OmniOSce - r151028 - released
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New Features
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The OmniOSce team and the illumos community have been very active in creating 
new features and improving existing ones over the last 6 months. Highlights of 
this new release include:

* Production-ready Bhyve hypervisor. For years, OmniOS has provided a linux kvm 
based hypervisor. With this release, we are adding a second option. The bhyve 
hypervisor from the BSD world has been made a first class illumos component 
through the combined efforts of Pluribus networks and Joyent with extra help 
from the FreeBSD community. It provides massively faster disk and network io 
than the kvm hypervisor as it does not rely on qemu emulation for these 
services but comes with a super optimised native driver implementation.

* Branded zones for bhyve and KVM virtual machines. Running a virtual machine 
inside a zone provides an additional layer of security as any success in 
breaking out of the virtual machine container will only result in access to the 
branded zone which itself guarantees strong isolation from the global zone. On 
top of added security, zones also provide protection against hyper-threading 
attacks such as L1TF and Portsmash, and allow strict resource controls for cpu, 
disk and network access. Our website contains documentation 
(https://omniosce.org/info/bhyve_kvm_brand) on how to make use of these new 
zone types.

* ZFS support for mounting filesystems in parallel. This significantly improves 
boot time for systems with many filesystems.

* All userland tools are now compiled with gcc7 and several 32-bit only 
packages have been moved to 64-bit only.

* Many packages have been updated to newer releases like Python 3.5, Perl 5.28, 
OpenSSL 1.1. And developers can now start using gcc 8 on OmniOS.


New Hardware Support
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* Emulex 31000/32000-based Fibrechannel cards.
* ATTO Celerity FC-162E Gen 5 and Celerity FC-162P Gen 6 Fibrechannel cards.
* QLogic 16Gb/s Gen5/6 fibrechannel cards.
* QLogic QL41000/45000 series devices.
* NVMe 1.3 devices.
* SMB access to some HP scanner models.

OmniOSce Newsletter
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Since the start of OmniOS Community Edition project, we have predominantly 
announced our new releases via twitter. With r151028 we are now also offering a 
newsletter with announcements of updates, bug fixes and new releases. You can 
subscribe here http://eepurl.com/dL1z7k

Release Notes and Upgrade Instructions
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This is only a small selection of the new features, and bug fixes in the new 
release; review the release notes at https://omniosce.org/releasenotes for full 
details and find upgrade instructions at https://omniosce.org/upgrade

Commercial Support
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Have you ever wondered how OmniOS development gets financed? You may have 
noticed that there is no big company bankrolling it all. The way we keep afloat 
is by the companies who rely on OmniOS powered servers taking out support 
contracts for their hardware. How about you? Visit https://omniosce.org/support 
for more details and to generate a quote. If you aren’t in a position to take a 
support contract, please consider becoming an OmniOS patron to help secure its 
future - https://omniosce.org/patron.

cheers
tobi

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Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902
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