Release Notes
illumos based server OS with ZFS, Bhyve, DTrace, Crossbow, SMF and Linux zone support
omnios.org
OmniOS is a Unix OS based on Illumos, the parent of OpenZFS. It is a very conservative ZFS 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 r151050 is now end-of-life. You should switch to r151054lts or r151052 to stay on a supported track. r151054 is an LTS release with support until May 2028, and r151052 is a stable release with support until Nov 2025.
Update older releases in steps over last lts editions.
