Bad news for OmniOS users
[OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS
We will see what this means for the Future of OmniOS
(continuation as an OpenSource project, or move/merge with another Illumos distribution like OI or SmartOS)
The next OmniOS 151022
seem the last OmniOS release
(expected Mai 2017) is available as a public beta.
ReleaseNotes/r151022
For an update from a version prior the current stable 151020 (up from last LTS 151014),
- check Upgrade_to_r151022
- and napp-it // webbased ZFS NAS/SAN appliance for OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and Linux : Downloads
- If you use napp-it, you must first update to newest v 17 free, pro or dev (April edition)
You must mainly care about number of BEs (<30) and the switch of SunSSH to OpenSSH in 151018 stable and a current napp-it to avoid problems with the Perl module Expect
Update from a current default stable OmniOS 151020
If you want to update from current stable 151020 setup, you must update napp-it, switch the repository and update. The easiest way is using Putty as root as you can copy/paste commands with a mouse right click
New features since last long term stable r151014
System features #
- GRUB replaced by Loader
- New Kayak-based ISO/USB installer.
- LX Zones (Linux Container from SmartOS),
see LXZones)
http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/zones.pdf
- Python 2.7
- Changes in how linked-image zones behave.
- Perl 5.24.1
- SunSSH replaced with OpenSSH
- Vim 8
- The in-kernel SMB server now supports SMB2
- A new /dev/full soft device. See full(7D)
- SMAP and SMEP use on applicable CPUs
- ASLR now implemented (but must be enabled).
- Improved decoding of NFSv4 packets and RARP filters in snoop(1M)
- Backspace now performs a delete on the cam^H^Honsole
- kstat(1M) now outputs valid JSON with -j
- The c0 controller instance for disks is now reserved for exclusive use by multipath
- The default number of threads for nfsd and lockd has been increased to 1024 and 256 respectively
- mkfs_pcfs(1M) is now aware of GPT-formatted drives
- "Last login" hostnames can now be and display longer (including IPv6 addresses)
- The default /etc/inet/ntp.conf file now syncs to the OmniOS vendor pool on pool.ntp.org. One may turn on - NTP by issuing svcadm enable ntp with no further configuration required
- OmniOS repositories default to TLS use now.
Hardware support #
- USB 3.0 XHCI controller and device support
- Intel I210/I218/I219 1Gb NIC support added to e1000g(7d) and igb(7D)
- Intel X550/X552/X557 10Gb NIC support added to ixgbe(7D)
- Intel X710/XL710/XXV710 10/25/40Gb NIC support added with i40e(7D)
- Solarflare SFC9000 10/40Gb NIC support added with sfxge(7D)
- Chelsio Terminator-5 10/40Gb NIC support added to chxge(7D)
- Broadcom 57xx/577xx 1Gb NIC support added to bge(7D)
- vmxnet3s driver for when operating as a VMWare ESXi guest
-Intel WiFi Link 4965/100/1000/2000/5000/6000 adapter support added with iwn
- Realtek RTL8150 USB 100Mb ethernet adapters
- ASIX AX88172/88772 USB 100Mb ethernet adapters
- Davicom DM9601 USB 100Mb ethernet adapters
- ADMtek AN986/ADM851x USB 100Mb ethernet adapters
- NVMe 1.1 device support added with nvme(7D)
- Support for SATA 4K Native drives
- LSI Fury-based adapters (Dell H330) in mpt_sas(7D)
- HP Gen. 9 Smart Array Controller support added to cpqary3(7D)
- SMBIOS 3.1 support
- ACPI-CA 6.0
ZFS improvements #
- ARC now caches compressed data in compressed form
- zpool history records scrub completion
- Large block support
- Resumable and compressed ZFS send and receive
- Reliability improvements to ZFS send and receive
- New checksums for ZFS: SHA-512, Skein, Edon-R
- Many reliability improvements concerning special-case scenarios
- useradd(1M), userdel(1M), and usermod(1M) are now ZFS-aware
Please report remaining problems
napp-it
I have updated napp-it to work with this release (April 2017 edition)
earlier versions of napp-it are not compatible (Tty problem of Perl module Expect)
Problems
OmniOS 151022 stable will not be continued by OmniTi.
If is not yet decided if or when napp-it will move to another default distribution
(propably OI or SmartOS or Oracle Solaris then)
[OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS
We will see what this means for the Future of OmniOS
(continuation as an OpenSource project, or move/merge with another Illumos distribution like OI or SmartOS)
The next OmniOS 151022
seem the last OmniOS release
(expected Mai 2017) is available as a public beta.
