Flag Days

Flag Days and Heads-Up

This page collects flag day and heads-up announcements for the Caiman installer project components and is updated as each flag day occurs.  The announcement of each flag day is posted to the caiman-discuss mailing list. (Instructions for updating this page are included on the Developer Information page)

Build 175

• Heads-up: Separate /var dataset for initial Zones install

Build 174

• Heads-up: Separate /var dataset for initial global zone installs in build 174

• Heads-up: AI usage of the prompt bootarg needs a revisit

Build 173

• Flag day: CDDL stripping

• Heads-up: DTD Versioning in install XML manifests

Build 172

• Heads-up: installadm create-service from package

Build 171

• Heads-up: installadm add-manifest -> create-manifest
• Heads-up: Removal of Derived Manifests script restrictions
• Flag Day: smf service configuring user and root account renamed in 171
• Heads-up: Automated Installer Wipe Disk and custom layout functionality

Build 169

• Flag Day: DC changes for building install media
• Heads-up/Flag Day: AI Image Management Changes

Build 168

• Heads-up: AI support for timezone configuration

Build 167

• Heads-up:  Name Services configuration
• Flag Day: DC changes for building AI install media
• Flag Day: AI Manifest Format Changes
• Heads-up: AI support for Zones

Build 166

• Flag Day: DC Changes for X86 boot menu customization

Build 165

• Heads-up: Derived Manifests manifest handling for AI
• Flag Day:  DC Changes for Language Facets

Build 164

• Flag day: SC profiles for AI
• Flag day: DC changes for CUD_TI

Build 163

• Heads-up: add_drivers tags removed from AI manifest

Build 162

• Heads-up: First version of System Configuration Interactive tool delivered
• Flag day: AI manifest changed: system/install/config renamed to system/config

Build 161

• Automated Installer users AI no longer enables DNS by default

Build 157

• Heads-up: Text Installer via AI

Build 156

• Flag day: Distribution Constructor Changes

Build 153

• Flag day: AI Multihomed Changes For AI Servers
• Heads up for slim_source developers: Change in CBE

Build 152

• Automated Installer users Flag day bug 4322

Build 150

Distribution Constructor Users: Flag day for bug 6984618

Build 148

• Users of all install media, Distribution Constructor Users Install Media Root Password

Build 147

• Developers, Distribution Constructor users Flag day bug 16740

• Automated Installer users Flag day bug 16423

• Developers Flag day bug 16813

Build 146

• Automated Installer users: Enhanced networking configuration in Automated Installer

Build 145

• Automated Installer and Distribution Constructor users: Flag day for bugs 4585,15678 - AI and DC modified to reflect changes introduced by PSARC 2010/183

Build 144

• Automated Installer users: User and Root account configuration in AI enhanced/Format of System Configuration manifest changed

Build 141

• Developers: Flag Day for bug 15784 - slim_source gate should build IPS packages by default

Build 140

• Driver Update announcement: Enhancement to add driver packages to a booted installation environment
  Flag day for live image builders, heads up for live image users
• slim_source gate needs zfs headers from build 140 or greater: Flag Day for defect 15866
• Distribution Constructor users: Flag Day for defect 15907

Build 138

• Automated Installer users of slice management:Flag day for AI manifest missing slice size

Build 137

• Automated Installer users: Flag day for 10115,12960 - AI Manifest specification for swap and dump device sizes
• Automated Installer and Distribution Constructor users: Flag Day for bug 15372 - the installer needs to be made aware of Early Manifest Import changes

Build 132

• Automated Installer and Distribution Constructor users: Heads up for bug 13393 - min_mem64 can be customized for x86 AI image
• Automated Installer users: Heads Up for bug 14082 - bootarg for booting automated installs over the network
• Gate split announcement for 1003: Flag-Day for 1003 - Flag-Day for 1003 Gate Split

Build 131

• Automated Installer users: Heads up/Flag day for bugs 5451,7057,7058 - New AI disk selection criteria introduced/AI manifest schema modified

Build 130

• Distribution Constructor users: Heads Up for bug 8205 - newfs(1M) nbpi can be specified in DC manifest for boot archive
• Distribution Constructor users: Flag Day for bug 13043 -  Need to provide tooling to create pre-installed VM images
• Automated Installer users: Heads up for bug 10039 - AI from media (aka Bootable AI)
• Automated Installer and Distribution Constructor users: Flag Day for bug 10039 - Blocker for AI Bootable Media
• Build Machine Maintainers : Flag Day for bug 10687 - Remove libinstzones from slim_source

Build 129

• Developers: Python 2.6 the only Python for slim_source. Please develop all new code in Python 2.6
• Automated Install Server Administrators: SUNWpython26-lxml a necessary dependency for SUNWinstalladm-tools
• All users: IPS version 1516:8c950a3b4171 (Python 2.6 based) or later a minimum.

Build 128

• Automated Installer and Distribution Constructor users: Flag Day for bug 8140 - x86 AI boot archive has been split into separate 32 and 64 bit archives
• Automated Installer and Distribution Constructor users: Flag Day for bug 8347-6092 - Location and name of the boot archive has changed

Build 125

• Developers: Flag Day for bug 11827 - build 125 required to build slim_source