Solaris 10: Update 10 - Released!

Solaris 10: Update 10 - Released

Solaris 10 Update 10 has been released, note the "What's New" document.

Performance Enhancements Include:

• Faster ZFS performance
• Faster boot, with option to skip POST
  
• Faster upgrades: Live Upgrade on ZFS root partition, instead of mirrors
  
• Faster installation: use Flash Archive on ZFS root using text mode
• Faster reboot: option to skip some POST tests
• Enhanced throughput leveraging smt_pause for busy-wait or idle loops
• Enhanced throughput: 64 bit libmtmalloc, atomic operations replace locks
• Faster memory: 64 bit libmtmalloc, matrix lookups replace linked list
• Use libmtmalloc for applications with threads>=16
• Use libumem for applications with threads <16
• Disk I/O improvement for SSD's with poor read-modify-write firmware
• Improved I/O performance under Nahalem-EX platforms
• Improved floating point, audio, video processing with Intel AVX Support
• Faster Oracle startup/shutdown with ISM and DISM improvements
• Faster high-speed networking for x86 bnx driver Jumbo Frame support
• Increased network performance through bge driver MSI support
• Faster RAC 11g via Remote Direct Memory Access interfaces via RDSv3
  

ZFS Improvements Include:

• Set file system properties in a sent/received snapshot stream
• ZFS Diff: Determine differences between snapshots
• ZFS Recovery: Import a pool missing an intent log file
• ZFS Recovery: Import a damaged pool read-only
• ZFS Synchronous Behavior: standard, always, disabled
• Interval and Count for zpool: list and status

New Capabilities Include:

• Greater than 2 terabyte memory support
• Solaris Volume Manager clustered dataset import for recovery
• User extensibility for up to 1024 group membership
• SaMBa upgrade to 3.5.8
  
• x86 BASH upgrade to 3.2
  
• Apache C++ standard library upgrade to 4
  

Observability Enhancement Include:

• ZFS Difference capability
• Processor Group (pginfo) OS performance hardware view
• Processor Group (pgstat) hardware and software utilization
• Logical disk name to JBOD or blade chassis bays (diskinfo) view

Security Enhancements Include:

• LDAP name service tol functionality without LDAP being configured
• IVv6 NAT on IPFilter
• Solaris Cryptographic and Key Management Framework support for OKM
• Additional AES cyphers in kernel SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
• New Passwords no longer unlock accounts
• Password construction policy applies to root by default
• SSH supports chroot capability
  

Device Support Enhancements Include:

• Intel ixgbe driver support for: 82599, x540/x540T
  
• Intel igb driver support for: 82576, 82580, i350
• Intel e1000g 82579LM/LF LOM controllers: 1502,1506, 1519
• Broadcom bge driver support: BCM5717, BCM5724
• QLogic P3+ FCoE CNA Ethernet qlcnic and device support
• Mellanox ConnectX-2 10GigE mcxnex/mcxe drivers for GLDv3
• Intel Patsburg SCU support: ld60, ld61, ld64, ld65, ld68, ld69
• LSI MegaRAID Falcon SAS 2.0 HBA device via imraid_sas
• LSI SAS 2308 HBA storage device via mpt_sas
• LSI SAS 2208 HBA device via mr_sas
• Public Generic LAN Driver interface for bge