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1. What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release
Support for Two-Terabyte Memory Systems
System Administration Enhancements
SPARC: Support for Fast Reboot
User-Level CMT Observability Tools
Solaris Volume Manager Data Recovery
Oracle Solaris Groups Functionality
x86: Generic FMA Topology Enumerator
System Performance Enhancements
Tunable Parameter for Flash Devices in the sd.conf Configuration File
x86: Oracle Solaris I/O Interrupt Framework Enhancement for Nehalem-EX Platforms
Support for IPv6 NAT on IPFilter
x86: Jumbo Frame Support in the bnx Driver
PKCS#11 Provider for Oracle Key Manager
Support for AES Cipher Suites in the KSSL
Assigning a New Password Does Not Unlock a Locked Account
Password Construction Policy Applies to the root User by Default
Support for New Devices in the ixgbe Driver
Support for New Devices in the igb Driver
Support for LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) Devices in the e1000g Driver
Support for New Devices in the bge Driver
Support for New Device in the qlcnic Driver
Support for New Device in the mcxnex/mcxe Driver
Support for New Devices in the scu Driver
x86: Support for LSI MegaRAID Falcon SAS 2.0 HBA Device
Support for LSI SAS 2308 HBA Device
Support for LSI SAS 2208 HBA Device
Support for Public GLD Interfaces in the bge Driver
Support for MSI in the bge Driver
This section describes freeware enhancements in this release.
Samba, which provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS (Server Message Block/Common Internet File System) clients, has been upgraded to version 3.5.8.
The Bash shell has been upgraded to version 3.2.
The Apache C++ Standard Library (stdcxx) provides programmatic access to numerous standard C++ library features that are currently unavailable with the default Oracle Solaris libCstd.so.1 or the STLport4 Standard Library implementations. Starting with Oracle Solaris Studio 12 Update 1, the Oracle Solaris Studio C++ compilers support the Apache C++ Standard Library.
A complete documentation set for the Apache C++ Standard Library is delivered with the installation of the SUNWlibstdcxx4 Oracle Solaris package. The documentation is also available at:
The source code for the Apache C++ Standard Library is available by installing the SUNWlibstdcxx4S package.