Release schedule and security information.
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 …
Hi everyone, we are happy to announce that a repository containing all the oi-userland packages built with gcc 6.4.0 is now available for testing. The repository is located at: http://pkg.openindiana.org/gcc-6/ It is synchronized with the latest oi-userland bits and contains some minor updates. While these packages have been tested for 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 …
As part of our documentation revitalization effort, we’re happy to announce a new end user documentation platform based on MkDocs. While still very much a work in progress, the Getting Started with OpenIndiana section of the new Hipster Handbook is nearing completion. However, much work remains to be done, and we cannot do it without Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2016.10. This snapshots contains some notable changes: Intel KMS was integrated and should work on some Intel GPUs. This provides a huge leap forward for desktop users. Mate 1.14 has replaced aging GNOME 2 and is the default desktop environment. The look Read More …