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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 What's New |
1. What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Release
Oracle Solaris Auto Registration
SPARC: Support for ITU Construction Tools on SPARC Platforms
Oracle Solaris Upgrade Enhancement for Oracle Solaris Zone- Cluster Nodes
Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle Solaris Zones
Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris 10 System Into a Zone
Updating Packages by Using the New zoneadm attach -U Option
Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Memory Dynamic Reconfiguration Capability
Virtual Disk Multipathing Enhancements
Virtual Domain Information Command and API
System Administration Enhancements
Oracle Solaris ZFS Features and Enhancements
x86: Support for the IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS MSR
Support for Multiple Disk Sector Size
Sparse File Support in the cpio Command
x86: 64-Bit libc String Functions Improvements With SSE
Automated Rebuilding of sendmail Configuration Files
Automatic Boot Archive Recovery
x86: Intel AES-NI Optimization
New Oracle Solaris Unicode Locales
Device Management Enhancements
x86: HP Smart Array HBA Driver
x86: Support for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Driver
x86: New SATA HBA Driver, bcm_sata, for Broadcom HT1000 SATA Controllers
Support for SATA/AHCI Port Multiplier
Support for Netlogic NLP2020 PHY in the nxge Driver
BIND 9.6.1 for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Open Fabrics User Verbs Primary Kernel Components
InfiniBand Infrastructure Enhancements
Support for the setxkbmap Command
ixgbe Driver to Integrate Intel Shared Code Version 3.1.9
Broadcom Support to bge Networking Driver
x86: Fully Buffered DIMM Idle Power Enhancement
Fault Management Architecture Enhancements
FMA Support for AMD's Istanbul Based Systems
Oracle Solaris FMA Enhancement
Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0ps9
Enhancements to the mdb Command to Improve the Debugging Capability of kmem and libumem
The following freeware enhancements have been added to the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release.
GNU tar (gtar) is a utility that is used to store, back up, and transport files. This utility has been upgraded from version 1.17 to version 1.23.
gtar version 1.2.3 has the following changes:
Two security vulnerabilities, CVE-2010–0624 and CVE–2007–4131, have been fixed.
Several new options have been introduced.
Bug fixes have been included.
For more information about all the changes in the new version, see http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/.
Firefox 3.5 provides the latest browser for the Oracle Solaris platform.
For more information about Firefox 3.5, see http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/.
Thunderbird 3 includes major architectural changes that provide improved performance, stability, web compatibility, code simplification, and sustainability.
For more information about Thunderbird, see http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/features/.
In this release, less, a file pager utility, is upgraded from version 381 to version 436.
This upgrade fixes many bugs and includes the following new features:
Better compatibility with POSIX
Improved behavior of history list for search and shell commands
Improved performance when a file contains very long lines
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