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Marcel Hofstetter<p>Just blogged "JomaSoft provides OpenJDK 17.0.16 package for Solaris 11.4 SPARC"</p><p><a href="https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2025/09/jomasoft-provides-openjdk-17016-package.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/09/jomasoft-provides-openjdk-17016-package.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/oraclesolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oraclesolaris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solaris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/openjdk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openjdk</span></a></p>
Alan Coopersmith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/@penguin42" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>penguin42</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@jpm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jpm</span></a></span> Oh, we know it's possible to set the date past 2038 on a 64-bit kernel - this is used for Y2038 testing. We actually added a check in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.3.8 that if the date has been set before 1970 or past the year 3000 (either by the user or a bad hardware clock) that we issue an error and reset back to 2016 - prior to that the only limits were the ones imposed by the data types.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>I tried this on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4 on a 3.4Ghz Intel Skylake system and got numbers slightly better than <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flak.tedunangst.com/user/tedu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tedu</span></a></span> reported on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> (after fixing the printf to use "%ld" instead of "%lld"):</p><p>elapsed: 0.001843s<br>elapsed: 0.001782s<br>elapsed: 0.001574s<br>elapsed: 0.001827s</p><p>That may just be relative CPU speed however, since I don't know what CPU he tested on.</p><p><a href="https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-Op</span><span class="invisible">enBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux</span></a></p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>The security fixes included in the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4.84 release are now added to <a href="https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/bulletinjul2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oracle.com/security-alerts/bul</span><span class="invisible">letinjul2025.html</span></a></p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>Diffs of the core OS man pages between <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4.81 and 11.4.84 are at <a href="https://gist.github.com/alanc/ae834f8047eb234c68cf9b4db4a96958" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gist.github.com/alanc/ae834f80</span><span class="invisible">47eb234c68cf9b4db4a96958</span></a> so you can see more about what changed in the software, as well as some of the documentation cleanups we did.</p><p>My big man page project for the quarter was a cleanup pass across the section 8 (admin command) man pages.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>More details on the new features in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4.84 are in the "What's New" blog at <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-84" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/</span><span class="invisible">whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-84</span></a></p><p>This includes new options for the format(8) &amp; fmthard(8) commands, changes to truss(1) exit codes, added support for using CTF produced by the gcc compilers, reporting the presence of CTF in file(1) output, Stats Store Threshold alerts for /tmp usage, improved resilience for nscd(8), splitting csh(1) and IKEv1 into separate packages in preparation for future removal, reporting on Intel's RFDS mitigations in sxadm(8), allowing ldm set-vdisk to adjust timeouts on active domains, upgrading OpenSSH to version 10 (which drops ssh-dss key support), and adding packages for libsodium, the sodium PHP extension, and node.js 22.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>Today we've released <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4.84, our quarterly feature update. The announcement is at <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru84" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/</span><span class="invisible">announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru84</span></a> and lists the new features and software upgrades included.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsd.network/@bcallah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bcallah</span></a></span> we ship gnat packages for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4, so I would have assumed it was buildable for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> as well.<br><a href="http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/en/search.shtml?token=gnat&amp;action=Search" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release</span><span class="invisible">/en/search.shtml?token=gnat&amp;action=Search</span></a></p>
Alan Coopersmith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://federate.me.uk/@jperkin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jperkin</span></a></span> I got asked by dbus upstream to help with upstreaming your pkgsrc patch to make sure it worked well for both <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> and ended up submitting a larger set of changes that seem to work well for both:<br><a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/merge_requests/533" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/db</span><span class="invisible">us/-/merge_requests/533</span></a><br>(Discussion happened in <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/issues/557" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/db</span><span class="invisible">us/-/issues/557</span></a> along with explanation of these changes.)</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>Today is Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update release day, so for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> we have released updates for 11.4 and patches for 10.</p><p>11.4: <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru83" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/</span><span class="invisible">announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru83</span></a><br>10: <a href="https://community.oracle.com/mosc/discussion/4588776/announce-oracle-solaris-10-quarterly-patch-release-july-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">community.oracle.com/mosc/disc</span><span class="invisible">ussion/4588776/announce-oracle-solaris-10-quarterly-patch-release-july-2025</span></a></p><p>For info on the security fixes in those releases, see the Oracle Systems Risk Matrix in the July 2025 CPU Bulletin at <a href="https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2025.html#AppendixSUNS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oracle.com/security-alerts/cpu</span><span class="invisible">jul2025.html#AppendixSUNS</span></a> and the Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin for July 2025 at <a href="https://oracle.com/security-alerts/bulletinjul2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oracle.com/security-alerts/bul</span><span class="invisible">letinjul2025.html</span></a> .</p><p>The included syslogd patch for Solaris 10 is not a security fix, but a backport of an interoperability fix to ensure hostnames are logged to remote syslog servers using RFC 5424, like rsyslog.