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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.

Installing or Upgrading

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

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ISO images and Torrents are available from:

• http://dlc-1.de.openindiana.org/downloadisos/151a7/

Also please see our mirror sites at http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Mirrors

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For information on using KVM, please see Using 7.3 KVM

• New terminal definitions:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/c1ed50709bff
• New whois tool:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/b2fbfacb9f9c
• New TCP socket options:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/3185061eadee
• Grub support for large sector disks:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/a4721c685d96
• ZFS aclmode property added:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/8c04143bd318
• Zone administration enhancements:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/4844172c07f8
• Easy access to service log files via svcs -L:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/c1720cb807d5
• Areca ARC-1880 RAID card driver support:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/5d49ca4e35b2
• UNMAP support for COMSTAR:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/4b9dc4ca8e9f
• iostat -E now correctly displays disk serial number:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/5fc9a1e8f648
• Bombproof taskqs:
  http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/illumos/illumos-gate/rev/b42c1f0432b6
• Open source replacements for locales, libc utf-8 support and many userland tools

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

• Firefox
• LibreOffice (3.5Apache OpenOffice (ported by Adfinis SyGroup AG)
• LibreOffice (ported by Lanedo Gmbh)
• Thunderbird
• Calendar for Thunderbird
• Flash Player
• Nvidia video driver (295.20)
• SuperTuxKart (0.7.3)
• Xen

Known issues

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

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• OpenIndiana svn_151 support on Adaptec 6xxx (14951497)
• pkg:/service/network/samba@3.5.4-0.147 broken (415)
• 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 (348, 1441)
• Chinese input method lost in b151 (1084)
• tcl/tk 64bit not working (1066)
• ZFS time-slider and auto-snapshots not working due to missing zfssnap-roleadd SMF service (1179)
• adpu320 should be on install media (963)
• CUPS hpcac filter missing from hplip (240)

Reporting 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:

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