What's New in the Solaris 10 5/08 Release?
The next release of Solaris 10 is imminent. As the Sun website states: Solaris 10 5/08 will be available for download on 4/16/08. So it may be interesting to you, what new features found their way in 5/08. Well, you can already look into the What’s New in the Solaris 10 5/08 Release document.
- System Resource Enhancements
- CPU Caps
- projmod(1M) Option
- Device Management Enhancements
- Tape Self-Identification
- x86: Enhanced Speedstep CPU Power Management
- iSNS Support in the Solaris iSCSI Target
- Security Enhancements
- Solaris Trusted Extensions Supports Mounting Labeled File Systems With the NFSv3 Protocol
- SPARC: Hardware -Accelerated Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) Support
- Networking Enhancements
- Sockets Direct Protocol
- Tunable inetd Backlog Queue Size
- X11 Windowing Enhancements
- Xvnc Server and Vncviewer Client
- System Administration Enhancements
- Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator Procedures
- Flash Update Tool
- PPD File Management Utility
- Internet Printing Protocol Client-Side Support
- Selectable Use of localhost for Solaris Print Server Database Hostname
- Fault Management for T5140/T5240 Platforms
- SunVTS 7.0
- Desktop Tools Enhancements
- new version StarOffice 8
- Flash Player 9
- Pidgin 2.0
- PAPI Print Commands
- System Performance Enhancements
- 64-bit SPARC: Memory Placement Optimization Support for sun4v Platforms
- SPARC: Shared Contexts Support
- x86: CPUID-Based Cache Hierarchy Awareness
- Language Support Enhancements
- Locale Creator
- libchewing 0.3.0
- File Encoding Examiner
- Kernel Functions Enhancements
- x86: MONITOR and MWAIT CPU Idle Loop
- Driver Enhancements
- x86: Support Sun Fire X4540 Disk Status Indicators
- MPxIO Extension for Serial Attached SCSI Devices on mpt(7D)
- x86: SATA ATAPI Support in AHCI Driver
- x86: GLDv3 Version bnx II Driver
- x86: AMD–8111
- SATA NCQ Support in AHCI Driver
- x86: bnx II Ethernet Driver
- USB-to-Serial Driver for Keyspan Adapters
- Freeware Enhancements
- 32-bit: pgAdmin III
- p7zip