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Next Generation Internet Protocol
|
|
IPv6
|
IPv6 adds increased address space and improves Internet
functionality using a simplified header format, support for authentication
and privacy, autoconfiguration of address assignments, and enables new quality-of-service
capabilities. (more)
|
|
Directory Services and Naming Enhancements
|
|
Native Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP)
|
Native
LDAP provides the Naming Service switch back-end support for LDAP based directory
service. (more)
|
|
Java Enhancements
|
|
Java 2 Software Development Kit
(SDK) for Solaris
|
The
Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition version 1.2.1_04 is the latest release of the
Java 2 platform for the Solaris operating environment. It includes these enhancements:
-
Improved scalability
-
Improved class libraries, including the new Java 2 APIs
-
Enhanced memory management system
-
High-performance, scalable Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
-
Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler optimizations
-
Faster Java thread synchronization
(more)
|
|
Installation and Management
|
|
Solaris Web Start enhanced installation
CD
|
Solaris Web Start,
a graphical, wizard based, Java powered software application that installs
the Solaris operating environment and other software, is now distributed on
a separate installation CD. (more)
|
|
Booting a system over the network
with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
|
Network installs can now use DHCP to acquire boot parameters
and network configuration information needed to boot a client over the network.
DHCP booting is supported on certain SPARC and IA based systems. (more)
|
|
IA: Boot partition in Solaris 8
|
Users running Solaris Intel Platform Edition can now designate a separate IA boot partition. (more)
|
|
IA: CD-ROM boot
|
This new feature enables the user to
boot a system from an installation CD (rather than the Device Configuration
Assistant diskette, as was the case in the past) using the "El Torito"
standard. (more)
|
|
DHCP Manager
|
DHCP Manager provides a Java-based graphical
interface for configuring and managing the Solaris DHCP server and DHCP databases.
It allows the system administrator to use a single tool to perform all DHCP
management duties: set up and manage DHCP servers, manage client configuration
options and macros, and manage networks and IP addresses that are under DHCP
management. (more)
|
|
IA: Large disk support
|
By using improved BIOS interfaces to
access the disk, Solaris 8 Intel Platform Edition now
fully uses disks larger than 8 Gbytes. (more)
|
|
Solaris Web-Based Enterprise
Management (WBEM) Services
|
Solaris WBEM Services software is an implementation of Web-Based Enterprise
Management (WBEM) standards and technologies in the Solaris operating environment.
Intended for developers and administrators of WBEM-enabled environments, Solaris
WBEM Services provides the Solaris Schema, extensions of the CIM Schema classes,
and management, security, and logging services. (more)
|
|
Support for domain name system
(DNS) in system identification utilities
|
DNS has been added to the list of name services that can
be configured through the system identification utilities. (more)
|
|
Support for IPv6 in system identification
utilities
|
Systems can
now be configured at install time to use IPv6 in addition to IPv4. (more)
|
|
Unlimited number of pseudo-terminals
available
|
Solaris 8 software
enables the opening on any number of pseudo-terminals (used by programs
like rlogin and telnet). (more)
|
|
Reading documentation from the
Solaris 8 Documentation CD
|
The ab2cd script enables all users to read AnswerBook2TM documentation directly from the Solaris 8 Documentation
CD. It has been enhanced to provide better user feedback, to enable users
to set the port number on which ab2cd runs, and to read
documentation already installed on the user's system. (more)
|
|
Product Registry
|
The Solaris Product Registry is a
tool to manage software installed using Solaris Web Start 3.0 or the Solaris
package management commands (pkgadd, for example). It
enables you to:
-
View a list of installed and registered software and some
software attributes
-
Install additional software products
-
Uninstall software
-
Browse for and launch an installer
(more)
|
|
Networking
|
|
SPARCTM: InterDomain
Networks (IDNs)
|
IDNs
enable the user to set up high-speed network connections between dynamic system
domains without the need for special hardware. (more)
|
|
IP Security Architecture (IPsec)
for IPv4
|
IPsec provides
protection for IP datagrams. The protection can include confidentiality, strong
integrity of the data, partial sequence integrity (replay protection), and
data authentication. (more)
|
|
IPv6 NFS/RPC compliant
|
This feature adds IPv6 support to NFSTM and RPC in a seamless manner. There are no changes to existing
commands related to NFS. Most RPC applications will also run over IPv6 without
any change. Some advanced RPC applications with transport knowledge might
require updates. (more)
|
|
Logical Link Controller 2 (LLC2)
|
The Class II logical
link control driver (LLC2) interfaces network software (NetBIOS, SNA, OSI),
running under the Solaris operating environment to a physical LAN network
controlled by one of the supported communications adapters. This version of
the LLC2 driver includes support for both connectionless and connection-oriented
logical link control class II LLC2 operations for Ethernet, Token Ring, and
FDDI adapters when accessed through the appropriate Solaris MAC layer driver. (more)
|
|
NIS/NIS+ over IPv6 transports
|
This feature enables
