OpenIndiana Hipster 2017.04 is here

[shep]

We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2017.04. The noticeable changes:

Support for USB 3.0 devices was integrated.
Intel KMS port was reworked and should work on most Intel GPUs.
Xorg server was updated to 1.18.4.
Mate was updated to 1.16.
A lot of end user applications are delivered now as 64-bit only.
We introduced ca-certificates service to regenerate the CA bundle.

Release Notes

A warning, the only file system offered during installation is zfs. You will need to have a fair amount of memory in a x86_64 system for this to run reasonably well.

[Sehnsucht94]

I'll provide a follow-up report 2018 for this thread since a new OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.04 snapshot was released the 28th of April

The noticeable changes:

• Userland software is rebuilt with GCC 6.
• KPTI was enabled to mitigate recent security issues in Intel CPUs (Meltdown & Spectre mitigation)
• Support of Gnome 2 desktop was removed.
• Linked images now support zoneproxy service.
• Mate desktop applications are delivered as 64-bit-only.
• Upower support was integrated.
• IIIM was removed.

Key additional events until June:

• MATE, LightDM and Firefox further updated
• GCC8.1 committed to main repo
• CVE-2018-3665 fixed