Solaris Releases

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Contents 1 Conventions 2 Solaris Nevada/Open Solaris 3 Solaris 10 3.1 FCS - 3/05 3.2 Update 1 - 1/06 3.3 Update 2 - 6/06 3.4 Update 3 - 11/06 4 Solaris 9 4.1 FCS - 5/02 4.2 Update 1 - 9/02 4.3 Update 2 - 12/02 4.4 Update 3 - 4/03 4.5 Update 4 - 8/03 4.6 Update 5 - 12/03 4.7 Update 7 - 9/04 5 Solaris 8 5.1 6/00 5.2 1/01 5.3 7/01 6 Solaris 7 7 Solaris 2.6

[edit] Conventions

• FCS = Generic unpatched Solaris Release (First Customer Ship)
• xx/yy = Month/Year of Solaris Update Release

[edit] Solaris Nevada/Open Solaris

[edit] Solaris 10

[edit] FCS - 3/05

• Optimized TCP/IP Stack, also known as FireEngine
• CPU Performance Counters - cpustat/cputrack CLI improvements
• Improved System Performance for Large Numbers of Interfaces - faster plumbing
• Solaris Cryptographic Framework - faster encryption
• UFS Logging Performance Enhancements - gets even faster

[edit] Update 1 - 1/06

• Large Pages for Binaries (VMPSS)
• Kernel Page Relocation
• Memory Placement Optimization Hierarchical Lgroup Support

[edit] Update 2 - 6/06

• Support for Large Pages in the Kernel
• UDP and TCP Performance Enhancement

[edit] Update 3 - 11/06

• Secure by default
• Trusted extensions
• New hypervisor based virtualization (CoolThreads proc only) - Logical Domains

[edit] Solaris 9

[edit] FCS - 5/02

• Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS)
• Memory Placement Optimization - Non Uniform Memory Support
• Single Level Thread Model
• Improved Multithreading Library - libthread

[edit] Update 1 - 9/02

• SPARC Memory Placement Optimization (MPO)
• SPARC Dynamic Intimate Shared Memory (DISM) Large Page Support
• IP Quality of Service (IPQoS) - can help manage network performance
• Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2) - can help manage network performance
• Extended Accounting Subsystem

[edit] Update 2 - 12/02

• UFS Logging Performance Enhancements - logging gets faster

[edit] Update 3 - 4/03

• libumem - faster multithreaded malloc() and memory debugging features

[edit] Update 4 - 8/03

• Multiterabyte UFS File Systems - big UFS file systems get much faster (especially fsck)
• TCP Multidata Transmit

[edit] Update 5 - 12/03

• SPARC: Locality Groups
• rcapd - Memory Capping Daemon

[edit] Update 7 - 9/04

• UFS logging by default

[edit] Solaris 8

• Cyclic Page Cache
• prstat - process status
• apptrace - trace library calls
• busstat - monitor hardware performance counters on SPARC systems
• Boot Performance Improvements
• New Alternative to poll() Interface - /dev/poll
• Added Support for PAE Mode on Intel - address up to 32 Gbytes of physical memory
• Intel Xeon Enhancements - support for the Page Attribute Table (PAT) feature of IA 32-bit processors

[edit] 6/00

• DNLC Improvements - better large directory caching

[edit] 1/01

• Dynamic Intimate Shared Memory (DISM)
• Performance Improvement for Servers - improvement to virtual/physical translation cache algorithm

[edit] 7/01

• Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator (NCA)

[edit] Solaris 7

• Priority Paging

[edit] Solaris 2.6

• Direct I/O Support for UFS
• Caching Locks (as_lock)