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1 Features
2 ========
4 This file documents feature changes at a very high level.
6 A '-' means that the support for that feature was removed, a '+' means that
7 the support for that feature was added, and a '*' means that the behavior
8 was changed.
10 <next> release
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12 - hsfs-formatted boot archive support
13 - libc compat symbols: _nuname, __posix_readdir_r, __threaded
14 - binary compatibility bread/bwrite/bwrite2/getblk kernel symbols
15 - libxnet and libsocket filter libraries
16 - libm.so.1 (legacy libm)
17 - shcomp(1) and the ability to run "compiled" ksh93 shell scripts (shbinexec)
18 - useless ksh93 /usr/bin builtins: cd, command, history, jobs, limit,
19 print, read, type, umask, wait
20 - jsh & jsh93
21 + ship libcmdutils.so & libuutil.so compilation symlinks
22 * ship openbsd ksh as /bin/sh (/bin/ksh93, /bin/rksh93, and /sbin/sh remain
23 ksh93)
24 * convert BREAD/BWRITE/BWRITE2/GETBLK macros to bread/bwrite/bwrite2/getblk
25 static inlines
26 * collapse driver packages into system/kernel
27 * replace ksh93 /usr/bin builtins with real programs imported from OpenBSD:
28 comm, cut, join, kill, logname, paste, rev, sleep, tee, test, uniq, wc
29 * autofs is disabled by default
31 1.0 release
32 -----------
33 - 32-bit x86 kernel support (32-bit x86 applications are still supported)
34 - sparc support
35 - xen domU and dom0 support
36 - Trusted Solaris aka. Trusted Extensions
37 - SVR4 pkg support & code
38 - solaris10 zone brand
39 - GRUB
40 - ndd(8) (use ipadm(8) and dladm(8) instead)
41 - closed source components were removed, including:
42 - in.iked(8) and related utilities
43 - kmdb modules: mpt and nfs
44 - kernel drivers: atiatom, bnx, ixgb, sdpib, usbser_edge, glm, mpt, adpu320,
45 bcm_sata, lsimega, marvel88sx, acpi_toshiba, intel_nhmex
46 - avs ("Sun StorageTek Availability Suite")
47 - tcopy(1)
48 - /usr/ucb and libbc ("SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package")
49 - rdist(1), rcp(1), rlogin(1), rlogind(1m), rsh(1), rshd(1m)
50 - uucp services (uuencode and uudecode are still present)
51 - libslp, slpd ("Service Location Protocol daemon")
52 - Java bits: poold(8), libzfs_jni, libadt_jni, libdtrace_jni, DTrace Java
53 support, parts of libdns_sd
54 - Sun Studio and lint build support
55 - getpwent_r(3c), fgetpwent_r(3c), which are non-standard and were different
56 from other OSes
57 - getpw(3c)
58 - POSIX.1c Draft versions of several reentrant functions were removed.
59 Applications using the draft versions have to be modified; users of the
60 standard versions are unaffected.
61 - readdir_r
62 - getpwuid_r
63 - getpwnam_r
64 - c_synonyms.so
65 - drop support for Riyadh87, Riyadh88, and Riyadh89 timezones
66 - routeadm(1m), svc:/network/routing/legacy-routing,
67 svc:/network/ipv[46]-forwarding removed. use ipadm to manage forwarding and
68 smf to manage the routing-related daemons.
69 - xpg4, xpg6 directories were removed, utilities moved to /usr/bin.
70 - troff(1), nroff(1), addbib(1), checknr(1), deroff(1), diffmk(1), eqn(1),
71 indxbib(1), lookbib(1), refer(1), roffbib(1), soelim(1), tbl(1), ul(1),
72 vgrind(1), /usr/bin/makedev /usr/bin/ta removed -- made obsolete by mandoc
73 - pre-XPG5 behavior: ungetwc(3c), putwchar(3c), putwc(3c), fputwc(3c),
74 fputws(3c), fgetwc(3c), getwc(3c), getwchar(3c), fgetws(3c)
75 - C89 behavior: fprintf(3c), fscanf(3c), fwprintf(3c), fwscanf(3c),
76 printf(3c), scanf(3c), snprintf(3c), sprintf(3c), sscanf(3c),
77 swprintf(3c), swscanf(3c), vfprintf(3c), vfscanf(3c), vfwprintf(3c),
78 vfwscanf(3c), vprintf(3c), vscanf(3c), vsnprintf(3c), vsprintf(3c),
79 vsscanf(3c), vswprintf(3c), vswscanf(3c), vwprintf(3c), vwscanf(3c),
80 wprintf(3c), wscanf(3c)
81 + awk(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
82 + libcurses, libxcurses, libxcurses2, terminfo were replaced by ncurses
83 + grep(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
84 + errc(3), warnc(3) were added to libc
85 + fts(3) added to libc
86 + reallocarray(3) added to libc
87 + LibreSSL (libcrypto, libssl, libtls, openssl(1), nc(1)) added
88 + cpio-formatted boot archives
89 * man(1) is mandoc. mandoc.db support added, eliminating the need for
90 manpage symlinks.
91 * socket interfaces are now in libc. libsocket, libxnet and libnsl remain as
92 filter libraries.
93 * socket implementation was modified to be more reasonable by default, and it
94 is no longer possible to choose an alternate socket implementation.
95 msg_accrights was removed and msg_control members are now always visible in
96 struct msghdr.
97 Documentation was updated and moved to section 2: accept(2), bind(2),
98 connect(2), getpeername(2), getsockname(2), getsockopt(2), listen(2),
99 recv(2), send(2), shutdown(2), socket(2), socketpair(2), and the new
100 sockatmark(2) and CMSG_DATA(3)
101 * make(1) is bmake(1) instead of dmake(1)
102 * sed(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
103 * locale data has been updated to CLDR v28; tools to generate it were imported
104 from FreeBSD. This fixes many character classification errors.
105 * install(1m) was replaced by install(1) from OpenBSD.
106 * all process security flags are on by default
107 * putwchar(3c), putwc(3c), fputwc(3c), and fputws(3c) have only XPG5 behavior
108 * man pages from section 1M have been moved to section 8; third party code
109 (libncurses, namely) is not affected