Cross-posting to r/freebsd to get a balanced set of opinions.

I need to host a public facing websever from home. I've currently got a server running Windows-only software for my IP camera monitoring and I'd like to use it as a public facing web server located in a DMZ behind my firewall. I also:

• want to use this as a Plex server to replace a 12 year old Synology, meaning it will have access to my 'internal' network
• Continue to host the IP camera software
• Work as a NAS, also on the internal network

Buying a NUC or mini PC would be my preferred choice, but both cost and space/heat constrain that, so I'm thinking to install a 4-port network card and virtualise the systems in a secure manner.

Common wisdom would point to SmartOS/Solaris as the most secure solution for the hypervisor and public facing zones, given the pedigree, and what I'd like to know from someone more knowledge is: 'how true is it that SmartOS is more secure' in this scenario? Pros & cons as I see them:

• Consistent configuration if all the public facing zones/jails use the same OS.
• Easier to get the zone/jail configuration 'right' with SmartOS, since that's a core built in functionality, opposed to something like cbsd or one of the other bolt-on zone configurators with FreeBSD
• Better isolation/security with SmartOS zones.

Is anyone here confident enough in FreeBSD jails or SmartOS zones security that they would deploy one in this scenario?

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240905T024838Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240905T024838Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• vmadm(8) send and receive enhancements. Send/recive now work with bhyve and zones with delegated datasets. Note that vmadm send/receive is an undocumented feature with no stable committed interface or VM serialization format. As such, when using vmadm send/recv both CNs should be either before this platform image or after. (OS-8518)
• OpenSSL is now at 3.0.15
• viona now exposes kstats. (illumos#16699)

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
The SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

Zemo

Hello All,

The latest open source "release" branch build of Triton DataCenter (née SmartDataCenter), release-20240822, is up:

# Cloud On A Laptop (VMware):
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartDataCenter/coal-latest.tgz
# USB key image:
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartDataCenter/usb-latest.tgz
# ISO Head Node Installer:
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartDataCenter/iso-latest.iso
# iPXE directory tarball:
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartDataCenter/ipxe-latest.tgz

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartDataCenter/release-20240822-20240822T032601Z-g173fdbd

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartDataCenter/triton.html#release-20240822-20240822T032601Z-g173fdbd

Highlights

• iPXE now generates framebuffer payloads for EFI consoles. (OS-7746)
• Platform highlights since release-20240627
  • AMD microcode updates and other improvements
  • curl updated to 8.9.1
  • Movement toward C17 and POSIX 2024
  • OpenSSH to 9.8p1, including deprecation of DSA keys.
  • less(1) to version 661

General Info

Every eight weeks, we roll a release-YYYYMMDD release branch and builds for all Triton DataCenter (and Manta) repositories. As well, builds of #master for all components are always rolling into /Joyent_Dev/public/builds in Manta.

Note: MNX Triton customers must obtain their software from MNX Support; software obtained by other means, including the builds here, will not be supported by MNX. See https://docs.tritondatacenter.com/private-cloud/install/download

Cheers,
The Triton Team
https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/triton

I've been playing with NFS share in SmartOS according to the documentation:

https://wiki.smartos.org/configuring-nfs-in-smartos/

One thing I couldn't figure out is after I added the entry in /etc/vfstab and reboot the VM (of OS type), the VM does not mount the NFS filesystem automatically, I had to execute a mount command manually to mount it. My global zone version is a bit old (20220630T003722Z), my guest VM is the latest LTS. Could anyone shed any lights on how I can resolve this issue?

Thanks, Dennis

Triton DataCenter Office Hours will be happening this Thursday 06/20/2024 once again at 11PT/2PM ET/18:00 UTC. We'll be discussing Triton CMON and the use of metrics. It will be on our discord voice channel which can be joined here: ⁠https://discord.com/channels/979453320085250108/979453320555032624

We are beyond excited to announce the release of the SmartOS Web UI. The Web UI allows for creating and managing instances within SmartOS, allowing new users a more approachable experience, and to make complex tasks easier for advanced users.

