Last week, we released the Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU87. 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:

  • BIND configuration and compatibility check service
  • Firefox and Thunderbird updated from ESR 128 to ESR 140
  • GCC 15 added
  • Improved devalias management for LDoms Guest Domains within ldmd
  • No longer used ‘sys‘ memory blocks now returned to free memory pool by ldmd
  • MDB API added to get annotations by type
  • MDB API added to set array lengths
  • New cableinfo(8) peer command to croinfo(8)
  • Oracle Cloud Agent package added
  • fmthard(8) -c (clear) and -e (GPT/EFI) options
  • solaris10 branded zone support for gzip/bzip2 compressed flar archives
  • useradd(8) account activation options (-N & -U)

The following packages have been updated to address security issues:

  • BIND to 9.18.41
  • Firefox to 140.3.0esr
  • ImageMagick to 7.1.2-2
  • ModSecurity to 2.9.12
  • Pillow to 11.3.0
  • Thunderbird to 140.3.0esr
  • 7-Zip to 25.01
  • cups-filters to 2.0.1
  • curl to 8.14.1
  • git to 2.50.1
  • golang to 1.25.3
  • hplip to 3.25.6
  • jq to 1.8.0
  • libarchive to 3.8.1
  • ncurses to 6.5.0.20250614
  • openssl to 3.0.18
  • poppler to 25.07.0
  • sudo to 1.9.17p1
  • suricata to 7.0.11
  • urllib3 to 2.5.0
  • vim to 9.1.1591
  • database/sqlite3, gnome/glib, gnome/libraries, gnome/multimedia, gnome/security, library/cairo, library/libxml, library/poppler, library/qt, service/dns-server, utility/ghostscript, utility/hg, utility/jq, utility/python

The following have also been updated:

  • babel to 2.17.0
  • build to 1.2.2
  • cbindgen to 0.29.0
  • dbus-python to 1.4.0
  • distlib to 0.4.0
  • django to 5.2.6
  • djangorestframework to 3.16.0
  • fasteners to 0.20
  • firefox to 140.1.0esr
  • flac to 1.5.0
  • fontconfig to 2.17.1
  • gcc 12 to 12.5.0
  • gcc 13 to 13.4.0
  • gcc 15 to 15.2.0
  • gdb to 16.3
  • gnu/coreutils to 9.7
  • golang to 1.23.11
  • grilo to 0.3.19
  • grilo-plugins to 0.3.18
  • gpatch to 2.8
  • hypothesis to 6.135.26
  • icu to 77.1
  • importlib-metadata to 8.7.0
  • iso-codes to 4.18.0
  • isc/bind in solaris to 9.18.38
  • less to 679
  • lftp to 4.9.3
  • libgweather to 4.4.4
  • libjpeg to 9f
  • libsigsegv to 2.15
  • mm-common to 1.0.7
  • oauthlib to 3.3.1
  • openldap to 2.6.10
  • paramiko to 4.0.0
  • pillow to 11.2.1
  • portend to 3.2.1
  • puppetlabs/apache to 12.3.1
  • puppetlabs/concat to 9.1.0
  • puppetlabs/inifile to 6.2.0
  • puppetlabs/mysql to 16.2.0
  • puppetlabs/ntp to 11.0.0
  • puppetlabs/stdlib to 9.7.0
  • pygments to 2.19.2
  • pytest-django to 4.11.1
  • qpdf to 12.1.0
  • re2c to 4.2
  • requests to 2.32.4
  • rust to 1.87.0
  • saz/memcached to 10.0.1
  • scons to 4.9.1
  • setuptools to 80.9.0
  • setuptools_scm to 8.3.1
  • texinfo to 7.2
  • thunderbird to 140.1.0esr
  • wrapt to 1.17.2
  • wxwidgets to 3.2.8.1
  • xf86-video-ast to 1.2.1
  • xorg-server to 21.1.18
  • zipp to 3.23.0

Full details of this SRU can be found in My Oracle Support Doc 3111291.1. 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).