Future Releases

sendmail Utility

Some features of the sendmail utility may no longer be supported in a future release. The affected features are Sun-specific modifications which are non-standard. These features include special syntax and semantics for V1/Sun configuration files, the remote mode feature, and the three sun-reverse-alias features.

More information regarding these features and migration issues is located at http://www.sendmail.org/vendor/sun/solaris9.html.

AnswerBook2 Server

The AnswerBook2^TM server may no longer be supported in a future release. Solaris documentation will continue to be available on the Solaris Documentation CD in online formats. All Solaris documentation is also always available at http://docs.sun.com.

GMT Zoneinfo Timezones

The zoneinfo timezones in the following left column may no longer be supported in a future release. These files may be removed from /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo. Replace usage of the zoneinfo timezones in the left column with the equivalent timezones in the right column.

When setting the TZ environment variable to a zoneinfo GMT[+-]* timezone, the timezone must be preceded with a colon (':') character. For example, replace the zoneinfo timezone setting TZ=:GMT+1, which is 1 hour east of the Prime Meridian, with the equivalent zoneinfo timezone setting TZ=:Etc/GMT-1.

The planned removal of the zoneinfo GMT[+-]* timezones does not affect POSIX-style GMT[+-]* timezone settings, for example TZ=GMT+1 (without the colon character). An equivalent zoneinfo timezone, located under /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/Etc and with the same name, may be used instead. The POSIX-style timezone only displays the string "GMT" in the abbreviated timezone name, while the zoneinfo timezone displays the offset from GMT. For example, replace the POSIX-style timezone setting, TZ=GMT+1, with the equivalent zoneinfo timezone setting TZ=:Etc/GMT+1.

See environ.5 and zoneinfo.4 for more information.

Solstice AdminTool

Solstice AdminTool (admintool) may no longer be supported in a future release. This tool performs user management, printer management, software package management, serial port management, group management, and host management.

The print management function is currently available in the Solaris 8 operating environment (see /usr/sadm/admin/bin/printmgr).

Solstice Enterprise Agents

Solstice Enterprise Agents may no longer be supported in a future release. This functionality has been replaced by the Solaris Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Services feature that is released as part of the Solaris 8 operating environment.

XIL

XIL may no longer be supported in a future release. An application using XIL causes the following warning message to be displayed.

          WARNING:  XIL OBSOLESCENCE
     This application uses the Solaris XIL interface
     which has been declared obsolete and may not be
     present in version of Solaris beyond Solaris 8.
     Please notify your application supplier. 
     The message can be suppressed by setting the environment variable
     "_XIL_SUPPRESS_OBSOLETE_MSG.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library

LDAP client library, libldap.so.3, may no longer be supported in a future release. The new version of this library, libldap.so.4, is compliant with the draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-04.txt revision of the ldap-c-api draft from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

JDK 1.1.x and JRE 1.1.x

Version 1.1.x of the JDK and JRE may no longer be supported in a future release. Near-equivalent functionality is supported by Java 2 Standard Edition, versions 1.2 onwards.

SUNWrdm

The SUNWrdm package, formerly containing release notes and installed in /usr/share/release_info, may not be included on the Solaris Software CD in a future release.

For release notes, refer to the Release Notes on the Solaris Documentation CD, the printed Installation Release Notes, or the Release Notes Update available on http://docs.sun.com.

crash(1M) Utility

The crash(1M) utility may no longer be supported in a future release. The crash command is a utility that examines system crash dump files, whose functionality is superseded by the new mdb(1) utility. The crash command's interface has been structured around implementation details, such as slots, that have no relation to the Solaris operating system implementation.

"Transition From crash" in Solaris Modular Debugger Guide provides information for users who wish to transition from using crash to using mdb.

Kerberos Version 4 Client

The Kerberos version 4 client may be removed in a future release. This includes the Kerberos version 4 support in the kinit(1), kdestroy(1), klist(1), ksrvtgt(1), mount_nfs(1M), share(1M), and kerbd(1M) commands, in the kerberos(3KRB) library, and in the ONC RPC programming API kerberos_rpc(3KRB).

adb(1) Map Modifiers and Watchpoint Syntax

The adb(1) utility may be implemented as a link to the new mdb(1) utility in a future version of the Solaris 8 operating environment.

The mdb(1) man page describes the features of the new debugger, including its adb(1) compatibility mode. Even in this compatibility mode, differences between adb(1) and mdb(1) exist. They are:

• The text output format of some subcommands is different in mdb(1). Macro files are formatted using the same rules, but scripts that depend on the output of other subcommands may need to be modified.

• The watchpoint length specifier syntax in mdb(1) is different from the syntax described in adb(1). The adb(1) watchpoint commands :w, :a, and :p allow an integer length (in bytes) to be inserted between the colon and the command character. In mdb(1), the count should be specified following the initial address as a repeat count.

  The adb(1) command 123:456w is specified in mdb(1) as 123,456:w.

• The /m, /*m, ?m, and ?*m format specifiers are not recognized or supported by mdb(1).

OpenWindows Toolkits for Developers

OpenWindows^TM XView^TM and OLIT toolkits may no longer be supported in a future release. You may want to migrate to the Motif toolkit. To disable the warning message, use #define OWTOOLKIT_WARNING_DISABLED or -D.

OpenWindows Environment For Users

The OpenWindows environment may no longer be supported in a future release. You may want to migrate to CDE, the Common Desktop Environment.

Federated Naming Service (FNS)/XFN Libraries and Commands

The Federated Naming Service based on the X/Open XFN standard may no longer be supported in a future release.

Solaris ipcs(1) Command

The ability to apply the ipcs(1) command to system crash dumps using the -C and -N command line options may no longer be supported in a future release. Equivalent functionality is now provided by the mdb(1) ::ipcs debugger command.

Deprecate sendmail -AutoRebuildAliases Option

The -AutoRebuildAliases option for the sendmail(1m) man page is deprecated and may no longer be supported in a future release.

devconfig

devconfig may no longer be supported in a future release.

Device Support and Driver Software

The following table lists devices and driver software that may no longer be supported in a future release.

Intel 486-Based Systems

The Solaris operating environment may no longer be supported on Intel 486-based systems in a future release.