Monday June 26, 2006
Solaris 10 6/06 Released (now with ZFS!)
Update: Downloads should be fine again
Update: we're having a software configuration issue on the SDLC and so the downloads may not be available at the moment. They should be working soon.
Today Solaris 10 6/06 shipped, marking the first supported release to include ZFS, Sun's new filesystem.
For a engineers like Jeff, Bill, Matt (and many more) who have spent years perfecting ZFS, today marks a big milestone on a long road. Congratulations to Jeff and the whole team!
A What's New guide is available and downloads of S10U2 are available immediately. A brief summary of some of the new features:
- ZFS, Sun's revolutionary new filesystem
- Predictive Self Healing for x64 systems
- Predictive Self-Healing SNMP trap support
- Postgres bundled
- vold service conversion to SMF
- IPv6 for IPFilter
- More UDP and TCP/IP performance improvements
- In-kernel SSL proxy for SSL performance
- PCI Express support on x86 systems including hotplug
- Native SATA framework
- gnome-pilot support for PDA synchronization
- Xorg 6.9
- Realplayer
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