What´s new in Solaris 10 10/08 (also known as Update 6)
The “What´s new in What’s New in the Solaris 10 10/08 Release” document is online at docs.sun.com. Thus you can get an overview what you can expect from the next release of Solaris 10.
I will provide a list of the features for you in this article. For more informations please consult the linked article. As you see, there was a lot of development in the ZFS part of Solaris 10. Another really interesting feature is the update-on-attach for Zones. This solves some problems like the migration of zones from normal SPARC to a CMT SPARC system (sun4u versus sun4v).
Okay, in Solaris 10/08 aka Update 6 you will find:
- Installation Enhancements
- Solaris Installation for ZFS Root Pools
- System Administration Enhancements
- ZFS Command Improvements and Changes
- ZFS installation and boot support
- Rolling back a ZFS dataset without unmounting
- Enhancements to the zfs send command
- ZFS quotas and reservations for file system data only
- new ZFS storage pool properties
- ZFS command history enhancements
- support for upgrading ZFS filesystems
- ZFS delegated administration
- Setting up separate ZFS logging devices
- Creating intermediate ZFS datasets
- ZFS hot-plugging enhancements
- GZIP compression now available for ZFS
- Storing multiple copies of ZFS user data
- Solaris Installation Tool Support of ZFS File Systems
- Solaris interactive text installer to install a UFS or a ZFS root file system.
- Custom JumpStart features to set up a profile to create a ZFS storage pool and designate a bootable ZFS file system.
- Migrate a UFS root file system to a ZFS root file system by using the Solaris Live Upgrade feature.
- Set up a mirrored ZFS root pool by selecting two disks during the installation.
- Automatically create swap and dump devices on ZFS volumes in the ZFS root pool.
- SunVTS 7.0 Patch Set 3
- lockstat Provider for DTrace. DTrace lockstat probes that displayed the spin count (spins) now returns spin time in nanoseconds.
- System Resource Enhancements
- New Solaris Zones Features
- Update on Attach.
If the new host has the same or later versions of the zone-dependent packages and their associated patches, using zoneadm attach with the -u option, updates those packages within the zone to match the new host.[...] This option also enables automatic migration between machine classes, such as from sun4u to sun4v. - Ability to Set Default Router in Shared-IP Zone
- ZFS Zone Path Permitted
- x86: New GRUB findroot Command
- x64: Support for 256 Processors
- System Performance Enhancements
- SPARC: Solaris SPARC Boot Architecture Redesigned
- x86: Kernel Support for Intel SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, and AMD SSE4A
- Security Enhancementy</i>
- Separation of Duty Enforcement Through the Solaris Management Console
- SHA256/SHA512 crypt(3C) Plug-in
- pam_list Module
- Desktop Enhancements
- SPARC: Adobe Reader 8.1.2
- Flash Player 9.0.124.0
- Networking Enhancements
- Communication Protocol Parser Utilities
- SIP End-to-end Traffic Measurements and Logging
- Device Management Enhancements
- Faulty Device Retirement Feature
- MPxIO Support for Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage Series Arrays
- Driver Enhancements
- x86: NVIDIA ck804/mcp55 SATA Controller Driver
- x86: LSI MegaRAID SAS Controllers Driver
- ixgbe Driver. The ixgbe is a 10 Gigabit PCI Express Ethernet driver that supports Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller.
- SPARC: Support for aac Driver
- Additional Software Enhancements
- Perl Database Interface and Perl PostgreSQL Driver
- PostgreSQL 8.3
- Language Support Enhancements
- IIIMF Hangul Language Engine. The Hangul LE (Language Engine) is a new Korean input method.
- Freeware Enhancements
- C-URL - The C-URL Wrappers Library
- Libidn - Internationalized Domain Library
- LibGD - The Graphics Draw Library
- TIDY HTML Library