Documentation and install instructions are available here: https://docs.smartos.org/web-interface/

Join us on Discord if you have questions, suggestions, or issues: https://discord.gg/BCV4Z3335S

Triton DataCenter Office Hours will be happening Thursday 06/06/2024 once again at 11PT/2PM ET/18:00 UTC. We'll be discussing success and hero stories, ie you prevented an outage, squashed a bug, stopped a DDoS, etc. Once again come prepared to actively discuss! It will be on our discord voice channel which can be joined here:⁠https://discord.com/channels/979453320085250108/979453320555032624

Triton DataCenter Office Hours will be happening this Thursday 05/23/2024 once again at 11PT/2PM
ET/18:00 UTC. We'll be discussing learning from failures/disasters/accidents. It will be on our discord voice channel which can be joined here: ⁠https://discord.com/channels/979453320085250108/979453320555032624

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240502T000615Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240502T000615Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• Early pull of illumos#16511 to improve vioif stablity for SmartOS deployed as a guest.
• LX zones push anonymous memory region up slightly, to accomodate overly-picky Linux apps. (illumos-joyent#466, thanks Steve Mokris)
• IP_MINTTL and TCP_MD5SIG improvements for folks who wish to use BGP implementations. (illumos#16454 and illumos#16455)
• Many bugfixes across many subsystems. (ipf, zfs, libc, sockfs, and more!)

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers, The SmartOS Team https://smartos.org

NOTE: I'm sorry this was late. We had problems testing this release, for reasons that mostly turned out to be, "Must have powerful enough environment with NO BOTTLENECKS or else the ZFS test suite implodes completely." Also we found a small testing bug in our neck of the woods:

https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-8542

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240418T000439Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240418T000439Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• Improved volume block size selection with vmadm(8) on RAIDZ pools. (OS-8531 & friends, Thanks Marsell K).
• Intel Branch-History-Buffer now cleared in cases where Native BHI (see Intel and researcher disclosures from Tuesday April 9th) could occur.
• Post-barrier Return Stack Buffer (PBRSB) that is fixed by hardware (or HW is too old) can be detected (illumos#16413).
• ZFS improvements in faster Fletcher checksums (illumos#16423) and in reference count tracking (illumos#16203).
• Some AMD support additions (illumos#16408, illumos#16404).
• March 2024 hwdata update (illumos#16450)

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
The SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

Besides the (awesome) web UI, are there plans to support full disk encryption natively? Would be nice to use the USB drive as a keydisk too.

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240404T141941Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240404T141941Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

First and foremost, there was an error in generating the initial piadm.conf file. piadm prior to this release will incorrectly and persistently cache us-east.manta.joyent.com as the location for discovering new platform images. This issue is now fixed (first item below) but in order for piadm to find this release you need to delete /var/piadm/piadm.conf.

• OS-8536 - Fixes an issue where piadm would use the stale Joyent manta DNS name.
• OS-8537 - Fixes vmadm hang on updating certain keys. Thanks to Marsell K.
• OS-8532 - Update curl to 8.7.1.
• illumos#16413 - Post-barrier Return Stack Buffer (PBRSB) fixes for errors in Intel CPUs.

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
The SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

Triton DataCenter Office Hours will be happening this Thursday 03/28/2024 once again at 11PT/2PM
ET/18:00 UTC. It will be on our discord voice channel which can be joined here: ⁠https://discord.com/channels/979453320085250108/979453320555032624 ⁠⁠

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240321T001600Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240321T001600Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• Intel microcode updated to 20240312, AND software workaround for RFDS now in place (illumos#16396, illumos#16397).
• AMD Microcode updated to 20240116 (illumos#16208).
• OpenSSH updated to 9.7p1 (OS-8530).
• Less alarming boot-time output for AMD Zen and PCIe (illumos#16381, illumos#16382).
• SMB1-by-default is disabled (illumos#14097).

https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T7668ce0616479e00/heads-up-14097-time-to-disable-smb1-by-default

• Improvements in the ena(4D) devices for anyone running any illumos on AWS. (illumos#16373 & friends).

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
The SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

Heya yall, new here, so... apologies for formatting, screenreaders do not make for great formatting checkers. So we just got into using SmartOS and because we were extremely bored, we wrote a mockup of our ideal way of configuring a SmartOS box, we sort of wrote an example of CLI session output. Take a look and tell us what you think, if you would, and if any of yall here would actually like to see this implemented?

Code block:

Press return to get started!


