OmniOS Community Edition R151052 has been released, building on the achievements of the Illumos project. This distribution continues the development of core components such as the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and system utilities from OpenSolaris. OmniOS is distinguished by its full support for Bhyve and KVM hypervisors, Crossbow virtual network stack, ZFS file system, and tools for launching Linux containers. It is suitable for building scalable web systems, virtualization, and storage systems.
In the release notes, the following updates and features are highlighted:
- Enhancements to the SMB3 protocol adding encryption capabilities.
- Upgrade to OpenSSL library version 3.3.2 with new provider for post-scan encryption algorithms, dropping support for outdated versions.
- Updated packages including GCC 14, Bash 5.2.32, Sudo 1.9.16, Perl 5.40.0, OpenSSH 9.9, Bind 9.18.30, Coreutils 9.5, VIM 9.1.652, GIT 2.46.2, and SQLite 3.46.1.
- Phasing out support for Python 2 while maintaining the Python-27 package for compatibility.
- Addition of new functions and options for file descriptors and sockets.
- Implementation of option tcp_md5sig for TCP segment verification in BGP.
- Enhancements for LX Zones containers and Bhyve hypervisor.
- Improvements to ZFS with new algorithms and optimizations.
- Expanded capabilities for system utilities such as adding IPV6 support to RSYNC.
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