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
15 - ksh93 (/sbin/sh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/rksh93) and related libraries (libast,
16 libcmd, libdll, libpp, libshell, libsum) are no more.
17 - nonstandard getgrent_r, fgetgrent_r removed from libc
18 - wordexp & wordfree removed from libc
19 - sgtty.h removed, including stty() and gtty()
20 - nightly.sh is no more; see README.md for updated build instructions
21 * removed posix.1c draft versions, and made default the standard versions, of
22 the libc functions getgrgid_r, getgrnam_r, ttyname_r, getlogin_r
23 * removed non-posix versions of the libc functions shmdt, sigwait,
24 gethostname, putmsg, putpmsg, getaddrinfo
25 + _XOPEN_SOURCE=700 and __EXTENSIONS__ are defined by default, if not
26 specified. most third-party software already uses these on Solarises in an
27 attempt to get a somewhat sane compilation environment
28 + all applications automatically use 64-bit files. using the LFS/"large file"
29 interfaces _LARGEFILE_SOURCE, _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE and _FILE_OFFSET_BITS is
31 + various improvements have been made to shorten the build time.
32 + the installer user interface has been simplified considerably.
36 - libfruraw, libnvfru, libfru, libfrureg, libfruutils
37 - libpicl, libpicltree, picld(8), etc.
40 - auditing support and libbsm
41 + ship ctfconvert & ctfmerge in /usr/bin
42 * hwdata updated to 2018.11.29
43 * tzdata updated to 2018g
45 * uname(1) returns "amd64" for -m and -p
46 * sysinfo(SI_ARCHITECTURE) returns "amd64" (or "i386" when UNAME_LEGACY is
48 * rename vnode interface's AT_* to VATTR_*
52 - hsfs-formatted boot archive support
53 - libc compat symbols: _nuname, __posix_readdir_r, __threaded
54 - binary compatibility bread/bwrite/bwrite2/getblk kernel symbols
55 - libxnet and libsocket filter libraries
56 - libm.so.1 (legacy libm)
57 - shcomp(1) and the ability to run "compiled" ksh93 shell scripts (shbinexec)
58 - useless ksh93 /usr/bin builtins: cd, command, history, jobs, limit,
59 print, read, type, umask, wait
61 + ship libcmdutils.so & libuutil.so compilation symlinks
62 * ship openbsd ksh as /bin/sh (/bin/ksh93, /bin/rksh93, and /sbin/sh remain
64 * convert BREAD/BWRITE/BWRITE2/GETBLK macros to bread/bwrite/bwrite2/getblk
66 * collapse driver packages into system/kernel
67 * replace ksh93 /usr/bin builtins with real programs imported from OpenBSD:
68 comm, cut, join, kill, logname, paste, rev, sleep, tee, test, uniq, wc
69 * autofs is disabled by default
70 * zoneinfo data moved from /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo to /usr/share/zoneinfo
74 - 32-bit x86 kernel support (32-bit x86 applications are still supported)
76 - xen domU and dom0 support
77 - Trusted Solaris aka. Trusted Extensions
78 - SVR4 pkg support & code
79 - solaris10 zone brand
81 - ndd(8) (use ipadm(8) and dladm(8) instead)
82 - closed source components were removed, including:
83 - in.iked(8) and related utilities
84 - kmdb modules: mpt and nfs
85 - kernel drivers: atiatom, bnx, ixgb, sdpib, usbser_edge, glm, mpt, adpu320,
86 bcm_sata, lsimega, marvel88sx, acpi_toshiba, intel_nhmex
87 - avs ("Sun StorageTek Availability Suite")
89 - /usr/ucb and libbc ("SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package")
90 - rdist(1), rcp(1), rlogin(1), rlogind(1m), rsh(1), rshd(1m)
91 - uucp services (uuencode and uudecode are still present)
92 - libslp, slpd ("Service Location Protocol daemon")
93 - Java bits: poold(8), libzfs_jni, libadt_jni, libdtrace_jni, DTrace Java
94 support, parts of libdns_sd
95 - Sun Studio and lint build support
96 - getpwent_r(3c), fgetpwent_r(3c), which are non-standard and were different
99 - POSIX.1c Draft versions of several reentrant functions were removed.
100 Applications using the draft versions have to be modified; users of the
101 standard versions are unaffected.
106 - drop support for Riyadh87, Riyadh88, and Riyadh89 timezones
107 - routeadm(1m), svc:/network/routing/legacy-routing,
108 svc:/network/ipv[46]-forwarding removed. use ipadm to manage forwarding and
109 smf to manage the routing-related daemons.
110 - xpg4, xpg6 directories were removed, utilities moved to /usr/bin.
111 - troff(1), nroff(1), addbib(1), checknr(1), deroff(1), diffmk(1), eqn(1),
112 indxbib(1), lookbib(1), refer(1), roffbib(1), soelim(1), tbl(1), ul(1),
113 vgrind(1), /usr/bin/makedev /usr/bin/ta removed -- made obsolete by mandoc
114 - pre-XPG5 behavior: ungetwc(3c), putwchar(3c), putwc(3c), fputwc(3c),
115 fputws(3c), fgetwc(3c), getwc(3c), getwchar(3c), fgetws(3c)
116 - C89 behavior: fprintf(3c), fscanf(3c), fwprintf(3c), fwscanf(3c),
117 printf(3c), scanf(3c), snprintf(3c), sprintf(3c), sscanf(3c),
118 swprintf(3c), swscanf(3c), vfprintf(3c), vfscanf(3c), vfwprintf(3c),
119 vfwscanf(3c), vprintf(3c), vscanf(3c), vsnprintf(3c), vsprintf(3c),
120 vsscanf(3c), vswprintf(3c), vswscanf(3c), vwprintf(3c), vwscanf(3c),
121 wprintf(3c), wscanf(3c)
122 + awk(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
123 + libcurses, libxcurses, libxcurses2, terminfo were replaced by ncurses
124 + grep(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
125 + errc(3), warnc(3) were added to libc
126 + fts(3) added to libc
127 + reallocarray(3) added to libc
128 + LibreSSL (libcrypto, libssl, libtls, openssl(1), nc(1)) added
129 + cpio-formatted boot archives
130 * man(1) is mandoc. mandoc.db support added, eliminating the need for
132 * socket interfaces are now in libc. libsocket, libxnet and libnsl remain as
134 * socket implementation was modified to be more reasonable by default, and it
135 is no longer possible to choose an alternate socket implementation.
136 msg_accrights was removed and msg_control members are now always visible in
138 Documentation was updated and moved to section 2: accept(2), bind(2),
139 connect(2), getpeername(2), getsockname(2), getsockopt(2), listen(2),
140 recv(2), send(2), shutdown(2), socket(2), socketpair(2), and the new
141 sockatmark(2) and CMSG_DATA(3)
142 * make(1) is bmake(1) instead of dmake(1)
143 * sed(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
144 * locale data has been updated to CLDR v28; tools to generate it were imported
145 from FreeBSD. This fixes many character classification errors.
146 * install(1m) was replaced by install(1) from OpenBSD.
147 * all process security flags are on by default
148 * putwchar(3c), putwc(3c), fputwc(3c), and fputws(3c) have only XPG5 behavior
149 * man pages from section 1M have been moved to section 8; third party code
150 (libncurses, namely) is not affected