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2019.04 Release notes

We are glad to announce that Hipster 2019.04 snapshot is available.

Image Checksum GPG signature
OI-hipster-gui-20190511.iso [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-gui-20190511.usb [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-text-20190511.iso [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-text-20190511.usb [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-minimal-20190511.iso [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-minimal-20190511.usb [SHA256] [SIG]

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Security

This release is signed and verifiable by GPG. The OpenIndiana Release Engineering key has key id 0x3a021afadbe31887.

The public key:

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How to verify:

  • Download <ISO>.sig file from mirror
  • Run: gpg2 --verify <ISO>.sig <ISO>. You should see the following output:
    gpg: Signature made October 23, 2018 at 03:15:31 PM UTC using RSA key ID DBE31887
    gpg: Good signature from "OpenIndiana Release Engineering" [unknown]
    Primary key fingerprint: F5E9 84E5 ADD2 9578 D45C  C1FE 3A02 1AFA DBE3 1887

Even if the output includes:

    gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
    gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.

The signature is still correct.

General system changes

During this development cycle we've worked on fixing VirtualBox, updating Firefox and Mate.

Other noticeable changes include moving of some OI-specific applications from Python 2.7/GTK 2 to Python 3.5/GTK 3, merging updates from OmniOS CE IPS (including automatically named boot environments), rebuilding and fixing issues in libiconv conversion modules.

Late news (known issues)

Firefox can fail to spawn child processes on the first launch. After being restarted it runs fine.

In some scenarios Firefox hangs or crashes. In many cases enlarging the swap helps. In the example below we enlarge swap from 4 to 8 GB:

$ zfs get volsize rpool/swap
NAME        PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
rpool/swap  volsize   4G     local
$ pfexec zfs set volsize=8g rpool/swap
$ pfexec reboot

Desktop software and libraries

  • MATE 1.22 was integrated.
  • Firefox was updated to 60 ESR
  • VirtualBox 6.0 was integrated (including guest additions).
  • Xorg fonts, tools and libraries were updated. xbacklight tool was added.
  • Freetype was updated to 2.9.1, fontconfig was updated to 2.13.1.
  • GTK+3 was updated to 3.24.8
  • glib2 was updated to 2.58.3.
  • LightDM was updated to 1.28

Common tools and libraries

  • Updates for IPS were merged from OmniOS CE IPS, including automatically named boot environments (see documentation for details).
  • Many utilities are now 64-bit-only.
  • zsh, bash and pdsh shells were updated. zsh and bash syntax highlighting support was enhanced.
  • GNU awk was updated to 5.0, GNU sed was updated to 4.7, GNU coreutils were updated to 8.31.
  • vim was updated to 8.1.1002, nano was updated to 4.2.
  • Ghostspcript was updated to 9.26.
  • rename tool was added.

Development tools and libraries

  • GCC compilers were updated to 6.5, 7.4 and 8.3.0, binutils were updated to 2.32
  • git was updated to 2.21.0.
  • cmake was updated to 3.12.4.
  • Python 3.5, 3.4 and 2.7 were updated to latest minor versions.
  • rust was updated to 1.32.0.
  • Python modules were updated.
  • Bison was updated to 3.3.2
  • Golang 1.11 was added
  • PHP 7.3 was added. PHP 5.6 was removed.
  • Several illumos-specific commands like zfs, zpool, pkg, beadm, svcs, and svcadm now have bash completions. To leverage them install the bash-completion package.
  • gSOAP 2.8.83 was added
  • zstd 1.3.8 was added.

Server software

  • Apache 2.4 is 64-bit-only now
  • OpenSSH was updated to 7.9p1.
  • PostgreSQL 11 was added. PostgreSQL versions 9.4 thru 10 were updated to their latest minor versions. Citus extensions was added. Other PostgreSQL extensions were updated.
  • MariaDB 10.1 was updated, MariaDB 10.3 was added. Percona Server 5.6 and 5.7 were updated. Berkeley DB was updated as well.
  • MongoDB 3.4 and 4.0 were updated. MongoDB 3.3 was removed.
  • Nginx was updated to 1.16.0.
  • Samba was updated to 4.9.5.
  • Node.js was updated to 12.2.0, 10.15.3, 8.16.0, 6.17.1.
  • Ansible 2.7.5 was added.

A lot of other bug fixes and minor software updates are included.

illumos

As always, we are proud to ship the latest illumos-gate bits (a547acf91a).

Contributors

Following developers contributed to the 2019.04 snapshot with close to 500 commits. We very much appreciate their contributions:

  • Alexander Pyhalov
  • Andreas Grueninger
  • Andreas Wacknitz
  • Aurélien Larcher
  • Gary Mills
  • Ivan Maidanski
  • Jason Martin
  • Jean-Pierre André
  • Jim Klimov
  • Joshua M. Clulow
  • Michal Nowak
  • Nona Hansel
  • Rouven Weiler
  • Sebastian Wiedenroth
  • Stephan Althaus
  • Till Wegmüller
  • Tim Mooney
  • benf33
Last update: 2023-09-03 19:46:49
Created: 2019-05-27 10:39:25