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Important: 32-bit support.
Among the normal list of updated packages, the main change is that Python is now version 3.12. All the old Python 3.11 modules are deprecated and will be removed.
The old closed /usr/bin/pax has been replaced by the heirloom pax.
This release enforces a requirement for the CPU to support SSE2. As all 64-bit capable CPUs should be SSE2-capable, this should have no impact.
The minimal ISO image has been reworked slightly and is now more of a server image. Specifically, if you're SAN-connected, the minimal live image includes more SAN drivers, whereas the regular ISO has no SAN capability at all. (In previous releases, neither were terribly useful on a SAN-connected host.)
The old closed /usr/xpg4/bin/more has been replaced by less.
The opportunity was taken to update some components with incompatible changes, along with associated rebuilds.
This release fixes the ZFS corruption bug (it's extremely hard to trigger in normal use, but it was present).
The shipped sendmail is now the current standard version, rather than the old version from illumos-gate.
The opportunity was taken to update some components with incompatible changes, along with associated rebuilds.
The key change here is that openssl has been upgraded from the now unsupported 1.1.1 release to version 3.0, and applications rebuilt to use this version.
Also, OpenSSH is now 9.4. Both python 3.7 and 3.9 have been removed.
Some key application version changes this time. MATE updated to 1.26; Default postgres is now v15; Default python is now 3.11; OpenSSH is now 8.9p1 and will go to 9.x in the next release.
IMPORTANT: this contains a fix for CVE-2023-31284 Buffer Overflow in /dev/net
Otherwise, this is a minor release, with the usual range of updates.
This is a minor release, just catching up on changes in illumos. One notable update is that the illumos linker is now compatible with binutils 2.40.
This is a minor release, the key change here is that the default compiler is now gcc10 rather than gcc7. There's also a vioscsi driver, expanding support for virtualized and cloud environments.
This is a minor release, with some significant internal updates. GLib2 has been updated to 2.62.6, pcre2 has been added, the default java is now jdk11, and illumos is built against that java. This is a minor rather than a micro release so that all dependencies get updated consistently.
This release also introduces 2 new overlays - desktop and server - in an attempt to provide better default installations for those use cases. Note that desktop doesn't yet enable the graphical login, for that you'll need to
svcadm enable slim
This is a minor release, with some significant changes. The default web browser is now Pale Moon, rather than an ancient Firefox; default python is now a 64-bit python 3.9; perl is now a 64-bit perl 5.34.
This update also incorporates IPD4 so manual pages may be in different sections than you would traditionally expect in a Solarish system.
This is a micro release, updating the underlying illumos components. Critically, it contains a security fix for tmpfs, CVE-2021-43395.
This was an interim release, created to test the ena driver for AWS nitro instance support. No LX variant or ISOs were made available.
This is a micro release, updating the underlying illumos components.
This is a minor release, with 2 significant changes. The system shell, ksh93, is now shipped in a separate package. The default libpng is now from the 1.6 series (with 1.4 provided for compatibility), and most packages that use libpng have been rebuilt to pick up the change.
Like m24.1 this is a hybrid iso. That will help it boot on a wider range of systems, but it's also possible that there are systems that it won't boot on.
This is a micro release, updating the underlying illumos components.
One major change; this is a hybrid iso. That will help it boot on a wider range of systems, but it's also possible that there are systems that it won't boot on.
This release features an updated ksh and better bhyve integration.
This is a minor release, updating the underlying illumos components and having a new baseline for Tribblix packages. The 2 major features in this release are that stack-smashing protection (SSP) is enabled in illumos userland, and OpenSSL has been updated to 1.1.1.
Avoid using the OmniTribblix variant m24lx, as not all m24 software is binary compatible with it. Use m24lx.1 instead.
This is a micro release, updating the underlying illumos components. It will be the last m23 update, and m24 will get the stack-smashing protection fixes.
This is a micro release, updating the underlying illumos components.
This update fixes a critical PAM security issue.
If the SLiM desktop manager refuses to start under VirtualBox or Vmware Fusion, try removing the vmware or vbox drivers
zap uninstall TRIBxorg-driver-video-vbox zap uninstall TRIBxorg-driver-video-vmware
If you get a cyclic smf dependency error at first boot, log in as root at the system maintenance prompt and run these commands:
svccfg delete metainit reboot
should clear it.
This is a micro release, updating the underlying illumos components.
This update has slightly better bhyve integration, and fixes 2 bhyve security issues.
Note: if you're upgrading, especially on omnitribblix, run the following before the upgrade:
/usr/sbin/svccfg delete svc:/system/metainit:default
It may return an error which is fine, but if that smf service still exists the upgraded version won't boot.
This is a minor release, allowing me to update the baseline. The underlying illumos system is now built with gcc7.
Bhyve is present in both tribblix and omnitribblix variants, but is not integrated into zap at this time.
Work to migrate Python applications and modules from Python 2 to Python 3 is ongoing. A future release will be python3 by default.
This is planned to be a transitional release, allowing significant upgrades of a number of key components, such as OpenSSL, Xfce, Xorg.
