Solaris 10 10/09 (Update 8)

Solaris 10 10/09 (Update 8)



Recently Solaris 10 10/09 (aka: Update 8) released. You can see the complete What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release doc for details, but here is a brief overview. You can download the release from sun.com/solaris.

Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting the Solaris OS
pcitool Utility
nss_ldap shadowAccount Support
Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0 Patch Set 6
Turbo-Charging SVR4 Packaging (faster pkg installs)
Zones Parallel Patching
PVIO Drivers in Solaris 10 Guest Domains (I recommend snv_121 if you really need xVM)
iSCSI Initiator SMF Service
LSI 6180 Controller Support in Solaris MPxIO
Callout Subsystem Scalability
Driver for LSI MPT 2.0-Compliant SAS2.0 Controllers
Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver
Interrupt Remapping Support for Intel Vt-d
SATA Tape Devices Supported by the AHCI Driver
Sun StorageTek 6Gb/s SAS PCIe RAID HBA Driver
Intel 82599 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
Intel 82598 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
NTP Version 4.2.5
PostgreSQL 8.1.17, 8.2.13, and 8.3.7
Samba 3.0.35
Additionally, a variety of ZFS improvements:

ZFS and Flash installation support (Hybrid Pool)
Setting ZFS user and group quotas
Using ZFS ACL pass through inheritance for execute permission
Using cache devices in your ZFS storage pool (Hybrid Pool)
ZFS property enhancements; such as read-only properties usedbychildren/usedbydataset/usedbyrefreservation/usedbysnapshots and ability to bias primarycache/secondarycache
ZFS log device recovery
Using ZFS ACL Sets
... and of course a bunch of bug fixes as well.