Flag Days¶
The following are notices sent to the developer@ mailing list to attract attention for specific changes, or call out specific actions that developers may need to perform to continue working with the sources. Such messages should also be archived here, for future reference.
2019¶
- 2019-02-15 HEADSUP or something:)
- 2019-02-11 Heads Up: 6885 CTF,Everywhere Part 1
- 2019-02-01 HEADS UP — git pbchk might erroneously complain about man pages
- 2019-01-07 HEADS UP: loader FB console
2018¶
- 2018-12-08 heads up/flag day or like:)
- 2018-11-27 HEADS-UP GCC 7 shadow compiler; no more lint
- 2018-10-29 Heads-up: Python3 module builds
- 2018-10-17 Heads-up: libbe.so be_list() function change
- 2018-10-13 HEADS-UP: Native demangling support
- Update
- 2018-10-13 headsup/flag day or something:)
- 2018-10-04 cw changes
- 2018-08-29 Flag day for those building gate on OmniOS
- 2018-12-10 FLAG DAY - can't build gate post-9997 w/o idn headers
- 2018-04-04 Heads-up! re 1575 untangle libmlrpc
- Update
- 2018-01-25 HEADS UP: Removal of 32-bit x86 kernel
2017¶
- 2017-03-02 Heads up: 7788 loader: zfs boot should check for provided fstype
- 2017-03-07 HEADS UP: Removal of on and rpc.rexd
- 2017-03-10 HEADSUP: updates 7720 & 7715
- 2017-09-27 Heads Up: Build changes required for UEFI
2016¶
- 2016-02-23 HEADS UP: 3661 Sync mDNS with upstream
- 2016-07-14 Heads-up: 6950 ARC should cache compressed data
- 2016-08-22 FLAG DAY: EOF of SunSSH
- 2016-08-31 HEADS UP: illumos-gate debug variant is available in hipster
- 2016-09-23 Heads Up: Loader Project Phase 1 has Integrated
- 2016-09-30 FLAG DAY - 5969 update illumos-gate to use python2.7
- 2016-10-15 HEADS-UP: illumos supports ASLR and other forms of exploit mitigation.
- 2016-11-09 HEADS UP: new driver for Intel WifiLink 4965/100/1000/2000/5000/6000
- 2016-12-02 headsup for shell setup and /etc/skel
- 2016-12-16 HEADS UP illumos GCC 4.4.4-il-4
2015¶
- 2015-02-20 Heads-up: Flag day for build machines that provided (only) Apache 1.3 headers.
- 2015-02-25 HEADS UP: machid commands removed
- 2015-02-26 HEADS-UP: ctf tools no longer act like strip(1)
- 2015-02-26 HEADS UP: illumos supports booting from EFI-labeled disks now, including large disks and whole-disk vdevs
- 2015-03-23 FLAG DAY for Timezone
- 2015-05-05 FLAG DAY - 4719 affects nightly, package, and poold
- 2015-05-05 HEADS UP -- illumos-gate can now be built on OmniOS r151014 or later
- 2015-06-04 Head-up! 5917 User-mode SMB server
- 2015-07-13 FLAG DAY: make/dmake are now part of illumos
- 2015-10-17 Heads up: Impact of illumos 5876 (sys/regset.h pollutes name space)
- Update
- 2015-10-30 HEADS UP: Java kerberos GUI (gkadmin) gone
2014¶
- 2014-01-28 HEADS-UP: GCC is now the default compiler
- 2014-02-19 HEADS UP: Nightly will no longer bringover from Subversion, build SVR4 packages, or support the old SFW gate
- 2014-02-19 HEADS UP: nightly now exits non-0 when pretty much anything goes wrong
- 2014-06-09 HEADS UP: legacy interfaces removed
- 2014-07-21 HEADS UP: Mandoc integrated
- 2014-08-15 HEADS UP / FLAG DAY: legacy (K&R) prototypes are gone
- 2014-08-16 HEADS-UP removal of ntfsprogs and parted
- 2014-10-18 HEADS UP: libm integrated
2013¶
2012¶
- 2012-06-15 Illumos will now build with GCC 4.4.4 + patches
- 2012-09-21 FLAG DAY: Default GCC version is now 4.4.4
- 2012-09-22 FLAG DAY: Many more GCC warnings now enabled
- 2012-10-18 HEADS UP: onbld has switched to Python 2.6
2011¶
- 2011-03-04 Heads up: iSCSI UNMAP support
- 2011-05-14 Heads-up: Resurrect the ZFS "aclmode" property
- 2011-09-08 HEADS UP: Mailing List Behaviour
2010¶
- 2010-08-15 HEADS UP: Illumos no longer depends upon the 'extras' pkg repository
- 2010-08-19 HEADS UP: opensolaris.sh updated & renamed
- 2010-08-30 HEADS UP: English Locales Available
- 2010-09-07 HEADS UP: use ssh for hg
- 2010-09-12 FLAG DAY: signed crypto removed
- 2010-09-16 HEADS UP: new process when nuking closed bits
- 2010-09-20 HEADS UP: netservices is gone
- 2010-10-08 HEADS UP: locale data pushed
- 2010-11-08 Heads up: perl 5.8.4 removal
- 2010-11-18 HEADS UP: solistice enterprise agent removed
- 2010-11-19 HEADS UP: sparc build fixed, niagra crypto removed
- 2010-12-04 HEADS UP: open source iprb
- 2010-12-04 HEADS UP: new timegm() and strptime/strftime options
- 2010-12-15 HEADS UP: new "sed" integrated