Username: root
Password:           
SmartOS (build: 20240208T000334Z)
Use '?' for a list of commands
freya>
freya> conf t
       ^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
freya> ena
Password:
freya# conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
freya(config)#
freya(config)# interface bge 1/0
freya(config-if)# ip address 172.16.1.5 255.255.255.0
freya(config-if)# net-tag add isolated
freya(config-if)# no shutdown
freya(config-if)# end
freya(config)#%LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface bge 1/0, changed state to up
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface bge 1/0, changed state to up
freya(config)#
freya(config)#
Freya(config)# zone smartos-test-box-lucia
freya(config-zone)# memory max 4g
freya(config-zone)# no network net-tag admin
freya(config-zone)# network net-tag isolated
freya(config-zone)# ^z
freya# wr m
Building configuration...
One or more configuration changes require a zone or set of zones to be rebooted. Continue? [confirm] y
* Sun 17-Mar-24 08:28:59.52 %VMM-I-ZONE_REBOOT_PROGRESS: Zone smartos-test-box-lucia is being rebooted
OK
freya#
freya# show version brief
MNX Cloud SmartOS Software, i86pc Software (platform/i86pc/amd64/kernel/unix) version 5.11(joyent_20240208T000334Z), Release software.
Copyright 2022-2024 MNX Cloud, Inc.
freya# show environment
Fan1A            | 3240 RPM          | ok
Fan1B            | 3000 RPM          | ok
Fan2A            | 3000 RPM          | ok
Fan2B            | 3000 RPM          | ok
Fan3A            | 3120 RPM          | ok
Fan3B            | 3000 RPM          | ok
Fan4A            | 3120 RPM          | ok
Fan4B            | 3000 RPM          | ok
Fan5A            | 3120 RPM          | ok
Fan5B            | 3000 RPM          | ok
Fan6A            | 2880 RPM          | ok
Fan6B            | 2880 RPM          | ok
Inlet Temp       | 22 degrees C      | ok
Current 1        | 0.40 Amps         | ok
Voltage 1        | 240 Volts         | ok
Pwr Consumption  | 84 Watts          | ok
Temp             | 47 degrees C      | ok
Temp             | 45 degrees C      | ok
freya# request platform software system shell
% Notice: shell activity is being logged to bootflash:logs/shell.pts-3.20240317.log
[root@freya ~]# uname -a
SunOS freya 5.11 joyent_20240208T000334Z i86pc i386 i86pc
[root@freya ~]# exit
% Notice: Shell session closed. Exit code was 0000
freya# 

Getting back to basics, come and discuss SmartOS & Triton basics with us! Triton DataCenter Office Hours will be happening this Thursday 03/14/2024 once again at 11PT/2ET/19:00 UTC. It will be on our discord voice channel which can be joined here: https://discord.com/channels/979453320085250108/979453320555032624

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240307T000552Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240307T000552Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• The UEFI only (not the CSM) boot ROM for BHYVE is updated to the Aug 2023 stable from the illumos downstream. (OS-8516)
• Fixed vmadm(8) validate failing to properly validate some valid configs. (OS-8523, OS-8526)
• The Intel I225 & I226 chipsets now have a driver in igc(4D). (illumos#14448)
• Intel I219 support in igb(4D) supports more models now. (illumos#16347 & illumos#16348)
• Big underlying improvements in NVMe (illumos#16171 & friends, illumos#16324)
• POSIX NORMAL lock now deadlocks per the POSIX spec (illumos#16200)
• SHA2Update() can now handle very large blocks correctly (illumos#16317). NOTE: Most front-ends to SHA-2 (e.g. digest(1)) use smaller blocks, which was why it took so long to discover this bug.

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
The SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

Come and see a cool new web gui feature we've been working on for SmartOS! Triton DataCenter Office Hours will be happening this Thursday 2/29/2024 once again at 11PT/2ET/19:00 UTC. It will be on our discord voice channel which can be joined here: https://discord.com/channels/979453320085250108/979453320555032624

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240222T001232Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240222T001232Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• bhyve instances can now specify bootrom at create time if the image does not already specify a bootrom. Note: HVM (zvol) images created before 2023-07 do not support uefi. (OS-8523)
• NFSv4.1 is once again available, but not enabled by default (4.0 is the default). See illumos#15871 for details about robustness against flaky clients.
• execvpe syscall is now available (illumos#7125)
• ZFS tests now use ALL available disks for default_raidz_setup (adds on additional pass to SmartOS test runs that run zfs-test). (illumos#16247)
• A noteworthy speedup in ld(1). (illumos#16235)
• Small improvements to:
  • SMB/CIFS
  • mlxcx(4D) driver
  • lmrc(4D) driver
  • emlxs(4D) driver
  • dis(1) command
  • mdb(1) command

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
The SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

Come and discuss the state of virtualization, networking gear, and the future of SmartOS! Triton DataCenter Office Hours will be happening this Thursday 2/15/2024 once again at 11PT/2ET/19:00 UTC. It will be on our discord voice channel which can be joined here: https://discord.com/channels/979453320085250108/979453320555032624

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240208T000334Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240208T000334Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• New pkgsrc-setup invocations use 20240116. (OS-8520)
• OpenSSL updated to 3.0.13 (OS-8521)
• curl updated to 8.6.0 (OS-8519)
• Timezone data updated to 2024a (illumos#16230)
• Small improvements & bugfixes in:
  • PCIe
  • BHYVE
  • SMB/CIFS
  • ZFS
• Multiple improvements & bugfixes in ena(4D) driver for AWS guests.

