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
12 - hsfs-formatted boot archive support
13 - libc compat symbols: _nuname, __posix_readdir_r, __threaded
14 - binary compatibility bread/bwrite/bwrite2/getblk kernel symbols
18 - 32-bit x86 kernel support (32-bit x86 applications are still supported)
20 - xen domU and dom0 support
21 - Trusted Solaris aka. Trusted Extensions
22 - SVR4 pkg support & code
23 - solaris10 zone brand
25 - ndd(8) (use ipadm(8) and dladm(8) instead)
26 - closed source components were removed, including:
27 - in.iked(8) and related utilities
28 - kmdb modules: mpt and nfs
29 - kernel drivers: atiatom, bnx, ixgb, sdpib, usbser_edge, glm, mpt, adpu320,
30 bcm_sata, lsimega, marvel88sx, acpi_toshiba, intel_nhmex
31 - avs ("Sun StorageTek Availability Suite")
33 - /usr/ucb and libbc ("SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package")
34 - rdist(1), rcp(1), rlogin(1), rlogind(1m), rsh(1), rshd(1m)
35 - uucp services (uuencode and uudecode are still present)
36 - libslp, slpd ("Service Location Protocol daemon")
37 - Java bits: poold(8), libzfs_jni, libadt_jni, libdtrace_jni, DTrace Java
38 support, parts of libdns_sd
39 - Sun Studio and lint build support
40 - getpwent_r(3c), fgetpwent_r(3c), which are non-standard and were different
43 - POSIX.1c Draft versions of several reentrant functions were removed.
44 Applications using the draft versions have to be modified; users of the
45 standard versions are unaffected.
50 - drop support for Riyadh87, Riyadh88, and Riyadh89 timezones
51 - routeadm(1m), svc:/network/routing/legacy-routing,
52 svc:/network/ipv[46]-forwarding removed. use ipadm to manage forwarding and
53 smf to manage the routing-related daemons.
54 - xpg4, xpg6 directories were removed, utilities moved to /usr/bin.
55 - troff(1), nroff(1), addbib(1), checknr(1), deroff(1), diffmk(1), eqn(1),
56 indxbib(1), lookbib(1), refer(1), roffbib(1), soelim(1), tbl(1), ul(1),
57 vgrind(1), /usr/bin/makedev /usr/bin/ta removed -- made obsolete by mandoc
58 - pre-XPG5 behavior: ungetwc(3c), putwchar(3c), putwc(3c), fputwc(3c),
59 fputws(3c), fgetwc(3c), getwc(3c), getwchar(3c), fgetws(3c)
60 - C89 behavior: fprintf(3c), fscanf(3c), fwprintf(3c), fwscanf(3c),
61 printf(3c), scanf(3c), snprintf(3c), sprintf(3c), sscanf(3c),
62 swprintf(3c), swscanf(3c), vfprintf(3c), vfscanf(3c), vfwprintf(3c),
63 vfwscanf(3c), vprintf(3c), vscanf(3c), vsnprintf(3c), vsprintf(3c),
64 vsscanf(3c), vswprintf(3c), vswscanf(3c), vwprintf(3c), vwscanf(3c),
65 wprintf(3c), wscanf(3c)
66 + awk(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
67 + libcurses, libxcurses, libxcurses2, terminfo were replaced by ncurses
68 + grep(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
69 + errc(3), warnc(3) were added to libc
70 + fts(3) added to libc
71 + reallocarray(3) added to libc
72 + LibreSSL (libcrypto, libssl, libtls, openssl(1), nc(1)) added
73 + cpio-formatted boot archives
74 * man(1) is mandoc. mandoc.db support added, eliminating the need for
76 * socket interfaces are now in libc. libsocket, libxnet and libnsl remain as
78 * socket implementation was modified to be more reasonable by default, and it
79 is no longer possible to choose an alternate socket implementation.
80 msg_accrights was removed and msg_control members are now always visible in
82 Documentation was updated and moved to section 2: accept(2), bind(2),
83 connect(2), getpeername(2), getsockname(2), getsockopt(2), listen(2),
84 recv(2), send(2), shutdown(2), socket(2), socketpair(2), and the new
85 sockatmark(2) and CMSG_DATA(3)
86 * make(1) is bmake(1) instead of dmake(1)
87 * sed(1) replaced with a version imported from FreeBSD
88 * locale data has been updated to CLDR v28; tools to generate it were imported
89 from FreeBSD. This fixes many character classification errors.
90 * install(1m) was replaced by install(1) from OpenBSD.
91 * all process security flags are on by default
92 * putwchar(3c), putwc(3c), fputwc(3c), and fputws(3c) have only XPG5 behavior
93 * man pages from section 1M have been moved to section 8; third party code
94 (libncurses, namely) is not affected