SXCE build 112 is out

Solaris Express Community Edition (aka Nevada) build 112 has been released.

Significant changes in this build

1. Driver for Ralink RT2700/2800 IEEE802.11 a/b/g/n wireless device
2. Driver for Atmel AT76C50x USB IEEE 802.11b Wireless Device
3. USB serial console support on x86
4. FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) Target for COMSTAR
5. Fast Reboot by default
6. TPM support
7. Intel AMT support
8. Bundled NVIDIA graphics driver updated to 180.44
9. powerman integrated
10. pwgen 2.06 integrated
11. PostgreSQL upgraded to 8.2.13 and 8.3.7
12. patchutils 0.3.0 integrated
13. Mercurial upgraded to 1.1.2
14. Thunderbird upgraded to 2.0.0.21
15. Drivel 2.0.3 integrated

Changes on package level:

New packages:

system      SUNWamt                          Solaris support for Intel AMT
system      SUNWamt-lms                      Solaris support for Intel AMT - LMS daemon
system      SUNWantlr2                       ANTLR, (AN)other (T)ool for (L)anguage (R)ecognition
system      SUNWatu                          Atmel AT76C50x USB IEEE 802.11b Wireless Device Driver
system      SUNWconvmv                       Filename Encoding Conversion Tool
GNOME2      SUNWdrivel                       Drivel - Blog Editor
GNOME2      SUNWdrivel-root                  Drivel - Blog Editor - / filesystem
system      SUNWfcoe                         Sun FCoE Transport Driver
system      SUNWfcoet                        Sun FCoE COMSTAR Driver
system      SUNWfcoeu                        Sun FCoE Port Management Library
system      SUNWgrubr                        GRUB (Root)
system      SUNWlibsigsegv                   libsigsegv - handling page faults in user mode
system      SUNWpatchutils                   patchutils - Tools for manipulating patch files
system      SUNWpowermanr                    Powerman (root)
system      SUNWpowermanu                    Powerman (user)
system      SUNWpwgen                        pwgen
system      SUNWrwn                          Ralink RT2700/2800 IEEE802.11 a/b/g/n Wireless Network Device
system      SUNWtpm                          Sun TPM pseudo driver

SXCE build 111 is out

Solaris Express Community Edition (aka Nevada) build 111 has been released.

This build was planned as a stabilization build. It will be used as a foundation for the upcoming OpenSolaris 2009.06 release. It brings relatively few new features, mostly concentrating on bug fixes.

Significant changes in this build

1. Firefox upgraded to 3.1 beta 3
2. Thunderbird upgraded to 2.0.0.19
3. Flash player upgraded to 10 (10.0.22.87)
4. lofi gets support for LZMA compression PSARC/2008/785
5. Mercurial updated to 1.1
6. MySQL 5.1.30 integrated (along with previous 5.0.67)
7. GNU nano integrated
8. CURL updated to 7.19.4
9. VIM updated to 7.2.141

Changes on package level:

New packages:

system      SUNWapch22m-sed                  mod_sed plugin for Apache Web Server V2.2
system      SUNWapch22r-sed                  mod_sed plugin for Apache Web Server V2.2 (root)
system      SUNWgnu-nano                     GNU nano
system      SUNWmysql51lib                   MySQL 5.1 - MySQL Database Management System (library component)
system      SUNWmysql51r                     MySQL 5.1 - MySQL Database Management System (root component)
system      SUNWmysql51test                  MySQL 5.1 - MySQL Database Management System (test component)
system      SUNWmysql51u                     MySQL 5.1 - MySQL Database Management System (usr component)
system      SUNWopenwsmanr                   Openwsman (Root)
system      SUNWopenwsmanu                   Openwsman (Usr)
GNOME2      SUNWpython24-ctypes              Python C data types

Removed packages.

system      SUNWxwhl                         X Window System & Graphics Header links in /usr/include