New Features by Solaris 9 Update Release

This overview lists all the new features that are described in this chapter. This list is sorted by Update release for your reference. Descriptions of these features are provided in the remaining sections of this chapter.

Solaris 9 8/03 Update Release

• SPARC: TCP Multidata Transmit

• User Selector for Internet Protocol Quality of Service (IPQoS)

• Sun ONE Message Queue (New 12/02, Revised 8/03)

• Solaris Live Upgrade 2.1

• Auditing Enhancements

• SPARC: Multiterabyte UFS File Systems

• BIND 8.3.3

• GNOME 2.0 Desktop

• Xscreensaver

• Unicode Version 3.2 Support

• New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 8/03 Release

• Smart Card Terminal Interfaces

• Linkers and Libraries Updates

• Ghostscript 7.05

Solaris 9 4/03 Update Release

• Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) 6to4 Router

• Solaris Flash Archives (New 12/02, Updated 4/03)

• Command-Line Interface Enhancements to the Solaris Product Registry

• Netscape 7.0 for the Solaris Operating Environment

• Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Hardware Acceleration

• SPARC: Multiterabyte Volume Support With EFI Disk Labels

• SPARC: Multiterabyte Volume Support in Solaris Volume Manager

• Reconfiguration Coordination Manager Support in Solaris Volume Manager

• Solaris Patch Update Feature

• X Event Interception Extension (XEvIE)

• FreeType 2.1.x

• Extended Accounting Subsystem (New 9/02, Updated 4/03)

• Additional Keyboard Support

• Wubi Input Method

• Input Method Support for Indic

• Seven Additional Indic Scripts for Support in Unicode Locales

• New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 4/03 Release

• Stack Check APIs

• Memory Allocation With libumem

• Linkers and Libraries Updates

• libxml2 2.4.16 and libxslt 1.0.19

Solaris 9 12/02 Update Release

• Sun ONE Message Queue (New 12/02, Revised 8/03)

• SPARC: Sun ONE Application Server Integration

• Hosting Multiple Web Sites on a Single Solaris Machine

• Solaris Flash Archives (New 12/02, Updated 4/03)

• Support for LDAP Version 2 Profiles

• Netscape 6.2.3 for the Solaris Operating Environment

• Enhanced crypt() Function

• Password Management Feature in pam_ldap

• System Resources Enhancements

• Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) Enhancement

• UFS Logging Performance Enhancements

• Combine Data Address and Test Address for Singleton IP Network Multipathing Group

• Xserver Virtual Screen Enhancement

• Xrender Extension

• New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 12/02 Release

• Enhanced crypt() Function

• New Flags for madvise() Function

• Linkers and Libraries Updates

• ANT 1.4.1 Freeware Package

Solaris 9 9/02 Update Release

• IP Quality of Service

• Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2)

• Packet Tunneling Over IPv6

• SPARC: Memory Placement Optimization (MPO)

• SPARC: Dynamic Intimate Shared Memory (DISM) Large-Page Support

• Extended Accounting Subsystem (New 9/02, Updated 4/03)

• NIS+-to-LDAP Transition Documentation

• New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 9/02 Release

• Smartcard Middleware APIs