| blob | 360fb485324b77382d23a4eac5493d4c7be93131 |
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
11 --------------
12 - nonstandard getgrent_r, fgetgrent_r removed from libc
13 * removed posix.1c draft versions, and made default the standard versions, of
14 the libc functions getgrgid_r, getgrnam_r, ttyname_r, getlogin_r
15 * removed non-posix versions of the libc functions shmdt, sigwait,
16 gethostname, putmsg, putpmsg, getaddrinfo
17 + _XOPEN_SOURCE=700 and __EXTENSIONS__ are defined by default, if not
18 specified. most third-party software already uses these on Solarises in an
19 attempt to get a somewhat sane compilation environment
22 1.2 release
23 -----------
24 - libfruraw, libnvfru, libfru, libfrureg, libfruutils
25 - libpicl, libpicltree, picld(8), etc.
26 - pyzfs & pysolaris
27 - locator(8)
28 - auditing support and libbsm
29 + ship ctfconvert & ctfmerge in /usr/bin
30 * hwdata updated to 2018.11.29
31 * tzdata updated to 2018g
32 * libressl 2.8.2
33 * uname(1) returns "amd64" for -m and -p
34 * sysinfo(SI_ARCHITECTURE) returns "amd64" (or "i386" when UNAME_LEGACY is
35 in the environment)
36 * rename vnode interface's AT_* to VATTR_*
38 1.1 release
39 -----------
40 - hsfs-formatted boot archive support
41 - libc compat symbols: _nuname, __posix_readdir_r, __threaded
42 - binary compatibility bread/bwrite/bwrite2/getblk kernel symbols
43 - libxnet and libsocket filter libraries
44 - libm.so.1 (legacy libm)
45 - shcomp(1) and the ability to run "compiled" ksh93 shell scripts (shbinexec)
46 - useless ksh93 /usr/bin builtins: cd, command, history, jobs, limit,
47 print, read, type, umask, wait
48 - jsh & jsh93
49 + ship libcmdutils.so & libuutil.so compilation symlinks
50 * ship openbsd ksh as /bin/sh (/bin/ksh93, /bin/rksh93, and /sbin/sh remain
51 ksh93)
52 * convert BREAD/BWRITE/BWRITE2/GETBLK macros to bread/bwrite/bwrite2/getblk
53 static inlines
54 * collapse driver packages into system/kernel
55 * replace ksh93 /usr/bin builtins with real programs imported from OpenBSD:
56 comm, cut, join, kill, logname, paste, rev, sleep, tee, test, uniq, wc
57 * autofs is disabled by default
58 * zoneinfo data moved from /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo to /usr/share/zoneinfo
60 1.0 release
61 -----------
62 - 32-bit x86 kernel support (32-bit x86 applications are still supported)
63 - sparc support
64 - xen domU and dom0 support
65 - Trusted Solaris aka. Trusted Extensions
66 - SVR4 pkg support & code
67 - solaris10 zone brand
68 - GRUB
69 - ndd(8) (use ipadm(8) and dladm(8) instead)
70 - closed source components were removed, including:
71 - in.iked(8) and related utilities
72 - kmdb modules: mpt and nfs
73 - kernel drivers: atiatom, bnx, ixgb, sdpib, usbser_edge, glm, mpt, adpu320,
74 bcm_sata, lsimega, marvel88sx, acpi_toshiba, intel_nhmex
75 - avs ("Sun StorageTek Availability Suite")
76 - tcopy(1)
77 - /usr/ucb and libbc ("SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package")
78 - rdist(1), rcp(1), rlogin(1), rlogind(1m), rsh(1), rshd(1m)
79 - uucp services (uuencode and uudecode are still present)
80 - libslp, slpd ("Service Location Protocol daemon")
81 - Java bits: poold(8), libzfs_jni, libadt_jni, libdtrace_jni, DTrace Java
82 support, parts of libdns_sd
83 - Sun Studio and lint build support
84 - getpwent_r(3c), fgetpwent_r(3c), which are non-standard and were different
85 from other OSes
86 - getpw(3c)
87 - POSIX.1c Draft versions of several reentrant functions were removed.
88 Applications using the draft versions have to be modified; users of the
89 standard versions are unaffected.
90 - readdir_r
91 - getpwuid_r
92 - getpwnam_r
93 - c_synonyms.so
94 - drop support for Riyadh87, Riyadh88, and Riyadh89 timezones
95 - routeadm(1m), svc:/network/routing/legacy-routing,
96 svc:/network/ipv[46]-forwarding removed. use ipadm to manage forwarding and
97 smf to manage the routing-related daemons.
98 - xpg4, xpg6 directories were removed, utilities moved to /usr/bin.
99 - troff(1), nroff(1), addbib(1), checknr(1), deroff(1), diffmk(1), eqn(1),
100 indxbib(1), lookbib(1), refer(1), roffbib(1), soelim(1), tbl(1), ul(1),
101 vgrind(1), /usr/bin/makedev /usr/bin/ta removed -- made obsolete by mandoc
102 - pre-XPG5 behavior: ungetwc(3c), putwchar(3c), putwc(3c), fputwc(3c),
103 fputws(3c), fgetwc(3c), getwc(3c), getwchar(3c), fgetws(3c)
104 - C89 behavior: fprintf(3c), fscanf(3c), fwprintf(3c), fwscanf(3c),
105 printf(3c), scanf(3c), snprintf(3c), sprintf(3c), sscanf(3c),
106 swprintf(3c), swscanf(3c), vfprintf(3c), vfscanf(3c), vfwprintf(3c),
107 vfwscanf(3c), vprintf(3c), vscanf(3c), vsnprintf(3c), vsprintf(3c),
108 vsscanf(3c), vswprintf(3c), vswscanf(3c), vwprintf(3c), vwscanf(3c),
109 wprintf(3c), wscanf(3c)
110 + awk(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
111 + libcurses, libxcurses, libxcurses2, terminfo were replaced by ncurses
112 + grep(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
113 + errc(3), warnc(3) were added to libc
114 + fts(3) added to libc
115 + reallocarray(3) added to libc
116 + LibreSSL (libcrypto, libssl, libtls, openssl(1), nc(1)) added
117 + cpio-formatted boot archives
118 * man(1) is mandoc. mandoc.db support added, eliminating the need for
119 manpage symlinks.
120 * socket interfaces are now in libc. libsocket, libxnet and libnsl remain as
121 filter libraries.
122 * socket implementation was modified to be more reasonable by default, and it
123 is no longer possible to choose an alternate socket implementation.
124 msg_accrights was removed and msg_control members are now always visible in
125 struct msghdr.
126 Documentation was updated and moved to section 2: accept(2), bind(2),
127 connect(2), getpeername(2), getsockname(2), getsockopt(2), listen(2),
128 recv(2), send(2), shutdown(2), socket(2), socketpair(2), and the new
129 sockatmark(2) and CMSG_DATA(3)
130 * make(1) is bmake(1) instead of dmake(1)
131 * sed(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
132 * locale data has been updated to CLDR v28; tools to generate it were imported
133 from FreeBSD. This fixes many character classification errors.
134 * install(1m) was replaced by install(1) from OpenBSD.
135 * all process security flags are on by default
136 * putwchar(3c), putwc(3c), fputwc(3c), and fputws(3c) have only XPG5 behavior
137 * man pages from section 1M have been moved to section 8; third party code
138 (libncurses, namely) is not affected