically received all updates that have been integrated into illumos-gate. The new images are interesting for people with newer hardware that Read More …
After another 6 months have passed we are proud to announce the release of our 2021.04 snapshot. The images are available at the usual place. As usual we have automatically received all updates that have been integrated into illumos-gate. This release’s most notably changes are We have updated firefox and Read More …
Pango, the GNOME core text and font handling libraries, has been updated. Since pango-1.44 the support for old bitmap fonts (PCF, BDF) has been dropped. Thus, applications using pango don’t support bitmap fonts anymore. For more details visit https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386
After almost 6 months of development we have released the new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2020.10 right on time on October 31st, 2020. Some of the noticeable changes are: After BHyVe has been upstreamed into illumos-gate we automatically got it. With the help of the OmniOSce people we were able to Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2020.04. The noticeable changes: All remaining OI-specific applications have been ported from Python 2.7 to 3.5, including Caiman (slim_source) installer. Installation images now don’t ship Python 2.7, however some software can still depend on it. GCC 7 is used as the main Read More …
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/[email protected] 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 …