We’ve just released the Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU78. It is available via ‘pkg update’ from the support repository or by downloading the SRU from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2433412.1.

This SRU adds the following new features or modified interfaces:

  • New iostat -b option for backend statistics of LDom/KZ guest devices
  • LDoms Virtual Disk now supports reporting device block size & count
  • Updates to virtual disk and mdb modules to improve debugging of vdisk issues, including older core files
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements for virtual HBA
  • iostat wildcard character support for disk report selection
  • SI_KMDB si_code for siginfo
  • Precision modifier for mdb_printf et al
  • OpenSSL 3 as default compilation/script environment
  • PSUtils replaced with PSPDFUtils
  • pkg(7) user action uid selection no longer uses reserved range
  • Status option (-S) added to the list-domain and list-devices subcommands of the ldm command on Oracle SPARC platforms
  • MySQL 8.4
  • Python 3.13
  • Ruby 3.3
  • ctfmerge -t use with -a
  • New helper functions in mdb for annotating times, strings and arrays
  • Helper function to get mdb_get_annotation_flags_t from mdb_annotation_arg_t
  • sxadm(8) update for AMD Speculative Return Stack Overflow Vulnerabilities
  • File extraction by cpio(1) restricted to the current working directory hierarchy by default. See README for more info.

The following packages have been updated to address security issues:

  • 7-Zip to 24.09
  • APR to 1.7.5
  • Apache Tomcat to 9.0.98
  • Firefox to 128.6.0esr
  • GNU Binutils to 2.43.1 and addresses a security issue (Bugs 37079859
  • Golang to 1.23.1
  • Java 8 to jdk8u441 (Bug 37410959)
  • Jinja2 to 3.1.5
  • Qt library to 6.8.0
  • Thunderbird to 128.6.0esr
  • Unbound to 1.21.1
  • curl to 8.11.1
  • libarchive to 3.7.6
  • libexpat to 2.6.3
  • libgsf to 1.14.53
  • rsync to 3.4.1
  • setuptools-rust to 1.10.1
  • suricata to 7.0.7
  • xorg-server to 21.1.14
  • filesystem/zfs, gnome/libraries, kernel/arch-amd64, kernel/crypto-other, library/harfbuzz, library/libsoftcrypto, library/pam-unix, service/proftpd, utility/archiver, utility/ghostscript & utility/python

The following have also been updated:

  • Automat to 24.8.1
  • Cython to 3.0.11
  • GDB to 15.1
  • GNU indent to 2.2.13
  • Intel CPU microcode to 2024.3 IPU
  • MarkupSafe to 3.0.2
  • MySQL 8.4 to 8.4.3
  • NTP to 4.2.8p18
  • PyYAML to 6.0.2
  • asciidoc to 10.2.1
  • astroid to 3.3.4
  • attrs to 24.2.0
  • bandit to 1.7.10
  • bash to 5.2 patch 37
  • bcrypt to 4.2.0
  • bitmap to 1.1.1
  • c-ares to 1.34.4
  • cffi to 1.17.1
  • cloudbase-init to 1.1.6
  • cmd2 to 2.5.4
  • coverage to 7.6.4
  • cryptography to 43.0.1
  • cups to 2.4.11
  • device ids data files to current versions as of 2024.10
  • dill to 0.3.8
  • dill to 0.3.9
  • eog-plugins to 44.1
  • flac to 1.4.3
  • flit_core to 3.10.1
  • gnome-keyring to 46.2
  • gnome-shell to 45.9 and mutter to 45.7
  • gnuplot to 6.0.1
  • gtk-doc dependencies due to upstream changes
  • idna to 3.10
  • imake to 1.0.10
  • incremental to 24.7.2
  • isort to 5.13.2
  • lazy-object-proxy to 1.10.0
  • lcms2 to 2.16
  • less to version 668
  • libedit to version 20240808-3.1
  • libical to 3.0.18
  • libksba to 1.6.7
  • libneon to 0.33.0
  • libssh2 to 1.11.1
  • libxcb/xcb-proto to 1.17.0
  • links to 2.30
  • luit to 20240910
  • lynx to 2.9.2
  • makedepend to 1.0.9
  • mercurial to 6.8
  • meson to 1.5.2
  • mkfontscale to 1.2.3
  • mod_jk upgrade to 1.2.50
  • netaddr to 1.3.0
  • oslo.config to 9.6.0
  • oslo.context to 5.6.0
  • oslo.i18n to 6.4.0
  • oslo.log to 6.1.2
  • oslo.serialization to 5.5.0
  • oslo.utils to 7.4.0
  • packaging to 24.1
  • parallel to 20241022
  • pbr to 6.1.0
  • pip to 24.3.1
  • pipx to 1.7.1
  • platformdirs to 4.3.6
  • pluggy to 1.5.0
  • polkit to 125
  • popt to 1.19
  • psutil to 6.1.0
  • pyasn1 to 0.6.1
  • pyasn1-modules to 0.4.1
  • pycodestyle to 2.12.1
  • pygments to 2.18.0
  • pylint to 3.3.1
  • pyopenssl to 24.2.1
  • pyparsing to 3.2.0
  • pyperclip to 1.9.0
  • pytest to 8.3.3
  • python oracledb to 2.5.0
  • rapidjson to 1.20
  • samba to 4.20.5
  • scat to 7066
  • seahorse to 47.0.1
  • serf to 1.3.10
  • service_identity to 24.1.0
  • setxkbmap to 1.3.4
  • simplejson to 3.19.3
  • stevedore to 5.3.0
  • sudo to 1.9.16p2
  • swig to 4.3.0
  • tcsh to 6.24.13
  • testtools to 2.7.2
  • tomli to 2.1.0
  • tomlkit to 0.13.2
  • urllib3 to 2.2.3
  • userpath to 1.9.2
  • util-macros to 1.20.1
  • wcwidth to 0.2.13
  • x11perf to 1.7.0
  • xattr to 1.1.0
  • xclipboard to 1.1.5
  • xdpyinfo to 1.3.4
  • xkeyboard-config to 2.43
  • xmlsec to 1.2.41
  • xmlto to 0.0.29
  • xorg-docs to 1.7.3
  • xorgproto to 2024.1
  • xterm to 394
  • zope.interface to 7.1.1

Full details of this SRU can be found in My Oracle Support Doc 3071737.1. For the list of Service Alerts affecting each Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU, see Important Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU Issues (Doc ID 2445150.1).