Release schedule and security information.
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 …
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 …