Recently, a new release of the distribution OmniOS Community Edition r151054 was announced. This release is based on the development of the project illumos, which focuses on the development of the core, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and the basic set of system utilities OpenSolaris.
OmniOS is known for its support for Bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual network stack, ZFS file system, and launching lightweight Linux containers. This distribution is designed for building scalable web systems, virtualization, and storage systems.
In the latest release, the following updates and additions were made:
- Updated versions of packages, including Python 3.13, Perl 5.40.2, SQLite 3.49.1, WGET 2.2.0, GNU-Binutils 2.44, GNU-Coreutils 9.6, Git 2.49.0, OpenSSL 3.5.0, OpenSSH 10.0.2.
- Added new packages such as 7zip (replacing P7ZIP), Aarch64-Build-Tools, Libmagic, File (replacing the built-in utility), and tztest.
- A set of GCC 14 compilers is used for assembling user space components.
- MKFS_PCFS utility now supports disks larger than 512 bytes.
- Added Device Tree Compiler (DTC).
- OpenSSL 3 is assembled in compatibility mode with API OpenSSL 1.1.1.
- New implementations include FDCLOSE, DPRINTF, VDPRINTF, WCSLCAT, WCSLCPY, GETLOCALENAME_L, POSIX_SPAWN_FILE_ACTIONS_ADDCHDIR, and secret_getenv.
- Improved access to virtual network adapter properties for isolated environments (Solaris zones).
- Bhyve now supports AMD CPU performance meters, improved CPUID for guest systems, and experimental support for virtual TPM (SWTPM).
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