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Looking for Rust nightly builds for #OracleSolaris on x86? See https://x.com/sumbera_p/status/1937873812554691058

Just blogged "Oracle ASR Manager manual update"

https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2025/06/oracle-asr-manager-manual-update.html

Finally published today the second blog I'd promised for the #OracleSolaris 11.4.81 CBE release last month:
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-the-solaris-modular-debugger-mdb-in-the-oracle-solaris-11481-cbe

A very deep dive into a narrow topic - what's changed in the Solaris Modular Debugger (mdb) since the previous CBE release in 2022. @cgerhard and others have put an impressive amount of work into making debugging easier and better for the users of this tool.

Diffs of the core OS man pages between #OracleSolaris 11.4.78 and 11.4.81 are at https://gist.github.com/alanc/067a51bfc04e63ffa4ee9eda0daf36f0 so you can see more about what changed in the software, as well as some of the documentation cleanups we did.

My big man page project for the quarter was a cleanup pass across the ZFS man pages.

Big updates in #OracleSolaris 11.4.81 include upgrading GRUB from 1.99 to 2.12, removing OpenSSL 1.0.2 now that we've finished migrating to 3.0, adding LLVM/clang 19 alongside the existing version 13, and replacing ImageMagick version 6 with version 7. See https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-81 for more info on each of those.

A bunch of the new features were previewed last week in the new #OracleSolaris CBE release which was based on a pre-release version of this SRU (it had the final feature set, but not the final bug fixes and FOSS upgrades).

Since we focused on developer and home user features in the blog for that release, the What's New blog for SRU 81 at https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-81 lists some more enterprise-focused features that were present in that release, but not called out in it's blog, like LDoms & KMIP changes.

Today we've released #OracleSolaris 11.4.81, our quarterly feature update. The announcement is at https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru81 and lists the new features and software upgrades included.

Just blogged "New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU81 (May 2025)"

https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2025/05/new-features-in-solaris-114-sru81-may.html

#solaris #oraclesolaris #sru

@jpm it's not quite that simple - the Solaris kernel has been 64-bit only since Solaris 11.0, but not the userspace programs - those had been kept mostly 32-bit so they could be used on either a 32-bit or 64-bit kernel, and we started converting them all to 64-bit after the #OracleSolaris 11 release - see https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/moving-oracle-solaris-to-lp64-bit-by-bit and https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/oracle-solaris-114-beta-progress-on-lp64-conversion - we're now up to 98.8% converted and working on finishing the last few we plan to convert and EOL'ing the rest.

@alanc Great stuff, thanks Alan and Jan and team! Now if I were to compile pkgsrc (or dreckly) on the CBE, would I be allowed to distribute the resulting binary packages? My reading of the license agreement says "yes" but IANAL... #solaris #OracleSolaris #pkgsrc

It took longer than we wanted, but the second release of the #OracleSolaris 11.4 CBE for open-source developers and personal use is now available. See the announcement at https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-a-new-oracle-solaris-environment-for-developers or the long list of changes from the 3.25 years since the last CBE release in https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-the-oracle-solaris-11481-cbe-release

Updated PostgreSQL IPS packages for Solaris 11.4 SPARC are available
Versions 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, 13.21

https://www.jomasoft.ch/downloads/#js-opensource

#solaris #oraclesolaris #postgres #postgresql

Just blogged "Solaris 11.4.78 / iostat -b and wildcards"

https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2025/04/solaris-11478-iostat-b-and-wildcards.html

#newfeatures #solaris #oraclesolaris #iostat

@c0t0d0s0 We added a sysattr(7) man page in #OracleSolaris 11.4.45 to make it easier to find out about attributes like this.

In addition to security fixes, updates for all three #OracleSolaris versions include time zone data updates (2025a for 10 & 11.3, 2025b for 11.4).

The Solaris 10 patchset also includes an update to mkdir to use lstat64() instead of lstat() so it works on filesystems with inodes outside the 32-bit range. This was fixed years ago in 11.3 & 11.4 by converting the mkdir program to be 64-bit, but Solaris 10 still supports 32-bit x86 systems, while Solaris 11 only has 64-bit kernels on SPARC & x86.

Today is Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update release day, so for #OracleSolaris we have released updates for 11.4 & 11.3, and patches for 10.

11.4: https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru80
11.3: https://community.oracle.com/mosc/discussion/4583990/solaris-11-3-36-34-0-has-been-released-on-my-oracle-support
10: https://community.oracle.com/mosc/discussion/4584292/announcing-oracle-solaris-10-quarterly-patch-release-april-2025

For info on the security fixes in those releases, see the Oracle Systems Risk Matrix in the April 2025 CPU Bulletin at https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2025.html#AppendixSUNS and the Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin for April 2025 at https://oracle.com/security-alerts/bulletinapr2025.html .

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