users to perform NIS and NIS+ operations over IPv6 RPC transports, and to
store IPv6 addresses in the NIS, NIS+, and DNS naming services. (more)
|
|
sendmail
8.9.3
|
New options and
utilities improve the storage and security functionality of sendmail. (more)
|
|
Service Location Protocol (SLP)
|
SLP is an Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) protocol for discovering shared resources (such as printers,
file servers, netcams, and so on) in an enterprise network. The Solaris 8
operating environment contains a full implementation of SLP that includes
APIs that allow developers to write SLP-enabled applications, and provides
system administrators a framework for ease of network extensibility. (more)
|
|
Solaris STREAMS framework enhancements
|
The STREAMS framework
enhancements in the Solaris 8 operating environment provide more deterministic
response times for real-time processes by ensuring that STREAMS processing
uses a priority that does not conflict with the user process priority. (more)
|
|
Network time protocol
|
NTP provides precise time and network clock synchronization
for use in distributed computing environments. The Solaris 8 release has been
upgraded to include the 3-5.93e version. (more)
|
|
File System Enhancements
|
|
Universal Disk Format (UDF) file
system
|
The UDF file system,
the industry-standard format for storing information on optical media technology,
is supported in this Solaris release. The UDF file system can be used to exchange
data on the following components when they contain a UDF file system:
(more)
|
|
NFS server logging
|
NFS server logging allows an NFS server
to provide a record of file operations performed on its file systems. This
feature is particularly useful for sites that make anonymous FTP archives
available to NFS and WebNFSTM clients. (more)
|
|
IA: Extended Memory (XMEM) support
|
XMEM support provides
a mechanism that allows a single 32-bit process to efficiently allocate and
manage more than 4 Gbytes of physical memory. The XMEM feature is implemented
as a file system (xmemfs) that system administrators
can mount and use to reserve memory for applications. (more)
|
|
WebNFS JavaBeans component
|
The WebNFS JavaBeansTM
component contains an XFileChooser class that extends the JFileChooser graphical
component of the Java 2 API. This bean can be used by any Java 2 application
that needs to display a file chooser to enable users to select a file for
input (open) or output (save). Using XFileChooser an application can access
a file on a local disk or on an NFS server through the use of NFS URL naming. (more)
|
|
Deferred access time updates on
UFS file systems
|
Two
new mount options, dfratime and nodfratime
enable and disable deferred access time updates on UFS file systems. When
enabled, writing access time updates for the file system may be deferred until
the disk is accessed for a reason other than updating access times. (more)
|
|
Diagnostic and Availability Enhancements
|
|
The coreadm
command
|
The coreadm command provides flexible core file naming conventions and
better core file retention. (more)
|
|
Examining core files with proc
tools
|
Some of the proc
tools have been enhanced to examine process core files as well as live processes.
The proc tools are utilities that can manipulate features of the /proc file system. (more)
|
|
Improved device configuration
(devfsadm)
|
The devfsadm command provides an improved mechanism for
managing the special device files in the /dev and /devices directories, including support for dynamic reconfiguration
events. (more)
|
|
Improved system error messages
|
The system boot and
error message format now provides a numeric identifier, module name, and time
stamp to messages generated by the syslog(1M) logging facility.
In addition, messages that were previously lost after a system panic and reboot
are now saved.
|
|
Modular debugger (mdb)
|
mdb is a new extensible utility for low-level debugging and editing
of the live operating system, operating system crash dumps, user processes,
user process core dumps, and object files. (more)
|
|
Remote console messaging
|
This release includes the consadm command, which enables you to select a serial device as
an auxiliary (or remote) console for troubleshooting
remote system problems. (more)
|
|
TCP/IP internal trace support
|
TCP/IP now provides
internal trace support by logging TCP communication when a connection is terminated
by a reset (RST) packet. (more)
|
|
Performance and Scalability Enhancements
|
|
IA: Added support for Physical
Address Extension (PAE) mode
|
With the release of Pentium Pro, Intel introduced a mode called PAE on its
advanced processors. By using PAE, Solaris Intel Platform Edition can address up to 32 Gbytes of physical memory. (more)
|
|
apptrace
|
A new application debugging tool, apptrace enables application developers and system support personnel
to debug application or system problems by providing call traces to Solaris
shared libraries, which may show the series of events leading up to a point
of failure. (more)
|
|
SPARC: busstat
|
A new system monitoring tool, busstat provides access to bus-related performance counters on
supported SPARC platforms. Viewing these performance counters with busstat enables you to measure hardware clock cycles and bus statistics
including DMA and cache coherency transactions on a multiprocessor system. (more)
|
|
Faster boot for servers
|
Large servers now require significantly
less time to boot. (more)
|
|
New alternative to poll() interface
|
/dev/poll is a second form of polling for the completion of I/O
events that provides much higher performance when a very large number of events
must be polled for on file descriptors that remain open for a long time.
