OmniOS Community Edition has released the distribution kit r151058, which is based on the developments of the Illumos project. The distribution continues the development of the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and a basic set of OpenSolaris system utilities. OmniOS is known for providing support for bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual networking stack, the ZFS file system, and tools for running lightweight Linux containers. It can be used for building scalable web systems, virtualization, and creating storage systems.
Some of the changes in the new release include:
- New frameworks supporting GPIO, I2C, and SMBus interfaces have been introduced.
- A new driver stack for EEPROM devices has been added.
- Support for AMD Phoenix 2 and Intel Alder Lake-N processors has been included.
- Optimization of IPv6 traffic processing has been enabled to increase throughput.
- Support for decoding DOE parameters and vendor-specific Virtio capabilities has been added to the pcieadm utility.
- The nvmeadm utility now supports the NVMe 2.1 specification and can execute commands and display vendor-specific log formats.
- New options have been added to the cp, mv, and ln utilities for handling file overwriting and confirmation prompts.
- Support for creating and verifying digital signatures using the AES-GMAC algorithm has been added.
- Enhancements have been made to Smbd for improved support when connecting to SMB Active Directory.
- New options have been added to the “zfs change-key” command for updating user properties while changing encryption keys.
- Additional support for Bhyve hypervisor includes hybrid virtio devices, multiple virtio-net queues, different queue sizes, and enabling the virtio-scsi device.
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