Presented release of a free distribution OpenIndiana 2024.04, which replaced the OpenSolaris binary distribution, the development of which was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides the user with a working environment built on the basis of a fresh slice of the project's code base Illumos. The actual development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which develops the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, as well as a basic set of user system utilities and libraries. For loading formed three types of iso images – server edition with console applications (970 GB), minimal assembly (470 MB) and assembly with the MATE graphical environment (1.9 GB).
Major changes in OpenIndiana 2024.04:
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- Approximately 1,230 packages have been updated, including approximately 900 Python-related packages and 200 Perl-related packages.
- The MATE user environment has been updated to branch 1.28 (officially not announced MATE project). Fixes from other distributions have been transferred to the MATE base libraries to improve stability.
- Updated versions of LibreOffice 24.2, PulseAudio 17, alpine 2.26, Firefox 125, Thunderbird 125 (test beta buildsthe next stable release of Thunderbird is expected in the summer).
- Updated LLVM/Clang 18, Node.js 22, golang 1.22. Many packages are built using GCC 13.
- The fail2ban package has been added to the basic package to protect against flooding and password guessing attempts.
- Package prepared HPN SSH (High-Performance SSH), which includes a variant of OpenSSH with patches that eliminate bottlenecks that affect the performance of data transfer over the network.
- Packages that used libjpeg6 as a dependency have been moved to the libjpeg8-turbo library, which is included by default in the distribution.
- The zstd algorithm is used to compress boot images.
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