This feature supplements poll(2); it does not replace poll(2). (more)
|
|
prstat
|
The prstat utility
iteratively examines all active processes on the system and reports various
statistics based on the selected output mode and sort order. (more)
|
|
IA: Xeon enhancements
|
To maximize performance, Solaris 8 Intel Platform Edition now supports the Page Attribute Table (PAT)
feature of IA32-bit processors (Pentium II and Pentium III). (more)
|
|
Security Enhancements
|
|
Solaris Smart Cards
|
The Solaris Smart Card feature implements
the Open Card Framework (OCF) 1.1 standard. Security administrators can use
this technology to protect a computer desktop or individual application by
requiring users to authenticate themselves by means of a smart card. (more)
|
|
Default file system and directory
permissions
|
Many system
files and directories in the Solaris 8 release have different default ownership
and stricter permissions than in previous releases. (more)
|
|
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
|
Traditional superuser-based
systems grant full superuser powers to anyone who can become superuser. With
RBAC, administrators can assign limited administrative capabilities to normal
users. (more)
|
|
Centralized administration of
user audit events
|
The
file, /etc/security/audit_user, which stores audit preselection
classes for users and roles, is now supported in the name switch. It is no
longer necessary to set up the audit events for a user on each system to which
the user has access.
|
|
Realtime Systems Enhancement
|
|
High resolution timers
|
The high resolution timers (HRTs) bypass
the traditional 10 millisecond clock interface to expose the granularity of
the physical clock interrupt from the hardware. Thus, the HRT interface allows
a real time process to take control of one processor (of a multi-processor
system) and operate to any required degree of precision in timing events. (more)
|
|
User-level priority inheritance
|
The real-time threads
feature implements the POSIX interfaces (previously only dummied in) that
let the high priority thread "lend" its priority to the low priority
thread until it releases the lock. (more)
|
|
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Desktop Enhancements
|
|
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
support
|
The PDA Synchronization
(PDASync) is a Java-based application that enables users to easily synchronize
their desktop calendar, mail, address book, and memos with their PDA. (more)
|
|
Hot Key Editor
|
The Hot Key Editor enables users to
predefine a series of commands to a given function key, resulting in increased
productivity and efficiency. (more)
|
|
Java Media Framework (JMF)
|
The JMF, a Java-based application,
provides smooth streaming video file format support for MPEG1, MPEG2, Quicktime,
and AVI, as well as audio support for MIDI. This feature enables users to
take advantage of the real-time video creation and broadcast functionality. (more)
|
|
SPARC: Audio Mixer
|
CDE now includes a new GUI tool, sdtaudiocontrol, that supersedes audiocontrol. sdtaudiocontrol, uses the features of the audio mixer, and provides
more features. (more)
See also "SPARC: Audio Mixer"
|
|
SPARC: PC launcher 1.0
|
PC launcher 1.0 for SunPCi enables
users to get seamless access and power to view, edit, and print many popular
types of PC files or attachments instantly, by automatically launching the
associated Windows application and file. (more)
|
|
Netscape Application Launcher
|
The NetscapeTM Application Launcher enables users to easily access and automatically
launch Netscape files and associated Netscape applications such as Composer.
