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