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Introduction

Release Date: Sept 2011

Happy Anniversary to the OpenIndiana project!

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How to Upgrade or Download OpenIndiana oi_151a

Upgrading from OpenSolaris b134:

In order to upgrade, you should be running OpenSolaris b134 (snv_134b), the last official OpenSolaris release published by Oracle. Upgrading from later unofficial builds or distros may work, but is unsupported.

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If you are currently running OpenSolaris 2009.06 (snv_111) you can use the following commands to upgrade to build 134 (snv_134):

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Please read the release notes before proceeding!
This uses the OpenIndiana snapshot of the OpenSolaris snv_134 dev repository.

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pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg SUNWipkg-um SUNWipkg-guipfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.openindiana.org/legacy opensolaris.orgpfexec pkg image-update -vOnce this process completes, you should reboot into the newly created snv_134 boot environment (BE) and proceed with the instructions to upgrade to OpenIndiana.

You can upgrade an existing (x86) OpenSolaris system to OpenIndiana.
From the command line:pfexec pkg set-publisher --non-sticky opensolaris.org
pfexec pkg set-publisher -P -O http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev openindiana.org
pfexec pkg image-update -vThis will add OpenIndiana as a new boot environment (BE). You will still be able to use your previous OpenSolaris system until you remove the OpenSolaris BE or upgrade your ZFS pool to a newer version.

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If your OpenSolaris b134 console was using a keyboard layout other than "qwerty" please be aware that upon booting into OpenIndiana for the first time, your keyboard layout may be reset to "qwerty".

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Our package repository may experience availability issues by the content distribution network that caches downloads. If you notice hash failures or HTTP error codes, try a local OI-related repository mirror.

 

Please don't remove (unset) the opensolaris.org publisher at this time. Not all of the software has updates in openindiana.org.

For further details on installation and upgrading, see:

Release date: Sept 14, 2011

OpenIndiana oi_151a was released on 14th September 2011, exactly one year after our first release, oi_147! Our latest build brings a wide variety of enhancements, including being our first build based on Illumos.

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Installing or Upgrading

If you are currently running OpenSolaris, please see Upgrading from OpenSolaris. If you are currently running OpenIndiana, please see Upgrading OpenIndiana.

For information on installing, please see Installing OpenIndiana

Downloading OpenIndiana

ISO images and Torrents are available from:

Also please see our mirror sites at http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Installing+or+Upgrading

Download OpenIndiana:

ISO images can be downloaded from:

Mirrors

New features in OpenIndiana oi_151a

OpenIndiana Kernel & Core Userland

OpenIndiana oi_151a is based on a recent revision of the Illumos_gate provided by the Illumos_gate project. Notable changes to the Illumos_gate kernel and core userland since OpenIndiana's oi_148 release includes:

  • KVM (Kernel

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  • Virtual Machine)

OpenIndiana oi_151a now includes KVM, the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine, as a basic virtualization solution along with the QEMU package! This KVM port includes virtualization extensions for Intel VT.  Using KVM, a user or system administrator can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified x86_64-based operating system images for Linux, BSD, or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.Other important patches and changes to the Illumos_gate kernel include:

For information on using KVM, please see 7.3 KVM

New Defaults and Applications

  • OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.0d.
  • xz has been updated to 5.0.3.
  • Wine has been updated to 1.1.44
  • XFCE desktop environment has been updated to 4.8.0.
  • mpg123 has been updated to 1.13.3*.*
  • x264 has been updated to 20110827.
  • Tightvnc has been updated to 1.3.10.
  • VLC has been updated to 1.1.11.
  • The PostgreSQL database has been updated to 9.0.4.
  • GCC has been updated to 4.6.1.
  • ImageMagick has been updated to 6.7.0.10.

Known issues

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Spec Files Extra Repository

A wide variety of software is now available through the Spec Files Extra repository, OI-Userland, and third-party community package management systems.

  • AbiWord (2.8.6)
  • Arora Web browser (0.11.0)
  • Blender (2.49.2)
  • ClamAV (0.97.1)
  • Drupal (7.8)
  • ffmpeg (0.8.6)
  • GCC (4.6.2)
  • ghc (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) (7.2.1)
  • git (1.7.7)
  • ImageMagick (6.7.2-6)
  • Inkscape (0.48.1)
  • MPD (Music Player Daemon) (0.16.2)
  • Mplayer (2.0.99)
  • mpg123 (1.13.3)
  • Netatalk (2.2.0)
  • PostgreSQL database (9.1.1)
  • Postfix (2.8.5)
  • Openbox (3.5.0)
  • Qt (4.7.3)
  • Scribus (1.4.0)
  • Stellarium (0.11.0)
  • Sylpheed (3.1.1)
  • Tightvnc (1.3.10)
  • Transmission (2.22)
  • VLC (1.1.11)
  • Wine (1.3.34)
  • x264 (20111012)
  • XFCE desktop environment (4.8.3)

Community packages contributed and ported by other package maintainers/ISVs:

Known issues

Here is a list of known issues that are still outstanding:

See https://www.illumos.org/projects/openindiana/issues for more known issues and detailed information

  • Evolution/Exchange hangs loading folder contents (489)
  • pkg fix reports errors in cups after rebootOpenIndiana svn_151 support on Adaptec 6xxx (1497)
  • SFE's runtime/gcc package breaks VirtualBox. See SFE notes for a workaround.
  • i/o hang with mega_sas driver (618)
  • cpqary3 driver is old and causes panic in oi_151 (1441)
  • Chinese inputmethod input method lost in b151 (1084)
  • oi_151 32 bits nVidia driver freezes the machine (1161)
  • tcl/tk 64bit not working (1066)
  • ZFS time-slider and auto-snapshots not working due to missing zfssnap-roleadd SMF service (1179)
  • Postgres package broken in /dev-il (1272)

Reporting bugs

It should come as no surprise that this release of OpenIndiana's oi_151a contains bugs. Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help fix bugs and improve the quality of future releases. Please report bugs through the provided bugtracker system:

If you want to help out with bugs, the OpenIndiana bug team is always looking for help.

 

Participate in OpenIndiana

As a community maintained distribution, we depend on community members getting involved. There are a wide variety of ways you can help us, from blogging and talking about OpenIndiana, adding content to our wiki, through to helping us developing the operating system.

If you would like to help shape OpenIndiana, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at

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get involved, the quickest way is to jump on IRC and talk to our developers directly.

More information

You can find out more about the OpenIndiana distribution project, please see:

Note: oi_151a Release Notes originally written by Ken Mays (kmays). Please contact for any major corrections or changes.TBC - note

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