OmniOS Community Edition r151028j, r151026aj, r151022ch

Published at January 6, 2019

OmniOS Community Edition weekly releases for w/c 7th of January 2019 are now available. These are reboot updates for r151028 only.

In all releases:

GNU tar has been updated to version 1.31 in all releases, fixing CVE-2018-20482.
libxml2 has been updated to fix - CVE-2018-9251, CVE-2018-14404, CVE-2018-14567

The following information relates to release r151028 only

Updates (r151028 only)

Fix for ZFS performance degredation with some pools due frequent metaslab unload and re-load - OS-7151
bhyve updates including disk performance improvements.
Performance improvement in zone resource tracking on machines with many CPUs - illumos 9936

Fixes (r151028 only)

Workarounds for some hard disks and SSDs with buggy firmware relating to power conditions.
LX: fix to openat() in order to support newer systemd - see #331
bhyve/kvm brands did not support more than one disk when configured via zonecfg

Features (r151028 only)

Added library/security/openssl/preview to allow installation and testing of OpenSSL 1.1.1 - see blog post

For more details, see https://omnios.org/releasenotes

Any problems or questions, please get in touch.