What´s new in Solaris 10 5/09?
A new update release of Solaris 10 is available for download. With update 5/09 (aka Update 7) the following new feature are available in Solaris 10. This artcle is based on “Solaris 10 5/09 - What’s New?” document:
- System Resources Enhancement
- Support Added for Using ZFS Clones When Cloning a Zone
- zoneadm attach -b Option
you can back out certain patches from update on attach - System Administration Enhancements
- SMF Services for IPsec
IPsec is now managed by SMF services - Security Enhancement
- NAT-Traversal for IPsec Key Management Developers
- Stronger Algorithms for IPsec
Three larger Diffie-Hellman integer-modulus groups (2048-bit, 3072-bit, and 4096-bit) as well as SHA2 including sha256, sha384, and sha512? SHA-2 using HMAC. - SunSSH With OpenSSL PKCS#11 Engine Support
- Device Management Enhancements
- x86: T-State Support for Intel Based Processors
- System Performance Enhancements
- Large Segment Offload Support for Intel PCI Express 10Gb NIC Driver
- Solaris Power Aware Dispatcher and Deep C-State Support
- Developer Tools Enhancements
- SunVTS 7.0 Patch Set 5
- x86: CPU Performance Counter Updates for Intel Processors
- SUNWpatchutils Tool
- Driver Enhancements
- hermon Driver
- iSCSI Target - upgraded and several performance, scalability, interoperability, and reliability improvements.It´s not the COMSTAR target.
- x86: NetXen 10-GigE Device Driver
- Intel ICH10 and Hartwell NIC Support in E1000g Driver
- xge Driver Can Enable Multiple Receive Rings and MSI-X
- Other Enhancements
- New Locale Support for Kazakhstan and Ukraine
- SPARC: Fp-scrubber Daemon