Thursday, April 16, 2009

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

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

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