[OmniOS-discuss] August 7th OmniOS "bloody" repo update

Dan McDonald danmcd at omniti.com
Fri Aug 8 01:48:29 UTC 2014


This would've been done sooner, but with the supported repos needing OpenSSL updates, this one got pushed out a bit later.

This one is a small amount of changes, relative to the last one.  Obviously the OpenSSL update is here.  The list of what's new is:

	- OpenSSL updated to 1.0.1i
	- Various man-page updates, including modern man-page tools
	- ZFS bugfixes and performance improvments:
	  - Including improved UNMAP performance for large datasets
	- ztest now uses larger device sizes by default
	- intra-node/inter-zone packets now deliver SIGPOLL to the receiver.
	- Localhost connections choke less in TCP's TIME_WAIT state.

NOTE:  This update does not change the "uname -v" string (omnios-8e364a8), but its default /etc/motd contains omnios-faf4446, which reflects the git commit in illumos-omnios that built this update.  This was because there were no updates in system/kernel/platform, which contains "unix", and the "uname -v" string.

Happy updating!
Dan



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