OmniOS Community Edition release r151026u is now available.
This update requires a reboot
Security fixes
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Mitigation for Foreshadow/L1TF - CVE-2018-3646, with thanks to Joyent. This includes a CPU microcode update.
For full protection from this problem, ensure that sensitive services, including KVM instances, are separated into different non-global zones.
Protection status for this and other vulnerabilities can be viewed with
mdb -ke ::sec.
Bug fixes
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Kernel panic in RPC gss module - illumos issue 3354
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Kernel panic with Smartmontools 6.6 on ESXi 6.7 when trying to enable smart on rpool - omnios-build issue 960
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Windows 10 could not access CIFS share by name with i18n username - illumos-omnios issue 254, with thanks to Nexenta.
Other changes
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The installer is now able to force 4k or 8k alignment on the root pool regardless of the underlying storage. Previously this did not work for NVMe or virtual disks - Kayak issue 72
New installation media have been prepared for this release and can be found at https://omniosce.org/download
For more details, see https://omnios.org/releasenotes
Any problems or questions, please get in touch via the lobby or #omnios on Libera.chat