New Features in the Solaris 8 7/01 Release

The Solaris 8 7/01 What's New Supplement briefly describes all features released in all Solaris 8 updates.

The following list identifies features that are new in this Solaris 8 7/01 release.

New Features for System Administrators

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Service

• Solaris PPP 4.0

• Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator

• Sendmail 8.10

• IPMP Reboot Safe

• Sun Gigaswift Ethernet Driver

• Revised Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual

New Features for Installation

• Custom JumpStart^TM enhancement

• Revised Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide

New Features for Developers

• sendfilev()

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Service

• Revised Linkers and Libraries Guide