We’ve just released the Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU96 CPU. It is available via ‘pkg update’ from the support repository or by downloading the SRU from (My Oracle Support Doc ID KB631614.)
Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU96 is the latest Critical Patch Update (CPU) for Oracle Solaris 11.4 systems. It delivers security fixes, package updates, and general bug fixes while preserving the feature content introduced in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU95. Together, SRU95 and SRU96 provide the features and fixes delivered since the previous CPU, Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU94.
SRU 96.227.1 focuses on maintenance and security updates. Notable changes include:
- Fixes for deadlocks affecting the service configuration daemon and RPC module
- Improvements to kernel memory allocation
- Updated SMB server packaging for non-global zones
- A fix for the iperf3 zero-copy option on Solaris
- Updated CA certificates
- Timezone data updated to 2026d
Notable package updates
SRU 96.227.1 updates concurrent-ruby to 1.3.8, Django to 5.2.17, Go to 1.25.14, iperf3 to 3.21, libarchive to 3.8.8, ProFTPD to 1.3.9c, pyasn1 to 0.6.4, and the Python driver for Oracle Database, python-oracledb, to 4.0.1.
Security updates
This SRU includes security fixes for concurrent-ruby, Go, iperf3, libarchive, ProFTPD, and pyasn1. Additional security fixes address libtiff, the Python cryptography package, Django, and Ansible.
For the complete list of fixes and affected packages, review the SRU README and associated Critical Patch Update documentation.
Full details of this SRU can be found in My Oracle Support Doc KB933661. For the list of Service Alerts affecting each Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU, see Important Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU Issues (Doc ID KB620396).