ReleaseNotes/r151022
For an update from a version prior the current stable 151020 (up from last LTS 151014),
- check Upgrade_to_r151022
- and napp-it // webbased ZFS NAS/SAN appliance for OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and Linux : Downloads
- If you use napp-it, you must first update to newest v 17 free, pro or dev (April edition)
You must mainly care about number of BEs (<30) and the switch of SunSSH to OpenSSH in 151018 stable and a current napp-it to avoid problems with the Perl module Expect
Update from a current default stable OmniOS 151020
If you want to update from current stable 151020 setup, you must update napp-it, switch the repository and update. The easiest way is using Putty as root as you can copy/paste commands with a mouse right click
As the setup creates a bootenvironment, you can go back to the former OS release when needed.pkg unset-publisher omnios
pkg set-publisher -P --set-property signature-policy=require-signatures -g package repository omnios
pkg update
reboot
New features since last long term stable r151014
System features #
- GRUB replaced by Loader
- New Kayak-based ISO/USB installer.
- LX Zones (Linux Container from SmartOS),
see LXZones)
http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/zones.pdf
- Python 2.7
- Changes in how linked-image zones behave.
- Perl 5.24.1
- SunSSH replaced with OpenSSH
- Vim 8
- The in-kernel SMB server now supports SMB2
- A new /dev/full soft device. See full(7D)
- SMAP and SMEP use on applicable CPUs
- ASLR now implemented (but must be enabled).
- Improved decoding of NFSv4 packets and RARP filters in snoop(1M)
- Backspace now performs a delete on the cam^H^Honsole
- kstat(1M) now outputs valid JSON with -j
- The c0 controller instance for disks is now reserved for exclusive use by multipath
- The default number of threads for nfsd and lockd has been increased to 1024 and 256 respectively
- mkfs_pcfs(1M) is now aware of GPT-formatted drives
- "Last login" hostnames can now be and display longer (including IPv6 addresses)
- The default /etc/inet/ntp.conf file now syncs to the OmniOS vendor pool on pool.ntp.org. One may turn on - NTP by issuing svcadm enable ntp with no further configuration required
- OmniOS repositories default to TLS use now.
Hardware support #
- USB 3.0 XHCI controller and device support
- Intel I210/I218/I219 1Gb NIC support added to e1000g(7d) and igb(7D)
- Intel X550/X552/X557 10Gb NIC support added to ixgbe(7D)
- Intel X710/XL710/XXV710 10/25/40Gb NIC support added with i40e(7D)
- Solarflare SFC9000 10/40Gb NIC support added with sfxge(7D)
- Chelsio Terminator-5 10/40Gb NIC support added to chxge(7D)
- Broadcom 57xx/577xx 1Gb NIC support added to bge(7D)
- vmxnet3s driver for when operating as a VMWare ESXi guest
-Intel WiFi Link 4965/100/1000/2000/5000/6000 adapter support added with iwn
- Realtek RTL8150 USB 100Mb ethernet adapters
- ASIX AX88172/88772 USB 100Mb ethernet adapters
- Davicom DM9601 USB 100Mb ethernet adapters
- ADMtek AN986/ADM851x USB 100Mb ethernet adapters
- NVMe 1.1 device support added with nvme(7D)
- Support for SATA 4K Native drives
- LSI Fury-based adapters (Dell H330) in mpt_sas(7D)
- HP Gen. 9 Smart Array Controller support added to cpqary3(7D)
- SMBIOS 3.1 support
- ACPI-CA 6.0
ZFS improvements #
- ARC now caches compressed data in compressed form
- zpool history records scrub completion
- Large block support
- Resumable and compressed ZFS send and receive
- Reliability improvements to ZFS send and receive
- New checksums for ZFS: SHA-512, Skein, Edon-R
- Many reliability improvements concerning special-case scenarios
- useradd(1M), userdel(1M), and usermod(1M) are now ZFS-aware
Please report remaining problems
napp-it
I have updated napp-it to work with this release (April 2017 edition)
earlier versions of napp-it are not compatible (Tty problem of Perl module Expect)
Problems
OmniOS 151022 stable will not be continued by OmniTi.
If is not yet decided if or when napp-it will move to another default distribution
(propably OI or SmartOS or Oracle Solaris then)
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