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
The SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

i tried this long ago when i first setup my smartos box (been 10 years!). i got my sharenfs v4 shares kerberized and working at the time, but i ended up using samba in a zone to get a kerberized cifs/samba share going of the same datasets.

when surveying things to prepare for my disk upgrade (mirrored 3tb to 20tb), i noticed some chatter on omnios and openindiana forums/mailing lists suggesting that illumos has improved the cifs server impl in this regard. is it possible to use some sharemgr options to drop the need for a samba server and serve out of the sharesmb/gz/zfs instead?

https://docs.tritondatacenter.com/public-cloud/instances/infrastructure/images/smartos/minimal

i went to look for the current package lists for these vm images, and i noticed the website pages haven't been updated for awhile (since 3/23), and the minimal and pkgbuild pages have been using the base64-lts entries (name, uuid, etc) from a lazy copy paste job since 21.4.0.

is smartos doing ok?

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240125T000404Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240125T000404Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• vmadm recv now creates cores datasets for received VMs (OS-6789).
• Updated platform coreutils (OS-8513).
• LX brand now supports TCP_INFO socket option (OS-4525 - thanks Carlos Neirac).
• Bugfixes in lmrc(4D), libzfs, and bhyve.
• Support for POSIX fexecve(2) (illumos#5798).

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
The SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

Come and discuss config management and IaC on Triton, specifically Ansible and Terraform/OpenTofu. Triton DataCenter Office Hours will be happening this Thursday 1/18/2024 once again at 11PT/2ET/19:00 UTC. It will be on our discord voice channel which can be joined here: ⁠https://discordapp.com/channels/979453320085250108/979453320555032624

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240111T002438Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20240111T002438Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• SmartOS can now, using a USB-key installer with a written-on-usbkey private/answers.json, perform unattended setups. (OS-8515)
• Early port of illumos#14919 to fix curl progress bar mis-scrolling on installation. (OS-8511)
• Fix regression for mlxcx(4D) on older parts. (illumos#16129)
• BHYVE upstream update to 2023 September (illumos#15916)
• Time Zone data updated to 2023d (illumos#16137)
• Internal cleanup of URLs to use mnx.io instead of joyent.com (TOOLS-2574)

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

Hello All,

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20231228T001409Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20231228T001409Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• OpenSSH updated to 9.6p1 (which fixes CVEs).
• Bugfixes in:
  • TCP (illumos#16060).
  • Regular expression processing (ilumos#16127).
  • ZFS (illumos#14003).
  • lmrc(4D) driver (illumos#16124).
• AMD microcode updated to 20231205.
• System headers now include err(3C) & friends in format-checking hints. (illumos#16099 & friends)

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org

Come and discuss Triton on Equinix Metal! Have your cake and eat it too! Triton DataCenter Office Hours will be happening this Thursday 12/21/2023 once again at 11PT/2ET/19:00 UTC. It will be on our discord voice channel which can be joined here: ⁠https://discordapp.com/channels/979453320085250108/979453320555032624

The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up:

curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.gz
curl -C - -O https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.gz

A generated changelog is here:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20231214T000645Z

The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta:

/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20231214T000645Z

A html index of that directory will redirect from the following link:

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/latest.html

Highlights

• Platform curl updated to 8.5.0 (OS-8507)
• asy(4D) fixes from upstream (illumos#16088 & illumos#16107). This may make serial/SoL consoles FAR more reliable than they have been. Internal experience with Supermicro SoL consoles have been positively affected by these changes.
• Full fix (seatbelts added) for illumos#16087, aka the ZFS-lseek()-causes-zero-blocks bug.
• Support from upstream for additional QLogic (illumos#5583) and ATTO (illumos#16070) Fibre Channel cards.
• Mellanox/nVidia ConnectX-6 parts, mlxcx(4D), now detect link speed properly with cabling that is not QSFP28. (illumos#16023)
• Bugfixes in SMB and virtio.
• I AM GROOT

General Info

Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and every eight weeks, Triton DataCenter and Manta as well).

Cheers,
SmartOS Team
https://smartos.org