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2020.04 Release notes

We are glad to announce that Hipster 2020.04 snapshot is available.

Image Checksum GPG signature
OI-hipster-gui-20200504.iso [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-gui-20200504.usb [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-text-20200504.iso [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-text-20200504.usb [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-minimal-20200504.iso [SHA256] [SIG]
OI-hipster-minimal-20200504.usb [SHA256] [SIG]

List of mirrors

Security

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

The public key (note, the key was updated at 2020-05-05):

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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: Warning: using insecure memory!
    gpg: Signature made May  5, 2020 at 06:18:21 AM UTC
    gpg:                using RSA key F5E984E5ADD29578D45CC1FE3A021AFADBE31887
    gpg: Good signature from "OpenIndiana Release Engineering" [ultimate]

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

All OpenIndiana system software was rewritten in Python 3. Installation images now don't deliver Python 2.7 interpreters or libraries, however some software still requires Python 2.7. We've moved to GCC 7 as the default compiler.

Desktop software and libraries

  • LibreOffice 6.4.3 was added. There are some issues with GTK 3 theme, so "gen" VCL plugin is used by default. You can experiment with GTK3 plugin, setting SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN environment variable to gtk3 explicitly.
  • VirtualBox was updated to 6.1.6. There are some issues with direct and VNC consoles with non-EFI guests.
  • VLC was updated to 3.0.10
  • ntfsprogs were updated to 2017.3.23AR.5
  • 32-bit versions of basic xorg tools were dropped
  • hplip was updated to 3.19.12
  • rhythmbox was updated to 3.4.4
  • Gstreamer was updated to 1.16.2
  • Due to serious performance issues with totem>3.0.1, we can't update totem to the latest version. We created an own totem fork to import upstream patches and remove the dependency on Python 2.7.
  • UPower was updated to 0.99.11
  • Mate Power Manager policy was adjusted to avoid suspending computer unless specifically overwritten by the user due to issues with wakeup on modern hardware.
  • XScreensaver was updated to 5.44
  • Gnome Connection Manager was updated to 1.2.0
  • MiniDLNA was added
  • XChat was removed

Common tools and libraries

  • Caiman installer was switched to Python 3.5
  • PKG was updated to use rapidjson instead of simplejson for json processing which reduced memory consumption on operations with large package catalogues
  • DDU security issue, allowing a local attacker to gain root privileges under some rare cases, was fixed
  • net-snmp was updated to 5.8
  • Sudo was updated to 1.8.31
  • mozilla-nspr libraries were updated to 4.25
  • SQLite was updated to 3.31.1
  • OpenConnect was updated to 8.05, vpnc-scripts to 20190606 version
  • GNU Screen was updated to 4.8.0
  • tmux was updated to 3.0a
  • nano was updated to 4.8

Development tools and libraries

  • GCC compilers were updated to 7.5.0, 8.4, 9.3. GCC 7 is the default oi-userland compiler now.
  • Python was updated to 2.7.18, 3.5.9, a lot of python modules were updated
  • Early PEP-538 variant was imported to Python 3.5 to fix IPS issues in C locale
  • Clang 9 was added
  • Guile was updated to 2.2.7
  • Golang was updated to 1.13.8, 1.12.17
  • OpenJDK was updated to 1.8.232, icedtea-web - to 1.8.3
  • Ruby was updated to 2.6.6
  • PHP was updated to 7.3.17
  • Git was updated to 2.25.4
  • Mercurial was updated to 5.3.2
  • Glade was updated to 3.22.2
  • GNU TLS 3 was updated to 3.5.19, GNU TLS 2 was removed
  • Automake was updated to 1.16
  • Glib was updated to 2.62
  • Binutils were updated to 2.34

Server software

  • PostgreSQL 12 was added, PostgreSQL 9.4 was removed, PostgreSQL 9.5 - 11 were updated to latest minor releases
  • Barman was updated to 2.9. Server configurations should be updated. At least archiver = on option should be added to old configurations. Look at /usr/share/barman for examples.
  • MariaDB was updated to 10.3.22, 10.1.44
  • Redis 6.0.1 was added
  • Apache was updated to 2.4.43
  • Nginx was updated to 1.18.0.
  • Lighttpd was updated to 1.4.55
  • Tomcat was updated to 8.5.51
  • Samba was updated to 4.12.1.
  • Node.js was updated to 12.16.3, 10.18.1, 8.17.0
  • BIND was updated to 9.16
  • ISC DHCP was updated to 4.4.2
  • Memcached was updated to 1.6.2
  • OpenSSH was updated to 8.1p1
  • OpenVPN was updated to 2.4.9
  • kvm was updated to 20191007 version from Joyent's illumos-kvm repository
  • qemu-kvm was updated to 20190827 version from Joyent's illumos-kvm-cmd repository
  • tor was updated to 0.4.1.9

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 (45de87).

Contributors

Following developers contributed to the 2020.04 snapshot with more than 480 commits. We very much appreciate their contributions: Alexander Pyhalov, Andreas Grueninger, Andreas Wacknitz, Aurélien Larcher, Rouven Weiler, Gary Mills, Jim Klimov, John Levon, Michal Nowak, Nona Hansel, Solène Rapenne, svschmel, Till Wegmüller, Tim Mooney and Toomas Soome.

Last update: 2023-09-03 19:46:49
Created: 2020-05-05 09:16:04