This feature eliminates the need to run the entire Netscape environment, simplifying
access to Netscape applications. (more)
|
|
Print Client enhancements
|
Print Client now enables users to easily
configure their own set of printers and default printer without any intervention
from an administrator. (more)
|
|
SDTImage enhancements
|
The SDTImage screen snapshot feature
now enables users to easily and quickly capture a screenshot image from the
command line. (more)
|
|
Smart card support
|
CDE now supports smart card authentication
security technology. Users can now use smart cards to authenticate their identity
when logging in to CDE on a protected system, relogging in after a screen
lock, or reauthenticating after the smart card is removed. CDE supports both
external and internal smart card devices. (more)
|
|
ToolTips
|
ToolTips provides users with Balloon Help,
a simple and short description of an icon function. (more)
|
|
X11R6.4 support
|
The X Server is upgraded to the X11R6.4
industry standard which includes key features that increase user productivity
and mobility, including remote execution of X applications through web browser
on any web-based desktop, Xinerama, Color Utilization Policy, EnergyStar support,
and new APIs and documentation for the developer tool kits. (more)
|
|
Extended control panel
|
This feature provides a unified, consistent,
and extensible launchpad for desktop customization, such as desktop controls
for color, font, backdrop, and Application Manager.
|
|
Web Services
|
|
Java Plug-in
|
Java Plug-in for the Solaris operating environment
is an add-on product for Netscape NavigatorTM that enables
Java applets and JavaBeans components to run on Web pages using Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) 1.2 instead of the default Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bundled
with Navigator. (more)
|
|
Netscape Communicator 4.7
|
Solaris 8 includes Netscape Communicator
4.7 and now installs it by default on your system. (more)
|
|
Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator
(NCA)
|
The Solaris NCA
increases web server performance by maintaining an in-kernel cache of web
pages accessed during HTTP requests. (more)
|
|
Apache web server
|
The open source Apache web server is
now bundled with Solaris. It includes all the standard Apache modules, including
proxy server support, as well as the mod_perl module. (more)
|
|
Printing
|
|
Print naming enhancement
|
This Solaris release supports the printers database in /etc/nsswitch.conf, the
name service switch file. The printers database provides
centralized printer configuration information to print clients on the network.
(more)
|
|
Solaris Print Manager
|
Solaris Print Manager is a Java-based
graphical user interface that enables you to manage local and remote printer
access. This tool can be used in the following name service environments:
NIS, NIS+, NIS+ with Federated Naming Service (FNS), and files. (more)
|
|
Language Support
|
|
Universal language coverage
|
The Solaris 8 operating environment
now includes support for more than 90 locales, covering 37 languages, on both
the Solaris 8 Software CDs and the Solaris 8 Languages CD. (more)
|
|
Improved language installation
and setup
|
Changes to
packaging on the language CD have reduced the storage requirements for a
mixed language installation. A redesign of the install interface makes language
selection and grouping extremely intuitive. (more)
|
|
Expanded Unicode support
|
Solaris 8 continues to broaden support
for Unicode with the addition of new Unicode (UTF-8) locales for Simplified
Chinese and Traditional Chinese. (more)
|
|
Customer-extensible codeset conversion
(geniconvtbl)
|
With the Solaris 8 operating environment, developers can easily create and
add to the Solaris system their own user-defined codeset conversions by using
the geniconvtbl utility. Modification to existing Solaris
codeset conversions is also supported. (more)
|
|
Improved data interoperability
|
Data interoperability
with non-Solaris environments has been improved in Solaris 8 with the addition
of the following new iconv data conversion utilities:
-
iconv for Japanese mainframe data types
-
iconv for Microsoft data encodings (including
user defined characters)
-
iconv for UTF-8 interoperability in People's
Republic of China and Korea
-
iconv for various Unicode encoding formats
and international and de facto industry standard codesets
(more)
|
|
New locales added
|
Two new locales have been added to Solaris 8
for Iceland (ISO8859-15) and Russia (ANSI1251). The new Russian locale is
in addition to the existing Russian (8859-5) locale and provides native Microsoft
data encoding support. (more)
|
|
Documentation
|
|
AnswerBook2 Documentation Server
updates
|
The AnswerBook2
Documentation Server has been updated for this release. Major changes since
the Solaris 7 release include replacing the AnswerBook2 navigation icons
with text, improved support for non-English locales, and minor changes to
improve overall performance and stability. (more)
|
|
Reference Manual reorganization
|
The section of the SunOS Reference Manual that describes the C library functions
(but does not include the system calls) now contains six books instead of
one. These books are
-
Library Interfaces and Headers
-
Basic Library Functions
-
Networking Library Functions
-
Threads and Realtime Library Functions
-
Extended Library Functions
-