This is a minor release, allowing me to update the baseline. The key change here is that the default gcc, both compiler and runtime, is gcc7 rather than gcc4.
Work to migrate Python applications and modules from Python 2 to Python 3 is ongoing.
This is a minor release, allowing me to start from a new baseline.
The new baseline allows me to introduce more 64-bit applications, work on updating the compiler, start the transition to gtk3, and other significant application changes.
On OmniTribblix, you'll need to apply an update to get LX zones working:
zap refresh zap update TRIBsys-zones-brand-lx
You can install with EFI partitioning rather than the traditional Solaris partitioned install by using -G rather than -B (this will in future become the default behaviour).
There is no support for 32-bit hardware, you should continue to use Tribblix m20 on such hardware.
This is a micro release. It uses the same upgrade mechanism as a regular upgrade, but is Milestone 20 with the illumos components updated.
There are two changes to the installer. ZFS compression on the root pool is always enabled. And you can install with EFI partitioning rather than the traditional Solaris partitioned install by using -G rather than -B (this will in future become the default behaviour).
If you're trying to use LX zones with m20lx.6, you'll need to do a couple of things:
cd /etc/zones/ cp OMNIlx.xml SUNWlx.xml
as the name of the template has changed, and there's now an extra driver needed:
zap install TRIBdrv-inotify
(If you do the normal "zap refresh" and "zap update-overlay -a" this missing package will get pulled in automatically.) If you're trying to automatically download Ubuntu images, you should:
sed -i s:server-cloudimg-amd64:server-cloudimg-amd64-root: /usr/lib/zap/retrieve-image
The m20.6 update will be the last in the Milestone 20 series.
Note that the vanilla Tribblix ISO images were rereleased to fix a bug causing a crash on older CPUs.
This is a micro release. It uses the same upgrade mechanism as a regular upgrade, but is Milestone 20 with the illumos components updated.
New this release is a minimal ISO (for both regular and LX/omnitribblix variants). This is just over one fifth the size of the regular iso image. Ideal for server, custom builds, or if you're intending to use pkgsrc.
This is a micro release. It uses the same upgrade mechanism as a regular upgrade, but is Milestone 20 with the illumos components updated.
Also available at this time is an LX variant, with the illumos components being built from illumos-omnios (hence the nickname omnitribblix) rather than vanilla illumos-gate.
As of m20.4, the 32-bit kernel is no longer supplied. Use the original m20 release if you need 32-bit hardware support.
This is a micro release. It uses the same upgrade mechanism as a regular upgrade, but is Milestone 20 with the illumos components updated.
Also available at this time is an LX variant, with the illumos components being built from illumos-omnios (hence the nickname omnitribblix) rather than vanilla illumos-gate.
If you have problems with gcc being unable to find crt1.o, then doing a
zap refresh and updating the develop overlay should fix it;
or explicitly zap install TRIBsys-lib-c-runtime.
This is a micro release. It uses the same upgrade mechanism as a regular upgrade, but is Milestone 20 with the illumos components updated.
Also available at this time is an LX variant, with the illumos components being built from illumos-omnios (hence the nickname omnitribblix) rather than vanilla illumos-gate.
This is a micro release. It uses the same upgrade mechanism as a regular upgrade, but is Milestone 20 with the illumos components updated.
Also available at this time is an LX variant, with the illumos components being built from illumos-omnios (hence the nickname omnitribblix) rather than vanilla illumos-gate.
You should be able to upgrade to the m20 release from the m19 and m18 releases.
At this time, upgrading with zones is not supported. The upgrade will work, but the zones won't. You should save any data, destroy any zones, and recreate them after the upgrade.
The ISO is constructed slightly differently. This makes a number of installation scenarios much easier, but may impact on the ability to install on systems with little memory. (More on memory requirements.)
There is a new bootloader in illumos. New installations of m19 and later will use the new bootloader. Upgrades from older releases will retain grub as the bootloader. [More]
You should be able to upgrade to the m19 release from the m18 release. Upgrades from m17 and m16 might work, but haven't been properly tested.
At this time, upgrading with zones is not supported. The upgrade will work, but the zones won't. You should save any data, destroy any zones, and recreate them after the upgrade.
There is a new bootloader in illumos. New installations of m19 and later will use the new bootloader. Upgrades from older releases will retain grub as the bootloader. [More]
Drive enumeration has changed because of changes to illumos. On
fresh installs, you will no longer see drives on controller 0. For
example, in VirtualBox the first drive will be c1t0d0
instead of c0t0d0 as in the past.
If you do a fresh install of the kitchen-sink, the slim login
manager is now enabled by default. To enable slim on upgrades (or on
older releases) use 'svcadm enable slim'.
If installing from the iso, you should zap update evince to
fix a tiff dependency issue.
You should be able to upgrade to the m18 release from the m17 release. Upgrades from m16 might work, but haven't been properly tested.
At this time, upgrading with zones is not supported. The upgrade will work, but the zones won't. You should save any data, destroy any zones, and recreate them after the upgrade.
