Solaris 10 10/08 available
The latest Solaris 10 update release 10/08 is available for download. As expected, you will see the prompt something like "…install ZFS as a root file system" when you load the image to install it. Another new feature, support for Intel SSSE3, SSE4.1/4.2 and AMD SSE4A, enables the kernel to load the applications that have above instruction sets. It does not change the basic system function calls like libc routines to use those new instruction sets. So I believe we can expect to see more performance improvements on Intel platform in later release of Solaris/OpenSolaris, though this release of Solaris already delivered world records results in some benchmark tests. E.g, Two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark
Adobe flash player 9.0.124 is now available on Solaris. It used to be good news. But unfortunately, soon after 10/08 was released, Adobe released a security alert for this version of flash player. Adobe released a critical update. But as far as I know, to date there's no available mitigation for Solaris. Neither the new version(10.0.12.36) nor the update version 9.0.151 supports Solaris 10. So for your system safty, I think the best thing you can do for now is to disable adobe flash when you surf the internet on Solaris.
Check out here for more info about what's new in 10/08.
