Published release of the distribution kit OmniOS Community Edition r151056, based on the developments of the project Illumos, which continues the development of the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries and a basic set of OpenSolaris system utilities. OmniOS is notable for providing support for the bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual networking stack, the ZFS file system, and tools for running lightweight Linux containers. The distribution can be used for building scalable web systems, virtualization and creating storage systems.
In new release:
- Updated versions of packages, including 7zip 25.1, sqlite 3.50.4, GCC 14.3.0, binutils 2.45, Git 2.51.0, vim 9.1.1730, coreutils 9.8, bind 9.18.39, perl 5.42.0, python 3.13.7, sudo 1.9.17.2, bash 5.3, gawk 5.3.2, grep 3.12, patch 2.8, less 679.
- Added support for managing NVMe namespaces (separately addressable logical partitions on a drive) on devices that support this feature.
- Significantly improved performance of the library function gethrtime(), thanks to the use of shared memory.
- The kernel linker has been improved to load larger kernel modules.
- When configuring network interfaces via DHCP, support for setting the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) value has been implemented.
- Support for SMBIOS 3.9 has been added.
- The pcre2 library is now compiled with JIT support.
- Ucodeadm now supports inspection and management binary files with microcode for AMD chips.
- The “–with-be” option has been added to the pkg package manager for execution in the context of alternative boot environments.
- The library function getlocalename_l() has been implemented.
- In isolated environments (LX zone), support has been added for setting the size of network buffers and handling failures through the pseudo-FS /proc.
- In the utility nvmeadm has expanded support for commands and logs specific to individual manufacturers.
- The performance of the cxgbe network driver (Chelsio Terminator 10/25/40/100 Gbps) has been improved.
- The installer now has the ability to configure a console accessible via the serial console.
- Support for the GRUB bootloader and OpenSSL library branches has been deprecated 1.0.x/1.1.1. Updates for Python 2 packages have been discontinued. The liboqs and oqs-provider packages have been removed.
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.