OpenGnsys Enterprise 3 has been released

OpenGnsys Enterprise 3 installer is now available, this release contains:

  • A new live system (ogrelive) based on Linux kernel 6.1, this includes a new GUI kiosk to report progress.
  • Grub2 based boot management for UEFI and legacy BIOS equipment.
  • Multiboot support for Linux and Windows UEFI and legacy BIOS.
  • Unified agent ogClient for Linux, Windows and live modes.
  • Native BCD and hive register updates on Windows.
  • Powershell and Bash scripting support for advanced configurations.
  • Windows 11 support (already available since June 2024).

Legacy components available in OpenGnsys 1.1.1d has been now removed, this includes:

  • PHP 7 support has been discontinued since November 28, 2022 (~3 years ago), used by the web interface ("web console").
  • Python 2.7 stopped receiving maintainance since January 2020 (~5 years ago) used by ogAgent.
  • Grub4DOS support for legacy BIOS equipment has been discontinued.
  • Non-OpenSource tool that is used to update BCD and hive Windows registers has been replaced by native Python-hivex code.
  • Old live images such as ogLive-focal-5.4.0-42 and ogLive-focal-5.13.0-27 are now discontinued in favor of the new live (ogrelive) image.
  • Legacy bash shell scripts have now been removed on the server side.
  • Legacy networks services such as faucet (tcp/2006), NetBIOS (tcp/139, udp/139), rsync (tcp/873) are now disabled.

We do not recommend running OpenGnsys 1.1.1d in production these days.

If you have more questions, please contact us at opengnsys@soleta.eu for more information.