Das nächste Release von Solaris 10 steht unmittelbar bevor. Auf der Downloadseite wird der 16.4.08 als Verfügbarkeitsdatum genannt. Von daher ist vielleicht ganz interessant, welche Features ihren Weg in 5/08 fanden. Nun, das Dokument "What's New in the Solaris 10 5/08 Release" hat bereits seinen Weg auf docs.sun.com gefunden:

• System Resource Enhancements
• CPU Caps
• projmod(1M) Option
• Device Management Enhancements
• Tape Self-Identification
• x86: Enhanced Speedstep CPU Power Management
• iSNS Support in the Solaris iSCSI Target
• Security Enhancements
• Solaris Trusted Extensions Supports Mounting Labeled File Systems With the NFSv3 Protocol
• SPARC: Hardware -Accelerated Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) Support
• Networking Enhancements
• Sockets Direct Protocol
• Tunable inetd Backlog Queue Size
• X11 Windowing Enhancements
• Xvnc Server and Vncviewer Client
• System Administration Enhancements
• Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator Procedures
• Flash Update Tool
• PPD File Management Utility
• Internet Printing Protocol Client-Side Support
• Selectable Use of localhost for Solaris Print Server Database Hostname
• Fault Management for T5140/T5240 Platforms
• SunVTS 7.0
• Desktop Tools Enhancements
• new version StarOffice 8
• Flash Player 9
• Pidgin 2.0
• PAPI Print Commands
• System Performance Enhancements
• 64-bit SPARC: Memory Placement Optimization Support for sun4v Platforms
• SPARC: Shared Contexts Support
• x86: CPUID-Based Cache Hierarchy Awareness
• Language Support Enhancements
• Locale Creator
• libchewing 0.3.0
• File Encoding Examiner
• Kernel Functions Enhancements
• x86: MONITOR and MWAIT CPU Idle Loop
• Driver Enhancements
• x86: Support Sun Fire X4540 Disk Status Indicators
• MPxIO Extension for Serial Attached SCSI Devices on mpt(7D)
• x86: SATA ATAPI Support in AHCI Driver
• x86: GLDv3 Version bnx II Driver
• x86: AMD–8111
• SATA NCQ Support in AHCI Driver
• x86: bnx II Ethernet Driver
• USB-to-Serial Driver for Keyspan Adapters
• Freeware Enhancements
• 32-bit: pgAdmin III
• p7zip

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