Marcel Hofstetter Solaris Blog

A typical Solaris SRU update on a system with a few zones takes several minutes.

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features psrinfo -P pbind -i uid/gid accept username/groupname zpool monitor [-t provider[,provider...]] fmdump improvements FOSS: GCC 16 EOF announce: sar EOF: SMB1 client (smbfs), MySQL 8.0

Over time after many online memory changes, the memory may become fragmented like this example.

New postgres packages are ready for Solaris 11.4 SPARC You don't need to download source and compile yourself for Solaris.

Oracle does provide patches under Extended Support for Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.3 till January 2027.

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features Kernel Crypto Framework SMF Policy NFS Sockets FOSS: Perl 5.42, PHP 8.5, bash5.3 EOF: mySQL 8.0, IKEv1

You don't need to download source and compile yourself for Solaris.

In the past Oracle provided Solaris SRUs (Support Repository Updates) each month.

It is free for personal use and development.

CBE (Common Build Environment) For developers Oracle provides a free version for software development and testing.

The iostat command is used for IO performance reporting and has a lot of options.

CBE is the Common Build Environment The first release 11.4.42 was made available by Oracle 03/2022.

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features devnm -s beadm preserve policy ls -sh output change bootadm GRUB unrestricted property ikev2cert PIN from SMF nscfg check new smf svc:/system/check/name-services:default ipadm _forward_src_routed IPv6 p…

You don't need to download source and compile yourself for Solaris.

Oracle Solaris is not much in the press anymore, but used for critical systems around the world.

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features useradd -N / -U cableinfo fmthard -c / -e ldm add-/list-/remove-devalias FOSS: GCC 15 EOF: PHP 8.1, Python 3.9

Since three years JomaSoft produces Solaris 11.4 IPS packages of opensource software.

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features format -r / -n / -q Threshold alerts for /tmp usage Improved nscd resilience FOSS: OpenSSH 10, sudo 1.9.17p1 EOF: Ruby 3.1, PHP 8.1

In the past the Oracle ASR Manager did update itself automatically.

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features GRUB 2.12 Zone Migration requires NTP ipadm set-ifprop -p send-unreachables dladm show-transceiver s10 brand compressed install archives ldm set-logctl =func =v (verbosity) OVM Manager SPARC Agent does…

If you are using Kernel Zones -bash-5.2$ zoneadm list -v ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 0 global running / solaris shared 1 v0182 running - solaris-kz excl It is now easier on the global zone to analyze the I/O of only the disks used by kernel zones using t…

Tuesday, May 13th 2025 Onsite event in Prague, Czech Republic About - Oracle Systems/Server/SPARC/ZFS/Solaris - AI, Cloud - Hybrid Storage - Secure Desktop As usual Oracle Product Managers, Engineering and JomaSoft are there.

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features ldm list-domain -s iostat -b and wildcards faster utilities, because they use Python 3.11 now BugFix: User with UP can't login anymore and no sudo and cronjobs FOSS: Python 3.13, MySQL 8.4, Ruby 3.3 EOF:

The system-repository SMF delivers IPS packages to zones.

Since two years JomaSoft produces Solaris 11.4 IPS packages of opensource software.

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features zfs mount/unmount -r pgrep/pkill -Z cups SMF disabled by default FOSS: gcc14 EOF: snort, Node.js 18

Extended Support for the OV Manager SPARC Agent ended by June 2024.