OmniOS 151052 stable (OpenSource Solaris fork/ Unix)

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Release Notes

illumos based server OS with ZFS, DTrace, Crossbow, SMF, Bhyve, KVM and Linux zone support

omnios.org

OmniOS is a Unix OS based on Illumos, the parent of OpenZFS. It is a very conservative distribution with a strong focus on stability without very newest critical features like raid-z expansion or fast dedup. Main selling point beside stabilty is the kernelbased multithreaded SMB server due its unique integration in ZFS with Windows SID as security reference for ntfs alike ACL instead simple uid/gid numbers what avoids complicated mappings, lokal Windows compatible SMB groups. Setup is ultra easy, just set smbshare of a ZFS filesystem to on and set ACL via Windows.

To update to a newer release, you must switch the publisher setting to the newer release.
A 'pkg update' initiates then a release update. Without a publisher switch, a pkg updates initiates an update to the newest state of the same release.

Note that r151048 is now end-of-life. You should switch to r151046lts or r151052 to stay on a supported track. r151046 is an LTS release with support until May 2026, and r151052 is a stable release with support until Nov 2025.

For anyone who tracks LTS releases, the previous LTS - r151038 - is now end-of-life. You should upgrade to r151046 for continued LTS support.

 

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btw
I did an update and checked the time from update start on 151050 up to login in 151052:

4 Minutes: 21s

pkg unset-publisher omnios
pkg unset-publisher extra.omnios
pkg set-publisher -g https://pkg.omnios.org/r151052/core omnios
pkg set-publisher -g https://pkg.omnios.org/r151052/extra extra.omnios
pkg update pkg
pkg update
reboot