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 the
7 support for that feature was added, and a * means that the behavior was
12 - 32-bit x86 kernel support (32-bit x86 applications are still supported)
14 - xen domU and dom0 support
15 - Trusted Solaris aka. Trusted Extensions
16 - SVR4 pkg support & code
17 - solaris10 zone brand
19 - ndd(1M) (use ipadm(1M) and dladm(1M) instead)
20 - closed source components were removed, including:
21 - in.iked(1M) and related utilities
22 - kmdb modules: mpt and nfs
23 - kernel drivers: atiatom, bnx, ixgb, sdpib, usbser_edge, glm, mpt, adpu320,
24 bcm_sata, lsimega, marvel88sx, acpi_toshiba, intel_nhmex
25 - avs ("Sun StorageTek Availability Suite")
27 - /usr/ucb and libbc ("SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package")
28 - rdist(1), rcp(1), rlogin(1), rlogind(1m), rsh(1), rshd(1m)
29 - libslp, slpd ("Service Location Protocol daemon")
30 - Java bits: poold(1M), libzfs_jni, libadt_jni, libdtrace_jni, DTrace Java
31 support, parts of libdns_sd
32 - Sun Studio and lint build support
33 - getpwent_r(3c), fgetpwent_r(3c), which are non-standard and were different
35 - POSIX.1c Draft versions of several reentrant functions were removed.
36 Applications using the draft versions have to be modified; users of the
37 standard versions are unaffected.
41 - drop support for Riyadh87, Riyadh88, and Riyadh89 timezones
42 - routeadm(1m), svc:/network/routing/legacy-routing,
43 svc:/network/ipv[46]-forwarding removed. use ipadm to manage forwarding and
44 smf to manage the routing-related daemons.
45 - xpg4, xpg6 directories were removed, utilities moved to /usr/bin.
46 + awk(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
47 + libcurses, libxcurses, libxcurses2, terminfo were replaced by ncurses
48 + grep(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
49 + errc(3), warnc(3) were added to libc
50 + fts(3) added to libc
51 + reallocarray(3) added to libc
52 + LibreSSL (libcrypto, libssl, libtls, openssl(1), nc(1)) added
53 + cpio-formatted boot archives (default if mkisofs is not found)
54 * man(1) is mandoc. mandoc.db support added, eliminating the need for
56 * socket interfaces are now in libc. libsocket, libxnet and libnsl remain as
58 * socket implementation was modified to be more reasonable by default, and it
59 is no longer possible to choose an alternate socket implementation.
60 msg_accrights was removed and msg_control members are now always visible in
62 Documentation was updated and moved to section 2: accept(2), bind(2),
63 connect(2), getpeername(2), getsockname(2), getsockopt(2), listen(2),
64 recv(2), send(2), shutdown(2), socket(2), socketpair(2), and the new
65 sockatmark(2) and CMSG_DATA(3)
66 * make(1) is bmake(1) instead of dmake(1)
67 * sed(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
68 * locale data has been updated to CLDR v28; tools to generate it were imported
69 from FreeBSD. This fixes many character classification errors.
70 * install(1m) was replaced by install(1) from OpenBSD.
71 * all process security flags are on by default