On October 4, Alexander Pyhalov had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the OpenIndiana 2015.10 (Hipster) open-source Solaris-based operating system.

The new release from the Hipster series, OpenIndiana 2015.10, introduces some major system changes, such as the synchronization of IPS with Everycity, which now works great with illumos, the implementation of a Python 2.7 IPS version, in addition to the Python 2.6 based one, and linked image as default zone type.

Furthermore, the distribution constructor has also been updated to Python 2.7, there's initial support for non-GRUB bootloaders, the command-line installer creates a separate FS for the /var filesystem, the graphical ISO images now include a text-mode installer, Perl 5.22 was added, and OpenJDK has been updated to version 1.7.76.

"The main issue with GUI installer is that it is written in C and there's no one supporting it. Text installer, written in python, is easier to maintain, so it gets more attention. So, GUI installer can be dropped in the next snapshot if we don't find people interested in syncing it with upstream and supporting it," says Alexander Pyhalov.

There are numerous package updates

OpenIndiana 2015.10 (Hipster) comes with numerous updated packages, among which we can mention X.Org Server 1.14.7, FreeType 2.5.5, Nvidia 340.93, PulseAudio 1.1, Mozilla Thunderbird 31.8.0, GIMP 2.8.14, InkScape 0.48.5, Synergy 1.7.4, Compiz 0.8.10, Ntfsprogs 2015.3.14, D-Bus 1.8.16, Mesa 10.5.9, Qt 4.8.7, GCC 4.8.5, and Ruby 2.2.3.

Moreover, the PHP 5.5.29, PHP 5.4.45, Lua 5.2.4, Cmake 2.8.12.2, Nasm 2.11.8, Yasm 1.3.0, GNU binutils 2.25.1, Node.js 0.12.7, Git 1.9.4, Mercurial 3.4.2, Subversion 1.7.20, GNU Patch 2.7.5, ICU 55.1, Boost 1.58.0, Apache Tomcat 6.0.44, Apache Tomcat 8.0.24, Apache 2.4.16, Apache 2.2.31, Nginx 1.8.0, Lighttpd 1.4.36, and MariaDB 5.5.44 are also included.

Last but not least, the MySQL 5.1 and Apache 1.3 packages have been removed, Samba 4.1.19 has been added, Percona Server was updated to versions 5.5.36.34.2 and 5.6.16.64.2, OpenLDAP has been updated to version 2.4.42, support for Samba 3.6 is still available, KVM was updated to 20150903 Joyent version, and ISC Bind 9.9.7-P3 and ISC DHCPD 4.2.8 have been added.

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