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: