We are happy to announce the release of a new Oracle Solaris 11.4 Common Build Environment, or CBE, to be used for free by developers.
In March 2022 we released our first Oracle Solaris CBE, and the goals of this new release are the same: a free-of-charge version of Oracle Solaris 11.4 to give developers and the FOSS community access to a build environment that is very similar to the most recent Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update. They can develop and test against the newest features released, and gain insight into the technology advances that we have delivered into the Oracle Solaris 11.4 OS. As an added bonus, the CBE can also be used for non-production personal use.
The release of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 CBE fits in our Continuous Delivery model for Oracle Solaris where we no longer ship large updates with long periods in-between but rather do this through our Support Repository Updates (SRUs). Users – and software vendors – can keep up with the latest technology enhancements for Oracle Solaris through easy-to-deploy updates.
Check Alan Coopersmith’s blog article for a list of the main features we have shipped since the last CBE was released. Additional blogs by Joerg Moellenkamp and Marcel Hofstetter both have an excellent series of articles that show how you can try out and start using some of these features.
The release of this new Oracle Solaris 11.4 CBE, together with the continued strength of the SPARC platform with the Oracle SPARC S7, T8, and Fujitsu SPARC M12 systems, the committed support for Oracle Solaris until at least 2037, the availability of Oracle Solaris in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and on the Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer platform all show the continued strength of the Oracle Solaris platform and our commitment to delivering an Operating System for your mission critical enterprise workloads.
You can upgrade an existing Oracle Solaris CBE installation to this new version or create a fresh install today, using either the new CBE release download or use the IPS package repository and the pkg install command, and get access to the new features released in the intermittent Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRUs.