We’ve just released the Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU48. 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:

 

  • Live storage migration for Kernel Zones
  • Default Audit Configuration Updates
  • login time quota check removed
  • New ‘-u’ option added to ‘zfs list’ and ‘zfs get’ subcommands to provide unsorted output
  • solaris10 brand security extensions control
  • Memory Reservation for OSM
  • Mdb output formatting plus helper function for annotating strings
  • Support for Multiple ELF Ancillary Objects
  • core_set_process_content promoted to public interface
  • Python 2.7 Environment Freeze/Remove admin helper scripts. See Readme Note 40 for more information.
  • PycURL reintroduced for Python 2.7. See Readme Note 41 for more information.
  • Removal of support for recursively changing wrapping key in ZFS
  • Excluding specific network interfaces from SMB Multi-channel use
  • swap and dump can live on the same ZFS volume
  • ACT (Autonomous Crash dump Tool) run by default
  • libuv: Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
  • OpenSSH GSS-API key exchange disabled in FIPS mode
  • Configurable ldmd certificate locations for LDoms
  • Important vntsd reliability and robustness improvements for guest consoles
  • Allow larger 16GB pagesizes on smaller memory footprint M8/T8 domains
  • Improve how ldmd and related utilities (e.g. MIB, ovmtutils) handle cert validation and local connections
  • libXfont Version 1 removed
  • Pytest-Django has been added
  • Obsolescence of rdate(8) and in.timed(8)
  • Stopped shipping lint library source files
  • eSpeak NG has been added
  • Ruby 3.1 has been added
  • Django REST framework has been added
  • pcaudiolib (The Portable C Audio Library) has been added
  • Python tomli has been added
  • Python iniconfig has been added

The following components have been updated to address security issues:

  • Apache Web Server to 2.4.54
  • Firefox to 91.11.0esr
  • ImageMagick to 6.9.12-47
  • MySQL 5.7 to 5.7.38
  • OpenSSL 1.0.2 to 1.0.2ze
  • Pillow to 9.1.0
  • curl to 7.83.1
  • git to 2.36.0
  • mutt to 2.2.3
  • unrar to 6.1.7

The following components have also been updated:

  • Babel to 2.10.1
  • BIND to 9.16
  • CGI to 4.54
  • DBD-SQLite to 1.70
  • Doxygen to 1.9.3
  • FFTW to 3.3.10
  • FontConfig to 2.14.0
  • GCC 11 to 11.3.0
  • GCC 9 to 9.5.0
  • GNU findutils to 4.9.0
  • Java 7 to jdk7u351
  • Java 8 to jdk8u341
  • LZ4 to 1.9.3
  • Links to 2.26
  • Nghttp2 library to 1.47.0
  • Node.js to 18.1.0
  • Pipe Viewer
  • TrouSers TPM library to 0.3.15
  • Update x86emu code in vbiosd to xorg-server-21.1.3 version
  • Wireshark to 3.6.6
  • atomicwrites to 1.4.0
  • attrs to 21.4.0
  • beautifulsoup4 to 4.11.1
  • cffi to 1.15.0
  • check to 0.15.2
  • cmd2 to 2.4.0
  • conflict to 20210108
  • cppunit to 1.15.1
  • dconf-editor to 3.38.3
  • deep_merge to 1.2.2
  • dejagnu to 1.6.3
  • diffutils to version 3.8
  • dnspython to 2.2.1
  • dulwich to 0.20.42
  • exempi to 2.6.1
  • fribidi to 1.0.12
  • gedit to 41.0
  • gedit-plugins to 41.0
  • genders to 1.28.1
  • gjs to 1.70.2, gnome-desktop to 41.5, gdk-pixbuf to 2.42.8
  • glib to 2.70.5
  • gnome-clocks to 41.0
  • gnome-control-center to 41.4
  • gnome-initial-setup to 41.4
  • gnome-shell to 41.5, gnome-shell-extensions to 41.2, mutter to 41.5
  • gnu-gettext to 0.21
  • gtksourceview to 4.8.2
  • help2man to 1.49.1
  • hypothesis to 6.46.5
  • idna to 3.3
  • iperf3 to 3.11
  • iso8601 to 1.0.2
  • itstool to 2.0.7
  • libarchive to 3.6.1
  • libedit to 3.1.20210910
  • libogg to 1.3.5
  • libsass to 3.6.5
  • libuv to v1.44.1
  • meld to 3.21.1
  • mod_perl upgrade to 2.0.12
  • msgpack to 1.0.3
  • mysqlclient to 2.1.0
  • oauthlib to 3.2.0
  • pbr to 5.9.0
  • pcre to 8.45
  • pcre2 to 10.39
  • pdsh to 2.34
  • pluggy to 1.0.0
  • psutil to 5.9.0
  • py3c to 1.4
  • pycairo to 1.21.0
  • pycparser to 2.21
  • pygments to 2.12.0
  • pyhamcrest to 2.0.3
  • pyperclip to 1.8.2
  • pytest to 7.0.0
  • pytz to 2022.1
  • rapidjson to 1.6
  • sassc to 3.6.2
  • scat to 6969
  • sudo to 1.9.9
  • swig to 4.0.2
  • testtools to 2.5.0
  • vala to 0.54.2
  • watch to 4.0.0
  • wrapt to 1.14.1
  • xattr to 0.9.9
  • xorriso to 1.5.4.pl02
  • zstd to 1.5.2
  • ldoms/ovmtemplat ldoms/migration python-mod/paramiko utility/vim

Full details of this SRU can be found in My Oracle Support Doc 2888037.1. 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).