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://federate.me.uk/@jperkin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jperkin</span></a></span> for <a href="https://reports.pkgci.org/SmartOS/upstream/trunk/20250703.2249/cracklib-2.9.7nb1/build.log" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reports.pkgci.org/SmartOS/upst</span><span class="invisible">ream/trunk/20250703.2249/cracklib-2.9.7nb1/build.log</span></a> this appears to be because <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> still defaults to the POSIX draft declarations for getpwuid_r &amp; getpwnam_r() in &lt;pwd.h&gt; instead of the final POSIX standard versions. (We changed the defaults in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4 to the POSIX standard versions and require defining __USE_DRAFT6_PROTOTYPES__ to get the old ones.)</p><p>You should be able to fix that with -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS to get the POSIX standard forms on illumos and older Solaris releases.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://federate.me.uk/@jperkin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jperkin</span></a></span> for <a href="https://reports.pkgci.org/SmartOS/upstream/trunk/20250703.2249/py313-mercurial-6.9.4nb1/build.log" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reports.pkgci.org/SmartOS/upst</span><span class="invisible">ream/trunk/20250703.2249/py313-mercurial-6.9.4nb1/build.log</span></a> the simplest fix is likely to add -D__EXTENSIONS__ to the CPPFLAGS.SunOS in the pkgsrc Makefile.</p><p>The <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> headers differ slightly here for dirfd() - on Solaris 11, it's available if _XOPEN_SOURCE is not set, if it's set to 700, or if __EXTENSIONS__ is set. On illumos, it looks like <a href="https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/head/dirent.h" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/illumos/illumos-gat</span><span class="invisible">e/blob/master/usr/src/head/dirent.h</span></a> hasn't been updated to reflect XPG7 yet, so it just always requires __EXTENSIONS__ if _XOPEN_SOURCE is set, as the pkgsrc Makefile does. (On both OS'es setting _XOPEN_SOURCE tells the headers to restrict the contents to only what the standard defines, unless __EXTENSIONS__ is set to allow non-standard extensions.)</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>Looking for Rust nightly builds for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> on x86? See <a href="https://x.com/sumbera_p/status/1937873812554691058" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/sumbera_p/status/1937873</span><span class="invisible">812554691058</span></a></p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>Finally published today the second blog I'd promised for the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4.81 CBE release last month:<br><a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-the-solaris-modular-debugger-mdb-in-the-oracle-solaris-11481-cbe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/</span><span class="invisible">whats-new-in-the-solaris-modular-debugger-mdb-in-the-oracle-solaris-11481-cbe</span></a></p><p>A very deep dive into a narrow topic - what's changed in the Solaris Modular Debugger (mdb) since the previous CBE release in 2022. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://planetearth.social/@cgerhard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cgerhard</span></a></span> and others have put an impressive amount of work into making debugging easier and better for the users of this tool.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>Diffs of the core OS man pages between <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4.78 and 11.4.81 are at <a href="https://gist.github.com/alanc/067a51bfc04e63ffa4ee9eda0daf36f0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gist.github.com/alanc/067a51bf</span><span class="invisible">c04e63ffa4ee9eda0daf36f0</span></a> so you can see more about what changed in the software, as well as some of the documentation cleanups we did.</p><p>My big man page project for the quarter was a cleanup pass across the ZFS man pages.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>Big updates in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4.81 include upgrading GRUB from 1.99 to 2.12, removing OpenSSL 1.0.2 now that we've finished migrating to 3.0, adding LLVM/clang 19 alongside the existing version 13, and replacing ImageMagick version 6 with version 7. See <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-81" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/</span><span class="invisible">whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-81</span></a> for more info on each of those.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>A bunch of the new features were previewed last week in the new <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> CBE release which was based on a pre-release version of this SRU (it had the final feature set, but not the final bug fixes and FOSS upgrades).</p><p>Since we focused on developer and home user features in the blog for that release, the What's New blog for SRU 81 at <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-81" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/</span><span class="invisible">whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-81</span></a> lists some more enterprise-focused features that were present in that release, but not called out in it's blog, like LDoms &amp; KMIP changes.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p>Today we've released <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11.4.81, our quarterly feature update. The announcement is at <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru81" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/</span><span class="invisible">announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru81</span></a> and lists the new features and software upgrades included.</p>
Alan Coopersmith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@jpm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jpm</span></a></span> it's not quite that simple - the Solaris kernel has been 64-bit only since Solaris 11.0, but not the userspace programs - those had been kept mostly 32-bit so they could be used on either a 32-bit or 64-bit kernel, and we started converting them all to 64-bit after the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> 11 release - see <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/moving-oracle-solaris-to-lp64-bit-by-bit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/</span><span class="invisible">moving-oracle-solaris-to-lp64-bit-by-bit</span></a> and <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/oracle-solaris-114-beta-progress-on-lp64-conversion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/</span><span class="invisible">oracle-solaris-114-beta-progress-on-lp64-conversion</span></a> - we're now up to 98.8% converted and working on finishing the last few we plan to convert and EOL'ing the rest.</p>
Volker A. Brandt :meckenheim:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@alanc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alanc</span></a></span> Great stuff, thanks Alan and Jan and team! Now if I were to compile pkgsrc (or dreckly) on the CBE, would I be allowed to distribute the resulting binary packages? My reading of the license agreement says "yes" but IANAL... <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solaris</span></a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/OracleSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OracleSolaris</span></a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/pkgsrc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pkgsrc</span></a></p>
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