We are happy to announce a new Oracle Solaris Common Build Environment (CBE) release, to be used for free by developers.
As part of our continued effort to support software development on Oracle Solaris 11.4 we provide 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 Operating System. As an added bonus, the CBE can also be used for non-production personal use.
We first introduced the Oracle Solaris CBE in March 2022 and we released an updated version in May 2025. Now, as Oracle Solaris keeps on evolving, we’ve released the latest version of our CBE. With the previous release Alan and Jan had compiled a list to cover all the changes in the three years since the first CBE release. This time, because it’s relatively soon after the last release we are opting to just point you to the what’s new blogs on the feature release SRUs Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 84, Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87, and Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 90. And of course you can always go to the blogs by Joerg Moellenkamp and Marcel Hofstetter who have excellent series of articles that show how you can use the Oracle Solaris features.
The release of this new Oracle Solaris 11.4 CBE, together with the Oracle SPARC S7, T8, and Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers, the committed support for Oracle Solaris until at least 2037, the availability of Oracle Solaris in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure all show the continued strength of the Oracle Solaris platform and our commitment to delivering an Operating System for your mission critical enterprise workloads.
To update you can either point your system to the package repository and use “pkg update” and pull in all the changes or use the images on the Oracle Solaris Downloads page.