You should be able to upgrade to the m17 release from the m16 release. Upgrades from earlier releases are not supported, although the new over_install.sh script will allow you to install a new version into an existing pool.
At this time, upgrading with zones is not supported. The upgrade will work, but the zones won't. You should save any data, destroy any zones, and recreate them after the upgrade.
You should be able to upgrade to the m16 release from the m15 release. Upgrades from earlier releases are not supported.
At this time, upgrading with zones is not supported. The upgrade will work, but the zones won't. You should save any data, destroy any zones, and recreate them after the upgrade.
It is vital that you at least zap refresh followed by
zap update TRIBlib-zlib after installation. The zlib
package was incorrectly constructed and you will be unable to build
software against it.
Among the normal list of updated packages, where application software here roughly corresponds to m35 on x86 systems, the main change is that Python is now version 3.12. All the old Python 3.11 modules are deprecated and will be removed.
The old closed /usr/bin/pax has been replaced by the heirloom pax.
The application software here roughly corresponds to m34 on x86 systems, although the underlying illumos is still closer to m25/m26. Note that there are no functional illumos changes from the m28 sparc release - if that release didn't work on your system, this one won't either.
The application software here roughly corresponds to m33 on x86 systems, although the underlying illumos is still closer to m25/m26. Note that there are no functional illumos changes from the m28 sparc release - if that release didn't work on your system, this one won't either.
The application software here roughly corresponds to m32 on x86 systems, although the underlying illumos is still closer to m25/m26. Specifically the openssl 3.x and openssh 9.x updates are included.
This update also incorporates the manual page renumbering from IPD4.
If upgrading, mesa may need to be fixed (if installed). To sort this out:
zap uninstall SUNWxorg-mesa TRIBx11-lib-mesa \
TRIBx11-header-x11-protocols TRIBsvc-opengl-ogl-select
zap install TRIBx11-lib-mesa TRIBx11-header-x11-protocols \
TRIBsvc-opengl-ogl-select
The m28 sparc ISO has a fix for the drmach module failing to load on OPL (M-3000 and similar) systems. As I have no such systems, I cannot test it, but the problem of the M-series failing to boot still appears to be present.
The application software here roughly corresponds to m31 on x86 systems, although the underlying illumos is closer to m25/m26.
This SPARC ISO has only been tested in an LDOM so far, but works extremely well there. Remember to use the -B flag when installing;
./live_install.sh -B c1d0
This SPARC ISO has been tested in an LDOM on a T4-1 and the host on a T5140, and works extremely well there. A Sun Blade 1500 works, but less well. Reports indicate that M-series and the Ultra 25 do not work.
Remember to use the -B flag when installing;
./live_install.sh -B c1d0
This SPARC ISO has been tested in an LDOM on a T4-1 and the host on a T5140, and works extremely well there. A Sun Blade 1500 works, but less well. Reports indicate that M-series and the Ultra 25 do not work.
Important notes for upgrades: If upgrading from a SPARC release before m25.1 to m25.1 (or later) then you must follow the steps laid out in this article. Subsequent upgrades are fine, it's just getting through the m25.1 boundary that needs the extra manual step.
Remember to use the -B flag when installing;
./live_install.sh -B c1d0
The m22 release on SPARC solves most of the problems of earlier ISO
images. After installation, run zap install TRIBcompress-xz as
the xz package file on the ISO is invalid.
To update m22 packages to current
zap refresh zap update TRIBlib-security-openssl zap update-overlay -a
The m20.6 release on SPARC is built from the same illumos commit as the x86 version, and this update is released much closer in time to the matching x86 release. (The ISO has been pulled, as the installer is broken. If you have problems, make sure you disable cpio boot archives.)
While the ISO is no longer useful, upgrades are available, and you should upgrade any SPARC systems running m20 to m20.6.
The m20 release on SPARC is built from the same illumos commit as the x86 version, so matches at that level, despite being created many months later.
Before installing additional software, run zap refresh to ensure the package catalog is up to date.
The m20 ISO for SPARC is known to boot properly. It has not yet been extensively tested, as I don't have enough spare hardware that I can afford to wipe clean.
You may see errors from mpt_sas about misc/sata not being found. The mpt_sas driver on SPARC is currently broken.
There are issues with libidn2 compatibility affecting various releases on SPARC. If you have a broken curl, uninstall it (zap uninstall TRIBcurl), and zap should be able to use wget as an alternative, allowing you to 'zap refresh' and install a fixed curl for the repo. If you have a broken wget, you may have to install libidn2 by hand. This problem also appears to affect the m16-m18-m20 upgrade route.
The m18 release on SPARC is built from the same illumos commit as the x86 version, so matches at that level, despite being created many months later.
There is currently no ISO image for this release, but you should be able to upgrade. More notes on this update.
The m16 release on SPARC is built from the same illumos commit as the x86 version, so matches at that level, despite being created many months later.
Many fewer additional packages are available for SPARC.
I know of multiple problems with graphics cards, and have had trouble with the bge driver (as used, for example, on the Sun Blade 1500).