Curses Library Functions
In addition, many of the man page suffixes have been changed
to reflect the library that contains the function. (more)
|
| SPARC: Audio Mixer |
|
SPARC: audio mixer
|
The audio mixer driver now enables
multiple applications to simultaneously play and record audio. This new enhancement
supersedes the previous capability, which only supported a single play application
and a single record application. In addition, CDE 1.4 now includes a new
GUI tool, sdtaudiocontrol, that supersedes audiocontrol. sdtaudiocontrol uses the features of the audio
mixer, and provides more features. (more)
|
|
Software Developer Environment
|
|
SPARC: 64-bit Kodak Color
Management System (KCMS) libraries
|
Kodak Color Management SystemTM (KCMSTM) is
now providing a 64-bit version of the libraries. Applications that currently
use KCMS and are converted to the 64-bit operating environment can
now retain color management. (more)
|
|
Always ready Power
ManagementTM
|
With the Solaris 8 operating environment, a device driver using the new device
Power Management interfaces will be power managed automatically. (more)
|
|
cpustat and
cputrack commands
|
The new cpustat and cputrack commands
capture system-wide and per-process CPU statistics respectively, to monitor
the performance of a system or a process. (more)
|
|
Extensions to runtime link auditing
|
Additional means of
invoking runtime link auditing libraries is provided by the link editor options -p and -P. Additional runtime link auditing interfaces la_activity() and la_objsearch() have been added. (more)
|
|
Practical Extraction and Report
Language (Perl) 5
|
The
popular programming language, Perl 5.005_03, is included in the Solaris 8
release. Perl is commonly used for CGI scripting as well as automating complex
system administration tasks. (more)
|
|
Role-based access control (RBAC)
for developers
|
The addition
of RBAC to the Solaris operating environment gives developers the opportunity
to deliver fine-grained security in new and modified applications. Developers
can now create privileged functions that check for authorizations instead
of checking for specific IDs such as superuser. (more)
|
|
Secure path name change from /usr/lib to /usr/lib/secure
|
The secure directory from which files
can be preloaded is now /usr/lib/secure for 32-bit
objects and /usr/lib/secure/sparcv9 for 64-bit
SPARCV9 objects. (more)
|
|
Dynamic string token support
|
Greater flexibility in establishing
instruction set specific, and system specific dependencies is provided with
the new $ISALIST, $OSNAME, and $OSREL dynamic string tokens. (more)
|
|
strftime()
function update
|
The %u conversion specification for the strftime()
function has been changed. (more)
|
|
Alternate one-level libthread
|
An alternate threads
implementation provides a one-level model in which user-level threads are
associated one-to-one with lightweight processes (LWPs). This implementation
is simpler than the standard implementation and may be beneficial to some
multithreaded applications. (more)
|
|
SPARC: audio mixer driver
|
The audio mixer driver now allows multiple
applications to play and record audio simultaneously. (more)
|
|
Updated DDI interfaces for cluster-aware
device drivers
|
A documentation
overview introduces the concept of device classes and the necessary interface
modifications and additions for device driver writers. (more)
|
|
8-bit visual support
|
The 8-bit visual shared library enables
device drivers with only 24-bit hardware to display 8-bit visual applications.
|
|
IA
Hardware Enhancements
|
|
Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface (ACPI)
|
ACPI
is a new, more flexible way to configure and control IA hardware. ACPI
obsoletes Plug and Play BIOS and the Intel Multi-Processor Specification (MPSPEC).
If ACPI is available on your IA based system, Solaris 8 automatically uses
it to configure the hardware. (more)
|
|
PCI hot-plug support
|
This feature enables standard PCI adapters
to be hot-plugged into a machine with the hot-plug capability that is running
Solaris Intel Platform Edition. You can now add (hot-add)
or remove (hot-remove) adapters from a system while the system is still running. (more)
|
|
Universal Serial Bus (USB) support
for keyboards and mouse devices
|
Solaris Intel Platform Edition now provides USB support
for keyboards and mouse devices. (more)
|
|
X Server video driver enhancement
|
Solaris Intel
Platform Edition now provides support for more video devices. (more)
|
|
IA
SCSI Drivers
|
|
IA: cadp driver
enhancements
|
The Solaris cadp driver now supports Adaptec Ultra2 adapters. (more)
|
|
IA: ncrs device
driver enhancements
|
The Solaris ncrs device driver now supports the SCSI hot-plugging
functionality and Ultra2 devices, in addition to general functionality and
performance improvements. (more)
|
|
IA: symhisl
device driver
|
The symhisl device driver, which supports the adapters SYM22910 and
SYM21002, is now included in Solaris Intel Platform Edition. (more)
|
| Other Software |
|
Early Access Software
|
The Solaris 8 release includes an Early
Access (EA) directory with EA software. For more information, refer to the
README on the Solaris Software CD 2 of 2.
|
|
Freeware
|
Several freeware tools and libraries are included
in the Solaris 8 release. These tools assist the development of tools for
administration and development tasks. (more)
|
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